[hider=Hakim Al-amir Iqbal][center][h2][i][color=D2B48C]Hakim Al-amir Iqbal[/color][/i][/h2]
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[color=D2B48C][i]"When you are bitten by a snake you were either foolish enough to approach or foolish enough to tread thoughtlessly...my advice is to tread carefully and know when you approach a predator."[/i][/color][/center]

[center][h3][i][color=D2B48C]Profile[/color][/i][/h3][/center]
[b]Full Name:Hakim Al-amir Iqbal [/b]
[b]Titles/Nicknames: Hakim, The Owl Prince [/b]
[b]Age: 28[/b]
[b]Race: Human[/b]
[b]Gender: Male[/b]
[b]Sexual Orientation: Bisexual[/b]
[b]Combat Role:[/b] Technical Hybrid

[b]Hair Color: Black[/b]
[b]Eye Color: Brown[/b]
[b]Height: 5’11’[/b]
[b]Weight: 175 lbs[/b]

[b]Appearance:[/b]
Hakim has all the bearing of a Sariyan noble from the way he walks, to the way he speaks, sits and dresses. While he may not have the towering height of a Torguren, Hakim stands at above average height for many of the people hailing from his home of Anan Sol. The ever so slightly lighter skin tone and the set of his jaw give away the fact that his mother was one of his father's foreigner brides. 

Despite being his time in other lands Hakim largely refuses to alter his style of dress keeping with the patterns, style and colors of his home land. In addition to this Hakim maintains his deep black beard and shoulder length hair carefully. More often than not his beard is oiled in the tradition of his home land. 

[center][h3][i][color=D2B48C]Personality[/color][/i][/h3][/center]
[b]Overview:[/b]
Much as his retainers name for him indicates Hakim is a man of few worlds preferring to listen to his advisers, conversation partners and enemies when they chose to speak. When he is in his role as a noble or patron Hakim’s bearing brooks no argument or slight; those foolish enough to cross him find that the Sariyan noble has a sharp tongue that he uses sparingly to deal with imbeciles. 

Slow to anger for the most part Hakim is however not about anger, ration decisions, or a petty response to those who get a rise from him. One of his few weaknesses is a tendency to respond swiftly and often violently to those who would insult his status as an exile. The nature of his absence from his home land is often a touchy subject in conversation and those who wish to stay in Hakim’s good graces do well to tread lightly around it.

To those who know Hakim on a first name basis and have the opportunity to hear him speak openly find a young man who is still trying to find his place in a world where he is far from his people, his god, and the life he was groomed for. Hakim is warm, intellectual and candid with those he sees as friends or trusted companions. Never given to the politicking of his siblings or other family members, Hakim rarely allows those around him to mince words long. In addition to this the handful of people who get a glimpse of Hakim in his most private moments find a deeply devoted and spiritual man. Much of Hakim’s worship of Akzum is done well away from prying eyes and rarely does he speak of it with anyone besides Muziri, Hakim’s tutor, household mage, and spiritual guide. 

Hakim is driven by a burning desire to return to his home. What precisely happened to him is not clear save to those closest to him. The Sariyan noble longs for the glare of the desert sun and the hot winds that roll of the rolling sands just beyond the cool balm of the Golden river. Any mention of Anan Sol is often enough to send Hakim back to a time when he had less worries and life was easier for his entire household. 

[center][h3][i][color=D2B48C]Combat[/color][/i][/h3][/center]

[b]Strength:[/b] 5
[b]Dexterity:[/b] 6
[b]Intelligence:[/b] 7
[b]Cunning:[/b] 4
[b]Magic:[/b] 1
[b]Willpower:[/b] 5
[b]Endurance:[/b] 5
[b]Charisma:[/b] 7

[b]Weapons of Choice:[/b] In the tradition of his people Hakim makes use of paired scimitars wrought with silver and the finest steel from the mines of his home land. Fully capable of using the blades as a pair or as a single weapon with a shield or other traditional weapons. 

In addition to his swords Hakim has a personal penchant for the weapons of the clergy including: The Ijeeri: a braided steel and leather lash, The Khecate: a flexible white staff with hooked blades on either end, The Alun: flat metal bands that fit of the knuckles and terminate in hooked blades below the base of the fist and The Noorzi: thick double sided blades designed to be thrown from the palm of the hand or from between the fingers. 

[b]Armor/Combat Apparel:[/b] The prince rarely dawns any armor besides the woven leather armor of the Clergy. This consists of a vest of woven leather that terminates at the shoulders, a set of heavy shin guards that terminate above the ankle with triangle bars of steel sealed within the leather to given the kicks of the wearer a concealed edge when they strike with the shin, and a set of leather vambraces covered by burnished steel with a taper along the center to more easily deflect baldes. Besides this Hakim also favors a stylized owl mask of blue steel though now he rarely finds a need for the mask and armor.

[b]Fighting Style:[/b] As a noble Hakim practices a style of martial arts, An’Shak, designed for personal defense as well as for dealing with multiple attackers swiftly and simultaneously. Within the line of Iqbal and more specifically within the Cult of the Blue Sun, a derivative of typical Akzum worship, the royalty practice a specific form of martial arts. As the first son of the Iqbal line Hakim was also trained in the Ka’Shak the style of martial arts reserved for the soldiers of his family. This style focuses on throws and locks in order to neutralize armored opponents. Within the last three years of his exile Muziri has begun the process of teaching Hakim Si’Shak, the martial style of the clerics. This style is focused on strikes, redirecting an opponent's energy, targeting pressure points and internal organs. Traditionally forbidden to anyone save the second son of the ruling line and the Clerics, or Siris as they are traditionally called, of the Blue Sun. Muziri has made an exception for Hakim as he is no longer considered the first son of his line. 

The combination of martial arts makes Hakim a fearsome combatant against a single opponent or while holding his own against multiple opponents. While Hakim holds the advantage of knowing three of the four style of martial arts his region practices (The martial art of the noble females, Za’Shak, is kept a secret even from Hakim) Hakim still has much to learn before he is a master of Ka’Shak or Si’Shak and he has only recently completed a full induction into the mysteries of An’Shak before his exile. Adding to this Hakim’s physical prowess is rarely tested as he is not a gladiator. Though few would be foolish enough to test his prowess as more likely than not it would truly be to the death. 

[center][h3][i][color=D2B48C]Background[/color][/i][/h3][/center]
[b]Place of Birth:[/b] Anan Sol, capital of the Hitar providence in Sairya 
[b]Social Status:[/b] Heir presumptive of the Hitar Sheikh, First born Prince of Anan Sol (exile). 

[b]History:[/b] 

Hakim was born in the Hitar providence of Sairya, some one hundred miles up river of the capital, Meroa. Anan Sol is usually referred to as the City of Steel as it exports something close to thirty percent of the entire realms iron and forged steel comes from Anan Sol. The city and surrounding geography are high in silver and iron deposits. In addition to this Anan Sol produces a unique alloy of steel which they claim is a gift from their version of Akzum: The Blue Sun. The steel is appropriately named Blue Sun Steel. This steel has an incredible resistance to shattering while still retaining incredible cutting power and flexibility.

The Hitar providence is home to the Cult of the Blue Sun. The people of Anan Sol and their surrounding villages believe that Akzum turns its eye upon Anan Sol once every decade in the form of a strange upper atmospheric even which turns the sun light blue in the Hitar providence for two weeks. The time is always a festival and time of worship for the providence. In addition to this the city of Anan Sol doubles the number of Gladiator matches it would normally host and the victors are gifted with weapons of Blue Sun Steel often inscribed with powerful magics. This is also often a time for the raising of dead relatives during which the necromancer Clerics of the Cult are sought for their assistance in returning the dead to life for a final reconciliation. Anan Sol practices a strange form of ancestor raising in which ancestors or friends are not always raised permanently but may be raised to hear final confessions, thoughts and wishes from their family members or associates. 

The aristocracy of Hitar is an extensive royal family and advisor clans which all answer to the Sheikh of Hitar, ruler of Anan Sol. The Sheikh himself answers to the Sultan of Sairya without question. Hakim belongs the Iqbal family which is the predominant royal line in Hitar, his father is the Sheikh of Hitar and originally Hakim was set to inherit the position from his father. In addition to the royal family of the Hitar providence the Cult of the Blue Sun has a parallel line of advisors and spiritual rulers. The Clerics of the Blue Sun are responsible for enforcing both governmental and religious law with all of them answering to the Shiu, the Cults leader who in turn answeres to the Sheikh who is seen as the combination of spiritual and governmental leader. The Shiu is seen as the ultimate advisor of The Blue Sun’s will to the Sheikh, in addition to being responsible for the organization, and administration of the cults Clerics. Often the Second Prince will be trained as a Cleric of the Blue Sun while the First Prince is trained to assume the mantle of the Sheikh. It is not unheard of for a Second Prince to assume the role of Shiu during a siblings rule. Occasionally particularly favored royal families will see a First Son or Daughter Rise to the rank of Shiu. The Ecclesiarchy is not gender bias however the line of the Sheikh is gender biased unless the firstborn and second born children are female; in which case Anan Sol has a Shiekha.

When Hakim was born he was born to his father's fourth wife, a woman from Venatria who was married into the family as a means of Neema’s father courting the favor of the Sheikh. Much to the Sheikh’s first wife’s displeasure. When the Sheikh’s first wife bore a child the child was the Sheikh’s second son. Vashiera, the Sheikh’s first wife quickly turned her full power to putting her Son, Azeem, on the throne of Anan Sol. Hakim from the moment he was born became the center of a political plot which spanned the first twenty five years of his life. When Hakim was 20 he was married to a daughter of one of the advisor clans that held sway over many of Hitar’s silver mines. The marriage was an arranged one and from the beginning Hakim was bitter as his wife, Leeta had grown up a constant source of irritation for Hakim. 

After the marriage Vashiera sought to leverage Hakim’s dissatisfaction with the marriage. Few know what happened thereafter but the result was Hakim’s exile from Anan Sol and the Hitar providence. 


[hider=GM only]One night during the Festival of the Blue Sun Vashiera had Hakim’s wine drugged and while Hakim was in a drugged stupor, Vashiera conspired to have one of the other advisor families younger daughters sleep with Hakim. The combination of the chosen daughter claiming she had been forced into Hakim’s chambers and Leeta’s families cries for satisfaction was enough for the Sheikh to impose an exile on his oldest son. Strangely of all the people to believe Hakim’s story Leeta sided with him. This was written off as Leeta being faithful to her husband regardless of his actions. The exile would be until the Sheikh had passed and his second son took the throne or until such a time as Hakim could no longer be barred entrance to Anan Sol. The last clause of the exile was purposefully vague on the behalf of the Sheikh as he suspected some sort of foul play by his first wife though he could never prove it.

The last three years of Hakim’s exile he has spent traveling and trading. Very recently Hakim has found himself on the coast of Venatria, the young Prince has become set on the idea of finding, and sponsoring a group of gladiators for the purpose of returning to Anan Sol with them. The city’s families are required to accept challenges by sacred law from foreign gladiators as the Blue Sun demands they never back down from the fear of death. Hakim sees this as the only chance he has to end his exile and return to Anan Sol.[/hider]




[center][color=D2B48C]Retinue[/color][/center]

[hider=The Owl Guard][img]https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/29/5c/8c/295c8c0eb0ad867360dded951527ae54.jpg[/img]

A group of a dozen highly trained personal body guards, the Owl Guard are some of the most dangerous guardsman that Anan Sol has to offer. The answer solely to Hakim[/hider]

[hider=Rafim, The Vizier][img]https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/f1/db/16/f1db160c845b267ca137fdf4fa221a49.jpg[/img] 

Rafim is one of Hakim’s oldest advisors and was assigned to Hakim from the day he was born to educate him as a ruler. Rafim followed Hakim into exile without prompting. Rafim is also largely responsible for running the day to day affairs of Hakim’s household as well as the affairs of trading in other Regions[/hider]

[hider=Ezekiel, The Captain][img]https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/b5/75/4d/b5754df5c0120400e12d9bca37469437.jpg[/img] 

Ezekiel is Hakim’s House guard Captain. The newest addition to Hakim’s inner circle Ezekiel commands some three dozen guardsman who protect the caravan and Hakim’s interests. Ezekiel is also responsible for Hakim’s continued training in Ka’Shak as Ezekiel is considered a master of Ka’Shak.[/hider]

[hider=Muziri, The Cleric][img]https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/89/67/93/8967930d94aceef64958fd6bc6357e7c.jpg[/img]

Muziri is Hakim’s spiritual advisor and personal combat instructor is Si’Shak. It is rare for Muziri to interact with outsiders however Muziri is an accomplished necromancer and sand mage.[/hider]

[hider=Ina, The Spy][img]https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/5e/73/3c/5e733ca39703542fda83afb8df200fd6.jpg[/img]

Ina answers to no one in Hakim’s household save Hakim and then even then it is largely a courtesy. Ina serves Leeta as her eyes and ears in Hakim’s household in addition she holds Leeta’s authority over who Hakim may take as addition wives in Leeta’s absence. To date Ina has allowed no additional wives and very few trysts on her mistress’ Husband’s part. Extramarital affairs are not disallowed however the a husband's first wife always has the final say on who is allowed into the bedroom. Ina has eyes like a hawk and a tongue of Blue Sun Steel. Anyone who wishes to court Hakim must overcome her hard exterior and win her over.[/hider][/hider]