[hider=Harun Fakim Al-Kashir, the Thirteenth Lord of Shadow] [h1][b][i][color=92278f][center]Harun Fakim Al-Kashir[/center][/color][/i][/b][/h1] [center][img]https://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/magi/images/a/aa/Sinbad_anime_poster.png/revision/latest?cb=20130619211823[/img][/center] [h3][b][i][color=92278f][center]Character Summary[/center][/color][/i][/b][/h3] [b][color=92278f]Name:[/color][/b] Harun Fakim Al-Kashir [b][color=92278f]Aliases:[/color][/b] The Thirteenth Lord of Shadow, Sandwalker, Ghosttongue, The Shapeless [b][color=92278f]Titles:[/color][/b]Kingslayer [b][color=92278f]Age:[/color][/b] 28 [b][color=92278f]Time of Death:[/color][/b] 5,354 years ago [b][color=92278f]Place of Origin:[/color][/b] Kashemite Empire(now Zidel) [b][color=92278f]Gender:[/color][/b] Male(most of the time) [h3][b][i][color=92278f][center]Physical Attributes[/center][/color][/i][/b][/h3] [b][color=92278f]Eyes:[/color][/b] Green [b][color=92278f]Hair:[/color][/b] Red [b][color=92278f]Day To Day Attire:[/color][/b] When possible, silks and fine jewelry are all that he wears. In the warm deserts and atop the sea of his homeland, it was rare for Harun to wear a shirt. However, as he has made his way across the land, traveler’s clothes fit him more often than not, his jewelry concealed to avoid confrontation on the road. [b][color=92278f]Strengths:[/color][/b] Excellent at talking his way out of trouble, Speaks with Spirits, Shapeshifting [b][color=92278f]Weaknesses:[/color][/b] Selfish, Secretive, Loyal to a Fault, Physically Weak [h3][b][i][color=92278f][center]Psychological Attributes[/center][/color][/i][/b][/h3] [i][color=92278f][center]Flirtatious * Gregarious * Selfish * Flexible[/center][/color][/i] [b][color=92278f]Sexuality:[/color][/b] Curious [b][color=92278f]Relationship Status:[/color][/b] It’s complicated. [b][color=92278f]Personality:[/color][/b] Selfish and strong-willed, Harun is more than willing to take what he wants when he wants it. In many ways, he views thievery as a game rather than a crime, and always seeks a larger job to test himself against. In regards to others, he is friendly and gregarious to a fault, but to truly earn his trust is difficult. Once he views you as a true friend, he is loyal to a fault, many of his past adventures revolving around saving traveling companions from dangers of the road. In his eyes, he protects those he cares for because they become "his people," and thus his responsibility. Married to a concept more than a physical being and growing up in the brothel pretty much set his interactions with others. An incurable flirt. [h3][b][i][color=92278f][center]Skills & Abilities[/center][/color][/i][/b][/h3] [list] [*] [b][color=92278f]Spirit-Speaking (Master):[/color][/b]Given time and resources, Harun can strike up a bargain with any spirit, forming contracts of services on his part over time in exchange for powerful natural phenomena, such as tornadoes and earthquakes. These bargains are single-event deals, however. Generally speaking, the smaller the favor, the smaller the result from the spirit. As an example, if he spent a month campaigning in a city to prevent mining in a local mountain, the spirits of said mountain could reward him with an earthquake on the opposite side of the range. Alternatively, if he left out bread, milk, and honey for a minor spirit of the wind, it could deliver a message for him a few miles away, whispering his voice into the recipient’s ear. Additionally, small offerings tend to win small secrets from spirits. The local bartender likes to sing in the shower, the perfect place for a sunlit nap in the woods, a guardsman has a bad drinking problem, etc. Some of it is more useful than the rest. [*] [b][color=92278f] Shapeshifting(Blessing)(Master):[/color][/b] Instructed by his former lover, the Lady of the Desert Wind, Harun can transform rapidly between any form of a living creature his size or smaller, his equipment and possessions melding into his form. Upwardly, he can transform into a creature up to the size of a large polar bear, but no bigger. Additionally, he can alter his body on a small scale, meaning that he can duplicate other people in appearance and voice so long as he has seen and heard them before, as well as simply change his facial features, body-type, gender, etc. Often combines this skill with his knife-fighting abilities for explosive results. [*] [b][color=92278f]Knife-fighting (Expert):[/color][/b]Having spent his life as a child fending off both other urchins and passing slavers, Harun knows his way around a knife very, very well. During his later years, he was known to defeat practiced duelists with his incredible speed and deceptive strength. Many think it possible that he cheated. They are most likely correct. [*] [b][color=92278f]Favored of the Wind (Blessing):[/color][/b] Lightning will not strike Harun, the love his favored wife bore him keeping him safe to this day. This blessing also bestows a supernatural swiftness in both travel and personal need, the spirits of the wind compelled to help Harun move swiftly on the road, and his time with the Lady of the Sands empowering him with speed beyond a mortal man. This blessing is also the source of the strength his size belies, though it remains well within mortal possibilities. [*] [b][color=92278f]Illusion Magic (Skilled):[/color][/b] Having stolen quite a few tomes in his time, Harun is fairly well-practiced in Illusion magic, aiding in his favored pastime. An expert by no means, he is more than capable of fooling the common man. [*] [b][color=92278f]Cooking (Skill):[/color][/b] Quite bad at it, but damn if he doesn’t try. [*] [b][color=92278f]Singing (Skill):[/color][/b] Actually quite good, his voice sonorous as his mothers’ were. [*] [b][color=92278f]Xil’Gurash (Artifact):[/color][/b] A sentient blade with a noble soul, the curved dagger Xil’Gurash wants nothing more than to uphold what is right and good in the world, protecting the weak and crushing the rule of tyrants. ...Sadly, as Harun managed to rescue him from the pitch-black caverns of an underground lake system, the blade owes a lifedebt to the thief. A fantastic knife, Xil’Gurash has very little trouble cutting through most substances, living or otherwise. Xil’Gurash also purifies any poison that comes into contact with the blade. In theory, he could save someone poisoned by stabbing them and drawing the venom out, but then they would have a stab wound to contend with. Slightly afraid of the dark. Not currently in Harun’s possession. Supposedly the dagger bears other abilities, but it never allowed Harun access to these as he did not pursue the end of Gurash’s “great foe.” Harun is blatantly not worthy to wield him. [/list] [h3][b][i][color=92278f][center]History[/center][/color][/i][/b][/h3] [b][color=92278f]Backstory:[/color][/b] His story began in a backwater trade city in the final years of the Kalemite Empire. The lands were harsh and the nobles corrupt, crime flourishing in the cities as protection money was paid from wealthy merchants to powerful crime bosses, the Twelve Lords of Shadow. The drug trade ran rampant, slaves flowed like water, illegal goods were hawked in town squares across the nation. The ruling class controlled the military and in theory the nation, but the true power was in the street and everyone knew it. Harun Fakim Al-Kashir was born to a prostitute in a back alley who died but a few years after his birth. Thrown out onto the streets with no living family, Harun swiftly learned that he had to choose between the virtue of honesty or food. It was not a hard choice. His innocent appearance and slender hands lent themselves all too well to picking pockets, and after a time he was indoctrinated into a small gang of forty thieves who worked the docks. Staying at a local brothel that was the front for their operations, he learned how to sing, compose himself when begging, distract someone, and speak with the opposite sex. In larceny, he could use his agility to his advantage, his slender arms and small hands lending themselves wonderfully to reaching into smaller spaces his older bandmates could not. He was an asset, and the leader of the party, a man by the name of Alibaba, became as a father to him. It was during this time that Harun developed his two great loves; women and the desert. His mother’s beauty was not wasted on him, and his name was spoken with venom by fathers and velvet from daughters. During the daylit hours, he would disappear onto the ocean, cruising on a skiff he purchased with his ill-gotten gains. There was always something that seemed to call to him when he got far enough from the city, the promise of new lands, new people, treasures to be gained... But he was always afraid he would grow lost to the tides, and turned back. His family needed him. And so, he spent his nights thieving, fighting, leading the life of a criminal. As time went on, Alibaba’s Forty Thieves became the dominant power in their city, Alibaba himself rising to the position of one of the Twelve Lords of Shadow in Kalem. They were fighting the law, and sometimes the work was bloody, but they took what they needed and lived happily. Life was good. That is, until the Emperor died and his son came into power. Lord Emperor Herod II was a shrewd man, and witnessed his empire crumbling in his hands. Seizing upon the last power his father had previously withheld to combat barbarians and raiders, Herod lead his military on a conquest through his own cities, determined to demonstrate who truly held power in Kalem. It was unlike any true war, the Emperor’s Punitive Forces patrolling the streets, finding leads, torturing and trailing their way back to the Twelve in each city of the land. They were then summarily executed, along with every member of their bloodline the Emperor could find. The sands of the streets ran red with blood, and it wasn’t all too long before the Lord Emperor’s Punitive Forces found their way to Harun’s family. As Harun grew older, prey from the dock became more and more scarce, Alibaba’s thieves forced further and further back as the great crimelords of the land fell, one by one. It was beginning to come true that, one way or another, crime didn’t pay in Kalem anymore. The band began to disperse, going their way one after the other, but Harun, terrified of losing his family, insisted on one last heist to truly stick it to the new Emperor. Alibaba simply smiled, shaking his head at the young one’s insistence. The Forty disbanded, Alibaba disappearing into the world, assuring Harun that he would be safer if they never met again. Harun’s world had crumbled around him, his family gone. All that was left was the sea, and the bitter rage he felt towards Lord Emperor Herod. Still, he was young, in good health, and had nothing to lose. He set sail. -set off into the sea, determined to find what he could find -Got shipwrecked on a deserted island, spoke constantly -Spoke to the sea, to the trees, to the fish and the sky -Whispered to the wind, always soft and gentle -Eventually, the wind responded -She swept him back to land, they became fast friends, courting happens -She teaches him how to shapeshift, barter with spirits -He teaches her how to sing, tells her a new story every night for three years -Along the way he sails, makes his fortune treasure-hunting from old shipwrecks, robbing the corrupt officials of the Kalemite Empire, tries to find Alibaba -Alibaba turns out to have been found, tortured, drawn, and quartered in the capital of the Kalemite Empire in a public execution, having been the last living Lord of Shadow -Travels through the plains, the north, the west on assorted treasure-gathering adventures, going on a Give-a-Moose-a-Muffin type deals with spirits to gather the forces necessary to gather the resources necessary to assault Lord Emperor Herod through his guards, wards, court magicians, etc. -Rumors of the Thirteenth Shadow Lord surface across Kalem, the Emperor grows paranoid as Harun’s criminal empire grows beneath Herod’s feet -Night of the Long-Knives type shit goes down, Kalem is no longer safe for anyone -After seven years from the death of his adopted father, Harun assassinates the Emperor. -The empire is held together by the shadow-network beneath it, Harun tires of his duties and leaves on a boat to the south, off for one final adventure. -Wounded in a great storm caused by a clash between the Southern and Eastern winds over the sea, Harun dies alone, watching the love of his life fight for her own. -The Southern Wind was victorious, still sings through the cliffs of Bezir to this day, in what sounds to be weeping noises [b][color=92278f]Myth:[/color][/b] The tale of the Thirteenth Lord of Shadow has been passed down for millenia as a great romance, and a lesson to rulers. Born a young merchant, the Kingslayer made his around the continent on his vessel, bringing gifts back for his one true love, the Southern Sea. Building a vast shadow empire in response to the tyrannical rule of a tyrant in his homeland, the Larcenous Hero used the shapeshifting taught to him by his great love to sneak into the lord’s chamber and slit his throat. Eventually, he sacrificed his life to the sea in order to calm her jealous waters, leading to the rain that is her tears along the southern edge of the continent as well as making the sea viable to slower vessels. To this day, the South Sea remains calm and rulers everywhere learn the lesson of restraint from the tale of Lord Emperor Herod II. Harun’s true name is commonly unknown, having only been spoken to his closest companions and spirits. [h3][b][i][color=92278f][center]Relations[/center][/color][/i][/b][/h3] [color=92278f][center]* ☠ Enemy * ⚜ Unfriendly * ☯ Neutral * ☮ Friends * ღ Close Friend * ♥ Crush/Significant Other * [/center][/color] [list] [*] [b][color=92278f] ♥ The Southern Wind:[/color][/b] His soulmate and one true love, the Southern Wind is his oldest friend and closest confidante. [*] [b][color=92278f]☯ Xil’Gurash:[/color][/b] An old… companion, Xil’Gurash still technically owes Jazir a lifedebt, now that the latter has returned to the land of the living. [*] [b][color=92278f]☯ Other:[/color][/b] - [*] [b][color=92278f]☯ Other:[/color][/b] - [*] [b][color=92278f]☯ Other:[/color][/b] - [/list] [h3][b][i][color=92278f][center]Extras (Optional)[/center][/color][/i][/b][/h3] [b][color=92278f]Character Quote:[/color][/b] "You walk somewhere, see something you want, agonize that you can't afford it and leave. Eventually, prices rise so high that the peasants revolt, and grab that nice bottle of port from the store in the looting. I just skip the messy bits." [b][color=92278f]Theme Song:[/color][/b] [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Whgn_iE5uc]In Description of his Love Life[/url] [b][color=92278f]Anything Else:[/color][/b] TBA [/hider]