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[b]Name:[/b] Rahma Alinejad
[b]Title:[/b] ?
[b]Gender:[/b] Male
[b]Age:[/b] 26

[b]Alignment:[/b] Neutral Good
[b]Rank:[/b] ?

[b]Likes/Forte: [/b]Coffee
[b]Dislikes/Weakness:[/b] Nonsense

[i]Objective for the Grail:[/i] “I suppose limitless supplies would be nice. Maybe eradicate Starbucks.”
[i]Character Objectives:[/i] “Keep my shop unharmed by all the nonsense going on.”

[b]Biographical[/b][/center]

The Alinejad family, hailing from the Middle East, are the owners of the café chain Oasis. As far as their practices go, they have opened stores all over the world. Customer and critic reviews regarding both efficiency and quality of their brews are consistently exemplary. According to the history of the chain’s first shop — still open for use, mind — it was founded over 900 years ago and never changed hands out of the family once, so it can be called a household name among household names.

Within the context of magi, their craft is particularly appreciated by students and teachers of the Clock Tower alike, and they would be lying if they said that they don’t line their pockets with the benefits from a booming business.

The man himself happens to be the latest head of the family and, consequently, the owner of the entire chain — albeit he still works the front desk with the best of them. Homeschooled according to the family values, he knew how to brew a perfect espresso before he could read, and was subsequently taught the intricacies of the family’s path toward the place that has no name.

Toward the end of his teenage years, he was sent to the Clock Tower in order to foment his “personal development”, and gravitated toward the faculty of Folklore once he had left the fundamentals behind.

With regards to his personality, most people from his student years will fondly remember him to be about as bitter as what he serves people, as well as blunt to a fault. Forgoing niceties, he simply acts how he feels he should act at a given moment and does not hesitate, carving out the façade of the “perfectly coldhearted” magus.

But at the same time, he is prone to hiding bits of genuine advice and concern within the verbal abuse, so one could say that is the one crack.

With regards to his current situation, one could call it a bit of an unfortunate, annoyingly nonsensical accident. As it so happens, he was coping around for the opening month of the newest show in the chain, and this coincided with the timetable for the War.

And now, he must boldly protect his café from all manner of idiots at night while serving people flawlessly during the day. He complains that he never signed up for the night guard shift.

[center][b]Magecraft[/b][/center]

[i]Switch:[/i] The feeling of his arm burning up
[i]Quantity:[/i] C
[i]Quality:[/i] B

[i]General Magecraft[/i]

Basics of the basics that everyone who studied at the Clock Tower would know.

[i]Attribute: Reinforcement[/i]

As an attribute, it primarily uses tools, strengthens materials and reinforces fragile components. It is rather simple, but nonetheless a useful tool to wield.

However, the family is confident in having “mastered it”. This means that they have moved from the purely physical aspects and advanced to the capacity to “enhance the significance of an existence.”

[i]Divine Drink[/i]

The core focus in Alinejad’s search for the place that has no name.

In their homeland, there is a certain tradition that speaks of the legend of Muhammad first receiving coffee from the Archangel Gabriel as something to strengthen him. This tale forms the basis of the idea of coffee as a “divine drink” that was passed down to mortals.

If one drinks the same as the gods, is one not a god? Imbibing the concoction is meant to make one “closer to God”, purging impurities and enhancing their own existence beyond that of a human, inducing a rhapsody where one perceives divinity and walks closer to it. The theoretical end result, then, is to “make oneself a god by drinking their draught.”

This is further solidified by using it in tandem with Sufi practices regarding ritual purification and prayer.

As the man himself tend to say about the “special brew”, it is the result of a thousand-year-long (rounded up) odyssey of coffee-making.

[i]Islamic Mysticism[/i]

Refers to general practices within the context of Islam. Outside of what can be applied to “coffee”, they do not see much use, but protective charms and good fortune can be achieved by writing the names of and praising Allah, ward oneself or places from evil spirits and misfortune, and guarantee safety.

In particular, one of the reasons he had gone personally in addition to train the staff had been to set up the proper preparations in order to make the shop a “nexus of good fortune”.


[i]Exceptional Benefit:[/i] Contacts

Knows and has a bit of a friendly rivalry with the owner of Copenhagen, a nearby liquor store.[/hider]