Mangrale
Izurich
Bingelly
CarlyleCharacter Description
- Name: Azaz Abdelba'l al-Munkhi al-Idrisi "Abu Sakran"
Species: Shariqi
Sex: M
Age: 28
Appearance:
Strengths and Weaknesses
- Skills: Extremely literate (obviously), Rich (being a trader), Friendly, Flexibility and Endurance (think a gymnast), good with pistols and rapiers, Navigation and Seamanship (stole and read so many maps he's able to remember them in memory)
Weaknesses: Cowardly (will avoid trouble as much as he can), Vain (thinks he's the smartest and will try to undercut fools he's trying to profit from), Lack of strength (someone could knock him off in a fistfight, though he'd outrun them), Infamous (as a personal enemy of so many pirates)
Background:
- Backstory: "Abu Sakran the sailor-swindler" is quite the renowned name on the Calarian Main. Born a seventh child of a seventh child to a Shariq clan, Azaz - or Abu Sakran as he'd later be more commonly known - started life as the scion of the Idrisi dynasty, who presides upon a major keep and merchant town in Monchia. His great-great-great-grandfather came as a wealthy refugee ages ago, and they've since bred like rabbits. But Azaz is a wealthy little rabbit. His father was a renowned merchant, and he followed him on trading voyages to the colonies, shipping sugar, molasses, and spice from a young age. It's where he learned bookkeeping, finance, and of course writing lots and lots of notes. He developed a lean and durable physique, being a good swimmer. Set to inherit nothing, his father instead took advantage of their family's control of an important port, and Azaz followed in his footsteps. Or so at least, until his late teenage years.
The family patriarch, his grand-uncle, suddenly died and all his sons were trying to fight each other for power and inheritance. His father naturally did not take any interest in this, but Azaz's uncles took an interest in his father's wealth. One of them framed his father for theft and forgery, and imprisoned him - by the time Azaz, then on a trading voyage, learned of this news his father had died already of starvation in a dungeon. Azaz was powerless, except for his wits. The thieving uncle was surprised when Azaz denounced his father and offered himself to serve his uncle against the rest of the family. It was, of course, a front for him to steal money and plot his revenge. He falsified records while pampering his uncle with profits from successful voyages with his uncle's ships - bringing him gold and sexy slaves for his harem. Little did his uncle know that the buxom assassins worked for Azaz instead when they murdered him while having sex. Azaz, meanwhile, stole all the wealth he could get his hands on, brought them all to his uncle's fastest ship, and sailed with the crew to the Calarian Main far away.
Azaz, now settling in a colonial city, bought warehouses, paid his crew, and went to start a trading business. He bribed government officials from all three main colonial nations for trading licenses and began trading in everything profitable. Sugar was the most valuable commodity, so he ran a molasses moonshine business and supplied Doel mayors and nobles with cheap booze - that's where he got his moniker "Abu Sakran" - the "father of drunkness". He kept this name to prevent his identity, as someone who started massive troubles for the Idrisi dynasty, out of knowledge. But Azaz is nothing if not greedy - and he will never have enough taste for money. He organized trips to uncharted areas, lying to natives about his wealth and authority and taking everything valuable they could offer. He organized bank runs on small lenders, and sold fake maps to pirates. The peak of these antics - and Abu Sakran's downfall - was when he organized a raid with half a dozen pirate captains - informing them that a Calarian treasure fleet was setting sail. But he actually worked instead with the Calarian navy, and led them all to an ambush for a hefty sum. Abu Sakran spent the next months running from the vengeful crews of these captains, until they caught his ship one bad day, stole expensive goods he was holding, and burned it to wreck.
Some said Abu Sakran was humbled by this loss - but others thought he was too prideful to admit any defeat. But whatever the result is, as ship-less as he is, Abu Sakran remains a dangerous swindler with a lot of gold, and he's probably looking for the next opportunity to return to the high seas.