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Character’s full name: Jal-Nazir 'al Jari' Ramlah (Nazir)
Reason or meaning of name: Ramlah is both the name of the Sooleran Caravan he travels with and the name of his clan and family.
Character’s nickname: al-Jari, lit: 'The Bold', 'Jal-' is a Sooleran prefix for adult
Reason for nickname: An interesting mix of social bravado and lack of fear.
Birth date: 51 Fadmas ago.
Physical appearance
Sex: Male
Race: Sooleran
Age: 51 Fadmas
How old does he/she appear: 25-26 years old
Weight: About 9 stone
Height: 5' 8"
Body build: Thin with a layer of muscles. Built more like a runner than a brawler
Shape of face: Square
Eye color: Grey
Glasses or type of aid for the eyes: N/A
Skin tone: Bronze
Distinguishing marks: Mangrove tattoos interwoven on his arms
Predominant features: Large dark scarf around his neck, long enough to be a turban in times of extreme sunlight or rain.
Hair color: Black
Type of hair: Coarse
Hairstyle: Curls
Voice: Like silk
Overall attractiveness: Fairly attractive, used to getting his way and flirting with the ladies
Physical disabilities: N/A
Usual fashion of dress: Sooleran standard robes and vests with slack and billowy pants
Favorite outfit: Green vest and dark turban scarf
Jewelry or accessories: Gold hoop in the left ear, ceremonial knife that is not to be used for fighting layered 'just so' in his belt.
Personality
Good personality traits: Personable, friendly, a born speaker and singer
Bad personality traits: morally grey, sticky fingers, addictive personality
Mood character is most often in: cheery and playful
Sense of humor: Raunchy but well-developed
Character’s greatest joy in life: A drink in his hand and a woman on his lap and traveling with his family in the Caravan.
Character’s greatest fear: Being forced to become a 'rooter'
Why?: The greatest shame to any Sooleran is to drop out of the Caravan and be forced to stop moving for an extended time. Such a shame would kill a social butterfly like Nazir
What single event would most throw this character’s life into complete turmoil?: The death of the caravan.
Character is most at ease when: Drinking, smoking, singing songs, reciting poetry, flirting
Most ill at ease when: Forced to stay still for long period of time.
Enraged when: His family is threatened
Depressed or sad when: The profits aren't flowing
Priorities: Family > Profits > Poetry/Song > Travel > Women > Drinks > Everything else
Life philosophy: "We are meant to be as free as the wind and to pursue the pleasures that this life gives with those whom are most important to us."
If granted one wish, it would be: He is already living the dream
Why?: N/A
Character’s soft spot: Women in danger
Is this soft spot obvious to others?: Only if they know him
Greatest strength: His singing voice and memory for the old songs and poems
Greatest vulnerability or weakness: His tenuous way of life living from job to job on the roads
Biggest regret: That wench back in Azerport
Minor regret: That bottle of scorpion whiskey from the last Fadma
Biggest accomplishment: Memorizing the Sooleran Edda.
Minor accomplishment: Learning the hand-harp.
Past failures he/she would be embarrassed to have people know about: That wench in Azerport
Why?: Nazir would blush to tell that story
Character’s darkest secret: He secretly is fascinated by architecture, despite his cultural abhorrence to settling down.
Does anyone else know?: Nope, he just giddily looks around when entering a new city to drink it in.
Goals
Drives and motivations: Money > Wenches > Booze
Immediate goals: Make money
Long term goals: Make money, meet a woman to lessen his stirrings at a Fadma
How the character plans to accomplish these goals: Going to Fadma twice a year and maybe being set up with another.
How other characters will be affected: Given the strong matrimonial line among Sooleran women, it's possible he may be dragged into a different caravan.
Past
Hometown: The Wild
Type of childhood: Adventuresome, dirty
Pets: N/A
First memory: Riding in a wagon
Most important childhood memory: Bandit attack
Why?: All nomadic folk have to face the very real reality of bandits, brigands and other ner-do-wells attacking the Caravan.
Childhood hero: Great Ancestor ja-Rawis Ehar
Dream job: Bard
Education: Oral tradition in poetry, lessons in music, athletic gymnastics, running, falchion and hornbow training
Religion: Jax
Finances: Whatever he carries around. Generally spends most of what he makes on booze, women, clothes and repairs to the Caravan. Most of the money he makes is communal and goes to his family and the Caravan.
Present
Current location: Wherever the wind carries him
Currently living with: His family and Caravan
Pets: N/A
Religion: Jax
Occupation: Trader, Poet, Bard, Swordsinger
Finances: See above.
Family
Mother: Fatamid Ramlah (Sooleran are matriarchal and children get their family names from their mothers)
Relationship with her: Good, his mother used to spoil him as her only child, and only gives him grief if he is bad to a women.
Father: Hassin Jashi
Relationship with him: On and off, his father approves of his taking up the cultural traditions of the Soolera and becoming an artist of the Oral disposition; he even approves of his life as a warrior-poet, but not of his philandering ways with women and booze
Siblings: N/A
Relationship with them: N/A
Spouse: N/A
Relationship with him/her: N/A
Children: N/A
Relationship with them: N/A
Other important family members: His cousins: Ahmad, Kareem, and Kiwel
Favorites
Color: Green
Least favorite color: Orange
Music: Sung poetry with minor instrumentals (usually drums or harp, but mostly oral)
Food: Anything with Sooleran spices
Literature: Given his oral history, he doesn't read very much, but he has a good ear for remembering things.
Form of entertainment: Dancing, drinking, playing instruments, singing
Mode of transportation: Walking
Most prized possession: Ceremonial dagger, hand-harp, dark-green turban scarf
Habits
Hobbies: Singing, playing music
Plays a musical instrument?: Hand-harp
How he/she would spend a rainy day: Drinking and flirting with tavern wenches, or traveling with the caravan when in-between cities.
Spending habits: Loose with his money on family, tight when negotiating with merchants.
Smokes: Tabac
Drinks: Is this a question?
Other drugs: Wouldn't turn down a good time.
What does he/she do too much of?: Drink and flirt
What does he/she do too little of?: Keep quiet
Extremely skilled at: Persuasion, singing, drinking, flirting, haggling, walking long distances, riding Sooleran steeds
Extremely unskilled at: Apparently blowing smoke rings or tackling prisoners (according to the d20 dice roll)
Nervous tics: Smiles when uncomfortable, but it can often be taken for confidence
Usual body posture: relaxed, legs open and arms on the back of chairs when sitting
Mannerisms: overly friendly
Peculiarities: flirts with all the women
Traits
Optimist or pessimist?: Optimist
Introvert or extrovert?: Extrovert
Daredevil or cautious?: Daredevil
Logical or emotional?: Emotional, except when bartering
Disorderly and messy or methodical and neat?: Disorderly until dealing with merchants
Prefers working or relaxing?: working is relaxing to him
Confident or unsure of himself/herself?: Confident
Animal lover?: Why not, he loves all kinds.
Self-perception
How he/she feels about himself/herself: Confident and strolls through life
One word the character would use to describe self: Charismatic
One paragraph description of how the character would describe self: (For the future)
What does the character consider his/her best personality trait?: His optimism
What does the character consider his/her worst personality trait?: His lack of a social filter
What does the character consider his/her best physical characteristic?: His smile
What does the character consider his/her worst physical characteristic?: He feet
How does the character think others perceive him/her: A devilish rogue
What would the character most like to change about himself/herself: he lack of baths
Relationships with others
Opinion of other people in general: Friendly until proven otherwise
Does the character hide his/her true opinions and emotions from others?: He hides most things behind a flashy smile.
Person character most hates: None
Best friend(s): His cousins
Love interest(s): Any pretty face that is unlucky enough to catch his eye
Person character goes to for advice: His mother
Person character feels responsible for or takes care of: His caravan
Person character feels shy or awkward around: His mother
Person character openly admires: His father
Person character secretly admires: His cousins
Most important person in character’s life before story starts: Kareem, Ahmad, Kiwel (his cousins/Blood)
After story starts: