Dareem

Name:	Dareem

Gender, Age (Y927): Male, of Khotri descent (and secretly a mage, with Yuros magi blood)

Physical Description	A tall man, dark skinned and dark eyes. His face is smooth and usually expressionless.

Birthplace, Race:	Teshwallabad, Lakh

Social Status:	Advisor. Three quarter blooded mage (secretly)

Family Background: The only son of Vizier Hanook, the chief adviser to the Mughal of Lakh

Personality:	Proud and stubborn, Dareem is still a good man who cares deeply for his people and adores his father. Highly intelligent and a gifted scholar and politician.

Mage Affinities/Physical abilities:	Dareem is a three quarter blooded mage.

His affinities are:

•	Intellectual: Sorcery •	Element: Fire

As well as a strong blood heritage, and despite the secrecy surrounding his gnosis, Dareem is extraordinarily skilled. He is gifted in morphic gnosis, able to alter his features to disguise his movements from political spies as well as using mesmerism to gently probe for information.

In combat Dareem’s fighting style is characterized by skill and control with no wasted movement or gnostic use. Being gifted in both mesmerism and illusion Dareem will rip his enemies’ minds apart, forcing them to feel pain and fear whilst creating dreadful images and making it appear their flesh is melting from their bones. At the same time as attacking them mentally he attacks them physically with gnostic bolts and controlled streams of flame.

Against a large force he divides their numbers with walls of flame and protective use of illusion. If he has a weakness it is that he lacks extensive combat experience, having had to live concealing his powers; and he has a scholar’s aversion for direct confrontation.

However, he makes up for this by clever and patient use of wizardry, binding powerful spirits to a menagerie of stuffed birds of prey which he keeps as apparent decoration around his home. These spirits have their own access to the gnosis and their own affinities with a combined might that makes them extremely dangerous, especially against those without an affinity for.

History prior to Y927:	Dareem has been raised in the unusual situation of having to conceal his gnosis from anyone but his father, The scholar (and eventually Vizier), Hanook. This has meant that he has become extremely talented at the aspects of the gnosis that favour discretion, deception and concealment, rather than direct confrontation. He and his father have concealed their skills for decades, even when dealing with Hadishah mage-assassins operating in the Lakh court.

Notes:	Dareem’s education in the gnosis has largely been enabled through his father, and secret visits by Ordo Costruo tutors, as Hanook maintains covert relations with the Builder Mages.