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Musad abdul-Khidr PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: Musad is a tall African man in his early forties; his eyes are brown and he keeps his head shaved. He usually wears a long, short-sleeved tunic over pants (both white), and a skullcap or turban. Musad is rarely seen without his walking-stick, carved by his father from baobab, and often carries a kora. POWERS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT: Musad is both a skilled griot and quite learned in the ways of the Qu'ran - both statuses afford him with some consideration as a "worker of magic" in his homeland, but whether this translates to Fryja remains to be seen. CHARACTER HISTORY: Musad abdul-Khidr was raised in the medieval kingdom of Mali, born during the reign of Mansa Kankan Musa. Apprenticed as a griot, Musad accompanied his master on the hajj when he was twenty-two. During his time in the holy city, he became a Sufi, leaving his family in Mali behind for the life of a mystic. Changing his name, Musad wandered throughout the middle east, and northern and western Africa for two decades, subsisting on the charity of others and doling out what wisdom and tales he'd gathered over the years. Musad's devotion to Islam, and the Sufi traditions in particular, drove him to attempt to retrace the journeys of his namesake, Khidr. These meanderings allowed him to cross paths with such notables as the explorer Ibn Battuta. While following Khidr's path toward India, Musad was sent what he seems to think was a heavenly vision, which led him into a bright light ("the countenance of Allah"). And on the other side of this vision? The Aya Temple. Musad hasn't even thought about going back - there's too much to see here on Fryja. He still considers himself, above all, a griot - it is his place in life to collect tales of all kinds, and preserve them orally for the future. |
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