Post by Karim Adel Nabil bin Kaseem on Sept 22, 2009 13:57:34 GMT -5
Name: Sultan Karim Adel Nabil bin Kaseem
Age: 27
Race (Lineage Origin):
Gender: Male
Height: 6' 2"
Country: Umaiyyat
Appearance:
Karim's hair is long as he refuses to cut it. Even in the extreme heat and the blowing dust of his homeland, Karim's hair reaches past his shoulders in glossy, jet black waves. He keeps a beard as is customary of his people, trimming the sides and under his chin and keeping his moustache short as it grows downward in a mou around his mouth, connecting with his square-shaped, groomed beard. He shows little signs of aging, no gray touching his jet locks, though he has wrinkles that kiss the corners of his eyes and mouth from both smiling and frowning alike. His brows arch to a point in the middle of the rise, and the small hairs between them are noticeable close up. They lay atop a set of eyes, rimmed with a feathering of dark, long almost feminine lashes, nearly giving the appearance of khol-rimmed eyes. His eyes themselves are a honey brown sprinkled with flecks of gold and green. His nose is long and bumps in the middle, drawing a line to thin lips and adding character to his square-jawed face. His skin is the colour of olives, a dusky brown. Well loved by the sun, his undertones are more of a pink than a deep yellow. Karims chest, arms and legs are fettered with dark hair as is characteristic of the people from his region.
Karim is tall and svelte, though not slight, his strength the wirey kind developed from riding and sword fights, as opposed to heavy labour in the lands. He, unlike his father, did not allow himself to grow soft from the privileges of his station, keeping himself fit and trim, his body matching his keen mind.
History:
Second in line for the throne, Karim has always lived in his brother's shadow. Walid was the perfect first son, and heir apparent to the Sultanate. He could fight with the power and precision of twenty men, he was intelligent, creative and always obedient to their father and ruler. All of Umaiyyat knew he would follow as a proper ruler in his father's footsteps, should he find himself a fitting first wife to rule as the Sultana. He had departed and left Karim there to toil in his shadow as he searched for the perfect companion. Meanwhile, this was Karim time to plant the seeds and watch them grow in his brother's absence. He loved his brother, but he loved the throne, the power and the land far more. Rivalries were not unheard of among the sons of Sultans. In fact, they were often expected, usually ending in blood and deaths shrouded in mystery. However Karim had more of a head on his shoulder and thought with that as opposed to his scimitar. He seeked to infiltrate, to set small brushfires strategically so that when they burned, they would raise eventually to a full, unstoppable fire.
He set to making his own name, taking up where his brother had left off. In the name of his father and the One God, he set to the borders of warring lands within the Sultan's great rule, securing the borders and putting an end to the skurmishes of small warlords in his brother's absence, coming to be known as a deliverer, as fair and just and making sure what was right under the Sultan was carried out with deliberate precision. Over time, he had, with his unparalleled military prowess, understanding of human nature and the want for power, and his unending kindness towards those worthy and terrifying strength, put an end to any and all uprisings amongst his people, uniting them as one under the Sultan, his father, securing loyalties and snuffing out those who thought they could betray the Sultan, divying up lands as was fit. His father saw his works, and Karim grew in his father's esteem as well as the adoring eyes of the people of his nation., while Walid's good deeds and works faltered in their eyes due to his prolonged absence and apparent failure. In his spare time, and even on the heavilly beaten dirt road, he dedicated himself to studies. Karim had noted that in his brother, his lust for knowledge, and had adopted that himself. He seeked to learn languages, the great wars of the world, histories of other countries, their economies, their cultures. He was not as successful as his brother, nor as successful as he would have liked to be, but he was in no way unlearned. He understood and could speak Caerdicci with surprising fluency, as well as gaining some knowledge of the Helenic tongue and the dialects of Jebe Barkal from some of the women in his father's harem, learning only from sound, having no written language to learn by. Karim picked up a rather mangled understanding of d'Angeline and wished to further it someday. The languages were the hardest part for him. However, understanding the histories was not. He remembered dates, events and facts with ease.
Soon though, and sadly, his father died, leaving many children, daughters and sons alike, many concubine and wives, and an entire nation to be watched over. Walid was sent for for his return and commencement of his rightful duty to his homeland as Sultan, but he never made it home. He, too, died, and this left the throne for Karim's taking.
Karim mourned the loss of his father, and, upon learning it, the loss of his brother as well, even as he primed himself for the final stage -- this takeover -- on his own, making the alliances necessary to take over the throne swiftly and without much argument from the royal advisors or the minor ruling warlords.
However, one thing remained unsettled. Crowned as the rightful heir and new Sultan to the Umaiyyat throne, he was wifeless, and heirless himself, and with younger siblings to watch over, who no doubt yearned for the throne, both needed to be secured. In order to further prove to his people he was as strong a ruler as any, he would have to succeed where his own brother had failed. He would have to seek out a wife, one that would be a powerful influence and bring an alliance that would do well for his people, for his country, an alliance that would prove the One God smiled down on him and approved of him as the heir apparent, as their ruler, as the one next to and imbued with the power of the One God, and one such alliance that would set his father's tormented spirit free. To this end he met with his advisors to discuss the most probable route -- one that would propel their country forward in the eyes of the rest of the world and make them even more of a defining power to reckon with.