Persian harbor master

A Persian harbor master (died 819) was a businessman from Persia who had many wives, including Talâyi, Halima, Nai, and Roshan.
==Biography==
The harbor master entered business with his brother, a silk trader, providing the boats for trading and eventually the pair became very powerful.Assassin's Creed: Mirage – Daughter of No One – Chapter Four: Baghdad, 819 He married two women before marrying Talâyi, and eventually killed the first two,Assassin's Creed: Mirage – Daughter of No One – Chapter Two: Baghdad, 819 the second one for going against his orders and teaching some of the other wives how to read and write. At some point before 816, he maimed Talâyi, taking her left eye from her. When Talâyi became pregnant, he left her alone for eight months, only to then take her son away and never leave her alone after learning that she could carry children to term.Assassin's Creed: Mirage – Daughter of No One – Chapter Ten - Thatta, 822
In 816, the harbor master visited Roshan's family in Kandovan, looking for a new wife. Though he initially wanted either of Roshan's sisters Masha or Bolour, Roshan instead offered herself up to save her sisters, having seen the type of man he was. The day they married, he destroyed all but one of the gifts Roshan had received from her sisters. She was moved to his houseboat and would not set foot on land for the next three years. Whenever he had to journey outside of Baghdad's harbor, he would select three of his wives to accompany him, often choosing Roshan.Assassin's Creed: Mirage – Daughter of No One – Chapter Eleven - Sinai Peninsula, 824
In 819, Roshan fatally stabbed the harbor master before fleeing the houseboat, aided by the other wives. For a time, his murder remained hot news in Baghdad, being gossiped about even by scholars in the House of Wisdom. Roshan vaguely remembered him 40 years later, but refused to elaborate on his identity or her reasons for killing him to her apprentice Basim Ibn Ishaq, saying only that her memories of it were "buried next to him" and how she would not be haunted by his death.Assassin's Creed: Mirage – Coins and Daggers
==Personality and traits==
The harbor master was a huge, portly man who lacked a full set of teeth. Despite his inability to read, write, or speak his own language succinctly,Assassin's Creed: Mirage – Daughter of No One – Chapter Twelve - The Silk Road, 822 he still held much power as a local port authority. He was particularly cruel to his many wives, calling them slaves and treating them as such, even punishing them with a whip for misbehaving.Assassin's Creed: Mirage – Daughter of No One – Chapter Fifteen - Karachi, 824 He forbade them from learning how to read and write, and refused both letting them leave the houseboat or permitting any man but him from boarding it. This treatment of women was not exclusive to his wives, of course, with him and his brother boasting about having fathered only boys and "not a single female to weaken the bloodline", dealing with any girls his wives might bear. He also degraded prostitutes as "mindless and worthless" exploiters of men.
==Behind the scenes==
The Persian harbor master's name is never given in the novel, because information about him is always filtered through Roshan's memories and she refuses to even think of his name throughout the story.
==Appearances==
*Assassin's Creed: Mirage 
*Assassin's Creed: Mirage – Daughter of No One 
==References==
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Category:Persians
Category:Baghdadi
Category:Harbormasters
Category:Slavers