Azad the Free

Azad the Free was a former champion gladiator from Calimport who led a slave revolt and escaped into eastern Tethyr where he founded the Island of the Free on an earthmote. Azad was tricked by the Pasha of Calimport, Marod el Arhapan, into killing the Pasha's wife in the arena. After this, the Pasha made Azad a household slave whose primary job was to read bedtime stories to the Pasha's son Cephas. When Azad escaped Calimport, he abducted young Cephas who he trained as a gladiator to fight in the island's arena. Azad continued to read stories from the Founding Stories of Calimshan to Cephas from time to time prior to Cephas' escape. When Cephas returned to the Island of the Free after killing his father and destroying his palace he confronted Azad and forced him to explain the circumstances of his mother's death.	
==Equipment==
Azad used a great two-headed flail in the arena which he later gave to Cephas.
==References==
Category:Fighters
Category:Inhabitants of Tethyr
Category:Rulers
Category:Humans
Category:Slaves
Category:Inhabitants of Calimport
Category:Inhabitants of the Island of the Free
Category:Inhabitants of Calimshan
Category:Inhabitants of the Lands of Intrigue
Category:Inhabitants of West Faerûn
Category:Inhabitants of Faerûn
Category:Inhabitants of Toril
Category:Inhabitants
Category:Gladiators