Nabila Rahanan

**Nabila Rahanan** was a female Jaharian priestess from the planet Jahari and a follower of the Church of Primevals. She lived on the station of Solitude Plaza, where she oversaw and often meditated at the Temple of Primevals within the station's Belief Ring. She was a close ally to the Dawns.

## Biography

### Early Life on Jahari

In 5933 ASA, Nabila Rahanan was born on the planet Jahari, a desert world with a rich history and culture that worshipped the Sentinels of the planet's past. Nabila spent the earliest years of her life during the Faceless Wars, a seven-year war that ravaged the Cassiopeia Galaxy. She saw the end of the war at the age of four, but the damages created from the war never truly went away. Even after the war's end, her homeworld of Jahari was subjected to the rise of further corruption. Nevertheless, Nabila continued to perform her duties as a young priestess of the Church of Primevals.

Sometime after the war, Neelan Jali was selected by the Herald as the next Sentinel of Jahari, despite his role as a high-ranking member of the Faceless during times of war. While Neelan claimed to have dropped his Faceless beliefs upon becoming Sentinel, he never truly stopped his worship of the Deceiver. These uncertainties struck fear into the hearts of many Jaharians, including Nabila.

### Into Hiding

Not too long after Neelan Jali achieved Sentinelhood, he denounced any form of worship over his predecessors as Sentinel and declared himself the one true god who walked among mortals. In accordance to his new direction for Jahari, Neelan Jali ordered the destruction of temples dedicated to the Church of Primevals, as well as the execution and exile of followers of the faith. Nabila's position as a priestess for the Church made her a prime target for Sentinel Jali's dictatorial crusade. With her trusted friend Haroun at her side, Nabila quickly went into hiding as Jali's cultural erasure plans went into extreme effect.

Nabila and Haroun traveled as nomads in the deserts of Jahari for a considerable amount of time. They found shelter and rested in caves whenever they found it safe to do so.

#### Losing a Friend: The Scar

On a day plagued by a raging sandstorm, Nabila and Haroun's location was discovered by Neelan Jali. While Nabila was away from their hideout to gather supplies, Jali used his lightning magic as Sentinel to personally execute Haroun when they were alone. The sandstorm kept Nabila away from the camp as she gathered supplies, with the natural thunder and lightning of the storm preventing her from coming back any earlier. When she returned, she discovered the charred body of her friend. With the fear of being found by Neelan Jali already existing within her, Nabila was stricken with both grief and terror upon witnessing Haroun's fate.

Neelan's reign over Jahari began to look like a force of nature to Nabila. The dark Sentinel instilled a deep fear of thunderstorms within the runaway priestess, as she feared the future presence of thunder and lightning were haunting signs of Jali's approach. The death of Haroun served as the catalyst for Nabila to flee off-world for good, forcing her to find a new home in the cosmos as she grieved in despair.

Eventually, Nabila managed to find a new home on the space station Solitude Plaza, where she established the Temple of Primevals. She was welcomed by the people of the station and managed to make new friends and allies as a result of their kindness.

## Personality and Traits

Nabila was a Jaharian woman with red-colored skin, orange eyes, and brown hair. She wore a vibrantly-colored headcovering reminiscent of the setting sky.

Many knew Nabila as a kind and welcoming woman who devoutly followed the traditional Jaharian faith, having honored the Sentinels of Jahari's past and often prayed to them for guidance and strength. She vehemently opposed Neelan Jali's control over Jahari and despised how he corrupted her home planet and its inhabitants. The thought of Neelan Jali dismantling and erasing her culture, as well as knowing of her friend's death, made Nabila deeply fearful of the dark Sentinel. His control over lightning seemed unstoppable to Nabila and akin to a force of nature, which instilled in her heart a long-lasting fear of thunderstorms. Despite the trauma she endured, Nabila's love and care for her friends and allies were stronger than any fear she felt for Sentinel Jali. She believed the preservation of her religion and its practices was incredibly valuable.

## Skills and Abilities

Nabila's main skills as an individual were as a moral guide for the Church of Primevals. She was capable of communing with others and helping them attain spirituality. Having lived in hiding through the deserts of her home planet, Nabila was presumably a skilled survivalist, at least to an extent.

## Trivia

* Nabila was originally named Clinohumite as a former *Steven Universe* fan character.
* Nabila's surname Rahanan comes from Arabic "رَحمة" (rahm) and "حَنان" (hanan), meaning "mercy" and "affection/tenderness" respectively.
	+ Alternatively, "रहना" (rahana) is the Hindi word for "stay".