Rustam e-Nahid

### Relatives

Anahid (ancestor), parents, Manizheh (older sister), Jamshid (nephew), Nahri (daughter)

### Enemies

Khader al Qahtani, Ghassan al Qahtani, Manizheh

## Behind the Scenes

### Appears in

* The City of Brass (mentioned)
* The Kingdom of Copper (mentioned)
* The Empire of Gold (mentioned/flashback)
* The River of Silver

Banu Manizheh's younger brother and one of the last Nahid healers. Soft-spoken and deeply traumatized, he was known for his pharmaceutical and botany skills. Murdered 20 years prior to The City of Brass, he was also Nahri's father.

## History

### Early Life

Manizheh and Rustam were the last surviving members of the Nahid family line. Their mother was "disappeared" by King Khader al Qahtani when they were young, among many other Nahids and Daevas during his reign. Since Manizheh was educated as a Nahid, Rustam probably was too. Rustam and Manizheh were very close and would huddle together under her blanket when they were children. They also grew up with the king's son Ghassan al Qahtani, who never said or did anything to stop the beatings and terrorizing they suffered under Khader, though he "felt sad and helpless" about it.

During the summers the siblings would stay with the Pramukhs in Zariaspa, Daevastana; a noble Daeva family whose vast estates grew plants and herbs for the Nahids' traditional healing methods. Considered to be the "happiest days" of their lives by Manizheh, it was the closest thing to freedom they experienced. Together with Kaveh e-Pramukh, they would dash about climbing mountains, racing simurgh, and experimenting with whatever forbidden plants and herbs they could.

#### Finding Dara's Ring

As children exploring in Daevastana, Rustam, Manizheh, and Kaveh found the slave ring containing Darayavahoush e-Afshin. Coming across the ruins of a human caravan, it was the closest any of them had gotten to humans, even if all that was left were bones and a few rotting possessions. The humans themselves had been scattered and dismembered, and on one severed hand was the slave ring. Any Nahid could sense what it was with the magic coming off it and Manizheh glimpsed some of the ring's memories, identifying it as Dara's.

They gave no consideration to the coincidence of the last Nahids finding the last Afshin, and snuck the ring back into Daevabad by hiding it in their clothes. Without Dara's relic or other info, the Nahid siblings spent decades trying to find a way to revive him. Desperate, they used any new magic they came across: enchantments, potions, conjurements; wild experiments that would have "horrified their ancestors." They also read about their family's history and the origins of their magic, or with what texts remained in the Grand Temple after Zaydi al Qahtani's conquest. Miraculous stories of what Nahid blood was capable of, and how their lifeblood could resurrect those fallen around them, were ideas that would stick with Manizheh.

### Adulthood

As they got older, Rustam and Manizheh were not permitted to go to Zariaspa as frequently, and therefore did not see Kaveh as much. As such, they lived as prisoners to the palace infirmary, and were "reminded daily that if it were not for their usefulness as healers, their family would have been exterminated long ago."

They also "whispered of freedom" for the Daevas, though while Manizheh kept her ambition to her final days, Rustam's was only when he was young.

#### Nisreen

When Nisreen e-Kinshur was young, she was brought to Manizheh for healing as she was badly injured when her parent's temple in Anshunur was attacked by djinn raiders. With her parents killed and her home destroyed, Manizheh and Rustam took her in. She assisted them in the infirmary for the rest of their lives, becoming their senior aide. Nisreen assisted in procedures and potion making, as well as helping them free dozens of ifrit slaves.

#### Freeing Ifrit Slaves

Manizheh and Rustam were able to free numerous enslaved djinn, including Razu Qaraqashi. While Manizheh had the stronger magic to break the ifrit curse on the slave vessel, Rustam had a softer touch with their patients and so he would do the awakening ceremony. Though truthfully, Rustam did not trust the freeing process to Manizheh, as she had ambitions that worried him. Because the awakening process used Nahid blood to conjure new bodies for the freed slaves, it also created a strong bond between them and their Nahid. Depending on the freed slave's degree of trauma, this could result in them treating their Nahid as their new master.

#### Navasatem

94 years prior to The City of Brass and during King Khader's reign, Manizheh lost her temper and said something unwise to the king. "Petty nonsense from an angry young woman," but Khader took it as a threat and retaliated by having Rustam dragged from the infirmary and thrown into a lightless cell in the dungeons underneath the palace. It is said that those who die in the dungeons are not removed, and Rustam spent the entire month of Navasatem in there. He didn't speak for weeks afterwards and even years later he could only sleep if there were lamps blazing all night long.

#### Ghassan's reign

Shortly after Khader's son Ghassan became king, he asked Manizheh to marry him and unite their tribes. She answered by closing off his throat with Nahid magic, which was halted by his use of Suleiman's seal. In retaliation, he had Rustam beaten within a hair of his life while Manizheh was forced to watch. Breaking his bones, allowing them to heal, and then doing it over again until he was a howling mess and Manizheh was on her knees begging Ghassan for mercy.

As such, this became the go-to method whenever Manizheh acted out, as beating Rustam made her submit faster than anything else. Although not limited to breaking bones, Ghassan also implemented the use of whips and acid burns. Because of this, Rustam was always on edge, jumping at loud sounds and shaking in Ghassan's presence to the point he couldn't even hold a cup steady.

#### Self Harm

Rustam attempted to kill himself more than once, but it's difficult for the self-healing Nahids. Previous attempts including slitting his wrists, but his last attempt was a poisoning, 30+ years prior to *The City of Brass*. Manizheh managed to revive him then begged him not to do it again, to not leave her.

#### Queen Saffiyeh's death & Jamshid's birth

29 years prior to *The City of Brass*, Manizheh left Daevabad for Zariaspa, leaving Rustam in charge of the infirmary. During that time she got together with Kaveh and became pregnant. She stayed in Zariaspa to hide her pregnancy, and a year later gave birth to Jamshid. She had overstayed her visit by two months, during which time Queen Saffiyeh had a reaction from her childhood nasnas poisoning. Rustam was not able to heal her, and with Manizheh ignoring Ghassan's letters ordering her to return, Saffiyeh died.

#### Manizheh's return to Daevabad

When Manizheh returned a few weeks later, she saw the effects of how Rustam had suffered. His garden had grown massive and unruly; ivy vines and gigantic trumpet-like flowers had spread everywhere, bright green with fresh growth. Silver-mint bushes were as tall as trees, alongside roses the size of a child's head and thorns that could serve as daggers. His orange grove hulked over the rest of the garden like a "looming spider," with fruit so numerous that it was too much for even the Grand Temple food pantries to collect, and were left rotting underneath.
Similarly, Rustam's physical condition looked awful. When he met with Manizheh, he was shaking and his skin was pale with a sick yellow tinge. He had such deep shadows under his eyes that it looked like he’d been punched, and he’d clearly lost weight. Manizheh believed he must have been abused though there would be no other signs of it. Bones broken by Ghassan's thugs, gashes left by whips, and burns left by acid, would have healed from his Nahid abilities.

Manizheh herself was still suffering terribly from her post-labor condition, aggravated by her journey back to Daevabad and her palace reception. Rustam brewed her a potion that immediately relieved her aches, body swelling, and pounding head. Their reunion was tense, and Rustam was stiff and kept his gaze lowered. He was trying take care of Manizheh, sensing that she had given birth and attempting to discuss it, while she refused to acknowledge it as a way to protect him from Ghassan. Growing frustrated, their tempers sparked and Manizheh showed a powerful display shaking the room and making the fire altar scorch the ceiling with flames. Fear flickered in Rustam's eyes and Manizheh threatened that if he finished his sentence he would never speak again, which caused him to tremble. Immediately regretful Manizheh apologized, though Rustam was still angry, hating that their situation made them unable to discuss the birth. She took his hand and asked if he could add "that which I cannot tell you" to his prayers, and Rustam met her gaze, squeezed her hand, and replied "Every day, sister." She then requested tea to settle her stomach and Rustam was relieved to have a concrete task. Before he left, he gave her Dara's ring to bring her comfort.

#### Duriya

Duriya was a shafit from Egypt (and possibly part Ayaanle with her gold-flecked eyes) that worked in the palace as a servant to Queen Saffiyeh. After her death, Duriya was transferred to serving Rustam and worked in the kitchen. Rustam never spoke with her until one day he caught her in his garden, where she was growing jute plants to make molokhia for her father. Rustam called them a weed and when he tried to tear them out, she became enraged and struck him across the face with all of her frustration. She had torn his veil and cut his lip that healed as she watched, and he looked at her with astonished eyes. But instead of retaliating, he listened as Duriya tearfully explained why she wanted the jute, and then touched the dark earth to make a dozen new stalks sprout. They fell in love. Duriya was desperate for a bit of happiness, and maybe the "sad-eyed fallen prince who was just as trapped as she was" felt similarly.

Until Duriya had become pregnant, their unborn child rich with magic that even healed her own cuts. Duriya's shafit father took the news badly, and Rustam was even worse. Duriya had not understood Daevabad's politics between the djinn, the Daeva and Nahid, and the shafit. Panicked, Rustam pleaded with Manizheh to help them smuggle Duriya out of Daevabad. Manizheh took one look at Duriya's pregnant belly with unreadable eyes, and agreed.

At some point Rustam decided that he wanted their child to be named Golbahar. It is a spring flower, with a meaning Nahri imbued as "the promise of new life, unfurling after a winter of violence."

### Death

Manizheh and Rustam convinced Ghassan that they needed to go to Zariaspa because there was a blight affecting their healing herbs at the Pramukh estate. Although Rustam was more skilled at botany, Manizheh was adamant in accompanying him. Ghassan allowed it and they left Daevabad with a traveling party that included the very pregnant Duriya.

On the road between Daevabad and Zariaspa, Duriya gave birth. Rustam held their infant daughter with a look of fragile wonder on his face as he kissed the top of her head and touched her soft curls. Golbahar (Nahri) was a mix of Rustam and Duriya's features, too djinn to pass in the human world and yet visibly shafit. Rustam had a change of heart and wanted them to return to Daevabad. To have a family in his ancestors' city and teach her their ways; not caring who knew about it and growing fiercer as he spoke of it.

But Manizheh had other ideas, mainly sacrificing the infant in order to free Dara from his ring. Manizheh argued that a Nahid child with a shafit servant mother would be "beyond a scandal" and an outrageous disgrace that might cost them the support of the other Daevas when they needed it most. Manizheh reasoned that at least by freeing Dara, the infant could serve her family and tribe, and that it would be painless. Rustam argued against it, at one point declaring that she had "gone too far." But when it became clear Manizheh wouldn't stop, they battled in a way they thought Nahids weren't still capable of. Rustam slipped on Dara's ring to keep it from Manizheh, and they warred over it. There were explosions that had set the plain on fire, and killed their traveling party and horses.

Rustam might have cursed or blasted Manizheh in a way that knocked her out, giving him enough time to aid Duriya and Golbahar in their escape. Rustam was dazed and dying, and struggled to help her onto the last horse while begging her to flee to the human world as fast as she could. He also gave her Dara's ring with the command to "get rid of it." The ring had bonded to his finger, and blood erupted from his hand when he finally ripped it off as though the ring itself had been draining his life-force. Duriya begged Rustam to come with them, but he refused, determined to hold off Manizheh for as long as he could.

But when Manizheh awoke to find Duriya, Golbahar, and the ring gone, she killed Rustam in some kind of spectacular way that had impressed the ifrit. He died with an expression of faint shock on his face, and seeing that broke what was left of Manizheh's heart.

#### Aftermath

Aeshma and Vizaresh the ifrit showed up, drawn by the intensity of the battle, magic, and blood. Raw power that he compared to when Anahid had pulled Daevabad's island from the lake. He knew of Manizheh and her abilities, and how he had hoped to one day meet her. He wanted to be free of Suleiman's curse, and she wanted to be free, and so they struck a deal.

Rustam's head was put on a spike along with a woman who could be mistaken for Manizheh, and their mouths were filled with the relics from the slain traveling party. Whether those djinn were enslaved by Aeshma is not certain, but that was the intended appearance. The other bodies were impossible to identify, either due to the previous battle or inflicted afterwards as part of the cover-up.

Kaveh found them and brought their remains back to Daevabad along with his son Jamshid. His obvious grief helped sell the story to Ghassan that they had been ambushed and killed by Ifrit. Thus Manizheh successfully faked her death. Soon after, Rustam and the woman mistaken for Manizheh were cremated at the Grand Temple.

The death of the Nahids ushered in a dark time for Daevabad and the djinn world, "probably the worst since the war," with many believing they were living in the end times for their race.

#### Legacy

Rustam and Manizheh have shrines honoring them inside of the Grand Temple. Although they are not shown, they are located on the other side of the temple from where Anahid's alter is located.

Duriya and Golbahar made their way back to Egypt and survived in a peaceful village along the Nile for five-ish years, until Manizheh and the ifrit found them. Their village was set ablaze, and Duryia made a deal with Sobek to protect Golbahar by taking her memories, before Manizheh killed her. Sobek honored that deal and Golbahar survived in Egypt under a new name, Nahri. (years earlier Duriya had made a deal with Sobek to alter Golbahar's appearance so she looked more human, though she retained her dark hair and eyes like her father.)

In what *is* The Daevabad Trilogy, Nahri returned to Daevabad when she was 20, claimed her birthright, and eventually learned of her true heritage. With Ghassan and Manizheh killed and the city in mend after a devastating invasion, Nahri works with Prince Ali to create a new power-sharing government. To bring forth a new world where her mother would have been free.

## Characteristics

### Appearance

Rustam had black eyes and black hair, and pale skin compared to the light golden brown of other Daevas. As a Nahid, he also would have Suleiman's seal marked on his face, only visible to the one bearing Suleiman's ring.

He often wore a white veil that covered most of his face except for his eyes, and so rarely removed it that he had to be reminded sometimes when it was time to eat.

### Personality

Referred to as the quiet shadow to Manizheh's bright star, Rustam was very kind and very skilled, but he never had the drive Manizheh had, or her darkness. He was defeated by the Qahtanis long ago and was just trying to survive. He did so by turning inward, retreating behind every wall he could to a place where no one could touch him. He didn't take many confidants, but he was a well-liked man. He also liked having concrete tasks to complete.

Rustam spoke in a soft voice and rarely made eye contact with people in his later years, even with family. When he did, he visibly struggled to maintain it. Because of his sustained trauma and abuse, Rustam jumped at loud sounds and his hands shook when he was afraid; an affliction he couldn’t control and one that had only gotten worse over the years. He could barely hold an object without it rattling in Ghassan’s presence, and when they had to attend public functions, he and Manizheh had taken to putting binders on his wrists with knotted rags he could grip so he could control himself.

### Abilities

* Rustam was incredibly talented with plants and pharmaceuticals, even considered a savant by Manizheh. When sitting outside, flowers and vines would start crawling over him like pets, and were as attuned to him as a loyal adoring dog to its master.
* Rustam was also a skilled potion and elixir maker. He had a particular recipe for hangovers involving a steaming drink that smelled bitter and a bit like pickled ginger, that won him many fans among Daevabad's merrymakers. His healing potions could also bring immediate relief from even the worst aches.
* As a Nahid, he would have the abilities to heal himself and others, as well as the ability to understand all languages (except for Geziriyya).
* Rustam also performed medical procedures, though he was not as talented as Manizheh. He was also in charge of freeing the ifrit slaves, as he did not trust the procedure (and the slaves' Nahid bond) to Manizheh.

### Hobbies

A reprieve from the torment of living in Daevabad under Qahtani rule, Rustam had some peaceful hobbies that he was quite skilled at.

**Botany:**
Rustam had planted an orange grove in the palace garden's interior himself, and it became his joy and point of pride. Excess fruit was collected by volunteers and donated to the Grand Temple's food pantries. He also grew a careful selection of plants like silver-mint bushes, roses, plants with trumpet-like flowers, rare herbs, and jute plants after Duriya's explanation of their worth.

The garden responded to his emotional state, and even decades after his death the plants grew strong and healthy; their healing powers more potent and their fragrance headier. It also responded to his daughter, becoming orderly and flourishing all on it's own as she made her way to Daevabad. Massive roots also protected her from intruders, and flowers blossomed into her palm when sad.

**Painting:**
Rustam was also a talented painter and artist, who managed to capture the spark in his subjects.
Some of those subjects/drawings included:

* + a garden scene rendered in painstakingly miniature details
	+ a handsome young soldier on horseback
	+ a dancer whose bright costume had gleaming ornaments
	+ the wearied slump of an old scholar surrounded by simmering glass vials
	+ a shafit servant (Duriya) with a slightly mischievous smile, tending a jute plant in the infirmary's garden.

These art pieces ended up in the hands of various collectors, which were later collected and bound into a thin book as a gift for Nahri. In the center of the book's cover was a stylized painting of a shedu roaring at a rising sun, and was a gift from Muntadhir though was actually put together by Jamshid.

Rustam also painted a massive mural on one wall of the bedchamber attached to the Palace infirmary: a landscape of the Daevastana countryside, specifically Zariaspa.

## Relationships

### Manizheh e-Nahid

They were very close. Sometimes it seemed like Rustam was the only one who could keep her feet on the ground. - Kaveh

The Nahid siblings who’d lost their innocence too soon, who’d stuck together through everything only to be ripped apart at the end. - Manizheh

## Quotes

* "I may not have your talents, sister, but I am as Nahid as you. I do not need to touch your hand to know."
* "Do not carry this alone. You can't. Not this."
* "I understand," he said harshly. "That you would threaten me is answer enough."
* "I hate this," he whispered. "I hate them. That I cannot even ask you if..."
* [Manizheh] "Would you add that which I cannot tell you to your prayers?" [Rustam] "Every day, sister."
* "I got you something. I know you like to keep it hidden away, but I thought... I thought it might bring you some comfort."
* [about Golbahar] "I want to take her home. Back to Daevabad."
* [Duriya] "But you said no one could know." [Rustam] "Let people know. I don't care. I want to have a family in the city my ancestors build and teach my daughter our ways."
* [to Duriya] "Return to the human world. Flee as fast as you can. But take this."
* [Duriya] "Come with us. Please!" [Rustam] "Manizheh will return. I'll hold her off as long as I can. Go!"

## Trivia

* Most Nahid names were taken from humans long ago. Rustam might be named after Rostam, a legendary hero in Persian mythology. (More info on Wikipedia)

## References

1. ↑ Rustam and Manizheh grew-up with Ghassan who was 200 during The City of Brass, and Rustam died 20 years prior to CoB. He is stated to be younger than Manizheh but it is not said by how much.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Extra scenes - Pre-City of Brass, Manizheh POV (pdf pg. 13)
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 The City of Brass, ch. 10, pg. 183
4. ↑ Extra scenes - Pre-City of Brass, Manizheh POV (pdf pg. 12)
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Extra scenes - Pre-City of Brass, Manizheh POV (pdf pg. 2)
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 Extra scenes - Pre-City of Brass, Manizheh POV (pdf pg. 19)
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 The Empire of Gold, Prologue, pg. 2
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 The Kingdom of Copper, ch. 7, pg. 133
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 The Empire of Gold, ch. 21, pg. 330
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 The Empire of Gold, ch. 21, pg. 331
11. ↑ The Empire of Gold, ch. 10, pg. 130
12. ↑ The Empire of Gold, ch. 28, pg. 428
13. ↑ The Kingdom of Copper, ch. 7, pg. 133-134
14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 The Empire of Gold, ch. 25, pg. 376
15. ↑ Extra scenes - Pre-City of Brass, Manizheh POV (pdf pg. 2-3)
16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 The Empire of Gold, ch. 13, pg. 194
17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 The City of Brass, ch. 18, pg. 320
18. ↑ The Kingdom of Copper, ch. 13, pg. 231
19. ↑ The City of Brass, ch. 16, pg. 294
20. ↑ The City of Brass, ch. 30, pg. 507
21. ↑ The Kingdom of Copper, ch.1, pg. 43
22. ↑ Extra scenes - Pre-Kingdom of Copper, Nahri 2 POV (pdf pg. 145)
23. ↑ The Empire of Gold, ch. 13, pg. 195
24. ↑ Extra scenes - Pre-Kingdom of Copper, Nahri 2 POV (pdf pg. 146)
25. ↑ The Kingdom of Copper, ch. 7, pg. 134-135
26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 The Kingdom of Copper, ch. 7, pg.135
27. ↑ 27.0 27.1 Extra scenes - Pre-City of Brass, Manizheh POV (pdf pg. 3)
28. ↑ If Jamshid is 33 in Kingdom of Copper, then he is 28 in City of Brass
29. ↑ 29.0 29.1 29.2 29.3 29.4 29.5 29.6 29.7 29.8 29.9 Extra scenes - Pre-City of Brass, Manizheh POV (pdf pg. 18)
30. ↑ Extra scenes - Pre-City of Brass, Manizheh POV (pdf pg. 1)
31. ↑ 31.0 31.1 Extra scenes - Pre-City of Brass, Manizheh POV (pdf pg. 4)
32. ↑ The Kingdom of Copper, ch. 34, pg. 515
33. ↑ 33.0 33.1 33.2 33.3 33.4 33.5 33.6 33.7 33.8 Extra scenes - Pre-City of Brass, Manizheh POV (pdf pg. 14)
34. ↑ 34.0 34.1 34.2 34.3 Extra scenes - Pre-City of Brass, Manizheh POV (pdf pg. 15)
35. ↑ 35.0 35.1 35.2 35.3 35.4 35.5 35.6 Extra scenes - Pre-City of Brass, Manizheh POV (pdf pg. 17)
36. ↑ 36.0 36.1 36.2 36.3 Extra scenes - Pre-City of Brass, Manizheh POV (pdf pg. 20)
37. ↑ The Empire of Gold, ch. 8, pg.109
38. ↑ 38.0 38.1 38.2 38.3 The Empire of Gold, ch. 48, pg. 743
39. ↑ The Empire of Gold, ch. 44, pg. 667
40. ↑ The Empire of Gold, ch. 48, pg. 743-744
41. ↑ 41.00 41.01 41.02 41.03 41.04 41.05 41.06 41.07 41.08 41.09 41.10 41.11 41.12 41.13 41.14 41.15 The Empire of Gold, ch. 48, pg. 744
42. ↑ The Empire of Gold, Prologue, pg. 9
43. ↑ The Empire of Gold, ch. 48, pg. 739
44. ↑ 44.0 44.1 44.2 44.3 44.4 The City of Brass, ch. 16, pg. 277
45. ↑ The Empire of Gold, ch. 21, pg. 332
46. ↑ 46.0 46.1 46.2 46.3 The Empire of Gold, ch. 21, pg. 333
47. ↑ The Empire of Gold, ch. 35, pg. 518
48. ↑ 48.0 48.1 The Empire of Gold, ch. 44, pg. 657
49. ↑ 49.0 49.1 49.2 The Empire of Gold, Prologue, pg. 7
50. ↑ 50.0 50.1 The Empire of Gold, ch. 21, pg. 334
51. ↑ 51.0 51.1 51.2 The Kingdom of Copper, ch. 16, pg. 272
52. ↑ The Empire of Gold, ch. 21, pg. 328
53. ↑ The City of Brass, ch. 29, pg. 500-501
54. ↑ 54.0 54.1 The City of Brass, ch. 22, pg. 396
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56. ↑ The Empire of Gold, ch. 6, pg. 82-83
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58. ↑ 58.0 58.1 58.2 Extra scenes - Pre-City of Brass, Manizheh POV (pdf pg. 16)
59. ↑ The Kingdom of Copper, ch. 34, pg. 514-515
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66. ↑ The City of Brass, ch. 10, pg. 183
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68. ↑ The Kingdom of Copper, ch. 26, pg. 423
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72. ↑ S.A. Chakraborty on Twitter - Feb 21, 2017