Nadia Farik

**Nadia Farik** is the main character of *Iron Hammer: Modern Warfare*.

She is the leader of the Razikstani Liberation Force, a militia formed to combat Kuznetsov's forces in the Evalk occupation of Razikstan. Nadia may be small and weak, but she has the skills and will to fight for what she believes in.

## Biography

### Early Life

Nadia Farik was born on May 20th, 1992 in the town of Nazori, to Muhammad Farik and Cheska Farik. Her childhood is largely unknown, but it can be assumed that she and her brother Hadir studied at an unknown school.

In 1999, when Nadia was 7-years-old, Evalk troops were stationed in Razikstan in 1999, when Nadia was seven years old. Nadia and her mother were trapped when an artillery strike buried them under rubble. She lived and was rescued until the Evalks began to advance on Razikstan. Nadia and her brother, Ali, were being taken by her father to their home to prepare for an escape when an Evalk soldier burst into their home and murdered their father. Nadia and Ali snuck out of their house after killing the soldier and donning a gas mask, dodging Evalk troops and tried to flee via a truck. They were soon apprehended by Vasily Kuznetsov, the Evalk General in charge of the invasion of their nation, and put into his captivity.

That is when her life turned into a living hell.

### Captured

Both Nadia and Ali were held as prisoners of war for a brutal ten years after being seized by the Evalks. Life inside the prison, and especially solitary confinement, was akin to living hell for them and their fellow detainees. They were not given water, were barely fed, and were waterboarded on a regular basis in exchange for information about "Commander Farik" (who turned out to be Nadia but Vasily already knew this).

At some point she was captured, Reznov Kuzmin demonstrates to her that care is a weakness, evidenced by his act of shooting a guard in the prison after he failed to prevent Nadia from escaping. Vasily then picked up his pace and did what was mentioned above.

### Prison Break

It is now 10 years and counting, that the siblings are imprisoned in Al Zayini, Razikstan. Nadia Farik awakens in solitary confinement to Ali's voice who leads her to her exit door. Ali approaches his sister immediately across from her cell and inquires about her condition and incarceration. He then throws Nadia a key he stole earlier and orders her to hide it. General Kuznetsov enters the jail hallway after Nadia's fruitless effort to open the locked door, mockingly remarking on the two siblings being together, taunting that he'll have them both executed soon.

Nadia Farik witnessed her brother defiantly replying to Kuznetsov's mockery, only to be hit with a taser jolt. Barkov directs his men to transport Ali to a warehouse, while Kuznetsov begins to demoralise Nadia by threatening her chance of escape. Vasily Kuznetsov drinks a canteen of water and offers it to Nadia, but immediately empties it to taunt her. Later, Kuznetsov leads Nadia into a spare interrogation room, where she is strapped into a chair by a guard. Kuznetsov began questioning Nadia about a botched communication sent by "Commander Farik" after falsely promising to make her experience easier.

Vasily then shows her ally, Azadeh, into the same room as leverage after Nadia stubbornly refuses to confess the truth. Not wishing to die, she gives up and admits that Commander Farik is none other than herself. She was then pistol whipped and tossed to her cell. Kuznetsov hands her a bowl of food as she awakens tied to her prison bed. Regardless of whether Nadia accepts it, Kuznestov will hurl the bowl against the wall in fury and rage at her, knowing that Ali stole the key earlier.

She lies about not having the key, which causes Kuznetsov to backhand Nadia and briefly knock her down. Vasily Kuznetsov turns away from Nadia Farah and puts on a pair of black gloves, claiming that Razikstan is a "breeding ground for terrorists." Vasily begins strangling Nadia and claims to be "protecting Evalka from terrorist thieves," but an attack by the Razikstani Liberation Force forces Vasily to flee. He directs his troops to lock the prison complex and burn it down before leaving the cell. He also mocks Nadia, stating that she murdered her people rather than saving them.

### Al Zayini Prison Break

As Kuznetsov exits the cell, Nadia unfastens her handcuff and picks up a spoon, which she uses to loosen the screws from a vent. Crawling through the vent into the adjacent cell, Nadia grabs a rock and tosses it at a switch outside the cell, releasing her into the corridor and opens all of the cell doors. Nadia makes her way to the interrogation room, climbing through a vent using a chair to gain sewer access. Crawling beneath jail guards and heading towards the sewer's terminus, she enters a toilet, ambushes one of the guards, and steals his sidearm. Nadia then makes her way to the higher cells, where her colleagues and Azadeh remain imprisoned.

After freeing the prisoners, the escaped prisoners take weapons and ammo from all the dead guards and round all of the other former prisoners up. As the SAS begin to leave, Lt. Duquesne remarks that Kuznetsov will return to make Nadia group pay for the events which Nadia valiantly responds that she'll make Vasily Kuznetsov pay as well, with his life.

From that day on, she formed the Razikstani Liberation Force.

## Personality

Nadia is motivated to defend her homeland. However, she does not employ insane motives, such as utilising chemical weapons or affiliating with the enemy, whereas Ali used these methods and stated that he is no longer her brother and tries to kill him for it. She shares the same objective as her fellow Razikstanis: to liberate the land in which she was born. Nadia is capable of defending herself and even going to war against her opponents, whom she labels selfish and immoral. She feels a great amount of respect and care for both her country and for her militia, as she has been known to call her militia warriors her "brothers," "sisters," and "cousins".

She is not one to argue, although she is somewhat quick to anger, such as when she berates Ali, and effectively disowns him as a brother, after he used the Evalk gas he captured in Dessaahk, to defeat Kuznetsov's forces during the *Highway of Chaos*, and is later seen, enraged by his actions, screaming for him in anger.

Nadia also appears to be almost incapable of leaving her country, preferring to fight her opponents in her homeland, stating that she needs all the advantage that her movement has to use in combat.

## Trivia

### General

* Initially, she wanted to become a revolutionist, but combat made her stay in her role as a rebel leader.
* Nadia is known for her improvisational learning, evidenced by handling unfamiliar weapons and tools without any formal instructions.
* She does not know whether to kill Ali or beat him up when she meets him again.
* Her signature weapon is the KRS-47, a KR-47 simply attached with a foldable stock.
* Typical for a rebel, her marksmanship is way beyond average.
* Nadia has decent hand-to-hand skills. However, her small size and average strength makes her rely on melee weapons in close combat.