Amani al-Kassam

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## Biography

**Growing up in The Kassemid Sultanate [0-17]**

Amani is one of the Sultana Arwa al-Kassam's bastard children. Like his many half-siblings, he is currently in the running for the heir. While most of his sibling cohort all took to strength in their favored skill sets whether that be melee or magic, Amani decided to instead study multiple fields of both swordplay and magic. From a young age, Amani quickly showed favor in learning a wide skillset and an appreciation for training the mind.

As a bastard child of the sultana, he was raised with his half-siblings under the sultana's care. This led to him growing close to his half-siblings closer to his age. He was especially close to his elder sister, Sawda al-Kassam, and his elder brother, Amari al-Kassam, who both were the kindest to the young Amani. While tensions could always be higher in public the three managed a healthy relationship seemingly born from the brothers showing their support for Sawda as their believed best choice for ascension.

**Post Mana Maelstorm [17-22]**

While Amani had initially given up on fighting for the ascension when the *Mana Maelstorm* hit Amani began to step up in ways that quickly drew attention to the then-teenaged Amani. In time this began to distance him from his sibling cohort, both due to the time Amani invested in new projects and the jealousy of the increasing eyes on Amani. Now was the time for research and Amani was more than ready to step up to the plate. Despite this he would not set out immediately, a good scholar prepares and knows when to strike. Instead, he consulted the aid of Sawda and Amani for the preparation of reexamining the world and helping the Kassemid Sultanate rise faster from the calamity.

Five years after the initial Maelstorm Amani was now prepared to set out to map the world once more. Armed with his trusty shortsword, knowledge of magic, his *Mamluk*, their mounts, and several weeks of provisions he felt ready to face the world. So of course it came to a violent wake-up call. Not many days out from the start of their journey, on the border of Kassemid Sultanate, his Mamluk attempted to assassinate Amani. With a resilience that came from a strong desire for life, he managed to overtake the man and kill him for the attempt. Once the shock had left him he managed to go through his items once more readying to leave back to his homelands, yet in going through the things once more he found something shocking. Evidence of the man being ordered to attempt the assassination, with a great deal pointing to his brother Amari as a potential culprit.

Instead, he decided to continue on the trek alone, trusting only his own wits. He chose to relay this in a letter to his elder sister Sawda left to the nearest town for sending.

**Meeting Mihret [22-25]**

He soon learned this was a stupid idea, and extremely difficult and all it took was three bad turns. For one traveling with two mounts may have allowed him to carry the extra provisions but on the other hand, it was extremely easy to steal said mount and provisions. Well, at least it wasn't his gold. However after two scrapes, one with a fierce beast and then once more with the same bandit, Amani decided it was worth looking into a traveling companion. Not but three months into his solo travel he met his first companion, Mihret, in the Entariush region.

**Meeting Hazel [25-27]**

The two journeyed together for three years before they would meet their next companion, Hazel, during a job for a nearby village to eliminate a certain threatening beast that was stopping trade between the neighboring forest villages. After several failed tracking attempts and continued attacks, the pair soon found they would not be able to proceed without the help of a well-versed local. After getting lost for a night they came upon Hazel's hometown and with some convincing managed to procure their aid. Once the beast was felled the trio went to collect their spoils.

The trio has been near inseparable ever since.

**Guildtown**

Start of RP

## Abilities

### Traits

* **Smokescreen**: A diversion tactic perfected by Amani. It involves finesse shaping of his own magical ability to draw the attention of enemies allow his allies openings for strong blows. [+2 to ally rolls made after the use of Smokescreen]
* **Frenzied Survivor**: When Amani drops below half health he begins to become more desperate with his swings increasing his power. [+2 Melee damage when HP < 5]

### Racial Traits

* **Kassemid Blood**: +2 to Academic rolls and +1 to Religion rolls.

## Trivia

* Amani has been traveling with Mihret and Hazel prior to joining the Expeditionary Company
* Amani holds the Sultana's same favor for casual flings, *~~especially when one travels with someone as easy on the eyes as Mihret~~*
* Amani and Mihret get into competitions on who can do more cool things to sword often
* Amani can speak and read Kassmeidian(?) (Arabic) Ællian (English) Martorian (Latin) and a bit of Entariushan (Amharic/Ethiopian) and Tiān Yǔ (Chinese)