Alev Hanım

> "We are the backbone of all society, doctors always have been. You can fight your way through all the men you can, but without a doctor behind you, [Azrail] will get you early" -Alev Hanım
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Alev Hanım (Mrs. Flame, literally) is the reigning Başhekim of Pınarbaşı and a respected member of the community. In the city, she plays a significant role in potentially easing the political tensions away from a violent civil war, due to her organization's rare apolitical stance and respect across the entire Pınarbaşı population.

She is a kind-hearted person first and foremost, motivated mainly by helping as many people as possible. In her speeches and her administration, however, she combines that kind-heartedness with a stern insistence on a Doctor's oath. The player character can choose to take up this Doctor's Oath and join Alev's organization. If the player character then breaks any of its rules, the organization will become lethally hostile to them.

She often talks about [Azrail], the angel of death, and expressed that he has "gained too much power" after the Great War. She rejects the pessimism of many when looking at the Great War. She does not care for speculation about who caused it, and maintains that humans have a predilection for doing good. She has ambitions of getting her hands on and utilizing [Auto-Doc] technology for her organization.

## Bio

### Role

Doctor's Assistant 2248-2256Doctor 2256-2270

Başhastane Founder 2270-2277

Başhekim 2270-2277

## Stats

### Misc stats

Hit Points 50XP 40Armor Class 20Action Points ...Carry Weight ...Melee Damage 5Sequence 12Healing Rate 3

## Background

### Early Life

Alev was born in Pınarbaşı to a comfortable family of housekeepers, people who made their living by cleaning houses of community members who left for merchant and mercenary work. Sometimes she would help her parents when life at home got boring. She made most of her early friends by hanging out with the children of her parent's employers. One day, her friend gifted her a medical book that his merchant father had found on the job. This is where the spark of interest in being a doctor started. She rarely mentions her early life in dialogue, saying she remembers little about it.

### Raider Attack on Pınarbaşı

Somewhere in 2248, a collection of raider gangs entered a temporary alliance to rob and occupy Pınarbaşı. Their main motivation was the energy richness of the city and high population to be used as slaves. The raiders eventually succumbed the village in a violent encounter with both the Pınarbaşı guard, protectrons, and even residents. Alev's mother was reportedly killed by a raider and her seemingly father died of overworking as a slave. During and shortly after the invasion, an alliance of doctors went into the city to minimize the casualties. One of these doctors, Seyfi Bey, patched up a bullet wound on Alev's leg, inflicted on her by a raider. At this point, Doctors were mostly reserved by for the upper class, and followed no central code. The alliance that saved Alev during the invasion were a group of retired senior doctors, who had saved up enough money to focus on doing a universal service. They allowed Alev to escape, and allowed her to live with them. She grew up in this nomadic group of veteran doctors and other escapees.

### Life with the Doctors

As the other escapees left for safer settlements, Alev decided to train with the Doctors as an assistant. After 10 years as assistant (and thus, student), she was trained enough to be a true Doctor. Her work as a Nomadic doctor was transformative. She saw her saviors die of old age, she saw many patients die prematurely (from an impatient Azrail, as she would say) in battle or from infection, she trained new members into the alliance of Doctors and thought them the Doctor's code. Her proficiency as a Doctor gained her a reputation amongst the wasteland as a savior figure. When wastelanders were sick, wounded, etc., they'd often pray that Alev Hanım would find them, and patch them up with the "quickest hands in Kayseri".

Alev Hanım also worked her Charisma on the Alliance of Doctors members, formalizing and centralizing the Doctor's Code (effectively a re-iteration of the [Hippocratic Oath]) that the veterans had thought her. She incorporated subsistence agriculture knowledge to the Doctor curriculum, both for making herbal remedies and for surviving in the wasteland as a self-sufficient entity. She was seen at this time as a de-facto leader. Nobody expected the Alliance of Doctors, what basically amounted to a nomadic university, to last for very long, but Alev Hanım's charisma, passion, and adaptability kept it affloat.

### Pınarbaşı Treaty and Founding of the Başhastane

In 2270, with Alev Hanım now at 31 years old, the Alliance of Doctors would be called back to Pınarbaşı to mediate the signing of the Pınarbaşı Treaty. The raider-occupied Pınarbaşı governance didn't allow any outsiders into or insiders out of the city, shooting them on sight and tracking them across the wasteland if they had to, so reports on the landscape of that area were rather scarce. Apparently, the 32 years of raider alliance governance had been wracked with slave revolts, internal disagreements, cultural insensitivity, and general gang violence. The only remaining slaves that knew anything about how the electric infastructure (one of Pınarbaşı's only remaining treasures) worked had been killed in a slave revolt. The raiders could not figure it out themselves, and were gradually becoming lower in number compared to their slaves, so they decided to open up their settlement and sign the first recorded treaty in post-war Turkey. The remaining raiders would free the slaves, relinquish power, and welcome back all the escaped citizens in return for being employed as guards for the village and assured a good living. Like many residents, Alev was skeptical of this desperate deal, and saw the "guards" as causing too much political trouble.

They accepted the deal to regain their old home, however, and it seemed the most brutal of the raiders had not been the ones to survive internal strife. Alev found a respected position in her community, formalizing the Alliance of Doctors by establishing a representative democracy to choose a leader among their ranks. She was elected unanimously, judged as the most knowledgable of the doctors. Her office became known as the official Başhekim and the building of the Alliance of Doctors became known as the Başhastane.

## Interactions with Player Character

Various Quests

Ability to join the Bashastane and bring ultimate peace to Pinarbasi through the organization