Jafar al-Kazi
Jafar al-Kazi
Jafar is the current grand vizier of the Ophidian Viziers of the kingdom of Suqara. And he is therefore kinda a big deal. Jafar has held the position for ages, ever since he discovered a way to overcome the dreaded Black Rot by shedding one's humanity, a technique gifted to him by the goddess Maya after overcoming three trials for her. This transformation resulted in Jafar becoming a Linnorm, a change that took him and everyone else a bit of time to adjust to.
A kind, generous and civic-minded person, Jafar strives to use his position to ensure that the current rulers over the kingdom are equipped with the information to make the best possible decisions, both domestic and foreign. He cares deeply for the people and always advises the court to invest resources in ensuring the health and longevity of the common man, believing such investments will be paid back tenfold.
He also seeks to spread these ideas abroad, and has had some success with nations like Basharan. Other times, his efforts have been stifled by politics, greed or other issues, but it has never curbed his enthusiasm.
As part of his trials, he ended up attracting Maya's interest on a much more romantic level and he is one of the goddess' lovers, to the point she will send her avatar to visit and even produced two children with him. This has practically catapulted the once human into sainthood among followers of Maya.
While he prefers peace, Jafar is not afraid of fighting for what he believes. His new body grants him great strength and speed, though he is most comfortable sticking to his forte of magic.
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
As a human, Jafar suffered greatly from the Black Rot, which made it hard for him to move or perform any strenuous physical activity. In his new form, he is at the peak of his health.
Special abilities
Post transformation, the Black Rot has merged with the venom his body now naturally produces, mixing its effects into a truly cruel cocktail. As a result, he is reluctant to use it without a very good reason.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Jafar's childhood was pretty normal for a Suqaran. Through his schooling, he showed an aptitude for the academic arts, with a head for numbers and facts. It was during his studies of biology that Jafar first learnt about the Black Rot and the many attempts at combating it.
After finishing his education, Jafar gained employment as an apprentice under the scholars working for the king. He worked on many projects to expand Suqara, it's trade-network and fix issues as they popped up, slowly rising in rank and prestige.
In 2148 AIT, after a particularly unfortunate outbreak, Jafar decided that he would find a way to cure the disease. He gathered the best doctors, healers and sages of the city and created a team whose sole focus was to study the disease. Unfortunately, it the process, Jafar himself got infected and the disease became chronic. He took to dressing himself in concealing white robes in order to prevent himself from infecting his team.
As the task-force hit dead-end after dead-end, Jafar turned towards more esoteric solutions. Deciding to follow in his ancestor's footsteps, he decided that where mortal hands failed, perhaps divine ones could succeed. At the Kulaliha Plaza, he begged the deities of Suqara for aid.
It was Maya who answered him. She offered a possible cure, but Jafar would have to prove his worth by performing three deeds.
The first was to bring relief to the citizen of Jhaleed. Once owned by jinn, Suqara had sent settlers to colonize the town, as it had once been a centre of the slave trade. But much to everyone's surprise, there were no signs of wells or anything else that would have helped sustain so many slaves, leading the town to quickly experiencing a crisis, with caravans running in and out to keep the citizens supplied. Jafar arrived with the colony on the brink of collapsing. Investigating the place, he quickly noted that all basements were unusually cold, something the villagers had used to store food. Arranging a dig team, Jafar soon discovered the city's secret. The jinn had conjured a mass of ice beneath the town, harvesting from it for the slaves and closing it off to avoid discomfort.
His second task was to stop the infamous jinn Vibrant-Flame-of-Many-Colors, a slaver from the days before the War of Broken Chains who had managed to stay free and stil lead raids on the humans. Jafar's found that the slaver was one of the proud Marid and had word spread far and wide of the accomplishment of settling Jhaleed. As predicted, Vibrant and their followers decided to punish the upstarts by raiding the town. Jafar lured them into an ambush and had them dropped into a mining pit, where he and his guards fought them. Weakened by the ice, the jinns were defeated.
For his third and final task, Jafar was to outsmart the then most infamous of sharpers, Sabaah el-Amir, who had so far never had any of his scams foiled. Jafar returned from his trip to Jhaleed and proclaimed that his victory over the jinn proved that he was a genius of unparalleled insight and cleverness. As he had imagined, Sabaah could not resist testing himself against a braggard genius. Disguising himself as a merchant, he decided to trick Jafar into a bum deal, selling him a load of authentic aurum, which of course turned out be a load of gold bars that had little value in Suqara. Jafar bought the load, but then patiently worked each one into a work of art and sold them, thus earning more money that he had spent. Sabaah admitted that Jafar had indeed outsmarted him, not by trying to foil his scheme, but finding a way to make it work anyway.
At this point, Jafar, now at death's door from the illness, returned to Kulaliha Plaza. Maya appeared and offered her cure. Humans were susceptible to the disease, so by helping him shed his humanity, he would become invulnerable. He accepted and was transformed by her divine grace into a linnorm. Afterwards, she admitted that she had become smitten by him, seeing him outwit and overcome problem after problem, and she offered to take him as a lover. He accepted.
2163 AIT, Jafar founded the Ophidian Viziers, an order of scholars that would take in those who where succumbing to Black Rot and teach them how through meditation and focus, they too could shed their humanity like a snake shed's its skin.
In 2202 AIT, Maya would give birth to her first child with Jafar, Naseem. In 2211, she would give birth to their second child, Nahla
Gender Identity
Identifies as male
Sexuality
Heterosexual.
Education
Jafar has received a thorough education and has kept up to date with the newest developments ever since.
Employment
Jafar is currently the Grand Vizier and leader of the Ophidian Viziers. He serves as advisor to the kings and queens of Suqara, as well as leading projects and researchs in the country's interest.
Accomplishments & Achievements
In 2565 AIT, Jafar was assisting in organizing trade in the sphere of Vastiaria, a place notorious for its constantly shifting political landscape. Knowing that any trade deal was likely to go up in smoke unless they could find a stable partner, Jafar began a process of reviewing likely candidate. He noted the newly-founded country of Basharan. They were relatively weak, but their ideals harmonized. Jafar advised the king to give Basharan favorable trade-deals, even gifting them ressources or learned people, so that they could help stabilize a reliable ally in the region. As a result, Basharan flourished and stabilized, becoming a major power in the region.
Failures & Embarrassments
Around 2660 AIT, Jafar advocated for heavy investment in the growing Megatropolis market. He hoped not only to strengthen ties, but also to spread Suqaras virtues to the growing city. Unfortunately, he severely underestimated the strength of the classist views of many of Megatropolis' merchants and Suqaras' philosophy of pious wealth was twisted into the birth of the The Church of Coins. Jafar has always felt deeply responsible for aiding in the funding of the organization and everything they have wrought since.
Intellectual Characteristics
Jafar has a highly analytical mind and is good at considering problems from multiple angles. He's good with people and charismatic leader. He can tend to have his head in the clouds when he's deeply pondering things.
Morality & Philosophy
Jafar believes wholly in the Suqaran values of unity, generosity and piousness. With Maya serving as his patron deity, he has also come to value the art of recycling.
Taboos
Jafar is against the exploitation of people, believing everyone who works under him to be a valued contributor to the overall project.
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
Jafar is motivated by a desire to help improve the lives of people. Acquisition of wealth and power are ultimately to use said assets to better the lot of anyone he can.
Savvies & Ineptitudes
Jafar is highly well read on medicine, economy and society. He is also quite skilled at reading people.
Physically Jafar was never the strongest and while his new body has done some to fix that, he is still more prone to exercising his mind than his body.
Likes & Dislikes
Likes reading, discussing philosophy and tea.
Dislikes abuse of authority, strongly alcoholic drinks and anything that wakes him up before he's gotten at least six hours of sleep.
Virtues & Personality perks
Jafaris studious, curious, attentive, empathic and open for suggestions and critique.
Vices & Personality flaws
Jafar can be inattentive, naive, overly trusting and workaholic.
Hygiene
Jafar bathes frequently, a habit only strengthened by his time suffering from the Black Rot, and has developed a fondness for several perfumes and scented oils that he originally used to cover up the smell of decay he gave off.
Social
Contacts & Relations
As one of Maya's lovers, and one she has had kids with, Jafar enjoys a positive relationship with all branches of Maya's religion. His influence in their early dealings also gives him a good reputation among the people of Basharan.
Family Ties
Religious Views
Jafar has come to completely support Maya's religion in their views on community, trickery and responsibility. He's less comfortable with the more predatory aspects, but accepts that is part of who Maya and some of her followers are.
Social Aptitude
Jafar is charming and confident, though not to the point of arrogance. When focused on a project, he can enter periods of isolation, less out of introversion and more out of forgetting the rest of the sphere. As a high standing member of the royal court of Suqara, he knows his manners and can act with respectfulness even towards people he detests.
Hobbies & Pets
After his third trial, Jafar discovered a fondness for sculpturing, which he enjoys doing as a way of keeping himself active when here's absolutely nothing else going on.
Wealth & Financial state
Jafar's position grants him a semi-modest, by Suqaran standards, income. He allows himself some luxuries, like investing in a bathtub big enough to hold his enlarged frame and buying spiced meat from foreign merchants. He has also set a fund aside for his children's needs.
Species
Conditions
Ethnicity
Honorary & Occupational Titles
Grand Vizier
Year of Birth
2111 AIT
882 Years old
Birthplace
Suqara
Children
Current Residence
Suqara
Pronouns
He/Him
Gender
Male
Eyes
Purple
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
White scales with black markings
Height
18 meters long
Weight
115 tons
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