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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6973837" data-attributes="member: 4937">Hanifah Milaff Aibnat Tanin: Hanifah Tanin “the Coiled Madam” (Jann Half-Dragon Sor14) is the result of a dalliance between of a Jann Lord and a shape-shifting Dragon.  She is known for her shape-shifting ability and her fondness for smoking opium, cannabis, tobacco and more exotic narcotics from an ornate hookah – the smoke of which she is always wreathed with. She dwells deep in the more run down portion of the Souk, in sumptuously decorated apartments in the basement beneath an opium den of ill repute.  From there she runs her empire of petty thieves, from which she derives her other title “the Sheikha of the Alleyways”.  Few are the cutpurses, pickpockets, hookers, sharpers, touts, beggars, con artists or footpads that dare ply their trade in the Souk without paying a tithe to the Coiled Madam, lest living smokes come to choke the breath from their lungs in their sleep.  Few orphans or urchins that escape the slave takers or the press gangs that impose the water debt on trespassers, escape her clutches, for they must rely on her for protection.  Besides being the foremost kidsman in Qaybar, she is fence of stolen information, who will pay handsomely for a valuable secret, and has a hand in many of the more unsavory institutions of the city.  It is dangerous to negotiate with the Coiled Madam however, for she is not above using her wiles upon the unwary, and she enjoys befuddling the minds of visitors with narcotic smokes.  Those who lose their powers of concentration, soon are subject to Hanifah’s enchantments and charms, and find themselves saying, signing documents, and doing things not at all in their interests. Nabil Abdul-Rahman Bey Suleijan (“Nabil Bey Suleijan”): One of the wealthiest and best liked merchants of Qaybar, the Bey Suleijan is known for being scruplously honest and fair in all of his dealings, but still being cunning and perceptive enough to get the better of anyone especially if they try to cheat him.  He is considered the finest haggler in Qaybar, and is also generally agreed to lay the finest table, and it is not unusual to see him in the markets haggling for various delicasies.  The Bey Suleijan is a jovial emmensely fat Jann with a long fine white beard, who prefers to dress in white silks and cloth of gold.  In his youth, the Bey Suleijan was a very well travelled Jann, who had dined in each of the great courts of Genie-kind, and in many of the grandest mortal courts.   Now he is in a state of semi-retirement however, and seldom leaves the city, leaving the acquisition of goods to sundry grand-children and servants that work under his direction.  He has a fondness for stories, and he will both listen to and tell stories with equal eagerness, and he is one of the best informed brokers of information in the city.  Little transpires within Qaybar that some inkling does not reach his ears.  But the greatest vice of the Bey Suleijan is food and his banquets are legendary throughout the city for more reasons than one.  Not only is his provender of the finest quality and the most exotic nature, but over the years the Bey Suleijan has by careful consumption of small doses of poison built up an immunity to nearly every sort of plant and animal toxin, and at times when he is distracted he forgets to remind his guests of the potential hazards of his table.  Thus, no small number of visitors have been poisoned by apparent accident, sharing a dish of raw blowfish or sautéed amanitas or a sauce made from the skin of poisonous tree frogs with their host.  By all appearances such occasions greatly distress the Bey Suleijan, though some do wonder whether he is in some way avenging himself on some who have offended him.  Be as it may, no invitation to a banquet by Bey Suleijan is ever refused, though those that attend always take the precaution of bringing the strongest antidotes and antitoxins that they can provide themselves with - just in case.  It is said that Nabil Bey Suleijan is one of the few friends of Khahil Al Marbi, and certainly he is the only merchant of the city with which he openly does business.</blockquote>

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