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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6974907" data-attributes="member: 4937">More inhabitants of QaybarMudriz Aladjabad Ibn Natn (“Ibn Natn”): The Ibn Natn is an inhabitant of Qaybar that most do not know exists, and those that do know would generally rather that they do not.   While most inhabitants of Qaybar would tell you that the Smoke Medina is the worst quarter of the city, they are very far wrong.  There is a worse place by far, spoken of rarely and in hushed tones lest speaking of it bring misfortune or unwanted attention.  It goes by several names – the Charnel Quarter, the Empty Quarter, the Lost Quarter, and the Dark Side.   It consists of lightless tunnels running beneath the ordinary city, and lost streets that no longer normally link up with the lighted part of the city except on strange days and times.  Nonetheless, even on the best days, those with the right knowledge know how to find its concealed and foreboding entrances and how to pass through its usually locked gates.  Mudriz Ibn Natn appears to be a Jann of exceptional height, with pale damp seeming skin the color of a maggot and fierce red eyes.  He is always in a choking cloud of perfume to try to cover up his reek, which is evident when he speaks even at a considerable distance.  He dresses in fine rust colored silks, and abundant jewelry – much of which is probably fake.  A great turban of bronze colored cloth is always about his head, and robes which trail upon the ground – and consequently show the stains of offal and dung.   He never uses his real name in introductions, and instead prefers various fanciful titles.  He will use various glamours and magic to disguise his true appearance whenever he believes those he deals with are too unwise to penetrate such disguises.  In fact, the Ibn Natn is a Great Ghul of exceptional cunning, age, and prowess among his kind (12HD, Wiz9).  He rules the Charnel Quarter from a lavish court its darkest recesses, and commands a small army of unruly servitors – a dozen Ghul-Kin, two dozen ghasts, and a variety of even less pleasant creatures including wererats, nabussu and dretches that call Charnel Quarter home.  Beneath his turban and robes are the ears and hooves of a wild ass, and his smile conceals a row of knife like teeth that decorate a jaw which can expand to terrible width.  At night, his minions issue forth from their dank tunnels to fetch the uneaten food and uncollected dung of the city, and carry it back to their lairs where they allow its rot and putrescence to ripen before gorging and feasting upon the maggot filled horrors.   For this reason, the charnel quarter is overrun with vapor rats, flies, biting flies, and robber flies – some of which are said to reach unusual and monstrous size.  It is said by the most unsavory merchants that Ibn Natn is greedy for all manner of arcane lore, and though he is a most dangerous being to bargain with, he will trade secrets and all manner of stolen goods and unsavory favors for volumes of arcane lore.  With these secrets, Ibn Natn hopes to unlock a weapon which will allow him to come out of the shadows and claim the throne of the city for himself.</blockquote>

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