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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6976782" data-attributes="member: 4937">Ha.  I'm amazed by how generous you've been regarding alignment to my crew of ruffians and murderers compared to how I see them.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />At the least though, for the sake of some diversity, Wazir Al-Saqui the faithful but cold-hearted operative is intended to be LN, Gamali Al-Zuhur the poisoner who is not who he first appears to be is CE, and "Tip Top" the street gang cult leader with his own internal twisted code not grounded in reality is CN.   No one on the list I imagined as NG, but you might could make an argument for Bey Suleijan whose is generous and scrupulously honest to the letter of his word as LG (depending on how you judge his manslaughter) and Sheikh Salib whose caustic language and battle scars might actually armor a well-intentioned, kind, and sensitive heart at CG (depending on whether you think he's as bitter on the inside as the out).  However, I'm generally happy with both at a more ambiguous N as well.  I'll just say that everyone on the list is quite capable of killing someone, and most of them have killed someone - often treacherously.  As I see them in my head these are proud, arrogant, secretive and if they need to be very nasty characters, who are used to facing off against dark powers and making hard choices.As far as the rest goes, I never said Maktab Al Rasam was a Jann...If that suits what you want to make of his mysterious nature and background and you have some plan for him, but internally I had him as an immortal Dark Stalker Bard 13 assassin type who is deeply involved in protecting the city's secrets.  You didn't think he was just painting protective runes all over the city just for fun, did you?  Maktab is intended to go from being this obscure funny little harmless seeming artist who gets you in trouble with the residents because you made the faux pas of trying to talk to him or stepping on his artwork, who you can push around and who seems afraid of his own shadow, to the guy who is trying to balk or kill you if you mess with the cities ancient secrets very fast.  Maktab kills efreet spies dead, in the dark where you can't here them scream.  Maktab hunts Khayal.  Ibn Natn's 'people' give Maktab wide birth.  Ibn Natn is more afraid of Maktab than the Emir.  Secrets and all. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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