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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 6977728" data-attributes="member: 20323">[MENTION=4937]Celebrim[/MENTION] I meant to put a wink <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=";)" /> after saying that I felt some of your NPCs were Neutral Good. They are clearly a group of very dangerous contenders in Byzantine contenders. I love it.How do you feel about Maktab Al Rasam being a khayal (shadow genie from 3e Tome of Magic) instead of a dark stalker? I think it might fit the whole theme a bit better, and maybe explains his fleeting appearances – because as a khayal he'd have Shadow Dependence, meaning he couldn't survive outside the Plane of Shadow / Shadowfell for more than a week at a time. Also, what would you place his alignment as? CN?And wrote up the leader of the Zahranis...The Vurzug Framadar (“Grand Vizier”)♂ half-fiend janni vizier / rogue 9, terrorist leader (Zahranis) / LE / devious & uses euphemismsVurzug Framadar Aturpat ibn-Adurnesh served the former warlord Al-Zahran as head of the Framadar, ruthless secret police that rooted out dissidents to Al-Zahran’s efreet-sponsored rule and assassinated the old royal family. It is whispered that Aturpat exceeded even the old warlord in cunning and was the true power behind the throne. Standing a willowy seven-and-a-half feet tall, Aturpat rises head and shoulders above other jann and his ageless skin appears a light shade of violet-red. He wears kohl around his brooding mismatched copper and orange eyes, and his gaze alone has been known to hypnotize even giant cobras. Despite being a formidable foe himself, Aturpat’s true genius lies in his ability to mobilize the burning sentiments of those whose prosperity went up in flames with Al-Zahran’s death. A true demagogue, Aturpat’s skill with spoken word is unnerving, lending credence to the rumors that he was sired by a devil. His mastery of language is so great that Aturpat can deliver flawless innuendo commanding his followers to commit the most heinous and yet remain blameless himself in the eyes of truth-telling magic.   The Zahranis are efreet-sympathizers who yearn for the "halycon days" of rule by flame and steel. Their numbers are comprised of jann who served in the Framadar, arms traders who prospered under the efreet, disenfranchised fire genasi, and human mercenaries who went unpaid during the uprising. After the death of Al-Zahran during the popular uprising that led to the city’s planeshift to the Material Plane, many Zahranis fled Qaybar, either returnign to their efreet masters or scattering across the desert as raiders. Only a small group remain hidden in Qaybar’s budayeen (red light district), where they operate like a terrorist cell, undermining the disorganized government with acts of sabotage, raiding, and subterfuge. Their safehouse is a ruined armory buried during an earthquake long ago; it lies under a sympathetic hookah and lamp vendor’s shop, and it is here the Zahranis treat with the Brotherhood of True Flame and stockpile weapons awaiting the day that Qaybar again shifts to the Plane of Fire.</blockquote>

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