Shajar Altair - Former Slave of the Baybars

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Quote

I was enslaved through the design of Fate. Perhaps my fortune can show others the value of perserverance.

Background

Shajar, slave of the Ben Baybars, is the antithesis of every wicked quality of her masters. She is beautiful, kind, resourceful, and moral where they are wicked and degenerate. Although Melisende may have greater physical beauty, Shajar possesses the inner light the cruel half-elf lacks. Perhaps because of this, she has been subjected to Melisende's continual wrath and contempt.

Shajar is not a weak, shrinking violet, however. The daughter of a desert chieftain, she leamed a few martial skills at his side. While wisdom and insight made her destined for leadership of the tribe, Fate cursed her to fall into the hands of slavers, who then sold her to a sultan of the Pearl Coast. For years she dwelled in his harim, artfully preserving her honor and dignity all the time. Finally the sultan, perhaps vexed at her pride, loaded her on a ship as a gift to one of the petty princelings of Harab. Somewhere off Nada al-Hazan, the ship fell prey to corsairs, who were in turn the prey of the ghoul-pirates of Kaff. Baybars, not immune to physical charm, claimed her from that hideous crew and installed Shajar as his household slave. Then he seemed to forget about her. For months the situation has remained unchanged. Shajar has desperate plans though, should Baybars turn his gaze on her.

Now freed by Abdallah, she realises that he and Effinidhi want her as a wife, and is considering the offer. She loathes giving up the desert life, however. For now she goes along, giving sound advice where required.