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Tarek

Up For Adoption


 

Species: Equine Gender: Stallion Age: 8 Height: 16.2
Appearance
I'd love to change the world
But I don't know what to do
A rubied chestnut coat reflects light like a golden prism. The red lightens slightly along his withers and back, while darkening along his chest and legs to a deep mahogany. His tail begins the same color as his coat, but then deepens to a rich, blue-back. His neck and mane also gleam with this dark, intense ebony. The onyx face is marked by an always polished, pure white ring that stretches over his nasal bone and under his chin. Amber eyes glow amid the ink of his face.


Personality
A complex man of a hardened shell with a soft heart, he does well to hide any of his gentle tendencies beneath his quick wit and cunning nature. Relying on his keen intellect for trading, bartering, and bribing, he is quicker to use his tongue than weapons when handing intense situations. He is not adverse to utilizing his good looks or easy charm, and forever has an appraising eye out for how any situation may benefit him. However active and calculating his mind may be, his outward nature is usually one of laid-back good humor.


Lineage

Qumox

Sire: Baqir
Dam: Asmaa
Siblings: Fakhri (older brother), Raniya (younger sister - deceased)


Helovia

None yet.


History

Qumox

Tarek’s story is one of disappointment, despite his success as a merchant trader. He was born a second son to powerful family that had just forcefully reassumed the throne in the bloody desert lands of Qumox. In Qumox, it was believed that the divine right of rule inhabited the body of whichever family was the most powerful to assume the throne, so Qumox's infamously pale golden crown—as pale as the moonlight on desert sands—often shifted between lineages. And each family was forever vying, plotting, and questing for more power.

Being the second son, the responsibility and expectation of battles and conquest fell to Tarek as the first son (Fakhri, his older brother) ascended to rule the nomadic Qumox people from the lavish, golden palace. His parents named him to fit his role, with Tarek meaning ‘conquerer,’ in hopes that he would bring their family further fortune, power, and security in their claim to the throne with his conquests. While Fakhri wore the First Crown (or ruling crown), his sire and dam crowned whim with the Second Crown (or battle crown).

However, as Tarek grew, there was no love or trust between the two brothers, as they were forever pitted against each other in their learning of Qumox's bloody past and battle. But Tarek did form a close bond with his sweet younger sister, Raniya—the beauty of Qumox. Raniya was as gentle as the pale gold of her coat and as kind as the soft glimmer of her lilac eyes. Her sweetness matched the fragrant flowers she pleaded the (faux-grudgingly) Tarek to weave into her ivory mane and tail, all the while sharing her own teachings of other rich cultures and histories.

Uumulah

In the defiance of adolescence accompanied with his fondness of his sister, Tarek grew to use his wits, looks, and likability to trade rather than conquer. This greatly disappointed his family, despite his success as a merchant trader, as Qumox's throne had historically thrived on conquests, not diplomacy. Thus, Tarek’s parents (in another bid to strengthen the familial claim to power) married Raniya off to an ancient enemy of the Qumox—a barbaric and far-off land of large, thick equines. However, it was an alliance that made Tarek’s family immensely powerful.

Infuriated and disgusted with his blood, Tarek left Qumox and travelled, building a successful and monumental merchant empire for himself. He stayed in Uumalah, the Desert Oasis far west of his home, furthering his wealth from the trading city and whiling his lonely and bored days watching the beautiful women there—until he drunkenly attended the ‘breaking night’ auction for a woman whose beauty rivaled his sister’s and whose fiery spirit mimicked his homeland of blazing sand, named Ghalia. Spending an exorbitant amount to purchase the woman’s first night, taking her gently and purchasing the following nights for simple, quiet conversation.

However, guilt and shame at taking a mare so young that resembled his past drove him to return home to his family with the ultimate goal of using his amassed wealth to have his sister return. But fate did not smile on his fortune, for upon returning he discovered that his Raniya had died in childbirth from the family pushing her to breed too early with the monstrously large stallion to whom they had married her.

Infuriated and further shamed Tarek returns to Uumalah, attempting to buy Ghalia’s freedom from the Father (the cunning and twisted ruler of the Oasis city) in a backward repentance for failing Raniya. When denied (the Father could earn far more by selling her nights than by selling her freedom), Tarek forcibly overwhelmed Ghalia’s handmaidens and guards, making her flee the city to her freedom.

Tarek, too, then fled Uumalah, losing much of his fortune and nearly his life because he angered and betrayed the Father.

Helovia

...to be made.


Other
The Second Crown :: Skull of the vicious Tanin (Qumox Sand Dragon); the skull is dipped in brown-tar while the tines are gilded with Qumox's uniquely pale gold (moonlit sand) and then partly wrapped in hiwan (Qumox lion) mane-hair.

Serpent’s Cuff :: A token earned only by killing a Spitting Snake of the sands, Tarek earned this in a betting match; crafted in pale, moonlit Qumox gold.

Aureate Collar :: Thick, bright gold collar earned by outwitting a slave trader in Uumalah.

NOTE: Tarek does not have these items at this time - is looking to get them though!


Assets
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*** this class will eventually become admin controlled, so don't spend too much time styling it. We will put your character's achievements here. Ie, getting a new buff, earning a herd rank, leading a herd, SWP participation, etc.

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so i leave it up to you Helovia's Threshold
Tarek, Ghalia, Yael
01-23-2017 by Yael

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Date of Birth: 08-16-1988 (35 years old)



  


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