Caliph
From L5r: Legend of the Five Rings
The title Caliph refers two seperate individuals to appear from the Burning Sands. Both Caliphs were the rulers of Medinat al-Salaam.
[edit] Hanan Talibah
The first woman that would become the Caliph was born Hanan Talibah, sometime around the 9th century IC. She lost her mother very young, and her father was an aide to the Merchant King of the Houses of Dahab, which meant he spent around nine months a year away from their home at Medinat al-Salaam. She was raised by servants, and grew fearful of death and loneliness.
On the eve of her fifteenth birthday, she rummaged through her father's belongings, recently returned from the Senpet Empire, looking for her gift. Instead, she discovered a copy of the Senpet Book of the Dead. Shortly after, her father died. Because she had no other relatives, the Merchant King took charge of his aide's estate, "adopted" Hanan, and auctioned all of her belongings.
She soon had reasons to hate the King, who treated her as his property and was open about his intention to sell her as a wife, as he had done with Hanan's mother. She secretly learnt the Senpet language from a servant and studied the Book, that she had somehow managed to keep hidden. The Book taught her about the Senpet's cosmology, and many secrets. It also had secondary effects over her: her magical ability increased, and her inner fears became full grown obsessions. Finally, from teaching found in the Book, she created a new magical technique - the Ceremony of the Hidden Heart - that allowed her to make herself immortal, and her enemies into undead thralls: the Khadi. The Merchant King was her first victim.
Her magical power increased and she soon become the most powerful sahir in the city. Somehow, she manipulated the Prince into killing his father, the Sultan. A new Sultan was appointed, on her recommendation, and she became the Caliph, the de facto ruler of Medinat al-Salaam. From that moment on, she has governed the city with an iron fist, with her Khadi patrolling the streets. Always fearful of anybody challenging her, she forbad any practitioners of magic into the city, and had shut down or ever burnt to the ground all the libraries.([1])
[edit] Adira
Adira was an adopted daughter of the Old Man of the Mountain and devoted to his goal of eliminating the Caliph and restoring him to power. After the death of the Old Man of the Mountain at the hands of his eldest daughter Fatima,([2]) Adira continued to seek to fulfill his goal.([3])
With the aid of the Yufet Alliance, Adira stormed the palace of the Caliph during the events surrounding 'The Awakening' and defeated the original Caliph. With her death, Adira took her position for her own([4]) and cast the Khadi from the city, save San'a.([5])
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