TEXT: Semita Errabunda
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  Characteristics: Int +1, Per 0, Str +1, Sta +1, Prs 0,
  Com +2, Dex +1, Qik 0
  Size: 0
  Age: 28 (28)
  Decrepitude: 0
  Warping Score: 0 (0)
  Confidence Score: 1 (3)
  Faith Points: 1
  Virtues and Flaws: Emir*; True Faith; Educated**,
  Enchanting Poetry***, Free Expression, Luck,
  Puissant Arabic, Warrior; Curse of Venus, Greater
  Malediction (Gets embroiled in life-threatening
  political struggles), Outsider (Arab); Obsessed (Get
  rid of malediction)
  Personality Traits: Brave +3, Fatalistic +3, Just +3
  Reputations: Devil-Worshipper 3 (Local)
  Combat: Fist: Init -2, Attack +5, Defense +4,
  Damage +1
  Kick: Init -3, Attack +4, Defense +2, Damage +4
  Lance and Heater: Init -1, Attack +9, Defense +7,
  Damage +6
  Lance: Init 0, Attack +9, Defense +4, Damage +6
  Long Sword and Heater: Init 0, Attack +10, Defense +9,
  Damage +7
  Long Sword: Init 0, Attack +10, Defense +6, Damage +7
  Short Bow: Init -3, Attack +4, Defense 0, Damage +7,
  Range 15
  Fist:† Init -2, Attack +7, Defense +6, Damage +1
  Kick:† Init -3, Attack +6, Defense +4, Damage +4
  Lance and Heater:† Init -1, Attack +11, Defense +9,
  Damage +6
  Lance:† Init 0, Attack +11, Defense +6, Damage +6
  Long Sword and Heater:† Init 0, Attack +12, Defense
  +11, Damage +7
  Long Sword:† Init 0, Attack +12, Defense +8, Damage +7
  Short Bow:† Init -3, Attack +6, Defense +2, Damage
  +7, Range 15
  Soak: +10
  Fatigue levels: OK/0/-1/-3/-5/Unconscious
  Wound Penalties: -1, -3, -5, Incapacitated
  Abilities: Animal Handling 2 (Horses), Arabic 5
  (Poetry), Artes Liberales 2 (Rhetoric), Athletics 2
  (Running), Awareness 2 (Alertness), Bows 3 (Short
  Bow), Brawl 3 (Punching), Carouse 2 (Staying
  Sober), Charm 2 (Being Witty), Chirurgy 2 (Binding
  Wounds), concentration 1 (Memory) Enchanting
  Mansur ibn Fadl al-Baghdadi
  by Niall Christie
  *Middle Eastern equivalent of the Knight Minor
  Virtue.
  **Reconceived for Middle Eastern characters as 50
  exp that can be spent on Arabic, Theology: Islam,
  Islamic Law and Artes Liberales, due to a different
  education “system.”
  ***As Enchanting Music Virtue, only applies to
  Mansur’s Ability to sway others with his poetry
  (using Living Language skills).
  †Totals while mounted (includes +2 bonus for Ride
  Ability)
  §Islamic version of Civil and Canon Law
  
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  Semita Errabunda
  Poetry 3 (Calming), Etiquette 2 (Nobility), Folk Ken
  2 (Nobles), Great Weapon 1 (Long Spear), Guile 2
  (Elaborate Lies), Hunt 2 (Lions), Intrigue 2 (Gossip),
  Iraq Lore 2 (Personalities), Islamic Law§ 2 (Qur’anic
  Injunctions), Latin 2 (Hermetic), Leadership 2 (In
  Combat), Local Area Lore 2 (Geography), Ride 2
  (Speed!), Single Weapon 4 (Long Sword), Stealth 2
  (Deserts), Survival 2 (Deserts), Swim 2 (Long
  Distances), Theology: Islam 3 (Prophets)
  Equipment: Long Sword, Heater Shield, Lance,
  Short Bow, Full Mail Armour (-3 to Per when helmet
  worn), Horse
  Encumbrance: 3 (10) with lance & shield, to 2 (6)
  with just armour
  Appearance: Mansur is of medium height and build,
  with brown eyes, black hair and a neatly curled goa-
  tee beard. He smiles frequently, and has a gentle but
  clearly audible voice with a discernable Middle
  Eastern accent. He usually wears baggy clothes: a
  white tunic and turban and black trews. When going
  into battle, he wears full chainmail constructed in
  Middle Eastern style.
  Mansur is a wandering emir, the Muslim equiva-
  lent of a knight errant, who has found himself dri-
  ven to seek help at the covenant. Born into a
  noble family in Baghdad, Mansur was raised to be
  a Muslim gentleman, a man of both war and cul-
  ture. Like many of the educated Muslims of the
  time, he knows the Qur’an by heart and is familiar
  with a variety of Arabic literary and judicial texts.
  He is a skilled warrior and hunter, adept with
  lance, sword, shield and bow, and is also an unusu-
  ally skilled poet; the latter would make him very
  popular in covenant, if only the other coven-folk
  could understand Arabic! However, some appreci-
  ate the resonance and musicality of Arabic, so he
  does get called upon to perform on occasion.
  However, Mansur has a problem. In his youth he
  confronted a witch whom he found practicing
  black magic in a graveyard. She cursed him with a
  tendency to get embroiled in political struggles,
  with the result that at every court he has attend-
  ed, he has found himself becoming enmeshed in
  nefarious plots through no fault of his own. The
  end result of this has been a number of hasty
  departures from a variety of places, in order to
  keep his head attached to his neck! News of his
  seeming penchant for intrigue has spread, and
  now he is unwelcome at any city or fortress where
  the great and the good interact with each other.
  Mansur wants to return to the high society in
  which he was raised, and so he has come to the
  covenant, seeking the help of the magi to break
  the curse. So far their efforts have proved to be
  fruitless, but he hopes that someday he may be
  able to return to the company of noble Muslims.
  In the meantime, he attempts to be useful to the
  magi, training the grogs and assisting with the
  maintenance of the covenant’s library.
  Mansur is not an obsessively pious Muslim, but he
  does have an unshakeable faith in the benevo-
  lence of Allah, from which he believes he has
  benefited; after all, despite his curse, he is still
  alive, so he feels that someone must be taking
  care of him!
  Note: Mansur is loosely based upon a real his-
  torical person, a Syrian emir named Usama ibn
  Munqidh (1095-1188). Usama’s memoirs are
  well known to historians and strongly recom-
  mended for both their (admittedly at times
  questionable) historical information and their
  entertainment value. The latest English edition
  is Usama ibn Munqidh, trans. Philip K. Hitti, An
  Arab-Syrian Gentleman & Warrior in the Period of the
  Crusades (New York: Columbia University Press,
  2000).
  
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