Lesbingus
I think I'm a lot funnier than I probably am
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- Advanced
- Adaptable
- Preferred Character Gender
- Female
- Transgender
- Genres
- Fantasy, LitRPG
- Name: Mahin Attar.
- She has also arabicized her name, for when that might be appropriate, to Mahin ibnat Mah al-Tehrani.
- She has also arabicized her name, for when that might be appropriate, to Mahin ibnat Mah al-Tehrani.
- Age: 35.
- Gender: Female.
- Race/Nationality: Human / Persian.
- Occupation:
- Magus of the Zoroastrian faith.
- She specifically holds the rank of Dastur, a high-priestess.
- She specifically holds the rank of Dastur, a high-priestess.
- Member of The Shah's Order.
- Magus of the Zoroastrian faith.
- Personality: It was once said by a member of the Shah's court that Mahin Attar was "a most humourless soul," and that observation is quite true. She is a woman hewn from the bones of the earth, as blunt and to-the-point as a block of stone.
Mahin does not mince her words, nor does she waste time on pleasantries. She observes the proper etiquette in court and in the presence of her betters, but only to the strictest adherence of the written procedure. She does not flatter and she does not exaggerate, and no small amount of courtiers have found themselves annoyed by her by-the-book nature.
She is entirely dedicated to the Shah, and to her faith. Her service to her lieges of both the material and spiritual realms make up the entirety of Mahin's day. She does not partake in recreation, at least none that other members of the Shah's Order have seen-- though none have ever particularly asked after her to do so.
- Biography: Mahin, like all members of her Order, never knew her parents. The Children of Mah, the Zoroastrian sect to which Mahin was born, emphasized the importance of the moon in their worship. All of them were the progeny of the moon, and to know one's parents would disrupt that connection.
From an early age, Mahin was seen as a prodigy. A soul blessed by Mah, a chosen child of Ahura Mazda, and as such she received an extensive education. Reading, writing, history, mathematics and the sciences, alongside extensive tutelage in the scripture of her sect, and other sects of Zoroastrianism, as well as other faiths of the region.
But her sect was not just focused upon learning. The Children of Mah are, and have always been, an order of warrior-priests, and Mahin received her training in the arts of war as surely as more learned pursuits. In this tutelage she found her calling, and in the exertion of battle she saw her faith blossom. To Mahin, the highest praise to the Lord of Wisdom was found as the blood cooled from the heat of battle, as muscles ache and adrenaline pulses. She came to know God in the moments between the sweeps of her axe, and the sting of an enemy's blade drawn across her flesh.
By the time she came into the Shah's service, Mahin had been wandering on her own for several years. She has not divulged what became of the Children of Mah, but none save for Mahin have been seen for many years. Regardless of the fate of her sect, if it even still exists, she is recognized as a Dastur by other Zoroastrians, her very flesh acting as scripture. She has tattooed the words of the Avesta upon her body, from the crown of her head to the tips of her toes.
- Abilities:
- Master-at-Arms: Mahin is exceptionally skilled in combat, particularly with the long-handled tabarzin she favours. She wields the axe with peerless proficiency, and her skill with weapons extends beyond the axe, from daggers to swords to spears, it seems that the moment Mahin picks up a weapon, she knows exactly how to wield it.
- Master-at-Arms: Mahin is exceptionally skilled in combat, particularly with the long-handled tabarzin she favours. She wields the axe with peerless proficiency, and her skill with weapons extends beyond the axe, from daggers to swords to spears, it seems that the moment Mahin picks up a weapon, she knows exactly how to wield it.
- Inventory / Possessions:
- A mastercraft tabarzin axe, its entire surface decorated with scripture from the Avesta and reliefs of scenes from it.
- Twin scimitars, as befits a member of The Shah's Order.
- Two daggers, a pesh-kabz and a khanjar, for backup.
- A physical copy of the Avesta, and any materials she requires for services whilst travelling.
- A mastercraft tabarzin axe, its entire surface decorated with scripture from the Avesta and reliefs of scenes from it.