About Raseed TawfeekTawfeeq means Good fortune. It's also a nick name or urban slang for a sneaky or conniving person Weapons:
: Scimitar
+8 to hit (+2 BAB, +3 DEX, +1 Size, +1 Mwk, +1 Spirit Bonus)
Interview:
1. What do you offer the expedition? What are you best at?
Sadiqi, I am called to this expedition, The Everlight has told me that a grave darkness rises and I am needed to fight it, and the slayer of my kin may be connected to it. I am a swordsman by the grace of the spirits, though should the need arise I can call upon others I have known for aid. Dawoud when called grants me spells as a magi, Roun the strength to defend the weak, Gadir, bless her soul forever, a closer tie to the Dawnflower, Rashad the wits of the street that I never could learn myself. The spirit I rely on the most though is Zakariyya who lends me his speed and skill with a blade. I can convince a guard to look the other way or a madam to hide a street kid or ex-slave in need and I have often had need. 2. What areas do you struggle in? Ah my friend, I am not a learned man, outside of knowledge needed for the killing of ghuls and finding good food and better friendship. I am also a poor liar though I can charm the merchants of the bazaar. Without the blessings of Dawnflower and the gifts of those who have gone before me I am just a man trying to extinguish the darkness. 3. Have you any experience with Vudra or the Vudrani? I have sampled the delights of their foods and bartered with their merchants in the 4. What training, formal or otherwise, might you have that would be helpful to this expedition? I am trained in calling the spirits, Sadiqi. I can feel the ghosts of the past. I trained, briefly as a temple dancer 5. Do you have any duties or obligations that could conflict with our expedition? Would you explain them to me? I owe my sword and my soul to the Everhealing Light. Should you ask me to dishonour her then we may, to my dismay, have a disagreement, Uncle. I must also honour the memories of my fallen friends and comrades each morning so that The Dawnflower will grace me with the gifts that let me fight the darkness. Finally Sadiqi, I abhor the practice of slavery though what can one man do against the tide of suffering washing forever through my fair city? Background:
Born to a loving family in Katapesh, Raseed had a happy, unremarkable childhood. Until one day he came from running the bazaars with friends to see a sight that has stayed with him ever since: ghouls cracking open his parents ribs to feast on their heart's blood. Fear gripped him rooting him to the spot and he let out a keening, wail. As the slavering mouths of the ghouls moved forwards to make Raseed their next victim a blade snapped down severing the lead ghouls head. A patrol of guardsmen alerted by his scream stormed in, led by Roun. After a quick and brutal struggle the ghouls were dispatched. Roun placed his helm on Raseed head and carried him to the nearest temple of Sarenrae but not before he grabbed his mothers hairbrush from where it lay on the ground, leaving him to the priestesses care and to consult on how a pack of ghouls were in the city.
Raseed spent years at the temple. But the visions he had seen that night never left him. It was always there. He eventually realised that the vision was stronger when he touched his mothers hairbrush. He took this idea to the priestess overseeing his care, Gadir, who then tested him to see whether he could feel auras in other objects - he could! She called in a tutor to nurture these fledgling arts, and began his initiation into the church. Training in the scimitar was a mandatory part of the training in the church of Sarenrae but Raseed could not gain the hang of it. Petulanetly claiming that his instructor was giving him a badly balanced blade he asked to swap blades. As soon as he touched the sword he knew it was different. He was still terrible at the sword. However, he asked to keep the blade and bemused his tutor accepted. The next morning he prayed over the sword and sang to the spirit within. And then he knew how to swing the blade. He trained hard and learnt well. And then they struck again. Undead horrors. It was a massacre. Raseed swore then and there that he would bring his sword to all undead and that his fear of them and where the dwell would never hold him back (he's realllly scared of the dark but won't let it show, mechanically reflected in the Shadow Scarred drawback). He's spent the years since as a ghoul hunter for hire, taking whatever the person can pay. He spends the money from wealthy clients to pay for his lifestyle but
He has sought information since then trying to find out who orchestrated such a well planned attack on a temple of Sarenrae, to what end, and how they had so many undead within a populated area. He has come up blank until recently when a ifrit mystic called Abdoullah planted the tip that it may be worth Raseed's time to investigate a Vudrani looking to put together an expedition to Old Padiskar. He is also allied to the Bellflower Network and has supported their efforts in Katapesh, through a contact called the Beggar King. Appearance:
A lithely muscled halfling sporting a pot belly. Raseed has a face that has seen much sorrow and is aged before his time but is still quick to laugh and the lines around his mouth are smile lines. He wears an immaculately white khaftan and red blue slippers. He has a battered Jingassa around his neck (not worn, slung from a chain hanging in between shoulders), and a scimitar in a rosewood scabbard at his waist. He has a bag of baklava in one hand that he is handing to urchins.
When armoured for battle he wears loose grey robes with blue banding over a well made steel breastplate, he has grey, scaled leather arm protection and soft leather boots studded with steel discs. He has a bandoleer holding a mace and a dagger and his scimitar at his hip. He wears a longbow over his shoulder. A prayerbook, a broken money pouch and what appears to be a shrivleed human tongue (rarely shown) reside in a pouch at his waist. Spirit Abilities:
Champion Abilities Proficient with all martial weapons +1 to attack and damage and fortitude saves, +1 on str based skills and str checks Seance Boon: +2 to weapon damage (+3 for myself) Exotic Weapon= Branch Spear Trickster abilities
Disable Device: +11
Archmage Abilities
0: Prestidigitation
Heirophant Abilities
0: Guidance
Raseed
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