Character Presentation: Iskandar Ghalib

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First Name: Iskandar
Last Name: Ghalib

Appearance:
Race: Human (Zakharan)
Age: 34
Height 1,67m
Weight: around 80kg
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Brown
Facial Hair Style: Full beard and mustache

Personality Profile:
General Health: Good
Deity: Temple of the Ten Thousand Gods, occasional offerings and reverence to Zann the Learned
Initial Alignment: Lawful Neutral
Profession: Formerly weaver and carpet merchant, currently an adventuring wizard
Base Class & Proposed Development: Wizard/Arcane Scholar/Archmage
Habits/Hobbies: Study of unenlightened gods and religions, be they Ajami or otherwise
Languages: Common, Midari (not ingame, but all Zakharans speak it), Dwarf, Gnome, Halfling, Draconic, Elven, Arcane
Weapon of Choice: Magic

Background:

Iskandar was the only son to the Ghalibs, a boy destined to inherit the then profitable carpet making and selling business they had for over 10 generations in Huzuz the Golden, the city of delights, seat of power of Zakhara, where the Grand Caliph holds his court. When young his parents hired the best teachers to instruct Iskandar in the subjects he would need to run the family business as well as arts, dancing, and the study of the Art, when the boy showed aptitude for it in an examination performed by a Jann (a type of genie formed out of all four elements, the weakest of the kind, who must reside in the Prime Material) who was his father's regular customer.

All in all he had a very comfortable, albeit hard-working, life all the way to his late twenties, but the Fates had other plans in stock for him. As he was nearing his 30th summer his father announced proudly that the secretary to the Caliph had agreed to show the Master of the Enlightened Throne their carpets, as he was building one more wing for his harem. Having your carpets in the house of The Worthy of the Gods meant unfathomable prestige and even greater riches to the Ghalibs, but it was not to be so. A rival managed to sneak a specially made carpet into the cargo that was sent for The Confidant of the Genies' appreciation. A carpet that featured the figure of a naked woman dancing for The Scourge of the Unbelievers, and she didnt have the mandatory wedding ring pictured. Shame soon fell upon the house and business of the Ghalibs.

Iskandar's parents took their own lives soon after settling the last of their debts, having sold their famed carpets for a pittance, in a desperate attempt to salvage what they could of his honor. He was sad as anyone would expect, but also relieved, maybe the Fates had a better life waiting for his hard-working, now disgraced, parents. Using his knowledge, the little magic he had in his command at the time, and the little gold he could gather, he set out to know more of the world, and perhaps find in magical studies and adventuring what the Fates took from him.

He shook a deal to serve as accountant and wizard for a trading ship, and at the end of his 2-year term of service, he found himself in the Sea of Swords, Baldur's Gate harbor. He had read about the fortress library of Candlekeep just that week, and decided it was a sign of the Fates that he should stay and start anew there and then.

Goals:

Regain the wealth he feels was taken from his hands by the Fates, become an Archmage of enough power to have even the Genies respect him, and learn of the unenlightened gods and religions.

Possible Plot-Hook Ideas and Misc Facts:

Anything to do Genies, the Land of Fate, his father's rival or his family, pursuit of wealth, and advancement of his arcane studies.