3. The Tale of Kasim el ShahKasim el Shah

The Tale of Kasim el ShahKasim el Shah

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    Character name: Kasim el Shah
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    Kasim el Shah was born to a minor noble family in Calimshan. There was simply nothing that out of the ordinary for Kasim during most of his life. After all, his family were traditional Calishites, lived their lives of moderate luxury and maintained their role in society as librarians. Kasim was an only child, and had little interest in the other Calishite children of his caste. Instead he spent his time in skulking around the libraries his family maintained, engrossing himself in the tales and legends of the ancient empires of Faerun. As he got older, he still detested those of his own age, instead often seeking out adults to banter with. While many were put off by Kalim being so forward, his quick tongue earned him a limited amount of respect. He was particularly interested in the Red Wizards of Thay.

    Kasim had no interest in the Thayan’s plots or scheming, it was more the image of the Red Wizards themselves. Intelligent, powerful wizards from the far exotic East, where they sat upon or near the ruins of so many once great empires. Whenever he could he would follow the Red Wizards about their business, or read about them or magic, eventually learning the basics of spellcasting on his own. He secretly yearned to travel East, not to Thay in particular, just to the graveyard of lost empires that the East was.

    These plans ended up coming to fruition sooner than Kasim el Shah planned. At the age of twenty, as he himself was beginning to enter the family’s trade, tragedy struck. A rival family, seeking to raise themselves from mere minor nobility, sent assassins in the night to kill the el Shah family. And they would have succeeded, if not for Kasim not being home that night, having left to follow some Red Wizards to the port. When he returned home… he quickly realised what happened, and simply took off with nothing but the clothes on his back and what was left in his pockets. Not knowing where else to go, as he had no true friends, he found the next caravan going East... it was all he had left.

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