<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/b/b5/Fatemeh.jpg)</div><div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/c/c7/Lady_in_Black.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 16pt;">Fatemeh Taleghani / The Lady in Black (https://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=1461873)</span><br/>Lawful neutral / Neutral good human vigilante 4<br/><br/><strong>Concept:</strong>By day, Fatemeh Taleghani is an eager and well-spoken scholar of history, the Qur'an and politics. She is currently living in the USA after escaping the brutal drow regime that has taken hold of Iran. She advocates for aiding the oppressed humans of Iran and for women's rights worldwide. But by night, she is the Lady in Black, scourge of drow, protector of the innocent, and bringer of justice!<br/><br/><strong>Background:</strong>Fatemeh was born in Tehran in 1898 to upper-middle class parents who ensured that she had the best education possible. Her father was an imam who taught her to read the Qur'an and learn the history of Persia, and her mother was a well-travelled author who ensured that her secular education was second to none. It seemed certain that Fatemeh would be at the forefront of the new wave of educated women in Iran, but everything changed when the drow attacked.<br/><br/>The drow saw little value in Iran's culture or its universities. All they wanted from the country was oil, and slaves who could mine it for them. Fatemeh's father was pressed into service in an oil rig, and she and her mother were forced to serve as administrative staff to the drow's mining operations. Life under the drow was harsh and humiliating, and, for many slaves, short. However, the people of Iran still kept their traditions alive, sharing their art and their faith behind closed doors and when the drow were sleeping. Fatemeh used her education to spread knowledge throughout Tehran, never letting the drow snuff out their culture for good.<br/><br/>Books and knowledge could only do so much, though. The drow treated their slaves cruelly, and in 1920, Fatemeh began to fight back in earnest. She discovered a gang of drow youths ransacking a museum while she was out on an errand for her mistress, and she knew she had to take action. She slipped into the museum and found an old scimitar that was purported to have belonged to Agha Mohammad Shah, a Sultan of Iran from over a century ago. The scimitar was a replica, of course, but it proved deadly enough when Fatemeh struck from the shadows to drive away the drow who were destroying artifacts and toying cruelly with the museum's aged curator. She knew then that it was her duty to protect her people from the drow, and perhaps one day to drive them out of Iran altogether. She began to patrol the street of Tehran when she could slip away from her duties, disguising herself in the same plain black burqa that so many of her compatriots wore, unnoticed by their drow overlords until it was time for her to strike.<br/><br/>For five years, the Lady in Black protected the people of Tehran from their oppressors, while Fatemeh Taleghani worked quietly as her mistress's secretary, gathering information that might one day be used against the drow. The drow were taking notice of her activities, though, and she knew that it was only a matter of time before the Lady in Black was unmasked. With a heavy heart, and no small measure of guilt, she used her network of contacts to arrange for herself to be smuggled out of Iran, to start a new life in America, where she could speak out against the drow with little fear of reprisal, and perhaps even gather allies for the fight to free her people.<br/><br/><strong>Sexuality:</strong>Fatemeh had planned to find a nice scholarly Iranian man and raise a family, but the arrival of the drow threw those plans into disarray. Knowing that she might never marry, she has entered into a few brief relationships with fellow slaves, male and female, and found some joy and solace in their companionship. She is circumspect about her sexuality, but does not hesitate to pursue someone she finds attractive and compatible.