<div class="floatleft">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/d/dc/Arouj.jpg)</div><strong>Player:</strong>Madmartigan (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=142240.msg6395997#msg6395997)<br/><strong>Name:</strong>Arouj al-Qadir<br/><strong>Age:</strong>30ish<br/><strong>Gender:</strong>Male<br/><strong>Orientation:</strong>Bi, top<br/><strong>Nationality:</strong>Algerian (Greek mother, Maghreb father)<br/><br/><strong>Allegiance:</strong>Neutral. As a former Barbary pirate, he has a clean record with the British Navy but piracy ALWAYS pays better.<br/><strong>Ship:</strong>The Siren's Call<br/><strong>Rank/Occupation:</strong>Rigger, boatswain, cook, or whatever is needed.<br/><strong>Equipment:</strong>Tunic, pants, boots, thick leather belt, kufiya, beaded & knotted necklace, ammo pouch, pocket knife, fish hooks, oiled leather pack full of unidentified spices.<br/><strong>Weapons:</strong>Boarding axe, horn-handled hanger, one worn French flintlock pistol, and a brace of daggers.<br/><br/><strong>Description:</strong>6'2", muscular build, dark bronze skin, a messy, shoulder-length mop of hair, pale grey eyes, some kind of curved scar on the inside of his right bicep.<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Quiet, curious, and calculating. He understands the value of information and knows how to get it without drawing attention to himself. A disciplined individual, he completes his tasks efficiently and expects those equal or lower in rank to himself to do the same. Usually of good humor and slow to take offense. Keeps a constant mental tally of debts owed and favors given.<br/><br/><strong>Biography:</strong>The eldest son of a retired Barbary pirate, he fell out of favor with his father and abruptly landed on a corsairs' ship at 15 doing scullery work. Lacking better recourse, he applied himself and became a full crewmember in due time. He served his captain faithfully for over ten years before the ship went down off the Moroccan coast. Following the peace treaty with England (and the French attacks on Algiers) he signed on with an English merchant bound for Caribbean ports. A few years and a few disagreements later, he's run out of cash and stranded in Port Diablo.<br/><br/><strong>Anything else:</strong>Speaks Maghrebi Arabic fluently, Turkish and English passably well, and a smattering of Spanish and French. Reads and writes basic Arabic. Very agile and climbs rigging like a monkey. Quite good with ropes. A brilliant cook (care to taste his merguez?) but secretly hates to do dishes.<br/>