<div class="floatright">(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1077362624775340135/1077746148950933696/2.PNG)</div><strong>Serat ibn Ahza - "Mutter"</strong><br/><br/>In his native Iruvia, Serat was a Wali; a lawman tasked with keeping order among the sweeping deserts that form the nation's interior. Out there, justice is of a rougher sort, more brutal and more final. Tracking society's most dangerous criminals across its most unforgiving landscape with no hope of backup or relief demands a very particular type of man, and Serat played his role to perfection. With blade and jezail, he forged a reputation for cruelty that terrified the innocents he protected every bit as much as the lowlifes who preyed upon them.<br/><br/>It was one such recidivist who ended this prestigious career. Accused of well-poisoning - a far more serious crime than mere murder, when water is so scarce - the man showed no remorse for his actions when Serat caught up to him. His penalty was of an extrajudicial nature, and entailed live burial in a colony of fire ants. This was too much for Serat's superiors, and a fatwa was issued mandating his immediate detainment by his former colleagues. Unwilling to accept punishment for what he saw as his duty, he fled Iruvia and crossed the sea to Duskwall. There his past precluded him from any lawful employment, so he took up with what he saw as one of the least objectionable gangs around.<br/><br/>His nickname, Mutter, is a mishearing of his most frequent utterance in times of stress: "Ya Sharmouta" which he does not bother to translate but is certainly obscene. In spite of his new line of work, he maintains a single-minded devotion to his idea of justice, which burns in him the way religious faith might in another man. It drives and compels him. It is an obsession, and if he does not learn to tame it, someday it will get him killed.