Nadim al-Nusayri

🐫 Nadim al-Nusayri

Clan: Assamite (vizier caste)
Title: The Silk Road’s Shadow
Domain: Inland markets, caravanserais, foreign peddlers and scribes
Allegiance: Loosely under Eudes of Troyes’ oversight Demeanor: Loner
Apparent Age: Mid-30s
Appearance:

• Dark bronze skin, a carefully trimmed black beard, and eyes like polished jet—calm, watchful, tired.

• Wears layered robes blending Frankish practicality with Levantine embroidery, marked subtly with Quranic calligraphy.

• Always travels with a mule cart containing scrolls, rare spices, alchemical ingredients, and small, hidden weapons.

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🧠 Concept

Once a court scholar in Damascus, Nadim has survived the collapse of old alliances and the firestorms of the Crusades. He acts as a conduit for endangered knowledge, relics, and lore smuggled westward—he is both archivist and merchant, spy and philosopher.

Though Assamite, he is no assassin—he is a vizier, one of the clan’s erudite counselors. However, Christian suspicion and Tremere hostility in the West have forced him into a life of concealment, operating through coded letters, cut-outs, and mortal caravan masters.

He resents what the Crusaders have done to the East—but recognizes the new corridors of power that have opened as East and West collide. He walks a careful line between offering his wisdom and hiding his lineage.