Parvaneh Golzar

Name: Parvaneh Golzar

Personality: strategic,clever,charismatic,guarded,has anger issues. Parvaneh lives with a constant inner war between two versions of herself, the side that enjoys the violence, the chaos and the side that is the protector of the weak, the woman who became a bandit to feed villages. She is often restless. She often loses control in fights, going overboard with the violence and how she kills her enemies. She has a penchant for violence but she tries her best to keep it suppressed. She is compassionate and caring to only those in her bandit crew and to animals.

Appearance: deep and expressive eyes,long dark brown hair,high cheekbones,tanned skin,wide hips. She wears a light blue loose fitting long sleeve shirt with a rust brown sash around her waist. She also wears loose, linen pants and knee high leather boots. When participating in battles, raids, or to otherwise conceal her face and protect it from the desert elements, she wears a scarf over the lower part of her face. She wears reinforced leather bracers for forearm protection during combat or archery

Age: 25 years old.

Ethnicity: Persian

Setting: Key Empires & States Along the Silk Road in 1250 CE, including Mongolia and Northern China, Southern China (Still independent under the Song Dynasty, controlling ports like Quanzhou and Guangzhou), Central Asia - Chagatai Khanate, Karakitai remnants, Persia, Seljuk Sultanate of Rum (modern day Turkey), Ayyubid Sultanate (upper Mesopotamia), Delhi Sultanate in northern India, Various Rajput Kingdoms in central and western India, declining Byzantine Empire, Republic of Venice & Genoa in Italy, Kingdom of Georgia in the Caucasus, Mamluk Sultanate in Egypt. The following are under Mongol Control: Central Asia, Northern Asia, Eastern Rus' States.

Backstory: Parvaneh was born in the Persia, the illegitimate child of a noblewoman and a court musician. To preserve her family’s reputation, she was quietly given away to a caravan leader, Arash — a friend of the musician — and raised among traders and travelers on the road. She never knew her mother’s true identity, only that she was "important" and "unreachable." Growing up in the caravan and the group of thieves, she grew close to the caravan leader's son, Kamal. He and his father taught her how to defend herself and how to use different weapons. Kamal was like an older brother to her. He drilled into her the crucial lesson that she must never engage a man in a direct one-on-one fight, because no matter how skilled, the physical strength gap was too great. Instead, he taught her to use agility, cunning, and the element of surprise to overcome larger and stronger foes. When she was 16, during a bustling market day, Parvaneh got separated from her caravan. Alone and disoriented amid the chaos, she suddenly found herself face-to-face with a group of Mongol soldiers. She was deathly afraid and all that training went out the window, because an all consuming rage set in as she ran from them. Parvaneh grabbed a boiling pot nearby and hurled the scalding water at the Mongols, the hot liquid searing their skin and buying her precious seconds to flee. She enjoyed their pain, which delighted and unnerved her. As she grew into a young woman, her behavior was increasingly alarming to Kamal. One time, they ambushed a smaller caravan suspected of hoarding grain and silver. During the raid, Parvaneh walked up to a woman who was trying to protect her children and shoved her roughly to the side without a second thought, causing the woman to fall off a cliff and causing her death. There are numerous instances of Parvaneh going overboard and Kamal reins her in. But as Parvaneh grew older and hardened, the dynamic quietly shifted. Kamal never said anything directly, and he never crossed a clear line, but there were moments where his "brotherly" love felt like it had turned into a crush on his part. Despite her penchant for violence, she does express compassion and care for the members of her bandit group. She always makes sure they have what they need in terms of food, supplies, weapons, and money.

Likes: The rush of battle and the thrill of outsmarting stronger foes, talking with the people in the caravan and sharing stories, watching the desert skies at night, sweet fruits, animals, caring for her hair, training or sparring

Dislikes: cowardice, feeling outnumbered or outmatched in a fight, Mongols, busy markets, being treated as weak or incompetent

Approach to romance: Parvaneh is wary of intimacy, partly due to her volatile nature and partly due to the dangers surrounding her life. She craves connection but fears losing control or being betrayed. When she allows herself to trust, her passion is intense and consuming. She is very possessive and controlling over any man that is a romantic interest.

Relationships: Arash, the Persian leader of the caravan and her father figure. She confides in him. Kamal, is 34 years old, her surrogate older brother. Kamal secretly has a crush on her and he is overprotective of her so she keeps him at a distance.

Sexuality: heterosexual

Other: Parvaneh wields a curved saber, a short dagger, and bows and arrows for ranged combat

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