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I haven’t posted anything extensive on this character yet since they died pretty quickly into their story. But now I’m revisiting them in a new setting in a D&D group so maybe they’ll get some more time in the limelight and a redemption.

Which they badly need. Because I have no idea what could cause them to be less straight-up evil.

Using they/them for now. They were afab but dress like a man would have dressed in that time period. They also didn’t have the exposure to various gender concepts to express what they would prefer. They don’t experience physical dysphoria but do realize that they are not exactly normal in their society. And while their concept of attraction is very messed up and inseparable from violence and abuse, they do prefer women over men. In a modern society and non abusive upbringing they probably would have turned out more like Hafsa (as they are the same person, different incarnations.)

Samad was born into a pre-Arab nomadic tribe. However they manifested power that caused them to be accused of being a demon or possessed or generally evil, so they were beaten, left half-dead and cast out in the desert, naked and unarmed.

However, they were in fact an incarnation of a piece of the soul of the primordial embodiment of chaos, Apophis. (The prior incarnation of Hafsa.) So this trauma triggered them to discover their magic and unleash it in massive genocidal destruction.

Then they wandered the desert and were on the brink of death when they caught the attention of a foreign Gnostic god, Demiurgus, who immediately took advantage of their weakness, misery and rage. Demiurgus healed their body but ate a piece of their soul and put them under his thrall. Not that it took much force for Samad to obey. Because Demiurgus also had killing and death in mind.

Demiurgus sent Samad to hunt down Sophia, a Gnostic goddess, whose power he craved. And Sophia happened to be in possession of the Phoenix, who she had summoned for aid and cursed to be mute so she would be dependent on Sophia in this incarnation.

Anyway, long story short, the Phoenix knew who Samad was, but Samad didn’t remember the Phoenix. When the Phoenix helped Sophia escape, Samad became utterly obsessed with her. When Samad captured them, Sophia was almost forgotten. Samad tormented the Phoenix to the point of death before they took both of them to where Demiurgus was trapped in the desert. They were going to use Sophia and the Phoenix in a gnostic ritual to free Demiurgus and grant him his full powers back. (As Sophia has bound him eons ago.)

Sophia opened Samad’s eyes at the last moment, succeeding in ruining Demiurgus’s ritual. But she didn’t save any of them. The Phoenix did not have the will to resist Samad (and had not resisted them since the moment of their capture). And Samad was even more furious when they knew the truth. They forced the Phoenix to burn all of them up in the process of dying. It was a sort of mercy kill.

(This is the version of the story that doesn’t involve time travel.)

Anyway, Samad was an evil sadist and Hafsa carries a huge amount of guilt.

Description
I haven’t posted anything extensive on this character yet since they died pretty quickly into their story. But now I’m revisiting them in a new setting in a D&D group so maybe they’ll get some more time in the limelight and a redemption.

Which they badly need. Because I have no idea what could cause them to be less straight-up evil.

Using they/them for now. They were afab but dress like a man would have dressed in that time period. They also didn’t have the exposure to various gender concepts to express what they would prefer. They don’t experience physical dysphoria but do realize that they are not exactly normal in their society. And while their concept of attraction is very messed up and inseparable from violence and abuse, they do prefer women over men. In a modern society and non abusive upbringing they probably would have turned out more like Hafsa (as they are the same person, different incarnations.)

Samad was born into a pre-Arab nomadic tribe. However they manifested power that caused them to be accused of being a demon or possessed or generally evil, so they were beaten, left half-dead and cast out in the desert, naked and unarmed.

However, they were in fact an incarnation of a piece of the soul of the primordial embodiment of chaos, Apophis. (The prior incarnation of Hafsa.) So this trauma triggered them to discover their magic and unleash it in massive genocidal destruction.

Then they wandered the desert and were on the brink of death when they caught the attention of a foreign Gnostic god, Demiurgus, who immediately took advantage of their weakness, misery and rage. Demiurgus healed their body but ate a piece of their soul and put them under his thrall. Not that it took much force for Samad to obey. Because Demiurgus also had killing and death in mind.

Demiurgus sent Samad to hunt down Sophia, a Gnostic goddess, whose power he craved. And Sophia happened to be in possession of the Phoenix, who she had summoned for aid and cursed to be mute so she would be dependent on Sophia in this incarnation.

Anyway, long story short, the Phoenix knew who Samad was, but Samad didn’t remember the Phoenix. When the Phoenix helped Sophia escape, Samad became utterly obsessed with her. When Samad captured them, Sophia was almost forgotten. Samad tormented the Phoenix to the point of death before they took both of them to where Demiurgus was trapped in the desert. They were going to use Sophia and the Phoenix in a gnostic ritual to free Demiurgus and grant him his full powers back. (As Sophia has bound him eons ago.)

Sophia opened Samad’s eyes at the last moment, succeeding in ruining Demiurgus’s ritual. But she didn’t save any of them. The Phoenix did not have the will to resist Samad (and had not resisted them since the moment of their capture). And Samad was even more furious when they knew the truth. They forced the Phoenix to burn all of them up in the process of dying. It was a sort of mercy kill.

(This is the version of the story that doesn’t involve time travel.)

Anyway, Samad was an evil sadist and Hafsa carries a huge amount of guilt.