Know Your Kindred – Badr

Name: Badr, Sultan of Granada
Clan: Lasombra
Generation: 8th
Embraced: 809 AD

Badr is the Sultan of Granada, a city nestled between two rivers, the Genil and the Darro, in Al-Andalus, the medieval Muslim domain that, at its peak, occupied most of what is today Spain and Portugal.

Badr commanded the defenses of Al-Andalus from the northern, Christian invaders during the Crusades. Badr’s zeal and fanaticism prevented Christians, Jews and other indifferent humans from settling in Granada, and antagonized rival Muslim factions in the area, leading to skirmishes and infighting that some believe may make it easier for the Christians to reconquer Al-Andalus.

Badr is a female masquerading as a male leader. She knows that if her true gender were to be discovered, half her fighters would abandon her in an instant. She is committed to her Muslim faith, but knows too that women in her society do not always share equal respect as men.

To maintain her ruse, Badr wears voluminous dark cloaks and is never seen without a cloak of shadow, hiding her face and giving her slight figure added weight and size.

– Veil of Night, Pg 56-59, 99