Know Your Kindred – Fatima Al-Faqadi

Name:  Fatima Al-Faqadi
Clan:  Assamite
Generation: 6th
Embraced: 1102

Fatima is widely regarded as one of the most proficient killers among the Children of Haqim.  Yet she lives in exile from the rest of her clan.  Like Jamal, she too is a dedicated Muslim, who regards Haqim as only a guide for affairs on Earth.

After completing a contract to kill the Sabbat Cardinal, Ambrosio Moncada, Fatima received word from her sire that she must choose between Allah and Haqim or face destruction.  She never returned to Alamut and simply vanished.  Ur-Shulgi declared her a renegade and must be destroyed.  Fatima cares little about this now.  After a year of meditating in a cave near Mecca, she renewed her faith in Allah.

Fatima is the definition of beauty.  She is very graceful and posses a lean, muscular build and large, almond-shaped eyes.  Usually she dresses in a manner that suits the current contract she is pursuing.  Otherwise she wears traditional Arab garb.

Fatima was a former lover to the Lasombra Lucita.  The two sparked a romance long ago during the Crusades.  But the two women were often at odds.  Over the centuries they’ve fought for and against each other.  Although their affair has ended, Fatima still has strong feelings for Lucita and has often saved her life.  When the Elders put Fatima on a contract to kill Lucita, she leaked word back to Lucita of the impending danger.  When Fatima showed up to strike, Lucita was ready and sent Fatima to torpor.  It is the only contract Fatima ever failed to complete.

When other Assamites engage Fatima in combat, they found themselves staked and shipped to Baghdad with the warning “mercy is sharper than any knife” ringing in their ears.

In the final nights of Gehenna, Fatima was visited by Haqim himself.  The invisible Antediluvian whisked around her unseen, like a desert wind.  Terrified beyond belief, Fatima bravely explained she had no regrets about her faith.  All she ever did was to serve her clan and give glory to Allah and also to Haqim when possible.  After she was done the Antediluvian circled around her, then vanished.  Fatima was very grateful and fell to the ground crying tears of joy, for Haqim had declared her worthy.

– Source:  Clanbook: Assamite, pg 95.  Children of the Night, pg 80-81. The Final Night, pg 293-294.