{ cis woman, she/her } ❝ it is not the people who should be afraid of their government but rather the government that should be afraid of its people . ❞ huh, who’s NAOMI SCOTT ? no , you’re mistaken , that’s actually SAFIRA ❝ 𝑆 ❞ ELSAID . she is a 21 year old HALF-ELF who is a WARLOCK . she is known for being COLD , CRITICAL , VAIN , SANCTIMONIOUS , and VINDICTIVE but also BENEVOLENT , CONSCIENTIOUS , ELOQUENT , PROTEAN , and VIBRANT , so that must be why she always reminds me of the song WILLOW BY TAYLOR SWIFT , and POLISHED MARBLE , CONCEALED JEWELRY, FALSE SMILES , SUBTLE BLUSH , and CRIMSON LIPSTICK. i hear that she’s made a PACT WITH THE GENIE, so be sure to keep an eye on her.
! what do the ivory castles and rat-infested slums of kara-tur have in common ? why , that’s simple . the answer has always been vipers . at least in the latter , it was easier to discern who your enemy was , and most betrayals you could see coming from a mile away . but those that thrived in the former environment were a different beast altogether . they laced poisonous words behind faux smiles and forced niceties ; waiting for the most opportune moment to cripple their victim and render them essentially , well , dead .
! safira never thought of herself as a victim . she’d been too naive and trusting in a place where she needed to be the exact opposite , and for that a price was exacted from her . in fact , if you stripped away her title as a lesser noble , her status as a lady-in-waiting , and her dangerous childhood romance with the crown prince , safira would have been a normal girl . it was the latter that would pose a problem for the kingdom , or at least that was how the sultan had phrased it . when safira turned twenty , the sultan had arranged for his son to marry a foreign princess to secure a diplomatic and defensive alliance . much to her chagrin and the prince’s protest , the marriage happened anyway . and when it did , safira became nothing but a loose end . after all , the alliance would only work in the prince was devoted to his new wife . and so safira was framed , and the prince in the course of his duties , was forced to throw her into the darkest hole they could find .
! they threw safira in the dungeon for months . in fact , she’d lost track of exactly how much time she had spent in that dreadful fortress . during that time , safira prayed to every god she knew of , hoping that there would be some sort of sign or answer . if there were gods and goddesses out there , they had forsaken her . when she asked for food , she was starved . when she asked for water , she was spit on . for all intents and purposes , she was dead inside .
! perhaps it was that introspection that triggered the divine meeting with her savior . much to her surprise , salvation came in the form of a genie . perhaps the person who had previously wielded the genie’s power had run out of wishes and finally passed from the mortal realm . perhaps the genie sought her out because it knew that she had nothing left to lose . either way , it knew her desires ; her want to destroy the establishment that had betrayed and left her to rot , and the vengeance that she wished upon the sultan and his followers . lastly , she wanted to give the power back to the people . but this power would not come without a price , and in the case of the genie’s desires , it would defer its requirements until a later date . for now , due to the nature of its new wielder’s wish , it would agree to act as safira’s font of magic . and with that , the pact was made .
! the last thing that her parents had heard about their daughter was that she had escaped from a once-seemingly inescapable fortress . they denounced her publicly , of course . after all , they did have a reputation to uphold . but they never stopped caring about their daughter . and every now and then , they would catch wind of an eastern noble in the western kingdoms . as long as she was alive , that was good enough for them .

















