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I have an idea to post this like a story from One Thousand and One Nights. I will try my best to write the life/story of this character, and by his recounts, you can learn of the alternate history of this world. Is this a good idea? Let me know. Anyhow, here is a bit I have come up with so far :eek: Go easy, it is just experiment for now I think, but I have neat ideas for it...
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During the reign of the Caliph Mansour III, there was a most peculiar of princes. Born to the Caliph’s youngest and most favored wife, Susanna, a Frankish princess captured during the Wars of the Pyrenees, the Prince Nouradeen ibn Mansour would be destined to live, perhaps, the most exciting and tragic life known to the Court of the Caliph. Gentle hearted, and kind, nonetheless he was loved my some, hated by many, however the general consensus rests on misunderstood. Various historians of the Eternal Caliphate have referred to him from names as “the Deviant,” to the “the Just.” However, perhaps his most fitting name, “Al-‘Atouf,” the Open-Hearted, is the one by which he has been referred to by the masses through history. Brother of two caliphs, namesake of three others as well as the sultanate Tofia in the New World. Unique to history, and especially to his time period, most of what we know of the reigns of Mansour III, Hakim V, and Safaa III come from the exceptionally detailed logs of Prince Nouradeen, who keeny recorded his life from the time of his departure from the Harem in Baghdad to be educated at the age of fifteen in Qortoob, until his tragic death at the hands of his own wife.

Knowledge of the Prince’s life before his departure from the Harem is few and far between, but nonetheless important to understanding the environment and world which shaped this son of the Vicar of the Prophet of God to be the person he was upon his journey across the empire of Islam to Al-Andalus to begin his studies. Nouradeen ibn Mansour ibn Abd Al-Halim ibn Safaa was first born-child of Susanne of Aquitaine, the youngest daughter of the Duke of Aquitaine, and a granddaughter Hugh X, King of the Franks in the Imperial Harem in Baghdad. The princess had been captured a year before during the wars between the Armies of Islam and the Frankish infidels attempting to raise the Christians of northern Andalus against the authority of the Caliph. Captured during the Battle of Bordeaux, she along with her sisters, younger brother and mother were held as hostages, aiding in the surrender of the Frankish forces. However, the Caliph, who had himself been present during the Battle, insisted on her retention to be his bride, which was agreed to by her grandfather, in exchange for Muslim armies returning south of the Pyrenees. The princess, referred to as Susanna Al-Faransi, was married to the Caliph upon their triumphal return to Baghdad, and was quickly his favorite, the Caliph is reported to have been smitten by her, and at the death of his first wife shortly after their wedding, declaring Susanna to his entire court to be Malika Am-Malikaat, Queen of Queens of Islam.

Prince Nouradeen was born on the 27th of Ramadan 1,140 years after the Hijra, considered 1,729 years after the death of Jesus the Christ by Christians. He was born the son of the Caliph Mansour III ibn Abd Al-Halim ibn Safaa ibn Mansour, Vicar of the Prophet of God, Sovereign of the House of the Prophet, Emperor and Shah, Sultan of Sultans, King of Kings, Commander of the Faithful and Successor of the Prophet of the Lord of the Universe, Custodian of the Holy Cities of Mecca Medina and Jerusalem, Emperor and Caesar of the Romans, Overlord, Suzerain and High King of the Arabs, Syrians, Persians, Egyptians, Africans, Romans, Greeks, Serbs, and Bulgars, Protector and Overlord of the Crown of Hungary, King of All Asia, Emperor of All India and Master of the Seas and Lands Beyond. His overlordship was recognized from China, to the settlements and provinces in the Islands and along the Further Nile of the Lands Beyond the Sea.

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