Social Rank: 9
Concept: Expressive Corsair Captain
Fealty: Crownsworn
Family: Disowned
Gender: female
Marital Status: married
Age: 28
Birthday: 1/12
Religion: Pantheon
Vocation: Soldier
Height: average height
Hair Color: black
Eye Color: black
Skintone: black

Description: Malika has taken to the harsh sea like few can. The woman is about five feet and eight inches tall. Her straight black hair falls to the middle of her back, though she usually wears it tied behind her head with leather cords. Her flesh is rich black and her eyes are fierce and dark. She is muscular of build and carries herself with supreme confidence.

Personality: Malika is a corsair through-and-through. At the command of her ships, she is as wild as the sea wind and as daring as any who have ever sailed upon it. When she is at leisure, she can drink and carouse with the best of sailors, and as such she has earned her place among them as well as above them. Not one to mince words, she prefers what she views as cold, hard truths with brutal disregard for sentiment. While this can lead to stubbornness in those she disagrees with, she is as straightforward with a kind word as she is with a harsh one. She is open with her feelings in a way that most people are envious of. She feels everything she says, and she says everything she feels.

Background: Malika was born to a long-lived and a fierce line of Ischia corsairs. Her father, Abin Faruq, was Sword of Ischia, a position now held by her older brother Faruq. Her mother, Amadallah, was a shipwright and responsible for building many of the vessels that now serve her family. Although the family is not originally related by blood to the main branch of the Seracenis, Faruqs ancestors were raised to nobility many generations ago for their loyal service. This is something their branch of the family has been very proud of in their heritage.

Where her brother Faruq followed in their fathers footsteps as Sword, Malika was born for the sea. She took to sailing in her mothers designs and fell in love with the power and freedom of wood and plank upon the vast endless depths.

Malika is very close with her brother. She loves him dearly and respects his sword ability but harasses him for not being the sailor that she is. Faruq is the most important person in her life and she constantly and good naturedly takes his chastisement for the risks she takes in her life. Her love for her younger brother Nadir is more subdued; he is a man of words while she is a man of action, and their different personalities mean that there is a larger gap to overcome in their familial affection.

Malika is respectful of the Pantheon, but her ferocity at sea has given her a reputation to the contrary. She just views fighting and death in less abstract terms and lingers in the more visceral aspects of her work. She desires to be famed as a Corsair and aspires to command fleets one day. She was at the Marquis right hand during Pravus subduing of House Argento, and proved herself admirably. Even today, she continues to volunteer for the most dangerous missions. This is not borne of a desire to prove herself, but rather as a statement of her self-confidence in her abilities, which are justifiably high.