Shahin Kamran

Shahin was born a kul (slave), property of Babek, the Pasha (lord) of a remote region in the north-eastern Ottoman Empire (in present-day Iran near the Turkmenistan border). He was taught to be a house slave, one meant to directly serve the day-to-day needs of Babek and his family, and to protect the family's secrets his tongue was cut out when he was 7.

Babek was no ordinary man, nor was his family normal. He was in fact Kindred and his 'family' a coterie. The Babek brood were monsters who terrorized the remote province that they claimed as their domain. Shahin witnessed many terrible things and suffered them as well. The activities of Babek and his coterie did not go unnoticed however. They drew the attention of the Banu Haqim.

But when the righteous assassins moved on Babek, they found a twelve-year old Shahin crouched over the vampire's body, a spear driven through the monster's heart. 

Shahin was taken in by the Banu Haqim. The young kine was not embraced right way. He might have impressed the clan, but he had still not earned a place among them. He was taught how to read, how to write and the silent signals that the Banu Haqim used in battle. He trained, learning to fight with his hands and blades. It wasn't until sometime in his twenties that Shahin was embraced.

For the first six decades of his unlife, Shahin studied as a Fida'i under the guiding hand of his Sire and three other assassins. He remained mostly within the middle-east during this time, but when he was named a Rafiq in his own right, he was sent eastward. His travels took him to the Indian subcontinent, then back towards the west into Europe and onward into the United Kingdom.

Shanin had crossed 'the pond' when Ur-Shulgi rose from Torpor. He had never known life before the Blood Curse and perhaps given his geographical distance from the Methuselah sided with the Eayn al Hukam.

His deeds have taken him across the United States and Canada in these modern nights. His most recent 'home' is in Baltimore, MD.