D´Shar Djaha Archers are proud and noble people. Few D´Shar ever master the bow well enough to be permitted into that exalted order. They are true birds of prey – they never miss their aim but shoot true.
Hastipaka Punjifiz
However high the requirements for Djaha Archers are, there are plenty of recruits meeting them in D´Shar lands. The right to assemble and recruit a company of them is a sign of great trust and a huge personal honor. Not many D´Shar lords have acquired that right by Kadan Bahadur Khan, and even less under his father.
So the privilege to raise such a company by his astrologer has caused great anger and displeased many a loyal vassal of the old Khan. However, the astrologer beeing a figure of power and influence and rumored to be a great conjurer and sorcerer who binds demons and djinns alike to do his will, noone dared to openly oject or oppose that decision, not even the new Khan.
Ever since then, Hastipaka Punjifiz has been the leader of that company of Djaha Archers. And ever since the day he was raised to that exalted position, he cursed his thrice damned fate, for ever since that day he was ordered to hunt for his dark masters wishes all over Pendor and far beyond the realms of civilisation.
Exotic ingredients, strange creatures, virgins and suckling babes alike, fish as large as houses, gleaming gemstones, crafts of wonder, Hastipaka Punjifiz found, raided, stole or used whatever means required to get it into his hands – A pirate of the desert, he became. A proud eagle, he once was.
Leader:
Hastipaka Punjifiz
A middle aged once proud son of the desert. Now a desperate and deillusioned servant of his new master, the mysterious Astrologer. Notorious FuManchu Moustache (imporant, used in dialogue)
Djaha Archer clone
Equipment:
itm_pl_450, itm_pop_jatu_noble_armor, itm_pl_486, itm_leather_gloves, itm_heretic_sabre,itm_pop_noldor_bow, itm_pop_noldor_arrows, itm_pop_noldor_arrows
knows_pathfinding_10|knows_spotting_10|knows_tracking_10|
Party Template:
D´Shar Djaha Archers 120
Hastipaka Punjifiz 1
Total 121
Dialogues:
HELLO!
HP:
As-salamu aleikum, Effendi!
Player:
Wa-aleikum as-salam, stranger.
HP:
My name is Hastipaka Punjifiz, son of Berbul, and leader of these Djaha archers. I shoot arrows since I could ever draw a bow and never missed my aim since I my beard began to grow.
I´ve travelled many countries, visited strange places, collected rare things of beauty in Pendor and the far lands beyond the see, but never ever have I seen a Dragon.
I´ve seen elephants, great grey beasts of burden. Fish larger than the biggest ship which sails the sea. I´ve met the kraken and seen fish flying like a bird! I´ve pulled teeth out of tigers, prised gemstones off heathen idols in the deep jungles which lay to the east. I climbed huge mountains to pick a rare flower at a waning moon, I´ve eaten spicy snakes and milked them for their venom, but never, ever have I seen or heard about a Dragon.
And yet, my master sent me to collect a Tear of such a mythical creature! Thrice cursed I am, afflicted by djinns, by Vata!
Player:
Hear, hear. You travelled wide and far and never heard of Dragontears? You should have used your wits, not boots, Hastipaka Panjifiz! Praise Vata you met {name} today! Tears of the Dragon are rare things of beauty – they are blue gemstomes of almost unlimited power!
HP:
May Indar strike me down! You´ve heard about them?
Player:
Noone knows their true origin. They look organic, yet they´re as cold and lifeless as a crystal. Wise men claim the Noldor of Old found them by means of magic, cut and bewitched them. Fools claim they grew like cabbage on a field and Noldor Maidens sang a song of growth and pleasure till they were ripe to harvest.
HP:
My beard! You are a learned man indeed! I´d immediately sell myself and all my men for such a gem! I must please my master, once again. Thrice cursed I am, by Vata
Player:
#1
Well, Hastipaka Panjifiz. Praise the day! I happen to have such a gem. And I´d exchange it for your services as you seem to be a formidable force I´ve heard of the proud sons of the desert before and seen them shoot their arrows straight and true. I could well use your company....
#2
Travel to Laria, Hasitpaka Panjifiz. Behind it lies a dark forest and west of it he Jatu Plains. You may find some Noldor there. Massa al nuur, Hastipaka Punjifiz!
HELLO AGAIN!
#1
Sabaah al nuur, {name}! Have you heard any news about a Dragontear?
WHAT TASK?
#1
Ahlan wa sahlan, {name}. Nothing I haven´t done before.
WHERE?
#1
Vata! Thrice damned I am indeed! There live djinns!
#2
Indar knows I am afflicted by djinns! That area is cursed!
OK!
#1
The master calls, I run. Thrice cursed I am!
#2
Thrice cursed I am! The master must not wait! Quickly! Off we are.
GOODBYE!
HP:
We served our time {name}, and we served you well, by Vata! Now hand me over that Dragontear of yours so I may haste back to my master and hunt for his next wish. Thrice cursed I am for such a fate!
Player:
May both Indar and Vata guide your steps, Hastapaki Punjifiz! Farewell and take good care of your precious treasure. Now hurry back and please your master, thrice cursed you are indeed.