Character · Book One
Ħamy Samasar
Emir of the Gundartag, Daratag's Selaħdar. The Tag's iron shield. The man who carries the child no one else would.
Emir of the Gundartag, Daratag's Selaħdar. The Tag's iron shield. The man who carries the child no one else would.
Ħamy Samasar holds the title of Emir of the Gundartag, commander of Daratag's Selaħdar, the elite household guards of the Royal palace, the Tag's own personal shield. He served Tag Hidar, and now serves his son Tag Amar. "Even when the Tag was mad."
Book One opens on the worst night of his life so far: ordered to drown a newborn child the court has declared a monster, he instead chooses mercy over obedience, a decision that sets the entire saga in motion. He carries Protector, an indestructible Nazolean steel blade forged in fires long dead, and wears the bronze emblem of the Buraq, Dar Samasar's winged horse.
Known to the people as the Braveheart.
Wife: Nadera. Sons: Bashier and Ħasan. Serves under Amar, Tag of Mehirea. Of Dar Samasar, whose line traces back to Nordan Ben Sham and, further still, to Anin, sole survivor of the Sand Flood.
Emir of the Gundartag · The Braveheart · later, the Emir of Shama.
"You are not a monster," Ħamy whispered, the words slipping past his lips unbidden. "Only a child."
Chapter 1, carries the newborn from Daratag to the river, and chooses not to drown him. His path through the rest of Book One follows directly from that single choice.
Contains spoilers for future books.