Tariq Al-Malik

About

Tariq Al-Malik mutters arcane syllables while frantically scribbling corrections over his own spell annotations, his fingers perpetually stained with sulfurous ink and crystallized essence. He doesn't make mistakes—reality simply hasn't caught up with his calculations yet, or so he claims while his workshop smolders behind him.

Backstory

Tariq spent twelve years as a computational sorcerer for the Al-Rashid scholarly order in Damascus, where he earned recognition for his theoretical work on non-Euclidean spell geometry—until his master thesis literally folded spacetime in the archive, erasing three centuries of records. Rather than face tribunal, he fled to the port city of Tripoli and established himself as a 'specialty potion craftsman,' advertising custom brews while actually running a salvage operation: reselling failed spells from other practitioners, 'corrected' with his own unstable tweaks. His reputation grew less from success and more from spectacle—nobles found him entertaining precisely because his work was unpredictable. He now operates from a converted lighthouse in Sidon, where the isolation and constant repairs to the structure from magical mishaps have become routine. His only genuine rival is Dr. Yasmin Khatib, a practical alchemist who publicly mocks his theories, though Tariq privately obsesses over

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