Adiq

Adiq is the head of a merchant collection from the Qabaar Sultanate. He is known for being involved in the trading of souls, mostly as a buyer.

Description
Adiq is a swarthy human. He shows signs of age for a human of about fifty years, and considerable wear on his skin from sun and wind. He sports a neatly-trimmed beard and wears clothes befitting a desert traveler regardless of where he goes.

Personality
Adiq is a businessman through and through, despite the occasional grisly nature of his trading. He is always sure to honour his word and has few issues with contracting willing adventurers to do his work for him.

Abilities
Adiq practices soul eating, a form of low magic that is believed to have originated in Qabaar. He is not a particularly skilled combatant, however, and so he tends to hire others to harvest his souls for him.

Possessions
Though he carries a variety of goods, his stock varies from place to place and time to time. The nature of Adiq's trade is highly variable, with souls as the only constant.

Adiq's most prized possession is the cart that leads his caravan, which appears to be pulled by invisible horses. In reality, those who are able to see such things would notice that it is pulled by the ghosts of mortals, given form from the souls Adiq has purchased.

Relationships
If Adiq maintains any relationships that are not strictly business-related, they are not well known.

History
Adiq's origins are unclear, beyond what little he has revealed. It is known that he comes from a small town in the Qabaar Sultanate and claims to be part of a much larger merchant collective, although everywhere he has been seen he appears to be the boss of his organization.

He has been known to shown up during major political and social upsets to ply his trade, including the events of Shadowborn and those of Genesis.

Rumors and Legends

 * Though he looks to be around fifty years old, it is rumoured that Adiq has actually lived for hundreds of years off of the souls he has consumed.

Appearances

 * Shadowborn
 * Genesis