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The story goes that, in a time of great spiritual upheaval and temporal conflict, Alsharu al'Awal sought to rid the Earth of a protector, Dhāt al-Himma. This was a title and a calling that was to be passed from girl to girl, since the beginning of time, who would protect the Earth from the ghül and the djinn. With the title came skills and abilities far beyond those of normal men.
In Baghdad, there was a man of great learning. He taught in the great colleges of the history of the great kingdoms between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. He had a daughter, Shahrazad, who he trained in the histories, both temporal and mystical. There was another child, Donyazad, who had been entrusted to the man for training, for within her was the possibility of becoming Dhāt al-Himma.
But Alsharu al'Awal had forces in hiding, who moved across the world to destroy those with such a possibility, and those who would support and guide Dhāt al-Himma in her mission. They came in the night with curved blades and black robes and no eyes, and took the lives of Donyazad and her guardian.
Shahrazad had read many books in her father's library, had traveled with her father as he drew knowledge from the sand where it slumbered, and was well-versed in the histories, both mystical and temporal.
You are, of course, well-aware of the Fam al-Jahim and the battles of Dhāt al-Himma and her companions, but these battles of the mystic, while of importance to all life, are hidden behind the veil of the temporal world. It is such that great Armies of the West came to claim Babylon, Baghdad, Nineveh and Uruk. Among the warriors of the West who came was a former companion of Dhāt al-Himma, and therefore was skilled in combat against foes temporal as well as mystical. He and his cohort would go among the people, finding the treasures of history that were taken as the old ruler fell, returning them to the archives, unless the temporal treasure was a mystical weapon, as many were.
It was inevitable, perhaps fate, that Shahrazad and this warrior would meet.