Mahmoud Ali-Hasim

Mahmoud Ali-Hasim is a character in 7th Sea: The Search for Salvation, played by Yuri.

Biography

Mahmoud is a tall, broad-shouldered, dashing young man with the lean, muscled frame and effortless grace of an athlete. He is relatively dark skinned, with a full, close cropped black beard, a gleaming bald pate, and honey colored eyes. Day to day he wears clothes considered fashionable in Vodacce, but when wooing a wealthy lady or hobnobbing with local nobility he wears ornate Crescent garb consisting of robes, loose trousers, and highly polished boots. He accents his wardrobe with colorful sashes, head gear, and jewelry in an effort to play the exotic foreigner and put people off their guard.

He is extremely passionate about three things; coffee, women, and his homeland and has very strong opinions about all three subjects. His dedication to coffee and its proper preparation and enjoyment borders on fanatical, and he travels everywhere with his coffee pot, proper beans, and a small silver coffee service with which to entertain his friends. He is also an inveterate rake and infamous whoremonger who leaves a string of dewy-eyed admiring women and furious husbands, fathers, brothers, and uncles wherever he goes. When speaking of home, he has a tendency to go on at length about the wonders of the Crescent Empire and about the fact that in the West "the food is bland, the music is dull, the women are plain, the art is unsophisticated", and the undisputed fact that everything is better back home.