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A '''Persian harbor master''' (died 819) was a businessman from [[Iran|Persia]] who had many wives, including [[Talâyi]], [[Halima]], [[Nai]] and [[Roshan]].

==Biography==
The harbor master entered business with his brother, a [[silk]] trader, providing the boats for trading and eventually the pair became very powerful.<ref name="Chapter 04">''[[Assassin's Creed: Mirage – Daughter of No One]]'' – Chapter Four: Baghdad, 819</ref> He married two women before marrying Talâyi, and eventually killed the first two,<ref name="Chapter 02">''[[Assassin's Creed: Mirage – Daughter of No One]]'' – Chapter Two: Baghdad, 819</ref> the second one for going against his orders and teaching some of the other wives how to read and write.<ref name="Chapter 04">''[[Assassin's Creed: Mirage – Daughter of No One]]'' – Chapter Four: Baghdad, 819</ref> At some point before 816, he maimed Talâyi, taking her left eye from her.<ref name="Chapter 02">''[[Assassin's Creed: Mirage – Daughter of No One]]'' – Chapter Two: Baghdad, 819</ref> When Talâyi became pregnant, he left her alone for eight months, only to then take her son away and never leave her alone after learning that she could carry children to term.<ref name="Chapter 10">''[[Assassin's Creed: Mirage – Daughter of No One]]'' – Chapter Ten - Thatta, 822</ref>

In 816, the harbor master visited Roshan's family in [[Kandovan]], looking for a new wife. Though he wanted either [[Masha]] or [[Bolour]], Roshan instead offered herself up to save her sisters, having seen the type of man he was. The day they married, he destroyed all but one of the gifts Roshan had received from her sisters. She was moved to his houseboat and would not set foot on land for the next three years.<ref name="Chapter 02">''[[Assassin's Creed: Mirage – Daughter of No One]]'' – Chapter Two: Baghdad, 819</ref> Whenever he had to journey outside of [[Baghdad]]'s harbor, he would select three of his wives to accompany him, often choosing Roshan.<ref name="Chapter 11">''[[Assassin's Creed: Mirage – Daughter of No One]]'' – Chapter Eleven - Sinai Peninsula, 824</ref>

In 819, Roshan stabbed the harbor master fatally before fleeing the houseboat, aided by the other wives.<ref name="Chapter 02">''[[Assassin's Creed: Mirage – Daughter of No One]]'' – Chapter Two: Baghdad, 819</ref> For a time, his murder remained hot news in Baghdad being gossiped about even by scholars of the [[House of Wisdom]].<ref name="Chapter 04">''[[Assassin's Creed: Mirage – Daughter of No One]]'' – Chapter Four: Baghdad, 819</ref>

==Personality and traits==
The harbor master was a huge, portly man<ref name="Chapter 04">''[[Assassin's Creed: Mirage – Daughter of No One]]'' – Chapter Four: Baghdad, 819</ref> that lacked a full set of teeth,<ref name="Chapter 02">''[[Assassin's Creed: Mirage – Daughter of No One]]'' – Chapter Two: Baghdad, 819</ref> and could barely read, write or speak his own language succinctly,<ref name="Chapter 12">''[[Assassin's Creed: Mirage – Daughter of No One]]'' – Chapter Twelve - The Silk Road, 822</ref>but had a lot of power.

He was particularly cruel to his many wives and would call them slaves and treat them as such, even punishing them with a whip for misbehaving.<ref name="Chapter 15">''[[Assassin's Creed: Mirage – Daughter of No One]]'' – Chapter Fifteen - Karachi, 824</ref> He also forbid them from learning how to read and write, as well as from leaving the houseboat.<ref name="Chapter 04">''[[Assassin's Creed: Mirage – Daughter of No One]]'' – Chapter Four: Baghdad, 819</ref> He also forbid any man from boarding the boat.<ref name="Chapter 02">''[[Assassin's Creed: Mirage – Daughter of No One]]'' – Chapter Two: Baghdad, 819</ref> This treatment of women was not exclusive to his wives, of course, with him and his brother boasting about only having boys and "not a single female to weaken the bloodline", dealing with any girls his wives might bear.<ref name="Chapter 10">''[[Assassin's Creed: Mirage – Daughter of No One]]'' – Chapter Ten - Thatta, 822</ref> He also degraded [[Courtesans|prostitutes]] as "mindless and worthless" exploiters of men.<ref name="Chapter 12">''[[Assassin's Creed: Mirage – Daughter of No One]]'' – Chapter Twelve - The Silk Road, 822</ref>

==Behind the scenes==
The Persian harbor master's name is never given in the novel, because information about him is always filtered through Roshan's memories and she refuses to even think of his name throughout the story.

==Appearances==
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Mirage – Daughter of No One]]'' {{Mo}}

==References==
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