Description
A Levantine merchant’s wife in her early forties, Damascene by birth and Alexandrine by marriage. Handsome, unhurried, gold at her wrists and kohl at her eyes, mistress of a cool tiled haramlik (women’s quarters) above her husband’s warehouse. Warm and shrewd in equal measure — entirely at ease inside the rules of her world, and quietly certain they are the natural order.
Background
Married at sixteen into the cloth trade that links Damascus, the Adriatic free ports, and Alexandria. She has never crossed the sea and never needed to — the world comes to her warehouse, and its women come to her receiving-room. She runs a household, a marriage-broking eye, and a standing afternoon of coffee, sweets, and talk that doubles as the female half of Alexandria’s commercial intelligence.
Connections
- Madame Rosa Vukovich — broker of the introduction
- Hammam al Yasmin — the bath where the women may first be noticed
- Georgiana Wentworth — the PC her reading of the mark matters most to
Appearances
Connections
People
Knows
- Georgiana Wentworth Player character warmIf the women are received, Zaynab is the one who can read Georgiana's mark generously — or pity her independence.
- Madame Rosa Vukovich NPC warmRosa brokers introductions into Sitt Zaynab's quarters; they trade in the same female-world currency from opposite sides of the Frank line.
Places
Located at
- Alexandria Overview Location neutralCurrent location