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Cassim is the second son of cousins to the Sanna, having grown up pretty much in the Giant's Reach his entire life. As a second son, he wasn't going to inherit anything anytime soon so he was expected to pick up the slack by being pressured into educational and artistic pursuits. This tempered him for a long life of reading books, and trying to make something out of nothing, but it was not what he wanted. He'd find himself constantly getting into trouble just to avoid it, which lead to him lashing out at his peers, family, and even important visitors. When he was eight, he ran away into the wilderness where he was lost for three days. In those three days, he was attacked by beasts, avoided detection by two thuggish looking men, and was discovered nearly dead by a Shaman who nursed him back to health. When he was strong enough to explain what happened, the Shaman scolded him, and returned him home. However, as a reward for his show of endurance and resourcefulness, he was offered an apprenticeship, to start upon his tenth birthday. He had two years to study all he could about herbalism, medicine, and the Spirits. His parents weren't thrilled, but they accepted it as a means of boosting his social rank to make him more viable for mates. What they hadn't expected, was the Shaman to return, and take their son into the woods never to be seen again for months at a time. Each time, Cassim came home a little more different. First, he was no longer the angry little boy he'd used to be, he was more relaxed, and laid back. Second, he'd begun to establish a certain distance between him and the rest of the family, and described it as a 'comfortable distance'. The third and final change, though, was when he never came home at all. He was eighteen when his mentor passed from this life into the next. That was when his real training began. His mentor, had left him a number of clues and notes to prepare him for the next phase of his journey. His vision quest. For two long years, he was to live in the wilderness, survive, and by the end commune with the Spirits, while coming to an understanding of the differences between his Free Soul, and his Mundane Soul, and why each can't exist while the other is active. He has only just returned, from this grueling ordeal. A changed man? Only time can tell.

A younger man, of light brown skin tones and grey-blue eyes that seem to hold a certain distance to them, as if he's constantly looking out to a greater more bigger picture on the horizon. His hair is kept long, braided in places with tiny bits of bone, beads, and other such accutruments. He has a beard of shorter, but similar style. One particular trait of his is he's wildly shorter then most Sanna men at a little over five and a half feet tall but built like a rock. Along one side of his face, is an intricate web-like pattern that comes down his temple and just across his eyebrow.

Cassim is a devoted practitioner of his religion. He has, for a long time been trained as an apprentice Shaman and has had a lot of pressure thrown at him to represent the spirits properly. While he can have a temper, it's kept in check by his training, and the guidance of the Spirits. But like most Sanna men he is strong, willful, and honest. He tries to be friendly, and encouraging, guiding those who seek the wisdom of the Spirits. Though completely socially inept in that he's lost to his own thoughts all too often.