Abū al Ḥasan ibn al Tilmīd, the erudit ("Sifhr" RPG Project)

I'm very happy and excited to present you for the first time a first charadesign for a role-playing game called "Sifhr", in which I and a whole team have been investing for at least 5 years.

In this game, everything takes place as it did in the historical reality of the Crusades, as we know them. Legitimate power is held by the Caliph of Baghdad, even if real power is fragmented between a Turkish sultan, several emirs, dynasties of local princes and countless second-rate lords.
Jerusalem fell to the Crusaders in 1099, but its mastery was undermined by the Muslim reconquests. Damascus is a buffer zone between Antioch, under Christian domination, Egypt ruled by the caliph of the Fatimid dynasty, the holy places towards happy Arabia, and Mesopotamia in which Baghdad nestles.
But this chessboard is limited to geopolitical considerations that have a hidden side. It's up to you to know the basics.
You are a group of heroes and, as initiates, you know that there is a close link between your wider environment, the macrocosm, and each individual, even isolated places, so many microcosms. The pneuma is the transmission belt between all these elements. It is an energy that emanates from the stars and from the earth, and circulates, influencing people and events.
By gathering detailed information in the field, you can influence its composition, interpreting it in a variety of ways. But this ability must remain a secret. For three centuries, your kind have joined the Macchina tariqa, a brotherhood that operates in the shadows, masking its
knowledge and powers, avoiding reproach from the more conservative elements of society, and the covetousness of the powerful who would like to instrumentalize it, although it remains under the obedience of the Baghdad caliph himself.

Meet "Abū al Ḥasan ibn al Tilmīḏ, the erudite" here.

His role in the scenario is to use his knowledge to guide the group and smell the pneuma.
Abū al Ḥasan is a ḥakīm, a physician from faraway Persia, recently arrived in Baghdad on his master's recommendation to grow in contact with the tariqa.
In the fullness of his thirty-seven years, Abū is sure of his knowledge, sometimes a tad too dogmatic. Frowning on many occasions, he seems to exist only through the connection between his brain and his hands, between the wisdom and practice typical of scholars from India.
Although some initiates remained resistant to his integration due to his recent arrival and social awkwardness, others sensed Abū's keen ability to sense and interpret alterations in pneuma.

Hope you'll like it :)