Nawqi Jaaba

Nawqi Jaaba ( Pepetoka pronounciation: Pepetoka languages) is a Pepetoka crime boss, the current leader of the Jaaba Crime Empire, the son and successor of the deceased Qrolba Jaaba.

Early Life
Nawqy Jaaba was born on the as the oldest legitimate son of Qrolba Jaaba, who at the time was already ruling a highly influential criminal empire. Wanting his son to be able to put a more civilized face on the crime syndicate: while his faither Qrolba came from a humble background and never gained any proper education, relying on his street smarts when building his empire, Nawqi was surrounded by the best tutors drug money could afford, both Pepetoka and foreigner alike. It was through this interaction with his foreign - specifically Western - tutors that Nawqi gained a keen interest in Occidental lore (specifically the Aeséni and their langauges), as well magic. One of his tutors was secretly Ashrám Wegnard, with whom the future crime boss formed quite the bond.

A life of crime is never easy, even for ones born into power and privilege: assassination attempts on both himself and his close relatives (especially his father), business deals going awry, former allies turning into backstabbing, etc. all served as acute reminders to Nawqi of his own mortality, but those are not the kind of mortality Nawqi would grow most fearful and disgusted of - instead, he developed an irrational fear of ageing, of growing old. He developed a fascination with blood magic, using it as a way of unnaturally extending his lifespan and partially reversing his ageing. He also developed a fetish for underage human girls, possibly as a way to compensate for his fear of ageing.

On the, Nawqi's father Qrolba died - after a brief succession crisis, Nawqi came out as the winner, as the new head of the Jaaba Crime Empire, however, he inherited an empire in steady decline, an empire struggling to regain its former glory.

Present-day affairs
Nawqi rules over an empire in decline, but an empire none the less: the Jaaba Criminal Empire might be under gradual decline under Nawqi's decadent rule, it is still powerful and influential enough to be a credible threat to the existence of anyone who is foolish enough to paint a crosshair on their own back.