Shahrazad

Shahrazad is the storyteller's daughter, a beautiful and blind seventeen-year-old girl who follows her fate to save a kingdom where she is not entirely included. Shahrazad is an archetypal character in the tradition of Christ: pure and selfless, putting the needs of an entire people ahead of her own even to the point of potential death. She appears without fault or sin, always doing the right thing. Her capacity for compassion is so great she does this despite the fact that the people of the kingdom consider her an eccentric foreigner. Even when she subtly manipulates Shahrayar with her storytelling she only does so to give them time to find love and to save him from himself. She has no malicious intentions or ambitions of her own. Shahrazad believes strongly that Fate has laid out her path in life, and whether she acts based on what she believes...