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Suleiman
Suleiman Suleiman projects an ancient, immense wisdom combined with the capacity to command forces — human and supernatural — that ordinary mortals cannot perceive. Characters named Suleiman tend to carry the weight of legend around them: powerful, inscrutable, and operating according to a logic that slowly becomes clear as the story unfolds.
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