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#1 zombiegleemax Oct 30, 2004 6:29:17	I was reading the entry in COTN Werebeasts for Abu al Mir and it occured to me that he is very similar to the 12 year old Abu from Touch of Death. I had made that Abu a first level thief and eventually a permanent NPC in the party, but I strongly considered changing him after reading the COTN entry. Has anyone else thought about this?
#2 zombiegleemax Nov 10, 2004 7:27:26	In the module "Touch of Death" a local street urchin named "Abu" offers to help the PCs....he translates for them and runs various errands for them if they will just allow him to tag along.....when I was DMing this adventure, the pCs took him with them from Har Akir and I later gave him the abilities of a first level thief and he continued with the party as an NPC. Later I was looking for more adventures and I read the discription of "Abu al Mir" in COTNWB. I was amazed at how similar he was to the "Abu" from TOD. I thought it would be a devious plot for him to turn out to have a secret past and hidden dark side the players never suspected....I did not pursue this idea, but I really wondererd if the author of Abu al Mir had this in mind when he created him.
#3 The_Jester Nov 10, 2004 16:12:30	I think the scraggy thief is a standard egyption figure in movies and books. Think Benny from the Mummy. It is a neat coincidence, most likely the result of the authors just knowing few Egyptian names other tha Abu.