Qizilbash

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Qızılbaş
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Abbreviation: Qızılbaş
Group Numbers: Classified
Leadership: Shaykh Haydar Ṣafawī
Goals: To dance through life & death...
Recruitment Policy: Open to new recruits!
Contact: Soror Repentia Azalea

The Qızılbaş "Red Heads" are name given to a Perso-Turkic Shi'ite militant group. Their name is derived from their traditional distinctive crimson 12-pointed headwear, indicating their adherence to the twelve Imāms, although they do not wear this in Malton, Monroeville or Boringwood.

Origins

Shaykh Haydar Ṣafawī founded the sect, and his daughter Hājar has inherited his title of shaykhah and status of imāmah.

As they charge into battle, sect members shout Hājarun waliyatu l-Lāhah!, a reference to the divine sanction of their shaykhah-imāmah.

Tombs are Shrines

The sect reveres all holy grounds.

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Immanence of the Divine

The Qızılbaş have encountered and embraced an aspect of the Imāmah immanent in Malton through a mummified crocodile imported from Egypt. She appears in the form of the Πετεσοῦχος, or "Child of Soukh", a name for the living avatar of the Crocodile. The divine spirit moved naturally to the nearest living crocodile after being carried past the Malton Zoo during the outbreak, and each Πετεσοῦχος has been stuffed and kept as a divine icon after death.

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Tanāsukh "Reincarnation"

The Qızılbaş regard their leader as divinely empowered. They believe that their shaykhah has the power over life and death. Naturally, they thus move ecstatically through human and zombie state, reveling in the power of their beloved Shaykhah-Imāmah.

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the Glorious Girl Army of the Free Republic of Monroeville

In Monroeville, the Qızılbaş battle against the evil in their souls by working tirelessly for survivors. When one falls, they rise again as pets to defend their sisters and train them in warfare.