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View Awards - Atif ibn Sharjar - Merchant of the Al Ashar

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Out Of Character Awards

Award		Reason
	The Chorus Medal Awarded 05 Oct 2022 @ 7:18pm Nominated by Commander Calliope Zahn	Atif Ibn Sharjar is custom fit to take the reader along on Loki III. Through his exploits and adventures in trade, we get to see new locations and meet new characters and uncover the secrets otherwise hidden from us off-worlders.
	Wordsmith Medal for Narrative Voice Awarded 04 Dec 2022 @ 2:42pm Nominated by Commander Calliope Zahn	To recognize Polar for his work demonstrating Loki III going beyond description and carrying us through adventures along with Atif Ibn Sharjar and the people he meets and sights he sees along the way. The entire series is highly readable and engaging and has incredible attention to detail. The characters are well rounded, and even vicious tribal opponents are shaped by their cultures and the harsh elements of the planet so as to be sympathetically understood by the reader.(Nominated by Spiral & Nikki)
	Obsidian Fleet Spotlight Awarded 05 Apr 2023 @ 6:55pm Nominated by Commander Calliope Zahn	Ibn Sharjar: The Sky at Night http://command.obsidianfleet.net/index.php/sim/viewpost/493 This post is a culmination of so many pieces of lore including the original novel source (Vulcan’s Forge) featuring the planet after which our Fleet was named (Obsidian), fleet reference material, established posts for our sim, connections to the GM’s mission background, and OOC collaborative work— all forming into a narrative witnessed by Polar’s character, Ibn Sharjar, as he journeys into some of the least known regions of the desert and learns of things the UFP has not uncovered in a century of working with the natives from the city of Kalara or with those that come to the clinic or outreach centers. Unlike Starfleet’s official channels, Ibn Sharjar trades directly with the tribes people in the farthest reaches and, as he gains their trust, is invited to some of their firesides and now to one of their sacred rituals, where the children are trained in the Stations of the retelling of their history, a Watch they keep of the past, present and future. While most other tribes shun outsiders from the stars, or treat them with distrust or indifference, this one, though fiercely hated by the other tribes for their heresies, still looks to the stars for the restoration that is to come. And as Ibn Sharjar listens to their story, we, the readers, are treated to a deep history of the Planet Obsidian and the oldest surviving account of the people who came to call the barely hospitable planet home, many thousands of years ago.
	Bronze Quill Medal Awarded 05 Apr 2023 @ 7:03pm Nominated by Commander Calliope Zahn	For Ibn Sharjar: The Sky at Night, Stories and Legends: This was a beautiful post and told with real creativity it transported me to this place and I was there, sitting among the tribesmen with ibn Sharjar, listening to this story. Great job. (nomination by David)
	Obsidian Fleet Spotlight Awarded 01 Jan 2024 @ 11:00am Nominated by Commander Calliope Zahn	M3 - "Ibn Sharjar: The Trickster's Hammer of Fire" On the return leg of their journey for the children to choose their new stars, the travelers pick up speed, concerned to make it to shelter to avoid the peak radioactive activity of an impending sunstorm. They rush headlong into brutal desert winds full of obsidian glass. This adventure picks up the pulse! (entered retroactively. Awarded July '23)
	Nomination Commendation Awarded 03 Feb 2024 @ 10:59pm Nominated by Commander Calliope Zahn	Atif Ibn Sharjar – Obsidian Command A simple unassuming merchant, some might say smuggler, makes a trading circuit on Loki III, aka Planet Obsidian, and takes us along for the ride as he befriends a small tribe in the distant reaches of the desert, where inclement weather means it’s either raining shards of black glass or roasting you with deadly solar flares. He learns to ride a giant beetle and is invited to observe the ancient rites of the tribe, learning of the planet’s oldest maintained legends, and prophecies of the future. The human-bajoran man is tenacious and, with his own roots to dry climes, is no stranger to deserts, but Loki tests him through wind, fire, and blood. This character’s tales, more than any other this year, have breathed fresh life into the lore of Planet Obsidian, and reading his posts places us right there in the action with him! (Unelected Nomination for OF’s Character of the Year 2023)