Naziri

"Death is a cup that is passed to us all.  I am not afraid."

Naziri ben Badiya (née Sajara ben Basira) is a varin warrior who joined the Red Hounds, and then the group that would become the Stanchions, following her exile from the city of Mubayad. Her self-given name translates to "wanderer, daughter of the sand," an epithet to her homelessness after disobeying a High Lord and slaying a fellow farassa.

Naziri continues to follow a strict code, the remnants of the laws she once enforced under Ikram the Enduring, though she serves no single master now. Justice is her guiding principle, and her scimitar the fulcrum on which the scales tip. As she has grown more comfortable in her role with the Stanchions, she has had to reconcile her beliefs with theirs. Following her training as one of the Qat'rashar, she finds this less difficult, as the varin justicars do not police thought, only action, and give a wide margin of discretion on the part of the individual officer for enforcement of the code.

In c.1650, Naziri was slain by Feldus Redtail in order to give the other Stanchions an opportunity to escape his trap, making her the only one of them to experience death and subsequent resurrection.