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3	!!Shahrazad
4	Princess who saves her people by marrying a mad sultan and [[GeekyTurnOn charming him with her stories]].
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6	%% * BadassBookworm
7	%% * CulturedBadass
8	* {{Determinator}}: She tells her husband stories for almost three years, in which time she gives birth to ''three children''. Consider that she has to make up these stories on the fly, even on the nights she's gone through hours of labor. And she still did it.
9	* GuileHero: She converts a tyrant into a benevolent ruler without resorting to violence (although it does take 1,001 nights, but he's still prevented from tyrannical behavior in the interim).
10	* HappilyMarried: After the 1,001 nights are over, she becomes this to the ''formerly'' mad sultan, because after her stories he's genuinely in love with her. Apparently the mad sultan can be quite a good husband when he's not threatening to execute every newlywed for fear of her potentially cheating on him. It may also have helped that he's a friggin' ''sultan'', so she gets quite a bit of power and wealth at the "small price" of preventing her own execution for over three years first.
11	* HeroicSacrifice: Though unlike most examples of this trope, not a lethal one. The "sacrifice" isn't her life; it's her marrying a sultan she ''knows'' is a crazy tyrant, thus sacrificing her freedom and peace of mind… because once she marries him and pulls off her gambit to keep herself from being executed, she can keep him from executing any ''more'' newlyweds.
12	%% * HeroicSpirit: Shahrazad's audacity and sheer nerve for 1001 nights makes her this.
13	* HoldingTheFloor: Probably the UrExample; all 1,001 stories were made up by her, all to stall the sultan from carrying out her execution.
14	%% * HotConsort
15	%% * IronLady: With due allowances for limitations by cultural context Scheherazade would qualify quite well for this.
16	%% * JumpedAtTheCall: So she could pull off her plan to stave off the sultan's madness.
17	* GentlemanAndAScholar: She was as well read as any scholar.
18	* ManicPixieDreamGirl: ''Intentionally'' invoked, so she can charm and entrance the sultan into not having anybody else executed.
19	* NervesOfSteel: You'd need this to come up earnestly come up with and tell stories to a sultan for a thousand (and one) nights that you're pretty sure will have your head cut off the moment he finds your storytelling inadequate.
20	%% * PluckyGirl
21	%% * ScheherezadeGambit: TropeNamer
22	* SilkHidingSteel: She seemed like a servile woman that just let herself get put at risk to the sultan, but she holds fast in her nearly-three-year long plan.
23	%% * TheStoryteller: Considering her plan wouldn't have worked if she ''wasn't'' a good storyteller...
24	%% * TalkingInBed: Or storytelling in bed, as the case may be.
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26	!!Shahryar
27	The sultan of the world of the framing device. A ruthless, crazed man who has put up the tradition of wedding a young bride and then executing her following their wedding night.
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29	* TheBluebeard: A classic example. Every day he marries another woman, every night he sleeps with her, and the following day she's killed. The pattern went on for years until Shahrazad came into the picture.
30	* KarmaHoudini: It's good for the rest of the kingdom that he's pacified, but slaying hundreds of innocent women for the injustices one did to him is something he never gets reprimanded for. However, considering the kind of man he was, it's a wonder who would even ''try'' to directly call him out.
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32	!!Harun Al-Rashid
33	Commander of the Faithful in YeGoodeOldeDays. Appears in many adventures.
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35	%% * TheChainsOfCommanding: Which is why he needs the recreation of having adventures.
36	%% * TheEmperor
37	* HighPriest: Sort of. Muslims have teachers not priests. But he is Caliph which was the highest religious position and so sort of like being both HighPriest and TheEmperor.
38	%% * HistoricalHeroUpgrade
39	%% * {{Jerkass}}[=/=]JerkWithAHeartOfGold: It can vary from story to story.
40	%% * KingIncognito: Goes around as this.
41	%% * ReasonableAuthorityFigure
42	%% * RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething
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44	!!Sindbad
45	Merchant who made incredible amounts of money on various voyages and invites a beggar to his feast to tell him about his adventures.
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47	%% * DoomMagnet: Sindbad is unlucky, very unlucky.
48	%% * FatherNeptune
49	%% * GuileHero
50	%% * IntrepidMerchant
51	* TheJinx: All of his companions have an uncomfortable habit of dying. You wonder why anyone ever sails with him.
52	* MrViceGuy: Sinbad is a lot like Scrooge [=McDuck=], ambitious (but not evil, ValuesDissonance not withstanding) and out to make a buck. In fact, by the end he's one of the richest men in Baghdad.
53	%% * NonIdleRich
54	%% * WalkingTheEarth
55	%% * SelfMadeMan

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