Al-Kaplan Balaban

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Al-Kaplan Balaban
Name
Alias	The Red Tiger
Vital statistics
Physical attributes
Gender	Male
Hair Color	Wine Red
Personal status
Status	Deceased
Relatives	Yildirim Usman (Father) Ulema Beyazit (younger brother) Nilufer Fatma (younger sister) Armut Ayse (niece) Prens Kemal (nephew)
Professional status
Affiliation	Mizrak Stratocracy
Occupation	Sultan of Mizrak Stratocracy (3rd generation)
Base of Operations	Mizrak Stratocracy
First appearance
Manga	Shoukoku no Altair: Chapter 21

  Al-Kaplan Balaban (The red tiger) is the 3rd generation sultan of Mizrak Stratocracy.

Appearance

Balaban is a man with a tall build. He has short, wavy red hair that's slicked back and floats behind his head. Befitting his brash personality, he has sharp, distinctive facial features, such as crooked eyebrows and slanted eyes with rough edges.

His choice of clothing consists of a long one-piece black kaftan with golden circular linings, completed with a long, red mantle. Even in the middle of the war, he didn't change his costume.

Personality

He's been noted as a prideful man, to the point of arrogance. Once he had decided something, it's best not to oppose it as it will wound his pride and makes him angry. Even so, it's also shown that despite his problems with excessive pride and anger management, he has a massive charisma and a tough exterior to make up for them.

Deep down, he's afraid of being left alone, which is what caused him a great deal of pain and disappointment when Bayezit allied with Turkiye.

Abilities

It's stated by Ismail that he's a good military general, much better than Ismail's own father, Sultan Uzun, in addition to his capability to lead his own elite corps, the Yeniçeri, in battle. Even Ismail went as far to say that without Bayezit's Şark Yay their troops won't have a chance against him. Later in the short chapter, it's shown that he actually has a really sharp mind befitting of a ruler, if not for his egoistic and ruthless personality traits: he managed to gouge the corrupt Minister Bilge's true nature by commanding him to spend national budget on slave boys and malachite stones for the palace's decoration.

History

Twelve years ago, both he and Bayezit lost their father at the war. Since then, he vowed to himself that he will become strong and make Mizrak into an independent country that can make its own decision without depending on Turkiye, so that they won't be forced going into a war that they never wanted in the first place.

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