Zshanab Suhail al Diin

Age:(????) perhaps MILLIONS of years old??

Type: Male Lead/Ensemble

Overt Traits: Rich, Dark, powerful, thunderous, cosmic

Underlying Traits: Fun, coy, seductive, poised, manipulative

Project: This Character Casting is for Short Readings & Video Voice Over Releases of the Novel Series: A Citrus Rose (available here)

This is an ongoing casting, so please know the size of this role will grow when the project does well.

Background:

This guy is the reason I wrote this series. While he is NOT the main male lead, he is the person that knows every OUNCE of the plot. All the time, there is an aire of orchestration when he speaks. All of his words have a double and triple meaning but he never lies. His motives however are unclear to all the other characte. He is the god of secrets, commander of the dead, the lorde of the InnerMost.

Test Lines---

(because Zshanab is SOOO important to the flavour of the story it is crucial how this is said. he is smooth, rumbling, delicate and he's saying this with the love of ages in the whispering of her name...basically he sounds like a god calling her to him.) "Halycind."

(there is surety and sarcasm in his tone) “Do you know how old Dureyr (d-your-rer) is? The dead are everywhere.”

(he's holding back a BEAD of anger here but he's ENJOYING imparting this hidden knowledge onto our main female lead.) “I quaked the dead and they quaked the earth. And my brothers knew I was unhappy. They have armies of casters, armies of blades, armies of beasts...but without my support they cannot raise war with any of them, for I command the largest of armies. I command the dead. They could not take Ashok so they left. Then Wyyt'Phyr (white-fire) left. And I watched as a father, full of cowardice, leave his daughter to become a weeping woman in a blood-soaked field of her brothers.”