Gulnara Nazarkhan

Gulnara is an Illuminati agent and lifestyle blogger based in NYC. She was born in the former capital of Kazakhstan, Almaty, to rather well-to-do parents, who divorced when she was twelve. She and her father emigrated to the US in 1997, where he worked a variety of menial jobs for many years before securing a teaching position in upstate New York. Her childhood was relatively normal despite the political upheaval surrounding her in the nineties. A recurring visitor, however, a Sufi man, noticed something different about her and did something- she's not sure what- that changed her parents' attitude toward her ever so slightly. She studied Art History and Religion at NYU, received her BA, then dropped out of graduate school shortly after a series of traumatic events. She now interns at CFM gallery in Manhattan and maintains a lifestyle blog.

=Biography =

• Early Education •
Gulnara 's parents were educated, 'upper class' Kazakhs (Nomenklatura), and she learned quite a lot from them. Her official education, however began at AIS, Almaty International School, where English was mandatory, and all classes are taught in that frightful language. Her mother, an unusually devout Muslim, also sought advice from a Sufi mystic who visited the family regularly.

• Coming to America •
Dad had to work hard, despite having money, while waiting for his connections to secure him a faculty position in upstate New York. Gulnara did not like this, and got a healthy dose of culture shock in public school. It didn't last long, though- she was soon enrolled in a private school upstate.

• Pre College •
Gulnara's interest in religion -all of it- deepened in the years following her parents' divorce. Her father had converted to Eastern Orthodoxy in New York, while her mother remains Muslim in Kazakhstan. She flirted with all major religions, even getting as far as her third successful Audit at the NY Church of Scientology(Grade 2, Overts and Witholds). She still has a waning interest in Sufism and Gnostic Christianity, Parapsychology, and cults.

• College •
In college she studied Art History and Religion, earning her BA. Religious and Alchemical imagery, funerary art, and graffiti were new fascinations. She dropped out of graduate school following the death of NY socialite Ainsleah Peterson, with whom she had begun plans to open an art gallery. Her friends in the NY art scene largely suspected her of murdering miss Peterson (she fell forty floors from a rooftop party in Manhattan), though no charges were pressed. The uproar led her to drop out of college and lie low for a year.

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Since dropping out, Gulnara focused on Crowleyan Magick, and it was some success with this that led, ultimately to her recruitment. The Illuminati had been watching her since she and her father came to New York, and subtly influencing her growth and education. She may or may not resent this.

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She is a tall and athletic woman, sometimes mistaken for a model. Tired of explaining to westerners that Kazakhstan is as big as western Europe and is incredibly diverse, and that she is nothing like Borat's much-abused sister, she just lets people guess where she's from.

She has pale skin, amygdaliform eyes, and light brown hair that she bleaches to a dishwater blonde, sometimes going platinum. Her legs are blissfully long and she knows it.

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She has a strong sense of justice, but also of the reality of a cruel and uncaring world. Her best friends are all working class New Yorkers, aspiring Rap and R&B artists, struggling dancers, and street fashion photographers. Her background didn't prepare her for life in New York, but she struggled and was forced to adapt.

She is avaricious. Money makes her happy, calm, and at peace with the world.

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Gulnara has expensive taste in clothing. Her Miu Miu tartan miniskirt cost 400 dollars. Her Burberry leather trenchcoat set her back five grand. She shops in Greenwich Village boutiques, spending thousands of dollars a month and no one among her friends knows how she affords it. Is she dating a rapper? She wouldn't deny it.

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After months of going solo into the field, Gulnara was approached by a mysterious man named John, who offered her a position in a cabal. It was a militaristic organization, which she was unused to, but she put aside her natural affinity for blood magic in order to train in assault weaponry. It was a relief to her to find others like herself, and despite or perhaps because of the devil-may-care attitude of the cabal, she feels like she has a home again.