Caliph (VTDA)

Overview

More properly "Khalifa," or successor to the Prophet, the title of the political and religious leader of Islam. In the time immediately after Muhammad, there was a relatively clear succession of Caliphs, but in later generations multiple caliphs, each ruling a part of the Islamic world, claimed the title; it has become a title with a great deal of symbolic power but little political might.

In the Islamic cities of the Ashirra, a Cainite Caliph holds power the same as would a European Prince.

References

• VTDA: Veil of Night, p. 18-21