Bashir is a fifth generation Ravnos methuselah and the founder of the Bashirites. Residing in Damascus, he Embraced seven disciples into his group. He shared his moderate views of the Road of Paradox with his students. 500 years later, more than half of his disciples had been destroyed across the Middle East during the Crusades.
He had fallen into torpor centuries before the Dark Ages, and his childe Varsik led the Bashirites in his absence, and corrupted Bashir's teachings.