Guard Layla – Layla El-Faouly, the Scarlet Scarab from Marvel’s Moon Knight and Layla by Eric Clapton
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Guard_Layla
https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Scarlet_Scarab
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layla
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TngViNw2pOo
Guard Layla is stationed outside the entrance to the Garden of Khonsu, on the lookout for bandits and heretics. She catches Your Wizard putting up recruitment posters for the Covenant of Ra that Brother Ray asked for your help. She arrests you.
Guard Layla is very surprised that Your Wizard can see the Chameleons. She sends you to find their invisible base.
Layla El-Faouly is a character originally created for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, in turn based on the comic book versions of Mehemet Faoul and Marlene Alraune. She is modeled after her MCU counterpart’s actress, May Calamawy.
“I don’t steal. They’ve already been stolen. That’s what people forget. I take them off the black market and return them to their rightful owners. I might keep a few to pay the bills.” ―Layla El-Faouly
Layla Abdallah El-Faouly is an archaeologist and the wife of Marc Spector. As Spector was missing for months, she discovered that he had dissociative identity disorder and encountered his Steven Grant alter. Together with Spector and Grant, El-Faouly took on a mission to stop Arthur Harrow and his followers from unleashing Ammit upon Earth, during which El-Faouly found out that Spector was present for her father’s murder. In the final battle against Ammit and Harrow, she made a deal with Taweret to be her Avatar and became Scarlet Scarab, fighting Harrow in Giza alongside Moon Knight and Mr. Knight.
(October, 2023)
“Layla” is a song written by Eric Clapton and Jim Gordon, originally recorded with their band Derek and the Dominos, as the thirteenth track from their only studio album, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (1970). Its contrasting movements were composed separately by Clapton and Gordon. The piano part has also been controversially credited to Rita Coolidge, Gordon’s girlfriend at the time.
The song was inspired by a love story that originated in 7th-century Arab literature and later formed the basis of The Story of Layla and Majnun by the 12th-century Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi, a copy of which Ian Dallas had given to Clapton. The book moved Clapton profoundly, because it was the tale of a young man who fell hopelessly in love with a beautiful young girl, went crazy and so could not marry her. The song was further inspired by Clapton’s secret love for Pattie Boyd, the wife of his friend and fellow musician George Harrison. After Harrison and Boyd divorced, Clapton and Boyd eventually married.
“Layla” has, since its release, experienced great critical and popular acclaim, and is often hailed as being among the greatest rock songs of all time. Two versions have achieved chart success, the first in 1972 and the second 20 years later as an acoustic Unplugged performance by Clapton. In 2004, “Layla” was ranked number 27 on Rolling Stone’s list of “The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time”, and the acoustic version won the 1993 Grammy Award for Best Rock Song.
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Guard Layla image is from Wizard101, and is copyright of KingsIsle Entertainment.
Layla Abdallah El-Faouly image is a screen shot from Marvel Studios Moon Knight it is borrowed from the MCU Wiki and is copyright Marvel Studios
Cover art from Moon Knight: City of the Dead #4 is borrowed from the Marvel Fandom wiki and is copyright Marvel Comics
Layla album art is borrowed from Wikipedia and is copyright Polydor, Atco records
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