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Name: Aquiet Erthas Age: 16 Gender: Female Appearance: Her blonde hair juts out like a sore thumb in a crowd of brown-haired civilians. From the crown of her head, her hair parts in the middle into two distinct cascades of light caramel progressing into gold, and they border a soft face gently curving into a distinct jaw as they flow to just above her elbows and the middle of her back. Aquiet's dark blue and gray eyes break the harmony of her hair and her warm beige skin. Unlike her stout father, Aquiet is taller than most girls her age, for she stands six feet and weighs 124 pounds with a short waist and long legs and a figure much like a vase of slightly-thickened clay. Often Aquiet wears a long, flowing, white sundress with a blue sash tied at her waist behind her back and embroidered yellow patterns of flowers and stars. Her appearance greatly reflects her status as the heiress to Theris's throne and the beauty of the town's eye. Reference picture. Personality: Aquiet is dauntless and wild. She jumps at opportunities and challenges. Her untameable spirit leads her to places where her thoughts are free, often away from the bustle of the town; nevertheless, Aquiet enjoys a good time spent among people as a sociable individual. Although some adults may consider Aquiet naive and flighty, she keeps fairly good track of her responsibilities and remains one of the smarter children at her age. However gentle and wise Aquiet may be, she still holds grudges and reservations about human nature and some other people who get on the wrong side of her. Sometimes her sharp and daring tongue gets the better of her and causes trouble when she finds herself making crass statements of her analyses of others. This stubborness and lack of sensitivity can injure her relationships every now and then. Often Aquiet may misunderstand people, and she has a complicated and secretive personality that can be cumbersome to deal with. Biography: Aquiet was born to the chief of Theris. Growing up, she was just like any ordinary child—curious, wanting, and wishful—, and in some ways, she maintained that childish nature of innocence and searching. Her mother introduced her to many of her talents: cooking, sewing, painting, and drawing. Aquiet took well to those activities, and they became her sharpest skills that dazzled her admirers and stumped her competition. Her father, the chief, loved his daughter greatly and had the highest hopes for her future; he had to trust her to put the future of Theris into good hands. Aquiet's parents pushed her frequently to boys they saw fit for leading the land and taking their daughter, but Aquiet seemed to turn her suitors away. She stubbornly sought to free herself from an arranged marriage and detested any effort to bind her to a man she couldn't be happy with. As she approached womanhood, she clung to the idea of an outside world that came to her in a dream once, a vision her parents and the elders denied time and time again and found silly and blasphemous. Her parents now advanced to the possibility of an arranged marriage to guarantee the order and rule of the family line; to them, it was their only hope, but Aquiet still sought wonders beyond the desert sands.

Name: Ishan Salil Age: 17 Gender: Male Appearance: Ishan stands at 6'3 with short, curly black hair, amber eyes, and midtone brown skin reminiscent of coffee mixed with a dollop of milk. He has a lithe muscular frame, his arms slightly longer than normal which are met with large hands and long fingers. Behind his mask is a smiling face with an upturned aristocratic nose, with his right eyebrow split in two from a scar he received as a boy. The soles of his feet are dark and firm, tempered by years of walking barefoot in the scalding summer sands. Isham day to day would wear a long robe that concealed him down to his ankles. Before his imprisonment he was wearing the ceremonial garb of his family's heretical religion which consisted of a mask made from the bark of the palms and a skirt of the palms' fronds, bound by leather straps. Reference Personality: "Violence is a tool meant only to defend the lives of those I love." -Ishan Salil "I love all of my brothers and sisters who walk these lands." -Ishan Salil Ishan lives a life of pacifism, refusing to strike someone who would do him harm, only willing to raise his fist in defense of those who cannot defend themselves. He will show love and compassion to every person he meets, including those that have slighted him in the past. He is a calm spirit, quick to act once he has decided his feelings on a matter. His levelheadedness is only matched by his stubbornness. He will take time deciding, but once he has, he dedicates himself to that decision with all of his heart. Biography: A mother knows something is horribly wrong when I child emerges without a cry. Isham was born deaf and mute. His handicap, a death sentence to members of the poorest class, was only a hindrance as his family had the wealth to find those that could help their deaf son become a functioning member of society. By the time he was of schooling age he could read lips, write, read, perform sign language, and speak (with little grace). On Isham's 11th birthday his father, Zayn, took him to a hidden cellar beneath their home. Its walls were lined with shelves of books, many in a language Isham had never before read. The wall farthest from the door held a simple shrine to the moon, a long curved blade sitting at the base of the shrine, two burning pots of coals sizzling at both sides. His father instructed him to watch his lips and learn the words he spoke. Flames licked his fathers fingertips as his father whispered prayer to the goddess of the moon, giving him his first taste of magic. He ceased going to school the following year, Zayn opting to teach him of their family secrets which was much more important a tradition to keep alive than a simple education. Four years into his education Zayn and Isham were finally caught sneaking into the hidden room during the dead of night where an investigation was launched and their hidden shrine was discovered. The two were dragged through the city in their shamanistic garbs of masks made from the bark of palm trees and skirts made of palm trees, bound by leather bands with inscripted stones tied to the belt. Zayn faced execution on their first night, while Isham's execution has yet to come. Isham has come to accept his fate, dwelling on the final words of his father, "Those who would kill us for what we know do not deserve to see what we're capable of."

Name: H'yo Sahriin Age: 17 Gender: M Appearance: H'yo has relatively pale skin, with a tan "mask" across his green eyes. His solid-colored black hair is too thick to style, so he generally has to keep it somewhat messy. His "shirt" is really just an extremely long piece of navy-blue cloth wrapped snug around his body, loosening into something similar to bell sleeves. The excess goes around his head and neck, forming a scarf of sorts. His pants are fairly normal, and are made out of tan canvas. H'yo stands at 5'11" and weighs about 136 pounds. Despite being relatively well-built, his slender frame makes him seem thinner than he actually is. A length of chain is wrapped around his waist, like a belt. Personality: Despite his incredibly apathetic appearance and serious personality, H'yo has a surprising range of emotions. He's protective of people that he considers a "friend", which is a rather broad area, as it extends to people that have merely shown kindness to him. However, to those that he's actually very close to, his protectiveness turns into intense possessiveness; though it doesn't show through his apathetic mask, simply talking to the person in question agitates him immensely. H'yo has a tendency to self-righteously use his protective nature as an excuse to hurt someone. He speaks in a polite manner, even when he's intentionally being rude. His objectivity gives him a strong believe in honesty, but tends to be roundabout when pointing out other's flaws. Biography: The Sahriin family was a long line of bodyguards that had several ties with important figures. However, their prestige had suddenly fallen after the discovery of their worship of the moon, where they continued in a downward spiral towards the bottom of the social ladder. But during the thirty-fourth generation, their fame once again rose when H'yo's great great grandfather defended a group of wealthy people from thieves. Rapidly their influence increased, eventually surpassing even the original peak of their name's power with H'yo's father, who was chosen to be one of the chief's personal guard. While H'yo grew up, he was raised with the intent of him eventually taking his father's position. Too young to change the decision, he took strenuous mental training that slowly faded away his amiable personality. He did, however, manage to keep a scrap of it; his protective/possessive nature was unintentionally born from his clinginess to others, and that clinginess developed into it from his mother's words: "Make them important to you, and protect them because they are." After a year of working with various clients, a rumor has begun floating around that the chief was considering him to protect his daughter....

Name: Elora Hashar Age: 16 Gender: Female Appearance: Elora has an athletic but very light, build, and stands a head shorter than most people. Her skin is tanned, and her brown eyes go along with her unkempt, shoulder-lenght dark-brown hair. She dresses in a red halter top and red skirt that goes down to her knees. Her clothes are worn and used, with a couple of spots hastily stitched back together and the color starting to fade into brown. She carries a pouch around her waist that she uses for holding onto small items. Personality: Elora is a cautious person, tending to keep her distance from others out of a fear of being hurt. However, she is also quick to action, and not afraid to speak her opinions. She tends to be rude to others, but also has a rarely-seen soft side. She has trouble trusting others, and these trust issues lead her to acting on her own most of the time, not caring what others think. Biography: Born into a poor family, Elora had to struggle for most of her early life for survival on the streets. After her mother died and her father disappeared while she was 9, Elora felt that she was abandoned. However, she was determined not to die, and made a vow to meet her father again and exact her revenge upon him. She started stealing food out of desperation, and she realized she had a talent in stealth, soon able to even pick pockets without being detected. She was also able to use her agility to her advantage and escaped from adults who found her out. Though she had the means to pull off more impressive thievery, she only used her abilities to survive the next day as she roamed the streets alone.