Name: Matias Quinn Age: 26 Appearance: Personality: Caring and kind. He refuses to kill anyone or any animal unless it is to spare it more suffering or in self defense, making it harder for him to get food, and making him a de facto vegetarian unless he finds an animal dieing. Bio: His mother, a charcoal maker, and his father, a hunter, raised him at the edge of the woods just outside of the village. When he was thirteen, however, bandits came and raided the village, and he saw his father die before him. While most people would turn to vengeance because of this, he came to hate death. Every time he saw an animal die, he remembered his father's final breath. He blamed himself, and the horror of that day stuck with him for the rest of his life. He helped his mother after that, taking over his father's work, though because he hated to see things die, he resorted to gathering and training animals to earn a living. He moved to the city when he turned eighteen, gathering and training animals in the woods and in the city. He has a pet wolf that he trained from a puppy. It is loyal to him, and knows several tricks. Skills: Good with a bow, though he uses it only in self defense. He is good at training animals, and knows much about the plants of the forest, including what's edible and which plants have medicinal properties. Equipment: Hunting longbow, hunting knife, quiver with 30 arrows, backpack with camping supplies, satchel with a mortar and pastel and medicinal herbs. What element will you be assigned to teach you balance?: Death Why did the monks assign you that element?: You must not fear death so much. Sometimes it is necessary. Even your wolf must kill in order to survive. --- His Mentor: Name: Che Farla Animal Name: The Snake Age: 34 Personality: Fun-loving. Loves to mess with people for the fun of it. Skills: "snake style" martial arts, which relies on quick strikes, often to nerve points. Gymnastics. Equipment: Black leather Darkness gauntlet, Black leather Water gauntlet, Black leather armor, two exotic fighting knives Magic type(s) used: Darkness (Master), Water (Adept)

Name: Evelina Inferno Age: 21 Appearance: Personality: Evelina is exactly like the element that was assigned to her. She is very hot headed and fiery, but she can be calm and collected if need be. She has a very short fuse when it comes to anger and she isn’t afraid to say her opinion of anyone on any subject. She tries to keep calm when she gets made, but if she becomes completely silent, you will need to run away. Fast. Bio: Evelina's infatuation with fire began back when she was only three years old. She lived just outside the village and they had a wood burning oven. She would sit in front of that oven every day and watch the fire dance and twist in front of her. Everything changed, though, when that oven caught fire in the middle of the night. Her house went up in flames rapidly, killing her two younger sisters and one of her older brothers. She has burns on her right hand from trying to pull free her family’s dog from the building, which she managed to do. After the house burnt down, Evelina didn’t see fire as beautiful anymore. She saw it as deadly and horrid. Her family began to rebuild the house, but she stayed away from the wood burning oven again. Skills: She is very good with knives. She is also good and close, hand to hand combat as well as acrobatics. She is athletic. She is also very good with children and loves to be around them. She is good at gardening as well, and also sword fighting. Equipment: She has a pair of double katanas that she got from her father when she was seventeen. She also has a backpack full of knives and survival supplies. She never feels like she needs a lot of stuff. What element will you be assigned to teach you balance?: Fire Why did the monks assign you that element? Fire does not only destroy, but it creates life as well. Look at the might redwood tree. If the fire does not kill the young plants around it, then the redwood would not have enough nutrients to grow big and strong. It would be contesting for the ground it feeds from. Name: Xrynn Riddle Animal Name: The Phoenix Age: 48 Personality: Very quiet, smart, elegant Skills: Very flexible, acrobatic for her age Equipment: Dark black and red robe, red gloves, and a knife Magic type(s) used: Fire (Master), Light and Life (Adept)

Name: Ariella Cryx Age: 19 Appearance: She stands 5'2" with an athletic build. Her finger tips are calloused from playing her lute. Personality: Ariella can’t trust people; everyone is perceived as trying to take advantage of her somehow. She sees no value in other people’s lives. The only thing that brings color into her life is art, specifically music. She realizes that she cannot avoid contact with people, but she tries to minimize any conversation if at all possible. She’s unafraid to be brutally honest as she sees no point in manners or consideration since she doesn’t expect anyone else to do the same for her. Bio: Ariella grew up a good child, one that tried her best for her troubadour mother. That was at least until a band of bandits assaulted the caravan and took her mother away along with other members of the caravan. At that point Ariella was twelve years old. Ariella never saw her mother again after that day. The caravan leader, after recovering the remains, continued onward to the next city bringing Ariella with them. However, he refused to truly take care of the girl and left her in the city before moving onto his next deal leaving behind Ariella’s mother’s instrument: a lute. Over time Ariella mastered how to survive on her own by stealing, playing music, and taking advantage of drunkards using their selfishness against them. Unfortunately, she never learned how to rely on someone else without taking advantage of them. Skills: She lacks any serious combat capabilities outside of an ability to throw objects quite accurately at a short distance. She knows how to play piano and lute. She has quite some talent with sleight of hand and lock-picking. Equipment: She has her mother's lute and a set of lock picks that she keeps hidden in a secret pocket in her belt pouch. What element will you be assigned to teach you balance? Life Why did the monks assign you that element? “You must learn to see the value of the lives of all beings not just yourself. Go, make some friends, then you can learn the true strength of life.”

Name: Moros Age: 19 Personality: Moros is always happy. However he seems to have a more sarcastically amused view of the world. While he's always laughing, but not with the world rather with it. He seems to view life as nothing more than a joke, nothing is important, after all nothing you do lasts for long anyway. Moros sees no point in lying and is often brutally honest, and pain simply amuses him. Chivalrous ideals are mocked and dismissed as meaningless. Moros obviously has problems sympathizing with anyone and has trouble understanding with strong emotions. Bio: Moros raised in what should have been a loving and caring environment. Yet despite his parents best attempt to care for him, he remained ever distant. He was one of this children that never cried, that never threw those temper tantrums so typical of children. As he grew up his distance from life became more prominent. His sarcasm and dark humor prevented him from making any friends and thus he grew up alone besides the attempts of his parents to teach him how to love. However his parents didn't know how bad it was until they learned of his habit of dissecting small helpless creatures. Immediately they forbid him from doing it and Moros of course complied if somewhat reluctantly for the first time showing anger rather than disdain for once. Out of desperation in an attempt to humanize him they sent him to the monks. Moros was fascainated by the magic that he saw being used there and asked if it would be possible for him to learn it. After going through testing to determine if he had the Will neccasary for it he was accepted and began training. Skills: Dancing, Piano, Cooking, Sarcasm. Equipment: Clothes What element will you be assigned to teach you balance?: Darkness Why did the monks assign you that element? One would think Darkness would make Moros's condition worse, however the monks believe in teaching him the frailty of life, and of him self, he will learn respect for it.