<div class="floatright">(http://imgur.com/xVAIY.jpg)</div>Name: Eshi<br/>Race: Half-Elf (Human/Drow)<br/>Occupation: Theater performer/exotic dancer<br/>Class: Street Performer (Bard)<br/>Gender: Female<br/><br/>Please note: I haven't used the Advanced Player's Guide to convert this character over to Street Performer, so some class abilities will change when I do.<br/><br/>http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=231025 (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=231025)<br/><br/>Appearance:<br/>Her ashen skin is clean and youthful, her frame petite and lithe.  All these enhances the illusion that Eshi is to be overlooked, but quite the contrary.  She draws eyes through her fluid movements, her preternatural grace, her talent for dance that flows through every expression and gesture.  But in her eyes, beyond whatever diversion she's encountering, there's a constant, burning darkness... an isolation from all she sees, a kinship with the darkness at the fringes of the world.<br/><br/>Personality:<br/>Stage-dreams and spotlight fantasies have been crushed again and again for this young woman because of the prejudice she's faced as a half-drow.  She is most comfortable when wearing a mask or veiled from prying eyes by darkness, but she needs to perform-- it brings her great joy to perform, and to some degree she enjoys shocking, terrifying, or arousing her audience.  "Out of character", she's withdrawn, shy, curious and looking for acceptance.  "In character" she has no filter; she would do or say just about anything to make a performance powerful.  She has a mask collection, a blossoming knife fetish... she lives in the cellars of the theater, works taverns by night.<br/><br/>Traits:<br/>Eshi is shy in social situations except during performances, at which time she feels the 'void' of losing herself to the performance-- be it a dance, making love, a battle, a character-- that vacant emptiness and subjection to physicality beyond her control is relieving for her.  She's intelligent, and can be incredibly expressive, seeming to draw attention and dismiss it as the land draws and pushes away the tides.<br/><br/>Flaws:<br/>Eshi has lived with discrimination and objectification her whole life, and still suffers feelings of abandonment.  As such, she has a low self esteem and is prone to amoral behavior.  Likewise, she is succeptible to manipulation by those who would use this weakness to their advantage or who might manipulate this frailty.  She is not wise with finances, and she is flighty with her affections.<br/><br/>Goals and Dreams:<br/>-To find her niche; as a half-elf, she's incredibly adaptable in her personality, but as a result she has no real sense of self, home, or safety.<br/>-Escape poverty; she's been driven to terribly desperate acts by her need to survive.  The city's overabundance of exploitable poor has made competition high in the realms of performance-- and performers are looked down upon unless they're great.<br/>-To bring vengeance for the silenced; she's never gotten over some of the friends she's lost and the abuses she's suffered on the streets, and she hates the law, the church, the crime lords, the monsters-- all of the equally for allowing or perpetuating these injustices.<br/>-To understand her past; she speaks the languages she knew as a youth, and she reads the books she was found with as a pre-adolescent, but she has no memory of her childhood, parents-- any of it.<br/>-To shock the self-righteous; she believes in a truth that undercuts traditional art and beauty, for how can she have nothing to say only because of the race of one parent?  Yet she has been silenced, ignored, used... she wants to find others like herself, to gather them to her, and lead them into the darkness that flows beneath these streets so they may conquer it.<br/>-Long-term: Revolution; let the corrupt fail, let the rich shake in their beds, let the knights' armor be cook-pots and the churches be brothels, for the meek will inherit them when there is no more law.