Soupe

A troubled gnome, born with uncontrollable arcane powers. He sought relief from the negative effects of these forces through religions of the world and has taken to wearing protective charms of different gods and saints. After finding no relief in religion, he found solace in booze.

The Clever Doe
After giving up on his god-seeking, he bounced around inns and taverns drinking up what he could afford, attempting to be as inactive as possible as to not agitate his magical tendencies. Eventually, in a seaside bar in the Links, the captain of the Clever Doe, a nimble transport ship, found Soupe and extracted Soupe's history from him with strategically timed gifts of ale. He hired Soupe as protection for the ship, should any large, unforeseeable danger fall upon it as it traveled the seas between the Links and Noct.

Though the captain's intuition was correct, that what was causing ships to disappear in the Calaxian Ocean was of supernatural origin. Soupe's efforts, in combination with his new cabin-mate, Dœrëo, was not enough. The Psion of Silence took over the minds of the crew and directed the ship to Hobbsmouth. There, Soupe was groomed as a new member of the psionicaly-charged cult town, though his latent magic fought against the mental parasite inside him.