"I wound up in Katapesh by pure chance. I was planning to sail further, but seasickness had overtaken me. Kata

"I wound up in Katapesh by pure chance. I was planning to sail further, but seasickness had overtaken me. Katapesh is an amazing place, but I had little chance to enjoy it. In the heat of an argument, my then-sweetheart decided to teach me a lesson, so she drugged me and sold me to a traveling nightmare circus. There I earned my keep as a sword-swallower – and the crowd was just crazy about me! And it wasn't such a hard a job to learn."