Cristoban Theater

Cristoban Theater is a popular tourist destination in the city of Pandeli, Kepia. The theater is a well known area famous for its bi-weekly performance festivals, and is located along Pandeli's main street known as the Seaside Promenade.

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## Performance Festivals

Performance festivals refer to bi-weekly performances held at Cristoban Theater at night after working hours. The festivals have no specific focus regarding what is performed, and will include a wide variety of performing arts and styles on any given night.

Although not a match for Kepia's most well known performance halls, Cristoban Theater is prominent enough that many view it to be a starting point for a performing art career. A number of regulars at the theater are well known individuals in the arts world, and regularly scout for talent during the festivals. Amateur entertainers will often flock to Pandeli during the festivals in an attempt to jump start their careers.

## Kepia-Fikiri Conflict and KUI Displacement

The Kepia-Fikiri conflict has recently seen Fikiri initiate a hostile takeover of the northern parts of Step-Valley Gulch, including the territory surrounding the Kepian University of the Interior. Though Fikiri has never been actively hostile to the university, the fighting in the area has made it extremely unsafe to live in, thus forcing a large number of faculty and students to become displaced. Though many of the students simply returned to their homes, the same can't be said of the faculty, as many of them reside at the university.

Though technically considered displaced refugees, KUI faculty members are generally famous enough in the academic world that most have had no trouble in setting up elsewhere in the Kepian continent. A number of these individuals have made their way to Pandeli, and have since then been sharing Cristoban Theater with its resident performers, using it as a lecture hall on off days.

Off the displaced KUI faculty and students, the five most well known are:

Gibet Tudor, alchemy professor and specialist in plants growing in the Kepian Jure forests

Kloanoa, alchemist and KUI intern well known for her documentation work on The Catalog

Milan Lidergern, history professor that studies the Lost Century.

Phrisius Adlos, alchemy professor and specialist in medicinal brewing

Sazaban Lindelt, contemporary history professor who studies Kepia's foreign relations, especially with Leandoros.

Although the theater is technically supposed to be shared between the performers and lecturers, the government has over time begun to shift more in favor of the KUI members, giving them more and more lecture days. This is created a job crisis of sorts for the performers, as though they can still earn money performing on the streets, the profits are significantly lower than what they would earn performing at the theater, and definitely not enough to live on.

The tension between performers and lecturers has recently reached a peak, and many theater members have started to protest the favoritism granted to the KUI lecturers. The apparent leader and organizer of these protests is a performance troupe called the Grand Musical.