Arlo Lightfoot

Lightfoot Travelling Circus

Proprietors – Jory and Arria Lightfoot [Arlo’s adoptive father and mother] [humans]

The Troupe

Arlo Lightfoot – Trapeze

Rika Tilswood (human female) – Trapeze

Thakan “Stonefist” Kathaganu – Feats of strength (Goliath male)

Buckles and Pockets Von Moxley aka The Incredible Tumbling Twins – Acrobats/tumbling/juggling (Forest Gnome twins: Buckles = male, Pockets = female)

Gorod the Undefeatable – Catch wrestler/shoot fighter, took on beasts and members of the public. Taught Arlo how to fight. (Male half-orc)

“The Astounding” Aifé* Brighteye – Impalement arts (archery/knife throwing/crossbow/whip tricks) (female half-elf) *pronounced eef-a

The Clowns

Blinker and Anvil – Both human males: Arlo never learned their true names as they rarely socialised with the rest of the troupe. Great at entertaining the audience but made the rest of the troupe uncomfortable to be around; Jory and Arria either didn’t (or couldn’t) notice this.

Background

Arlo was adopted into the Lightfoot Travelling Circus from a young age. Jory and Arria were both talented acrobats and trapeze artists in their youth and were well renowned enough to be able to use their name as an attraction. They found Arlo on their travels as the sole survivor of a Kobold raid on a small settlement near the eastern base of the Hawkwind Mountains and took him in. Alongside his parents, the troupe also helped raise and educate him. Before he learned the trapeze, he was considered the troupe’s mascot and helped warm up the crowd with tumbling japes of his own. At about the age of 14, he learned the trapeze alongside Rika Tilswood (a young runaway who tried to pick the pockets of Aifé one evening, got caught and the troupe admired her grit so much they decided to teach her the ways of the circus). Rika and Arlo were childhood rivals, never quite besting each other but following an accident that nearly resulted in both of them being killed through their own stupidity became firm friends and partners in crime. They used to play pranks on the rest of the troupe (one particular favourite was stealing Gorod’s clothes so he ended up wandering around in his full ring gear (small shorts and a pair of tanned leather boots) until they ended up giving in through fits of laughter.

Following his attack by Blinker and Anvil over pay (in which Rika was also beaten bloody, Pockets and Buckles were almost killed), the clowns disappeared before Gorod and Thakan arrived. Arlo left the Lightfoot Travelling Circus shortly after in search of them, leaving behind the only family he ever knew in search of these two clowns. He had a feeling that there was something foreboding about