<div class="floatleft">(http://img05.deviantart.net/4b87/i/2003/39/8/6/ponder_stibbons.jpg)<br/></div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;">Bryce Barrett</span><br/>12 Spell Sage Wizard, eclectic magician and magical gadgeteer<br/>Mythweavers Sheet (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=773594)<br/>Spellbook (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/cxxo1jp4pzw1wj9/Wizard%20Spells.html?dl=0)<br/><br/><strong>Description:</strong>Bryce is often described using words like lanky or gangly, but easy on the eyes if you're into that sort of thing. People sometimes mistake him for being a lot younger than he actually is. He wears glasses with round frames. Some of his short, messy brown hair sticks out from under his pointy green hat. He usually wears a simple robe and trousers as well. He's content with his appearance for the most part, but will occasionally use different ones. Sometimes he'd make himself look older, stockier and bearded, e.g. when greeting customers (he was tired of being asked to 'fetch his master'). He would also make himself more conventionally attractive before visiting bars and other such places (or using mind reading magic to find out what any particular woman looked for and coming back looking like that). He'd also use magic to help him live up to his appearances and give him some extra confidence.<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Bryce is quite cheerful and amiable. Despite spending most of his time with his nose in a book or hammering away on some magical item, he's not completely socially inept (though he does get daily practice with his assistant, a talking mongoose). While he doesn't go out of his way to help every person he sees, he does greatly enjoy seeing anything he made being put to good use. The Fountain of Endless Water that he had convinced a town's decision makers into commissioning was one such thing that he was particularly proud of.<br/><br/><strong>Background:</strong>Bryce's parents and siblings are all wizards and proud of it. He loved magic as much as any of them did and eagerly accepted their lessons, but he was more interested in using it to make things than in casting spells. Wanting him to learn what he loved, his parents convinced a distant relative to take over his tuition. He was surprised to learn that his great, great, great aunt, was, Agna Thistlerock, a well renowned Dwarf Wizard who had forged the equipment of many a great hero. She took him in as an apprentice and he was an eager pupil. At least at first. One day, he met a beautiful young woman who he instantly fell for. He started to spend more time with her. She was a druid who kept urging him to shirk his lessons and duties to spend time frolicking with her in the wilds. He did so. However, he did manage to learn a few things about nature magic from her. Eventually, she grew tired of him, and moved on to someone else. He was still in love with her and wanted her back. In an attempt to make himself more desirable, he joined a bard's college. While he turned out to be rubbish at any form of music, he did manage to learn a few things about talking to people and quite a bit about bardic magic by the time he was expelled. He tried to win back his old flame with his new found knowledge, but she turned him down. She had already gotten engaged to her new beau. At that point, he gave up on love. Frustrated, Bryce turned to religion. He was taken in by a temple to Nethys, where he picked up some of the workings of divine magic. He tried to forget about his feelings and focus on what the followers of Nethys said was most important. Magic. But there was more to magic than what Wizards could do. The only good thing about his more recent experiences was that he had picked up quite a bit of knowledge about some of them. He meditated long and hard and discovered a slow, roundabout but fully functional way to use those forms of magic. Eventually, he started to miss his aunt and her lessons on making magical items. He left the temple on good terms with the clergy there. Agna chewed him out for a while, but got around to forgiving him and took him in again. He spent the next few years learning, crafting and occasionally visiting the friends he made at the college and the temple. Once he felt like he had learned enough, he bade his aunt farewell and left to start his own business.