Hokas Tokas is the senior resident wizard at the Main Hall of the Guild of Free Adventurers in the city of Evenhold, a position he's held for so long that he's considered an institution. He shares insights and wisdom with the guild council, helps protect the guild from threats, and (for a fee) offers spellcraft lessons to members. He also operates a small shop in the central chamber where he sells magic-related supplies and material components.
Born in 1111 YA to a healer mother and nobleman father, Hoakindor and his twin brother both showed aptitude for magic at a very early age and were accepted into the prestigious Dark Spire school of sorcery in Lindomshire. There the brothers received the nicknames "Hokas and Pokas" for the tricks they'd perform to amuse their friends. The tricks tended to be familiar ones that anyone could achieve through simple sleight-of-hand, but the brothers — Hokas in particular — delighted in accomplishing them instead with highly sophisticated sorcery. An anecdote told in the Main Hall is that the young Hokas once produced a rabbit from a seemingly empty hat by magically recorporealizing it from a bone hidden in the lining.
Though a remarkably powerful and experienced wizard, Hokas is more down-to-earth than most other senior sorcerers, whom he often considers stuffy and arrogant. He mingles freely with the adventurers in the hall and can often be found drinking with them at the bar.
Hokas has a full, white beard and piercing violet eyes. He usually wears a pointed cap and is clad in a blue gown over which he wears his baldric and sword, which he prefers to the more usual wizard's staff. When necessary he can act with a speed and vigor that belies his seemingly advanced years.
