Old Man Karl, Circus Performer
Karl (a.k.a. Old Man Karl)
Old Man Karl provides children's entertainment in the open air or in a small tent usually only installed for larger cities and dedicated to children shows. He creatively uses his knowledge of wizardcraft to dazzle and delight onlookers. Weaving a myriad of cantrips, Karl re-enacts fables and stories using the smoke from a smoldering brazier, makes illusionary fairies and creatures flitter about the audience and dance to funny music, causes hair to sprout from his ears uncontrollably and makes his pet robin talk (usually to correct him).
Karl is very bright and always smiling. Those who know him might suggest that Karl is much more powerful than he lets on, though they themselves have never seen him do more than his performance. But he does it so well, he must have more up his sleeve!
In his act, Karl plays the part of a dottering old geezer who unwittingly causes the magic about him to happen. He always opens by wobbling out on his cane and introducing himself as MISTER Karl. The children respond with calls of "Old Man Karl! Old Man Karl!" (If they don't, some of the children who work at the circus are always there to start the cries and thus encourage the actual audience to participate and be vocal during the whole act.) Karl feigns being aggravated, waving his cane about and insisting he's not old until a robin flies onto the scene to land on the uplifted cane or directly on his head. "Calm down....Old Man!" the robin sings. This is followed by Karl agitating the cane to unsuccessfully try to remove the bird, sparks and plumes of color spewing forth with each shake of the stick. And so the act continues, with Karl playing the geezer with the bird chiding him and encouraging the audience to do the same. At the end of the act, Karl shows his true self, bowing deeply, smiling broadly and showering the children with candies which magically float down from above.
Alignment
Neutral Good
Current Location
Ethnicity
Children
Gender
Male
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