The Hourparty

**The Hourparty**, formally known as **The Alam-Reth Guild**, is the current group that makes up the figureheads that protect Alam-Reth. While the city possesses soldiers that guard its borders and serves its people, The Hourparty are historical figures, important relics, and folk heroes amongst the population, known for their incredible acts and importance to the city as a whole. When the cloaked specter Eschaton wages a widescale attack on the city, they are the only ones capable of stopping him.

## Members

### The Bookkeeper

The librarian of the guild, The Bookkeeper is a mysterious figure who has appeared throughout history in various times and places, always retaining the same appearance regardless. He has however settled into a role of serving the guild as an organizer of the literature and historical documents they possessed, serving on and off for centuries. He is a kindly man with great passion for preserving and teaching knowledge, happy to share his collection of books with the young who wish to learn. He should not be underestimated in combat however, as his great library of tomes and expansive experience with the arcane makes him a mage matched by few others, having an incredible variety of spells at his disposal.

### Naoi

An artifact recovered by the guild, Naoi is a gargoyle who was crafted by the city's league of architects several centuries ago during the city's age of advancement. Gargoyles of her kind were finely crafted and imbued with druidic magic, making them loyal and powerful protectors, eventually also being granted intelligence and emotions. A great cataclysm occurred hundreds of years ago however, resulting in the destruction and cease of production of all Gargoyles in the city, leaving Naoi as the only one who remained hidden for ages. Recently uncovered, she's a cheerful girl with great love for her home, if not a little naïve to things. Her powers grant her great shape shifting, and control over both earth and wind.

### Argerax the Wild Hunter

A wanderer who has long aided the guild, Argerax is an illusive Firbolg hailing from the Fey Wild, a figure who has gained a mythical status throughout the Iron Circle for his countless rescues of those stranded in the desert with little hope of surviving otherwise. While he has aided the people of the area for centuries, if not millennia, he has only recently formally aligned himself with them. He possesses an imposing stature and possesses monstrous strength, but is actually quite gentle and stoic, only resorting to violence when necessary. In addition to his combative prowess, he possesses mystical abilities that aid him in navigation and survival by using the surrounding environment and forces of nature.

### Ozzy Alighull

A musician revered and adored citywide, Ozzy Alighull is a performer at heart. A bard born and raised within the city, Ozzy is a down to earth and open hearted fellow. Good intentioned, if not a bit dim witted, he has done a great amount of service doing the little things in the town, helping those who need an extra hand and allowing everyone to have a better time. Ozzy has an adopted daughter whom he named Pidgeon, who was obtained as an egg by bandits several years ago. Now that Pidgeon has grown to maturity and is off on her own, Ozzy has made a great career as both famous musician and eventually guild member. Always the entertainer, Ozzy has many staple abilities of a bard, plus skill with dual scimitars.

### Donex the Boltjaw

An inventor who had gained large notoriety throughout the years, Donex is an outsider least familiar with the city out of the guild members. He had found himself living in the city after he was viciously attacked in the desert by a certain dragonborn. Despite being left mutilated, he crafted an uncanny weapon from a chain and beartrap in scavenged supplies to survive the wilderness, surviving long enough to be rescued and brought to the city where he lives as an inventor. Despite the ordeal, Donex has maintained an upbeat and energetic personality, eventually crafting new body parts and improving his invented Beartrap design into an incredibly unorthodox weapon with an equally unusual fighting style to go with it.