Jack

Synopsis
Jack is a gnoll ranger and outlander, who specializes in wilderness survival and escorting travelers. He is practical, reserve, and impassive, but also helpful and cooperative.

Physical Description
Jack is appreciably taller than an average human, standing over seven feet tall; however, he is somewhat smaller than the average gnoll. He has spotted tan fur and bright green eyes.

Notable Equipment & Belongings
Jack wields a very large khopesh in battle. He also carries a very large trunk on his back, which he keeps nearby most of the time. He is well-outfitted for wilderness survival.

Jack has revealed that his trunk contains some illicit substances and magical contraband, which he is smuggling for pay. He has also revealed that the trunk has a secret compartment, which contains a powerful source of magic that he uses to fuel his magic abilities.

Strengths & Capabilities
Jack has demonstrated prowess in close-quarters combat with his khopesh.

Jack has also demonstrated the ability to manipulate magic effects in the world around him. He insists that he is incapable of performing magic on his own, and that all of the magical effects that the party has seen him produce are actually coming from the magical power source in his trunk, and that he just manipulates them. He has demonstrated his ability to manipulate existing magic in other ways as well, including the closing of a large elemental nexus.

Frog
Jack has been working as a hired bodyguard for Frog for an unknown amount of time prior to the campaign. His attitude toward Frog seems to be professional and formal, although Frog has insinuates some more personal feelings towards Jack.

Harper Wood
Harper Wood seems to have a particular affinity towards Jack, seemingly based on their mutual distrust for magic regulation, and past violent confrontations with magic enforcers.

Malkoth
Jack has, on a few occasions, expressed kinship with Malkoth based on his uncontrolled magic abilities, and offered to help him try to tame them.

Pepper
Jack has been secretly transporting a young gnoll named Pepper, ostensibly for his own safety. He claims that Pepper's mother is not around, and that Pepper is not his child.

Story
Jack has explained that he grew up somewhere in the northern part of Materi, and spent a number of years in the Taruki Jungle before coming to the Alviren Empire. During his time in the north, he has had a number of violent confrontations with individuals claiming to be representatives of the Weavers Conclave.

Jack has also told the party that he is smuggling a Lorekeeper Orb to Paxeter for pay, on behalf of the Free Arcanists Lodge. He has also revealed to a few party members that he has been secretly transporting a young gnoll named Pepper.