Manad

Manad is a werepanther orc member of the Gorgynei. As an NPC, he is played by Matthew Mercer.

Description
Manad is an orcish man. He is skinny and gray-skinned, and has long, tangled hair and a goatee. He is cursed with the werepanther form of lycanthropy. In his hybrid form, he is fairly thin, with one milky eye and one green eye. He wore dark brown hunting leathers, and carried two shortswords. He has a crooked grin in his panther form.

Personality
Manad is affable and friendly towards Laudna when she rode him to Barinak, telling her that he both kind of hates and loves her Form of Dread. He kept an eye on Fearne when he realized she was intoxicated after eating a mushroom in the jungle, and was embarrassed by her flirting with him.

Campaign 3: Bells Hells
Manad was among the Gorgynei who answered Chetney's howl in the Gloomed Jungles. Laudna chose to ride him back to Barinak, saying that he matched her aesthetic. Back at the village, he then transformed into his orcish form. He later interrupted Tarad Cornei's conversation with Bells Hells on Annaline's behalf so that she could speak to Chetney, and went to patrol the border of the village.

The next day, he joined the group of Gorgynei who escorted Bells Hells to Zha'Vrollo, and was the one who explained the nature of the trial to them.

Notable items
Two shortswords

Abilities
Manad's level is unknown, but given that he is capable of hybrid form, he presumably has at least three levels of blood hunter, which would give him at minimum the following abilities:


 * Hunter's Bane (Hemocraft die: at least 1d4)
 * Blood Maledict (1 blood curse known)
 * Fighting Style: Two-Weapon Fighting
 * Crimson Rite (2 known)
 * Blood Hunter Order: Order of the Lycan
 * Heightened Senses
 * Hybrid Transformation

Appearances and mentions

 * Campaign 3: Bells Hells

Trivia

 * Drizzt Do'Urden, a protagonist in a series of official D&D novels in the Forgotten Realms setting, was a ranger who fought with two swords and had a black panther companion. Manad is himself a black panther who fights with two swords.