Varg is a lanky, grey-furred bugbear with unnaturally long arms that hang nearly to his ankles. He wears charcoal-colored tunics and a heavy, shadowed cowl that hides his bestial features. Across his back, a short, heavy, single-edged blade made of non-reflective black iron is held in a simple leather harness.

Varg is quiet and observant, often staying in the corners of rooms where the light is dimmest. He speaks with a low, raspy whisper that carries a strange, hollow echo as if his voice is traveling from another plane. He prefers the cold over the sun and treats silence as a holy state.

Varg was born in a cavern where the Shadowfell leaks into the Material Plane. This proximity to the void seeped into his bones, elongating his limbs and granting him a strange affinity for the dark. His kin saw him as a cursed omen and sold him to a network of black-market information brokers. It was here that he learned to turn his monstrous physiology into an asset of stealth and violence. Eventually, Varg encountered a hermit from the Way of Shadow, a master who recognized that the bugbear's soul was already partially tethered to the darkness. Under the master's tutelage, Varg learned to harness the necrotic energy in his blood, transforming it into the focus required for monastic arts. He now travels as a freelance operative, a 'striker' for those who need problems to vanish into the night without a trace.