Thanja has proven a devoted member of the Assembly of the Black Lotus. Industrious and driven by knowledge. She has both participated in many bouts with fellow guild mates, as well as won the yearly tournament in First Landing. She has also investigated the Veiled Seekers and discovered much knowledge there, finding leads on some Rare "True Name" magic and learning many rituals.
She feels especially safe with Toma, and has latched on to him as her only friend for a while, but is slowly becoming more and more invested in those around her. Draco proved helpful in New Hezrath, and Swampy has taken some kind of interest in her, for better or worse. Also Stanelin seems sweet, and she trusts him more or less.
Overall she's finding a place here, and is finding many of the secrets beyond the portal to be tantalizing indeed.
Backstory:
Thanja was adopted as an infant by a young man and woman in a tight-knit community. Organized around the value of knowledge, learning, and magic, they lived in a commune, sharing all things in common, especially knowledge. They lived at peace with everyone they could, though the local magistrate would often make trouble for them.
Thanja was raised in an environment of learning, but for some reason, while the other children read books, she trained. Her swordmaster, a goblin named Krake, drilled her at arms, and rarely let up, but when he did, he would slip her books on magic (her favorite) and eventually arcane theory, recognizing a child who was good for more than her brawn.
Meanwhile the magistrate continued to hunt her family and had even executed some of them. They fell afoul for acquiring some scrolls and old tomes that the magistrate felt were too dangerous…but how could knowledge be dangerous? Knowledge was a good thing?
Thanja pondered these things and nursed her anger as her birthday approached. Born on the 13th of the month, her birthday was to be a special celebration. She had never had a birthday celebration before, but she longed for the streamers and cake and gifts that she had seen the other children receive.
Instead of gifts and cake, her parents, cultists of Abraxas, fused her with the blood of the demon lord, and in a foul ceremony, she was transformed into a teifling with blood red skin, small horns, and powerful, cloven-hooved legs, and a powerfully awakened mind.
Then, they put their plan into action. Stoked by fear, and the lives of her friends that had been taken, Thanja was unleashed in the magistrates palace, with the cultists ravaging, murdering and pillaging any they came across. It horrified Thanja, and as she witnessed the horrors, she had a revelation. These people, this family, was anything but. She turned on them, fought, broke the back of their assault, then ran, pursued by both sides, harried all the way to the new world.