Monster Name/ Limbani Ngozi, AKA "Once-Ate-A-Whole-Rhino"
Monster type/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werehyena
Appearance/ 
[url=http://www.hyaenidae.org/uploads/images/striped%20hyena%20pix/striped_hyaena.jpg]"The heck you looking at?"[/url]
[url=http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/56531000/jpg/_56531270_sunil-thakur-blacksmith-.jpg]"I live in a third world country, what's your excuse?"[/url]

Personality/ Limbani is a hyena. He's prone to sticking to his friends, laughs in the face of danger, and tends to respond to almost anything with "You gonna eat that?". 
Bio/ Limbani is from a village of Werehyenas in the African wilderness. Like most werehyenas, the citizens of this village are hyenas with the ability to assume human form to pursue jobs, study, or trade, rather than humans suffering from a curse. Limbani's not quite sure why he got the invitation. He's not even a real monster, in his opinion- just a sentient hyena wizard blacksmith. But in Somalia, you don't turn down an invitation that shows up on actual stationary.

In the time of Egypt, Rome, and as far back as there has been civilization, the people of Limbani's village were famed blacksmiths and wizards. Kings, nobles, saints, and heroes would travel from across Africa, Europe, and even Asia to seek a masterwork or enchantment from the hyenas. And then the modern age came and obsoleted most of the tribe's trade.

Limbani understands the fallen glory of his people, and accepts it. Thankfully, the superstitious nature of the Somalian people and the collapse of their government means that people still put stock in magic and smithing- it's not like there's a hardware store. Limbani's tribe is pretty well-off, all things considered. They actually have a regular supply of food (in corpses), raw materials (in melted down guns), and medicine (they're wizards with healing magic). The tribe has become highly respected, and truces with the local powerbrokers (read: anyone with three guys and a machine gun) have kept them out of the civil wars that rack their homeland. Because of this, Limbani's tribe gets to play Arms Dealer to every warring faction in Somalia. Granted, these weapons are usually magical swords and armor, but it's a living.

Other/ As a Werehyena, he is an incredibly talented wizard. Although the jobs are outdated in the modern age, he is a powerful magician, blacksmith, and woodcutter in his human form. Despite the name of his species, he is not actually a modern striped hyena, but rather a much larger species dating back to the ice age. He's roughly the size of a tiger, normally.