As the group prepares to go, a new voice speaks up,   a low, deep male voice that offers in common.  "I have listened to your plans, and shall aid you in your quest. There are many things I can provide to aid you."   The voice is coming from...the table?      It continues. "I can be called Sinthorn,  and I can aid you in many ways. For now I shall guard you in battle,  until I see a place where I may be of more service.   I suggest you remove anything from my surface that you wish to keep."   A brief pause, giving them time to do so, or react in other ways...and then the table morphs before everyone's eyes, turning into a eight foot tall alabaster, androgynous figure,  almost a living statue to the eyes.  No clothing adorns its form.  Once more the same low male voice speaks.   "If we are about to leave,  I shall make my final preperations", apparently assuming that his offer to aid will be accepted.<br/><br/>---------------------------------------------------------------------------<br/>To Eoa's arcane sight, the table itself has a transmutation aura, perhaps unnoticed due to all the other things present for her eyes (Sorry for forcing a miss on that, but the intro was just too cool to pass up, and I didn't notice the arcane sight until I was at the end of the danged post).   Once it reforms into the human, it proves to have both a moderately powerful trasformation aura,  and a less powerful one of some illusion effect.   Any sense motive/truth detecting will show that he/it's being perfectly truthful in all that it has said.  Anyone who touches him in the new statue form, make a Will save (DC 13,  illusion/glammer/sepll based) to discover that his current appearance is an illusion, underneath it he's wearing the form of a War Troll (MM III p181),  said troll being dressed in a variety of equipment. (Details on my character sheet, updating it so some of it's not quite accurate as of this second)