Mannus & Marlow Investigations — DML Licensed · Est. 2021

Personnel Registry

Licensed. Bonded. Discreet. Results not guaranteed — but probable.

Principal Investigators
Hari Mannus
DML License Verified · #MCU-0047-BOS
Hari Mannus
Co-Founder & Principal Investigator | DML Deputy Contractor | Post-Merge Rift Crimes & Occult Recovery Specialist
📍 New York, NY · Greater Metro Area · Open to: High-Stakes Referrals
About
Twenty-plus years in law enforcement and field medicine across two separate world-ending events. Co-founded Mannus & Marlow Investigations in 2021 following a decade with the Boston Police Department Magical Crimes Unit. MMI holds active DML deputy contractor status for the New York metropolitan rift corridor.
Specializations include rift-related disappearances, entity containment consultation, and client-facing crisis management in high-exposure magical incidents. Combat triage certified. Still carries the kit.
Skills & Endorsements
Rift Containment Divine Aptitude (Unlicensed) Combat Medicine Occult Evidence Collection Bureaucratic Navigation Client De-escalation Entity Identification
🏛 DML Deputy Contractor · New York Rift Corridor ✓ VERIFIED
500+ connections · 12 mutual
Elena Marlow
DML License Verified · #MCU-0048-BOS
Elena Marlow
Co-Founder & Senior Investigator | DML Deputy Contractor | Vardunian Arcane Systems · Post-Merge Urban Occultism
📍 New York, NY · Originally: Vardune (Forested Northern Region) · Relocated: 1992
About
Arcane specialist and co-founder of Mannus & Marlow Investigations. Fifteen years with the Boston PD Magical Crimes Unit prior to MMI's founding. Firsthand knowledge of pre-Cataclysm Vardunian magical systems — one of a small number of practitioners in the Northeast with direct cross-world arcane experience.
Areas of focus: rift-origin entity behavior, arcane forensics, cross-dimensional object provenance, and whatever Hari walks into before she can stop him.
Skills & Endorsements
Sorcery (Natural Origin) Vardunian Arcane Theory Arcane Forensics Rift-Entity Behavioral Analysis Cross-Dimensional Provenance Close-Quarters Spellwork Sarcasm (Passive · Involuntary)
🏛 DML Deputy Contractor · New York Rift Corridor ✓ VERIFIED
500+ connections · 12 mutual
Support Staff
Sqounk
Subject photographed on premises. He asked us not to. — Ed.
The Spillway Courier · Vol. 34, No. 7 Page 6 · Local Interest
IMP RUNS MIDTOWN INVESTIGATION FIRM — "VOLUNTARILY," HE INSISTS
The helpful backbone, you illiterate hack —S office manager of Mannus & Marlow says the job is going fine.

Sources close to the Mannus & Marlow Investigations front desk confirm that one Sqounk "Sqounk." Just Sqounk. It's not complicated. —S, imp, has been managing day-to-day operations for the licensed magical investigations firm since its 2021 founding — handling client intake, case filing, interdepartmental communications, and what one source described only as "the printer situation."

The assistant OFFICE MANAGER —S declined repeated requests for comment, except to note that the sign on the door reads "Marlowe" due to a vendor error that, quote, "management has shown a criminal lack of urgency in addressing."

Colleagues describe the imp as agreeable correct. —S and easygoing also correct. —S, with a particular talent for client-facing communications. I have NEVER been described as easygoing. I will be filing a correction. —S

When asked about the BREAK ROOM INCIDENT OF MARCH 2024, the subject knocked our recorder off the desk and asked us to leave.

"Another day. Another infringement."

— Sqounk, Office Manager, Mannus & Marlow Investigations. Accurate. —S
Field Dossiers

Active Field Operatives

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MMI-FIELD-001 · ACTIVE
Identity
Thornclaw Goldfish
MMI-FIELD-002 · ACTIVE
Identity
Dante Cheeks
MMI-FIELD-003 · ACTIVE
Identity
Sheridan Cross

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Persons of Interest

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Madam Vale
⚠ Person of Interest
Madam Vale
The Landlady · Dream Palace, Manhattan

Runs affordable housing in Manhattan. Charming. Well-connected. Never sleeps. Her tenants report vivid, exhausting dreams — when they report anything at all.

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Unknown
Identity Pending

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