Melanna Jin'Daern - Servant of the People
Born: 15 Junar 1387 - Died: 11 Mai 1412
Born in the city of Prantz (Pranzis at the time of her birth) to Allaim Jin'Daern her father and Gloria Jin'Daern (maiden name Zimmer) on the 15th day of Junar in the year 1387, Melanna grew up an only child. Neglected by her parents all her life in matters of love and attention Melanna learned to manipulate her parents for her own selfish wants. Eventually she talked them into hiring an instructor to teach her the arts of martial training, specifically in the use of the great sword. Eventually Melanna came to depend upon the council of this instructor, a city guard of Pranzis by name of Ruvan, who turned her from being a completely spoiled brat into a young lady with a sense of duty and honor. Ruvan's teachings would form the core of moral beliefs, though she would remain quite willful much to the disapproval of her parents.
After the fall of Prantz to Broegar's forces, and the resulting death of her friend and teacher Ruvan, Melanna later left the city and her neglectful parents behind in the year 1405, arriving in the town of Hlint on the day of her eighteenth birthday. With respect for her friend, councilor, and confidant Ruvan, who had fallen defending Pranzis from Broegar's forces, Melanna set herself to continue her training in mastery of the great sword on her own. In time, she would learn to embrace his teachings even more personally as she realized how they applied to herself and she eventually found herself a 'servant of the people' using her skill with the great sword to remove by force those things which might threaten their well-being as she saw it.
She also began practicing the forging of her own weapons and armors and her skill at crafting these things quickly grew. As a result of her practicing she donated almost all of her completed practice equipment to local militias, or other charitable causes such as the Roldem Relief Effort and the Princess Kayana Memorial Foundation.
In Apreal of the year 1406 Melanna encountered an Ogre by name of Glurgle who spoke the Common tongue and expressed his wishes for peace between himself and the people of the Haven community. At first their relationship began as an agreement to trade food for iron ore, which Melanna needed to continue her crafting efforts. Eventually Glurgle expressed that there were a growing number of Ogres among his tribe who were of like mind and wished for the violence between his people and the peoples of the surface to end. Melanna took the initiative and began to realize even more deeply the teachings of her mentor Ruvan and saw the chance for peace between the Ogres of the Haven Mines and the community of Haven as a goal that would be beneficial to both peoples.
In Jenra of 1407 Melanna received the opportunity to begin realizing her goals to bring peace to Haven and the Ogres of the mines there. Lord Rodor of Haven Keep bid her to prove the Ogre's innocence in the disappearance of a shipment of weapons and other supplies inbound from Port Hempstead via the route through Spellgard. She, with the aid of several companions, whom Lord Rodor had also bid bear witness to the peacefulness of the Ogres and the provision of proof of their innocence, uncovered a new clan of Gnolls moving into the Haven and Silkwood area. It was proven quickly that these new Gnolls were responsible for the disruption of trade into Haven, and that they held a large and well organized encampment deep within the Silkwood and appeared to be marshaling for invasion under the guidance of an unknown, but evil source. Meanwhile, by Seplar of 1407, Glurgle and those Ogres he had gathered under himself began a civil war with the rest of their tribe within the Haven Mines in order to unite the tribe and allow for its peaceful relocation elsewhere.
The new Gnolls continued to harass the Haven community, stealing livestock and other animals in sporadic raids both within and without the area's borders. These new Gnolls had the ability to appear and disappear almost as with the wind, making fighting them nearly impossible for Kit and the local militia who were already sorely taxed with keeping order in general.
Finally, things took some major turns by the 24th day of Oclar of the year 1410. Glurgle and those supporting him at last won out against the former leader of the Haven Mine Tribe and what was left of the tribe stood united under Glurgle's benevolent leadership. Melanna was given the clearance by Lord Rodor to move the tribe out to the Silkwood where they would help to confront the Gnoll threat and establish their new home. However, taking advantage of the Ogre's absence from the mines, the Gnolls moved simultaneously to take the mines for themselves and establish control over the entire Haven community, isolating it from outside help. Melanna and those with her returned to find Haven occupied by the Gnolls and themselves roughly powerless to free it. As fate would have it, however, all was not lost and the group chanced to capture an artifact from the Gnolls. It was eventually determined this artifact held the key to the Gnolls defeat, and that power which had been guiding them. Once again Melanna called upon her friend Glurgle and his Ogres to help protect the group of her comrades while the ceremony to destroy the artifact and free the Gnolls from possession of an evil shadow being from Dark-elven lore was performed. Muireann, a priestess of Mist, Galen Tweed (of the Spellgard Tweed's) and Melanna's own close friend Elohanna Min A'Litae performed the ceremony while Melanna, the Ogres, Pyyran Rath, Lex'or Gravedigger, Amilia Tannnes, Aiek Lo'Sashaien, Valaria La'Elis, and Sonya Darsus protected them. For a few moments a bright light shown over Haven visible from as far away as both Hlint and Spellgard, and after which the Gnolls regained control of them selves and began fleeing. Unfortunately, a great number of the once possessed Gnolls held their refuge within the Haven Mines, taking the place of the Ogres who had recently moved out, and leaving the Haven community to struggle in being rebuilt without the resources of the mines to draw upon.
Also during her years spent serving the common folk, Melanna assisted in a matter regarding unusually powerful goblins and their use of necromantic magic
