At this time, Alesh is in Stoink, in the Bandit Kingdoms,
where she is an inn-keeper’s mistress. She is the sole survivor
of her original adventuring group, and has several powerful
magical items. Her preferred method of operations is
to entice a wealthy-looking adventurer into allowing her to
accompany his party, then wait for a chance to filch any
treasure she can carry.

She is determined to rise in power, and has dreams of
someday being the first female “Father” of Obedience of
the Scarlet Brotherhood. When she is not adventuring, she
practices and trains in her inn room, or works as a
barmaidbouncer in the inn’s common room. She will
remain in the inn, as the inn-keeper’s mistress as long as
she thinks he has the big chest of gold he’s always bragging
about, or as long as he can continue to convince her that the
mythical chest really exists.

Alesh Marin is a slender woman with short, blonde hair,
blue eyes, and white skin. Her success as a bouncer is partly
because the bullies who drink in Stoink do not want to be
seen being thrown through the window or door by a woman.
She rose to the coveted position of head barmaid by
framing the previous head barmaid. When “evidence”
came to light that the previous head barmaid was skimming
money from the till, she was fired and Alesh got the
job. Unfortunately, Alesh was not aware that the former
head barmaid was a sister of the Guild Master of Assassins
of the city of Stoink. When the Guildmaster learned of his
sister’s dismissal, and found out the reasons for it, he
became rather irate. He has figured out that Alesh is a
monk and a member of the Scarlet Brotherhood, but will
not seek his revenge until he can think of a suitably hideous
method.

Alesh’s main weakness is that she is an incurable schemer
and intriguer. If given a choice between a simple solution
and a complicated, sneaky plan that involves stabbing
some of her “friends” in the back, she’ll take the second
way every time. Alesh does this because she enjoys it and
she studies ways to improve her technique. Once, she was
the mistress of an assassin, until she learned all that he
could teach her of poison, whereupon she promptly poisoned
him and absconded with his belongings. She regards
other people as objects, fulfillers of her desires, or obstacles
that must be removed so that she can continue to advance.

She isn’t always able to keep this attitude out of her
speech and behavior, hence her relatively low charisma
score. Most people who are not blinded by her beauty distrust
her, and treat her as they would a poisonous snake.
She is suspected, correctly, of being responsible for the
deaths of her companions. Rumor of this has reached the
Scarlet Brotherhood, and her superiors plan to harness her
desire to succeed for their own uses.

Her ambitions are fueled by the magic items she owns: a
ring of three wishes, a stone ofgood luck, and a clear spindle
ioun stone (which can sustain her without food or water).
Her collection of weapons includes a dagger of venom and a
bardiche +2. She has expanded the knowledge of poisons
that her late lover, the assassin, gave her, until she is as
adept with poison as an alchemist or high level assassin.

She is in contact with the Scarlet Brotherhood through a
low level fighter in the Stoink area who is in command of
the Brotherhood’s intelligence network for that region. She
sends in regular reports to the headquarters of the Brotherhood,
making sure that she always sounds like a willing
tool in the hands of her leaders. However, the only kind of
leader that would please her is herself. She does not know
that the fighter who transmits her reports sends reports on
her from other sources, and adds his own information.
Thus, she is unaware that the leaders of the Brotherhood
know of her deviance.

Alesh Marin’s ultimate ambitions range far beyond
becoming the first female “Father” of Obedience. She is
convinced that she would make a far better leader of Oerth
than the current ruling body, and plans to use her hopedfor
position as leader of the Scarlet Brotherhood to extend
her rule over more lands. Eventually, she thinks that she
could extend the Scarlet Brotherhood breeding program to
produce a perfect race, combining alleged Suelese superiority
with the undeniable numbers of the other races.

Alesh Marin is a grim, driven woman who seldom smiles
unless she’s committed some treachery that particularly
amuses her. The last time she smiled, she had just enticed a
man who was carrying money into embracing her, so that
she could draw her dagger of venom and stab him in the
back.

She is utterly despicable, and will never voluntarily
change. She likes being evil, and prefers it to being good
because she feels that only evil provides suitable scope for
a person of her particular talents to shine. She will pretend
to be good if she can get something out of the deception, but
as soon as she has what she wants, she will show her true
colors. She hates all of her superiors, even if they’ve done
her good turns, simply because they have what she wants.