• Full Name: Mallek Alderman

• Nicknames/Aliases: The Librarian

• Age: 48

• Gender: Male

• Species: Pure human

• Occupation: VEGA Master researcher in applications of Magefire

• Description: At a glance, Mallek would look like your average middle age man - thin brown greying hair, somewhat pronounced wrinkles and a purposeful walk. Take a second longer, though, and you begin to notice nuances, like the fact that he always wears an overcoat or that his left arm is made of brass and is powered by Magefire. His appearance tends towards the more well built, yet his demeanour and brilliant green grey eyes (regularly hidden behind magnification goggles) show a deep intelligence echoing his profession.

His brass arm, a replacement for one lost during an incident during the early days of Eso Tech, was constructed by him and possesses both significantly greater strength as well as latent magical potential - due to its power source. The arm possesses a self contained Magefire store, but he also possesses a backpack providing it with more power, leading to greater strength. His arm can also be outfitted with several attachments, some tools, others weapons.

• Personality: Mallek's general appearance is that of an intelligent, serious yet mild mannered man with only a fleeting interest in most other peoples' personal concerns. Even so, when he or a person he is in acquaintance with is threatened, Mallek can bring forth and inner strength and rage to defend what he holds true. For the most part, he can be stubborn on his opinions, but can easily be swayed by technological change, often those by VEGA. His actions at VEGA, though, have left him with a slight disassociation with reality, causing him to become a sort of recluse - avoiding social conflict when possible. Even so, he is willing to talk to other people should the need arise.

Mallek holds a slight distrust to technology not based on Magefire, and possess mild racist views against non-humans. Despite this, he does have friends of other races, and his views are strictly personal, rarely affecting his professional life. He holds greater distrust towards both mages and The Order of the Dragon due to their 'unnatural perception of reality'.

• Skills: Mallek is incredibly adept with machines - particularly those based on Magefire - and has helped develop some of the major leading technologies including the Esoteric Extractor and the Magefire grid. As well as this, he also works on many personal projects such as the Magic Dampening Field and the Long Distance Communicator. His current major project is the transcription of many literary works onto metal tablets through arcane etchings which can then be reconstructed into words by another Eso Tech machine. This, as well as his current near permanent inhabitation of the central archives, has lead to people calling him 'The Librarian'. He has since become the overseer of the archives as a result.

• Weaknesses: While Mallek is strong, and has combat experience, he is not adept at close range combat. Without the use of his arm or other Eso Tech, Mallek would be near useless in combat, and could potentially regress within himself due to 'Magefire' withdrawal caused be his unnatural dependence on it. Mallek is also fearful of both true mages and dragons, the first of which caused him to invest time in the Magic Dampening Field.

• Brief History: Born the son of a blacksmith, Mallek has always been keen around metals and, later, engineering. Over time, he proved to be extremely talented when it came to technology, building a simple clock when he was eight and a crossbow when he was ten. This aptitude for such things netted him a scholarship from a precursor of VEGA, the royal technologist guild, to which he joined at the age of 19.

Over time he helped create a precursor to the widely used Magefire called Technomagic, whereby clockwork devices could store and manipulate magic when infused by a mage. This technology quickly disappeared in the mists of time, though, when two of his co-workers - actually agents for a rival Empire - stole the plans and their test mage destroyed the prototype devices in a fit of insanity. Even so, Mallek and his fellow researchers retained enough of the knowledge of the device to help create Magefire and, in turn, bring about the formation of VEGA.

For his past work, Mallek, then 42, was given the title of Master researcher and tasked with developing applications for Magefire. Working independently and in small teams, Mallek helped research and develop better mechanisms for creating Magefire, leading up to by far the most efficient method - the Esoteric Extractor. Over time, the morally ambiguous work that VEGA performed hammered at his sanity, causing Mallek to become ever more reclusive to the organisation. His self exiled himself from Witchfell as a result and now acts more as a distant benefactor to the organisation, forever perfecting Magefire technologies.

• Other: Despite remaining a fully fledged, if distant, member of VEGA, his allegiances with the organisation are weakening. He will be willing to turn against them should they commit a serious atrocity. He doesn't know what atrocity this could be, and he is fully aware of Rah'von's imprisonment.