Melvin Haran

Melvin Haran appears in How to Construct a Siege. He is a human male who used to adventure with Nulisag before being horribly burned by a literal fire breathing kitten. Since then he has been obsessed with using magic to protect himself from pain and death. He created a mechanical Construct (Shirley Knope) which acts as a bridge between a source of a magic and himself, making him immortal.
He leads a large gang of thugs, some of whom he has raised from the dead with the same magic that makes him immortal.
An earthquake frees Shirley from the room where she was kept and she escapes. Melvin gathers his gang to hunt her down and confronts the Firebreathing Kittens who protect her.
He is killed when lured into a portable hole by Dr. Crud III where Shirley was being hidden. Inside the hole, Shirley swallows an Explosive Seed killing herself and Melvin, which in turn kills about half of his gang who had been previously resurrected by him.
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