Melesh

Melesh was a soldier of the Thaumaturg Army of Righteous Chastisement which was invading the Jungle of Himatan of eastern Jacuruku under the overall command of Master Thaumaturg Golan.Blood and Bone, Chapter 1, US HC p.53-54Blood and Bone, Chapter 5, US HC p.210
==In Blood and Bone==
Informed that one of the "stone soldiers" of the Thaumaturgs - the Yakshaka - was missing, Golan tasked Cohort Leader Pon-lor with finding and retrieving the missing Yakshaka. Pon-lor was told to take with him a detachment of twenty soldiers as guards.Blood and Bone, Chapter 1, US HC p.56-57
Pon-lor and his detachment were approached by a young local, Jak, who claimed to have encountered a Yakshaka enslaved by a witch. Jak was able to convince Pon-lor and his guards to follow him to Chanar Keep.Blood and Bone, Chapter 2, US HC p.100-103 Pon-lor's troop was led by Jak to the Keep - which was, at least initially, seemingly deserted - except for a single gate guard.Blood and Bone, Chapter 5, US HC p.195/201-205
Once Jak had led Pon-lor and his guards far inside the Keep, Jak left the group. Feeling increasingly uneasy about the situation, Pon-lor and his detachment, including Melesh, attempted to backtrack in order to exit the Keep. At this point, it became clear that they had been lured into a trap. Attacked by Jak's accursed relatives, the fighting was soon fierce and unrelenting. Although Pon-lor was finally able to use his Thaumaturg knowledge and powers to neutralize the attackers, when the dust cleared, he found that only Melesh and three other guards were left standing, and that he, himself, had been shot by an arrow in the lower back side of his torso.Blood and Bone, Chapter 5, US HC p.206-210
Melesh, seeing that the arrow still protruded from the Thaumaturg's side, obeyed Pon-lor's instructions: "Break it off and pull it out..." Melesh proceeded to do so, but only after first warning, "This will hurt, Magister..."Blood and Bone, Chapter 5, US HC p.210 Unfortunately as it turned out, Melesh, as well as one other - unnamed - guard, did not long survive their own wounds, leaving Pon-lor with just two guards from his original detachment of twenty men, Lo-sen and Toru.Blood and Bone, Chapter 7, US HC p.270-271
==Notes and references==
Category:Males
Category:Jacuruku natives
Category:Soldiers
Category:Guards