Ratik Meloi

Red worked for House Ditta at The Dig.

He died just before reaching the fortified farm/inn on the trek back. His farewell: "May the wind be at your back. Good fortune touch your hand."

Red's Campfire Questions:

"I miss my home city, Ide Volcar, it's called the Jewel of the North for a reason. It's the most beautiful city you could find; the terraces, the colored buildings, the cedar trees, looking out on all of it, drinking avca as the sun goes down."

"What’s the first thing you are going to do when you get back to civilization? I will be visiting a bath house and not leave till closing."

"You haven’t lived until you’ve had a plate of kazola with river oysters and spriggan’s hair. That and a few bottles of Liovy and the gods can just take me then and there."

"I really miss my sister, Emese, and my little peregrine falcon, Spreva. Nobody can listen as well as she."

"The one good thing about all this is that I stopped grinding my teeth, it was a terrible habit I just could not seem to lose."

"A live without regrets is a live not lived but there is one thing I wish I could change. When we were kids, me and Varek were thick as thieves, we did everything together. And then Ania moved into town. We were both immediately smitten but the things I did to win her heart are unconscionable and I understand why he has never forgiven me."

"I’m not a fearful man but the undead are just not right, they scare me on such a deep level that I am powerless to resist."