Roze the MouseHunter – The Rose of the Elric of Melniboné stories
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Roze_the_MouseHunter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elric_of_Melnibon%C3%A9
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_Champion
Roze the MouseHunter has captured Dyvim WhiteHart on charges of espionage, and intends to interrogate him for answers and secrets about the Burrowers and their defense.
Elric of Melniboné is a fictional character created by English writer Michael Moorcock and the protagonist of a series of sword and sorcery stories taking place on an alternative Earth. The proper name and title of the character is Elric VIII, 428th Emperor of Melniboné. Later stories by Moorcock marked Elric as a facet of the Eternal Champion.
Elric first appeared in print in Moorcock’s novella “The Dreaming City” (Science Fantasy No. 47, June 1961). Moorcock’s doomed albino antihero is one of the better known characters in fantasy literature, having crossed over into a wide variety of media, such as role-playing games, comics, music, and film. The stories have been continuously in print since the 1970s.
The Rose is a beautiful, scarlet-haired warrior Elric encounters on his journeys through the Multiverse. She wields a Lawful counterpart to Elric’s Chaos-forged demonblade ‘Stormbringer’ named ‘Swift Thorn’. Serving neither Law nor Chaos, she has sworn an oath of revenge against Gaynor The Damned for the eradication of a universe that was precious to her.
The Countess Rose Von Bek is a Jugadore and an important member of the Conspiracy of the Just. She is the greatest navigator of the Moonbeam Roads in the Multiverse. Unlike most beings in the Multiverse, she can shift into other universes at will. She is the titular coprotagonist in Moorcock’s novel The Revenge of the Rose (1991) and a leading character in the Second Ether trilogy.
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