Malice is a tall, lean drow woman with obsidian skin, white hair cut to her jaw, and pale violet eyes that rarely blink. Her left arm remains entirely bare beneath her layered crimson and cobalt robes, displaying a network of ritual scars shaped like spider legs. She wears fitted leather armor beneath colorful silk panels, soft boots, a lacquered half-mask at her belt, and twin curved blades balanced for sudden, close-quarters attacks. Her movements are deliberate and economical, like a spider testing a web.

Malice is quiet, exacting, and unnervingly attentive. She speaks in clipped observations rather than conversation, often studying an opponent's hands, breathing, and footing before noticing their face. She treats every battle as a religious rite and every victory as a message from Lolth. Despite her devotion, she possesses a dry, almost playful sense of humor that appears whenever an enemy realizes too late that the fight was never fair.

Malice was born Aurelia Travra, the unwanted second daughter of House Travra in Menzoberranzan. From her first breath, the matrons measured her for priestess robes and taught her that obedience was the only shape a worthy drow life could take. She learned the prayers, the punishments, and the ritual use of the scourge, yet the lessons never quieted the blade-minded instinct within her. During a trial intended to prove her devotion, a living mass of spiders descended upon the training hall. They ignored the other initiates and covered Aurelia instead, biting her palms and leaving black, branching scars across her arm. She understood the visitation as selection. She cut the house sigil from her clothing, abandoned her birth name, and became Malice, the blade chosen for Lolth's war.