Kaelith is a lean, lithe Orc with deep emerald-green skin. Her hair is cut into an angled, wispy bob that frames a face with high cheekbones and sharp tusks. She wears masterwork scale mail harvested from a black dragon, which shimmers with an oily sheen. A displacement cloak shifts around her form, blurring her outline as she moves.

Reserved and professional, Kaelith speaks with the economy of someone who has spent years in the lethal silences of the Marshes of Tun. She is fiercely loyal to Captain Valeraine Thorne and treats the crew of the Gilded Wave as the clan she never had.

Kaelith was born into a tribe that saw her lithe frame as a weakness, eventually leaving her for dead in the treacherous Marshes of Tun. She survived by becoming a predator of the dark, learning to hunt the horrors that lurk in the mire. When she was twenty, she encountered a group from the Gilded Wave under heavy assault from swamp horrors. Barely clinging to life herself, she joined the fray, saving several sailors. Captain Valeraine Thorne recognized the orc's survivalist genius and brought her aboard. Now Kaelith serves as the ship's premier scout and vanguard. She stalks the rigging and the shadows of the magical warship, ensuring that any threat is neutralized before it even reaches the hull. To her, the Gilded Wave is not just a ship but a sanctuary on the tide.