Malice is a lithe, long-limbed drow woman with obsidian skin, white hair cut to her jaw, and vivid violet eyes that rarely blink. Her left arm remains bare from shoulder to fingertips, marked with fine ritual scars and spider-shaped ink. She wears fitted leather armor beneath layered crimson, saffron, and black robes, arranged like a samurai's traveling coat. Two curved blades hang at her waist, with slim throwing knives hidden in her sleeves and sash. A silver spider reliquary rests at her throat, its legs clasping a dark garnet.

Malice is disciplined, observant, and unnervingly courteous. She speaks softly even while threatening someone, treating every conversation as a contest of positioning. She has genuine tenderness toward spiders and an almost childlike devotion to Lolth, but expresses both through control, ritual, and possession rather than warmth. She admires elegant technique, especially when it defeats a stronger opponent through preparation and deceit.

Born Aurelia Travra beneath the choking magnificence of Menzoberranzan, Malice was groomed from infancy to serve House Travra as a priestess of Lolth. She learned scripture through pain, obedience through humiliation, and courtly grace through the careful concealment of knives. Yet during a ceremonial hunt in the Web Pits, the spiders did not test her devotion by demanding sacrifice. They surrounded her, climbed her body, and guided her hand toward the throat of a senior priestess who had ordered Malice's execution as a lesson to others. Malice obeyed. When the priestess fell, the spiders withdrew, and Aurelia Travra was dead.