Melina Cassel

Melina Cassel is a vampire. She may become the personal enchanting hireling for the Vestige should they choose to allocate points into the Enchanting Hireling skill for enchanting, once they reach the appropriate level. She will send a letter with select materials to the Vestige on a daily basis, although the items she sends may be improved with additional points into the Enchanting Hireling skill.

Letters
Melina may send the Vestige multiple letters to their inbox, detailing her adventures as she gathers resources for the Vestige. The following are a collection of the letters that she will send:
 * 1) [Missing initial letters, unknown quantity.]
 * 2) Be still my beating heart! Lyam arrived at our door at [sic] he looked simply smashing!  (And, yes, contrary to popular belief, our hearts beat quite well, thank you.)  How handsome the scion of the Fontbonne family looked in his finery!  And, I'm pleased to say, he seemed as impressed by my appearance as I was by his.  He took my hand and we were off.
 * 3) Have you ever attended the High King's ball, patron?  What a marvelous production!  The music,  the food, the entertainers!  We danced the night away and enjoyed each other's company.  My only regret is that the party eventually came to an end.  That's the trouble with the night.  It never lasts as long as you want it to.  Use these new materials wisely.
 * 4) Dawn approached as Lyam walked me to the doors of Castle Ravenwatch.  I could sense Gwendis watching from the shadows, but she never revealed herself.  Lyam told me how much he enjoyed the evening.  We kissed.  I wanted it to go on forever.  But the sun was rising.  Reluctantly, we parted.  Now I'm happy and sad at the same time.  Isn't that strange?
 * 5) Do you think it's too soon to see Lyam again?  Would it be to forward of me to call upon him?  To throw myself upon him and ravish him with sweet kisses?  I feel like a school-girl and it feels wonderful!  Gwendis claims all the credit, but I think my wit, charm, and beauty had something to do with Lyam's reaction.  But here are more components.
 * 6) I couldn't stand being cooped up in the castle for another moment, so I grabbed my pack and headed out to acquire more enchanting components for my clients.  It was either that or go mad waiting for word to arrive from Lyam.  His silence can be infuriating at times!  Not a note since the ball!  But my work provides a distraction--for the most part.
 * 7) A few days away from the castle and worrying about Lyam Fontbonne has done me a world of good.  I even got to perform a community service (as the Ravenwatch code commands of us) when I saved a couple of travelers from bandits along the road to Shornhelm.  I'm heading home now.  And there better be something from Lyam waiting for me when I get there!
 * 8) Oh joyous day!  There was something from Lyam waiting when I returned to the castle.  He filled our great hall with the most beautiful flowers I have ever seen!  It was like all the colors of the rainbow exploded inside the castle.  I guess I did make an impression!  But where is everyone?  Why is the castle empty?  What happened while I was gone?
 * 9) Other than the flowers from Lyam, Castle Ravenwatch is deserted.  Gwendis, Adusa, even the servants have disappeared without leaving so much as a note to tell me where they've gone to.  I was especially happy when I arrived to find the flowers, but now I'm concerned about my friends and family.  I'm growing irritated with these reversals of emotions.
 * 10) I'm alone in the castle.  Gwendis and Adusa are missing.  The servants are gone.  Even fair Estelle, who usually offers me my evening meal, is nowhere to be found.  I'm hungry!  And I'm worried about the household, as well.  Why couldn't I have one day to revel in Lyam's loving gesture?  Your materials are enclosed.
 * 11) Still no word from Gwendis or Adusa.  Not even a message from any of our servants.  I should be basking in the scent of the beautiful flowers that Lyam sent me after the ball, but instead I'm pacing back and forth and imagining all kinds of horrible fates that may have befallen my family.  Well, the time to wait is over.  I need to do something!
 * 12) I took another look around the castle before striking out blindly and I discovered something disturbing hiding behind one of the baskets of flowers.  It was a brief note from the Resolute of Stendarr.  "Your prisoners shall be free," the note said.  It was signed "Jakothon Sacred-Oath."  The fool!  Those are our household servants, not our prisoners!
 * 13) I need to reach Jakothon and the servants before Gwendis and Adusa find them, otherwise House Ravenwatch might well wind up at war with the Resolutes of Stendarr.  I really don't need this trouble right now, patron.  Things were going so well before that Nord started following me around.  Oh, and enjoy the new materials I've enclosed.
 * 14) If I were a hulking Nord who thought all vampires were fiends and practiced a religion of intolerance and piety, where would I hide?  The cathedral in Shornhelm?  A Stendarr shrine in the wilderness?  Maybe a cave rumored to be haunted by evil spirits that's actually home to a pack of domesticated wolves?  How should I know?  I'm not a Nord!
 * 15) I decided to take a chance and check out some of the caves near Castle Ravenwatch to see if Jakothon was using any of them as a lair.  I must say, the hunger pangs are beginning to cloud my judgement, but I won't let a skipped meal or three get the better of me.  I just hope I find him and the servants before Adusa does.
 * 16) Have I told you about Adusa-daro?  She's the bravest Khajiit I know, always undertaking missions for House Ravenwatch.  If she was around when Resolute Jakothon took our servants captive, she would have torn the hulking Nord's arms from their sockets.  Since there weren't any extra limbs lying around, I assume she was away when Jakothon came by.
 * 17) I was about to charge into the third cave in the hills around Castle Ravenwatch when Gwendis emerged from the shadows and stopped me.  "There's a Resolute of Stendarr in there," she hissed quietly.  "I know," I whispered back, "Jakothon Sacred-Oath."  Gwendis quickly explained that she and Adusa were away when the Resolute "freed" our servants.