Marlene Alraune is the daughter of Doctor Peter Alraune, a noted archaeologist. She attended an expedition to an Egyptian village with her father that went very wrong when one of the mercenaries, Raoul Bushman, killed her father and left the village with gold they had found in a temple to Khonshu, the moon god. The only person to stand up to Bushman was another Mercenary named Marc Spector that she grew fond of. The two dated but at the time of the series start they have been broken up for a few months since Marlene left Marc with no word of where she had gone.