Malrog of Nadezhda

“In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and mage were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of the gods, discarded the spell for prayer.”
-Malrog of Nadezhda
== History ==
A healer and worshiper of the goddess Hleid, Malrog became an ally of Abi Eodauga in his quest to overthrow the leader of Nadezhda. He and the other priests of Hleid tended to the wounded and staved off disease during the Winter War, and after the war was over, Malrog personally led the effort to eradicate the Wendigo curse from Nadezhda. For this effort and much more he was lauded as a hero, though Abi Eodauga considered him a bit of a bumbler and pacifistic to a fault. 
== Personality ==
Easy-going and direct, Malrog abhorred bloodshed and saw himself as a a healer who took no sides. His attitude grated on his more warlike compatriots, but he was by no means a weak man.
By the time he became Marshal of Nadezhda, Malrog was by all indications an aged and spent man, whose hopeful nature was tempered by world-weariness. Becoming Marshal seemed to give him one last spark of energy, a genuine desire to reform the injustices of his county and prepare his people for the dark times ahead. Though he was fading fast, he spent his moments of lucidity as hard-won currency, and became adept at luring fools into underestimating and overlooking him as a weak old fool. 
== War of the Philosopher-Kings ==
Malrog had distanced himself from the warlike Abi Eodauga, and played no part in the War of the Philosopher-Kings other then to oversee efforts to treat and rehabilitate wounded soldiers. 
== After the War ==
After Nadezhda's conquest at the hands of the Reich, Malrog retained his position as the High Priest of Hleid, and was an informal adviser to a succession of governments. He was the last of Abi Eodauga's adventuring companions to survive.
== The Great Awakening ==
After the fall of the Reich, Serik Gevorgyan's government would choose the elderly and ailing Malrog to reprise the title of Marshal of Nadezhda, deeming him a frail puppet whose status as a priest, war hero, and friend of Abi Eodauga's would make it hard for anyone to deny his right to rule. Malrog would prove less tractable then Gevorgyan and his cronies suspected; though perfectly happy to exaggerate his senility to trick others into underestimating him, he pushed through a series of reforms. The anti-mage edicts were lifted, efforts towards meritocracy were imposed upon the Nadezhdan Armed Forces, and the powers of the nobility were curbed. The people of Nadezhda were astonished to see that their old healer war hero, half as old as time itself, was more then ready to prepare his people for the coming war and to make his homeland a gentler and more righteous land before he shuffled off the mortal coil. Gevorgyan and his men would learn to fear the determination of their worst nemesis, a truly righteous man who had lived long enough that he had very little to lose. Soon enough, all Nadezhda would pray alongside their Marshal, praying that Hleid would give him more years to make his work endure. 
Category:Player Characters
Category:Snowball Earth
Category:Monarchs
Category:Nadezhda
Category:Marshal of Nadezhda
Category:Priests
Category:Neutral Good