Mala’xhara the Warder

**Mala'xhara**, other wise known as Malshara, is one of the leaders of the Shadow Cult, standing at the head of the Temple Guardians; the protectors and warriors of the cult who seek out and do battle with the Cult's enemies in the Burning Legion and beyond.

## History

Born to Lucaerna in the year 25 of the Azerothian Calender, Malshara is a devoted daughter of the Mother. An oddity among Shivarra in that her heritage renders her nearly identical to Kaldorei in appearance, save for her extra arms and prodigious size. It was not always this way though, like every demon born to Lucaerna, she spent time in the Nether, where time is a fathomless and immaterial thing. With her mother, ages passed in relative months, and long years slipped by.

As with all of Lucaerna's early children, Malshara benefited from the personal tutelage and instruction from her mother before she was rendered into her current immobile state, more concerned with the birth of her brethren and the fulfillment of her perceived missions rather than the attention to those that she spawns. As such, the relative ages of personal attention have left Malshara a steadfast zealot to Lucaerna's cause of opposing the Burning Legion, and nearly slavishly devoted to killing Demons in the name of the Mother. Among the Cult, the aloof and temperamental warleader is a figure of dispute, not for her lack of zeal, but her specific nature. Seeing herself as superior to demonkind through nature of her birth and her station.

As such, her rhetoric, fiery and passionate as it may be, fails to sway those not already indoctrinated into her brands of faith. This 'failing' is not a lack of trying, but more of her espousing of the omnicidal part of the dark creed, that all demons, all destroyers of life, including herself, must perish. This passion grates on many within the cult who are lesser in belief or are there for power. More often, her disdain causes friction with those birthmothers who produce many times and grow attached to their offspring.

Malshara is intimately familiar with the nuances of the early writings of the cult, and cares little for their evolution over time. Her hatred burns eternal, and she has a penchant for binding enemy Shivarra, and through their binding, breaking them and rendering them servile and spending them as fodder in battle.

## Role in the Cult

As one of the earliest daughters of Lucaerna, she enjoys the privileges of her birth. Her time in her war against demonkind has created a military genius of rare kind. Her temperament is a counterweight to the oftentimes sluggish responses of the sorcerers or the atypical objectives of the religious types. The temple guard falls under her sway, and the use of the demons thereof to make excursions into the Nether to fight and destroy demons.

Notable among the most favored of the cult, Malshara refuses to partake in the rampant lurid acts endemic to Lucaerna's chosen. Having taken only one partner in the entirety of her existence, the two daughters produced from it are a source of mixed feelings for her. On one hand, she hates them, and sends them on suicide missions at the head of her guardians. But concurrently is proud of their failure to die, and keeps them near her at all times.

Despite her negative opinion of the Handmaidens for their idle lifestyles, she will not hesitate to defend them as the chosen of her mother and during counter assaults by demonic forces, or when Handmaidens are required to leave the temple, Malshara or one of her daughters is never far behind.

## Armament and Relics

As befitting her station, Malshara wields a unique set of bladed weapons called the Blades of Purgation. These desecrated starmetal swords bear powerful enchantments of demonsbane, and runes of the faith stud their length to enhance potency. The set is asymmetrical; a greatsword wielded in her two right arms as a man would normally require both sides, and two "short" swords held in her left hands.