Malcolm Merlyn

**Malcolm Merlyn,** previously going by the alter ego's **Dark Archer**and **Al Sa-Her** (arabic for *Magician*), is the leader of the League of Assassins, father of Thea Queen and Tommy Merlyn. He now is also known as **Ra's al Ghul**.

## Biography

### Hunt the Artifact

#### Assault the Iron Temple

He personally leads the assault against the Bannerless Legion in the Iron Temple, by flying in on hanggliders and killing the patrolling monks. After securing the top floor, he and Talibah meet up with Nyssa al Ghul and her men. Claiming he is sure where the Artifact is, due to being told by a friend and an expert in occultism, he leads his men to the catacombs of the Temple. He informs Nyssa of the promise he made to Oliver Queen. They then get into a chamber where he, Nyssa and Talibah encounter a huge horde of monks.

He, Nyssa and Talibah faced off against the huge number of monks killing them one by one and interrogated the lead monk Rael Rha'as. After learning what he wanted, he beheaded him and send Nyssa through a seperate door. He then contacted a couple of League assets in Starling City to increase the watch over his daughter. When one of the assassins that went with Nyssa came back and told him off the chamber they found, Malcolm becomes trapped in a gas filled chamber, which makes him hallucinate various things including a dead Thea Queen and his dead son Tommy Merlyn.

When the gas finally wore off, Malcolm was shocked to find himself standing over his slaughtered brethern, caused by his hallucination induced rage. Amanda Waller approached his position however and he was forced to face off against Captain Boomerang and Ravan Nassar. Proving to be more then a match to both of them, he was about to finish both of them off, when Nyssa al Ghul returned to the upper floor with Waller and Cupid and the artifact he was looking for. However when Talibah saw Ravan, she touched the artifact and was executed in cold blood by Waller.

Malcolm and Nyssa al Ghul were forced into a standoff against Waller and the others. Being outnumbered, Malcolm had to let go control of the Runestone. Waller left Digger Harkness to deal with Malcolm and Nyssa, but after he escaped to the roof they were unable to stop them from leaving.

Malcolm stepped in to save Ravan Nassar from the Zambesian soldiers, forcing him to come with him. Nyssa informs him of a way out of the Iron Temple and Malcolm leaves Ravan Nassar to keep the soldiers occupied. Malcolm and Nyssa kill three of the soldiers awaiting them on the temple's exit where he alerts Nyssa on the plane he had waiting just in time, Malcolm and Nyssa kill the soldiers between them and the plane. In the plane he changes into his business suit, telling the pilot to set course for Starling City, cause with the artifact in their possession, ARGUS will go after his daughter.

## Skills and abilities

* **Master Archer:** As being trained by the League of Assassins, he is an expert archer with a very high accuracy. His archery skills can be considered equivalent or even superior to those of Oliver Queen.
* **Master hand-to-hand combatant:**Malcolm is very skilled as a martial artist and very proficient in hand-to-hand combat. He is capable of fighting multiple opponents at once.
* **Master swordsman:**Malcolm is trained and highly skilled with a variety of swords.

## Equipment

* **Ra's al Ghul / Dark Archer suit**: Malcolm, as per his position as Ra's al Ghul, created a new suit for himself that combined elements of both his former Dark Archer costume with traditional League garb and the Ra's al Ghul cape.
* **Customized PDE Chaos League Compound Bow:** Malcolm. as the new Ra's al Ghul, uses a new version of his favorite personal weapon of choice: A Customized Compound bow. Like Oliver's old bow, it can curl into a smaller size. He also uses it as a quarterstaff for close-combat.
* **Voice Filter:**Malcolm uses this device to change his voice regardless of who he spoke to as the Dark Archer or Ra's al Ghul.
* **Hangglider:** He used a custom built, League owned hangglider to arrive on the Iron Temple. He destroyed it afterwards, but it can be assumed he has more then one.

## Appearances

* Dark Archer Chronicles
* Arrow: Season 4
* DC's Legends of Tomorrow