Dark Lord Malvech

The Dark Lord Malvech or simply known as the **Ninth Wanderer**, **The Night God** or  **Malvech o' the Black Blood** is the mythstical

## Biographical information

### Other names

Malvech o' the Black Blood,
Ninth Wanderer,
The Night God,
The Dark Lord,
Orendel the Dawnbringer,
Kaiser Marwig,
Lord of Dusk,
Black Blood of the Sea,
Knight of the Valley,
The Seed of all-Evils,
The Sleeping King,
The Dark Progenitor,
The Fallen Legate
The Darkblood Kaiser,
Marwig von Meintat,
The Profane Commander
Begetter of Sudveg,
The Midnight Prince,
Sire of Abominations,
Beast of the Waters,
 Master of Blasphemy

### Realms

Holy Empire of Sudveg (founder)
 Angevy (conquered)
 Rest of Firangi (conquered)

### Weapon

Forn Sigulon
Sword of Destiny (speculated)
 Queen Gyhdro (pet, spellbound)
 The Black Legions (founder, spellbound)
 "Dark Beasts" (spellbound)

## Physical description

### Culture

Blackmarcher
 Sudvegian (Alaman)

The figure of "Ser Orendel the Dawnbringer", a famous knight is often to be believed as the historical basis of the Dark Lord Malvech, some folklore tales state that Ser Orendel was a disguise of Malvech who was an agend of the trickster god Lopter. Marwig is another recorded name for the Dark Lord.

## Anabasis

### Youth

Following the collapse of the **Alakhana Empire**, the former subjugated Werns took many Alakhana wives and slaves, as well adopted many customs such as artificial skull deformation and turning defeated enemies skull into cups. Meanwhile the Alamans who had become rich looting the collapsing Myrmidon Remnants during the Draconian Pogroms, began consolidating the lands of the River Vitriviol. The growing strenght of the stem tribes would ultimately lead to Sudveg becoming heavily destabilized due to the constant competition between the Alamans and Werns of Warneland.

During the time of Malvechs birth, **Gibuld Longbeard** was the leader of the Alamans. Gibuld was a veteran of many wars against the Werns, having greated a small empire that included the western fourth of Sudveg and subjugating the wolf-warriors of Silingia, yet this barbarian king lacked a son, despite having lived for many years and his concubines giving birth to many daughters. When he sought the council of a **Sibyl** of his tribe, she foretold of a promised hero coming forth if they shall wed and lay with each other, believing that promised hero to be the son he longed for, Gibuld Longbeard took the Sibyl as his wife.

One day The Sibyl was bathing in the waters of the River Vitriviol when a **"Beast of the Sea"** (Quinotaur) lured and possessed her. The act was observed by other concubines who sought to replace her as favorite of Gibuld and wanted to tell the Lonbeard of her alleged unfaithfulness. But to their surprise, Gibuld Longbeard already perished in his sleep, unbeknownst to his tribe. Accussed of murder, the men of tribe beat the sibyl to near death and murdered her novices. The Sibyl wandered the cold haunted woods, passing from tribe to tribe, trying to find someone who would take her in and give her a home. The tribes spurned her and turned her away. They told her that she was cursed, the monster had marked her, and that she would bring death to any who provided her help. Consumed with anger and hatred she fled back into the lands from which she came. Giving birth to a scaled yet strapping young babe not soon after, the Sibyl vowed revenge against all those who had wronged her. Malvech and his Mother would find shelter with the Feikind and Wood Nymphs of the Great Forests.

Malvech even at a young age was extraordinary with his striking blue-red eyes and webbed feet and fingers, he grew quickly and possessed an almost unending appetite. At the age of 14, he was as tall as an oak, with the strenght that could lift a horse with just one hand. In the tribal warfare that had soon erupted after the death of Gibuld Longbeard, some of Gibulds former concubines, many of which had given birth to sons months after the death of Gibuld, sought refuge admist neighbouring tribes. The Sibyl sensing their opportunities to strike coming near, wanted to march on the Alamans with the aid of the Creatures of the Woods, but Malvech who had fallen in love with an Fei Princess, clashed with his mother, whos heart had turned to stone and her soul was filled with bitterness. The Fei cast them both from the Woods that had been their home, for the corruption of man could not be tolerated by Feikind. Malvech split from his mother and sought out a way to regain the favor of his true love, the Fei Princess.

After wandering Firangi as a knights-errant and gaining a reputation as a great paragon of justice, Malvech receives a vision from his estranged mother, the Werns had allied with strange beast and turned to the dark arts, threatening to overun all of would-be Sudveg, with the Fei Grove having been destroyed and his Fei Princess taken captive. He and his companion Paladin Korvin. rally the Ange of future Angevy and other forces and set-out to drive the dark forces out.

Recovering **Forn Sigulon**, the Black Swords that drinks Screaming Shadows. The strange runed sword which was cursed to be only wielded by a man or woman that would prove three great just deeds, would prove to be the greatest asset of the Night God. In latter times it was claimed that Malvech wiedled the **Sword of Destiny**, its soul reforged from a falling star, but this seems to have been an invention of the peoples of the Morrowlands.

### Death and Second & Third Life

During the collapse of Myrmidon, Shaddad, viceroy of the myrmidon controlled lands in the morrowlands, had two prophetic dreams in which a flood, and then a series of vines, emerged from his wife, and covered the entire kingdom. These were interpreted by his advisers as a foretelling that his son would one day rebel and supplant him as king. His wife desperately prayed for help, this was awnsered when the HOLY SPIRIT send forth a traveling merchant to whisck away the mother and the babe, who was born under holy signs and destined to be the great savior. Travelling to future Angevy, the myth of the infant quickly spread and gathered the attention of Malvech. Malvech who was gathering the forces against the Werns, sought to get hold of the babe before the dark forces did, but the fast horselords were quicker than him and attacked the caves where the merchants, mother and child were protected by locals, slaying all sans the baby. At the future site of the Tower of Orphans, Malvech successfully save the future savior of the world, having been convinced that he is simply the herald of the utopia that will be. To gain support of the Council of Fire he converts to the Ignite Faith and is charged to keep the future Savior save.

This was the second great just deed that Forn Sigulon feasted upon. And Malvech under his allias as Ser Orendel the Dawnbringer -grew ever more stronger. At the Tower of Redemption Malvech rescued his Mother, Princess and other captives from a dark ritual. It was here when his mother and the fei princess foretold him of his greatest coming sacrifice, to slay the evil, he must feed Forn Sigulon his biggest love, so after bidding their hands together in union as man and wife, beneath a moonlight filled grove, Malvech blunged Forn Sigulon into the Heart of his fei wife, she screamed in confusion, pain and elation, her blood evaporated by the cold black blade. Yet while the fei princess was willing to end her life, the slaying and its manner was without her want. It was this corruption that caused displeased the gods and befouled Forn Sigulon. Unbeknownst he set out to confront the leader of the corrputed werns, deep inside the wernlands.

In truth it was his own Mother that had seeked out the great leaders of the werns, granting dark powers, she corrupted the werns and set them against all of her enemies. Most of the tribes were vanquished and the blood of the kin of Gibuld Longbeard watered the ground. At the Tower of Remembrance he destroys the corrupting forces, however he perishes in the fight. His cursed corpse is possessed by She of all-Evils fusing through Forn Sigulon the corrupted blade, going on an rampage he slaughters most of the tribes of sudveg.

The Babe, who will save the world, is slain in a child sacrifice by the Sibyl, bring Malvech back under a second life. Although in the early days of the Kyriarchty it was said that the HOLY SPIRIT itself brought back Malvech as a fire ghoul, the light of the Savior Babe infused into his own.

The surviving tribals submited before Malvech and declared him their eternal leader, although the Ange tribes of Angevy refuse to join, the first stones of the future Kaiserpfalz had been laid. At the Great Victory feast he takes Kardella of Altsass as his legal wife.

Later that night under moonlight, his mother confesses her crimes and her trickery of the Fei Princess, instead of punishing her the takes his mother as wife in a dark ritual, togehter they begin building the Towers from the magical Coalbark Trees. He allegedly reconntects with the Feis. Malvech dreams of a great city made out of shiny black obsidian, he beings building the Kaiserpfalz and creating the tombs of Kingsruhe.

### Holy Kaiser of Sudveg

His mother grew jealous and bitter becoming sidelined as political figure with Malvechs conversion to the Ignite faith and him pursuing other women, attemtped to poison Kardella causing her to miscarry and become infertile. Malvech strangles his mother to dead with his own hands and offers her body as a sacrifice for blood magic. Kardella is imprisoned in the Tower of Treachery, where she ages but never dies.

Decades after Malvechs In the East new threats began to arise. The Steppes became under the control of Great Dshingis Borgynin and in the Morrowlands, Qarmat al-Nasdira returns from his desert wandering and slays the False Mother in the oasis town of Nasdira. He is hailed as the Savior Babe reborn. The powerful warlock Qarmat destroys all pagans and unites the Morrowlands, he is deemed an heretic by the Council of Fire, for proliferation of magic.

An great terrible army invades Firangi aided by dark beasts. The Seven Moribounds, Seven Heros all deemed to die, seek out Malvech who is still remembered fondly for his deeds as Ser Orendel, and his loyal Paladin Korvin. The Heros meet at the future site of the Tower of Redemption and set out to save the world.
It was said that Korvin loved Kardella of Altsass above all else, hoping for releasement from the Tower of Treachery. Due to their adventure to save the world, Malvech earns the Nickname of the Ninth Wanderer.

Using the Via Revulsio he breaks Qarmat Siege of the Holy City and punishes the laresian collabirators. He slays Melekh Qarmat al-Nasdira, the most powerful warlock of his time, it is believed that he retrives the Sword of Destiny from him. He is crowned as Holy Emperor of Sudveg and hailed as a Hero by the council of fire.

The great misdeed was when without consent pushed Forn Sigulon into the heart of. betrayl of trust, love and justice.

He bounds the great beast "**Queen Gyhdro**" a three headed rotting undead dragon as his war-beast, her terrible green fire melts the great works of man, even the Highways of the Laurinlings, melt in its fires.

### Malvech Wars & "A Thousand Year of Darkness"

the First Nefarian Tide
Undead black dragons with green fiery eyes and fire.
As the last surviving memeber of the Nine Wanderers, the ninth Wanderers, that brought down the evil from the World, Malvech becomes the evil dark lord and uses dark magic to terrorize the World. Creating "A Thousand Year of Darkness" the First Nefarian Tide. He carves an bloody empire out of the middle of the contient and builds dark and twisted giant castles. He uses armies "The Black Legions" made out of skeletons and the undead, powered by black magic, and lead by the immortal bloodmonster Korvin Kaltblud to stamp all good into dust. He imprisons his Wife, the tragic, Kardella von Grimm in the Tower of Treachery, taking a thousand concubines and taking a Tiger-wife "The Spotted Queen" as his bride. This women gives brith to evil cat-demons who eat infants in their sleep, which causes the ritual Cat burning "The Festival of the Cats" to become an annual occurence in Angevy and parts of Sudveg. Many holymen are imprisoned in the mindtwisitng Tower of Confusion, where they fall into the darkside. In the Battle of Schlachten, the local river earns his name, due to Malvechs grim actions.

## Forn Sigulon

Malvech used a Black Swords that drank Shadows and was forged from the screaming souls of man
Believed to be by the people of Morrowlands the sword of destiny reforged in moonlight. Loros Shadowdrinker or Shadebane later took up the sword, he was an waringjar from Normannia.

## Katabasis

According to the Council of Fire lore, Malvech's fall was related to a priest who he had imprisoned in the Tower of Redemption that brought down the fiery wraith of the Holy Spirit as he proclaimed the king's sins to the Holy Spirit in the midst of every possible torture.
Simmion the Enchanter imprisons Malvech in an unknwon location, allegedly benath his gigantic castle, Kingsruhe. With his Imprisonment, the Black Legions fall as the Magusian and Draconian Pogroms begin. The innocent children of Malvech are slain, as the Council of Fire declares an eternal war against the Black Seed. Many of them find their end in the Tower of Orphans.

## Wars of the Sorcerers

The wars of the Sorceres were a series of sporadic pan-firangi effort by various black seeds to restablish or defend their fiefdoms given to them by their paternal ancestor Malvech, the Lord of Dusk. It would take 130 years for almost all of the successors to be defeated and most of the major black seed to annhilated. They are sometimes called the Magusian Pogroms, as during this time a great attack on anything deemed magic was executed.

famed Black Seed:
- The Laced Viper
- The Stonedrake of High Towers
- The Vile Owl of the Seas
- The Velvet Lady
- Nephria the Giantess of Mire
- Boris Blackvein
- Gawan the Gaunt
- The Grey King and Grey Maid
- The Pale Prince
- Uradagan of Gottesfluch
- Urrathos the Lance of the Night
- Loros Shadowdrinker
- Uthyr Dysterkrokan
- Desmold Darksword
- Chramm the Raven
- Whisperess
- The Knight of the Summermoon

## Legacy

### The Black Seed

Those who are born of the loins of Malvech are known as the **Black Seed**, most of them are lowly commonborns, as the Sancta Sedes waged war against the noble Bloodline of Malvech. As the Malvech came from the loins of the sea-monster **Quinotaur**, he had gained blackend scaled skin which made him unable to be wounded. As progeny of the Sea, the bloodline of Malvech suffer from the "**Black Curse**" *(Ichthyosis hystrix)* a skin diseased that will allegedly turn one into stone, this is a hereditary trait in his offspring, which might manifest at birth, or near puberty, sometimes it only manifests when interacting with cursed objects, for many it does not manifest at all. Traits associated with those of the Black Seed are ***dirty-gold curly hair, thin webbing between feet & fingers. golden eyes, heterochromia and a "drive to world-ending ambitions"***.

The Black Seed are condemed to death by the **Bulla of Blood**, while not as feverishly pursued as during the First Nefarian Tide, the Bulla of Blood has severly reduced the lineage of Malvech. The last execution was **Arghor Nightsblood**, an ambitious knight, put to death in 3:12 Age of Screams. Even then most Axions found it to be needless and an arcane bulla.

Although the Black Seed are feared by the Kyriarchtry, a good amount of the peasantry and laymen are in awe of the Black Seed for they bear marks of deformities and rot of the past sins for present to witness.

### Knight of the Valley

A wandering knight of unknown identity, wearing all-covering armor, sporting a dark-colored horse and cape, whose appearance and reputation strike fear into both humans and monsters. The Knight of the Valley of folklore is suppossedly the Night God, who instead of being cast into the Abyss by Simmion the Enchanter, was put into the Repentant Panoply and now wanders the world as a Black Knight seeking redemption, however most scholars believe that the myth is a conflation of the undead warrior Korvin Kaltblud and the later mythical being of the Crimson Chevalier.

### Kingsruhe

Also known as **Valley of the Dark Lord**, originally known as the **Valley of the Sleeping Kings**, is the ancient burial place of the Ninth Wanderer located in the Necropolis Kingsruhe. The Valley of the Dark Lord is the center of the Ahnengau, the capital region of the Holy Empire of Sudveg. Kingsruhe is guarded by the **Silent Repenters** a montastic order, who take care of the garden cemeteries and inflict great suffering (in silence) upon themselves to repentant for the blackest of sins conducted by the Ninth Wanderer.