Malem Darkstein

Omni-Confederacy

* Xuriah D'arcmast'r

Masters Industries

**Malem Darkstein**is a major antagonist of *Multiversal Legends*universe being the central antagonist of the *To Another Dimension*, one of the one of the main antagonist of *Champions of the Multiverse*, and the main antagonist of the *Ned Kirby* series. He is the archenemy of Penjamin Merlin. He is an ancient dark alien entity, powerful inter dimensional alien conqueror who secretly serves the dark lord himself, who served the evil mastermind Xuriah D'arcmast'r.

He later seeks to find the Ten Commandments of Reality to reshape the Multiverse in his own liking. In the Umbra Mythos he successfully becomes a god and became one of the main antagonist of the *Champions of the Multiverse* series where he serves as a Major antagonist of phase 1, a minor antagonist of phase 2, and the secondary antagonist of phase 5 as well as one of the main antagonist of Phase 12.

He is voiced by User:Powermonger2003.

## History

### Origins

Once part of a race known as the Xelpherian until he was born with a deformity that lead him to be bullied by his peers. He grew spiteful and callous towards them but also posses a strange desire for hurting people. he learn some dark magic and made a deal with Tenebris to gain the ability to take the souls of others and become more powerful. He was granted dark abilities and had took the souls of his own kind to become immortal. He later went to another planet, demanding to be worship but the inhabitants refused so he killed them all too and later went to another and enslave a race of demonic beings known as Maliceans and brainwashed them into becoming his emotionless soldiers.

### Coming to Earth

Malem would go to universe to universe forcefully make people worship him or else they die or watch as their world is destroyed. He later tried to invade the planet Earth during ancient times as it is the source of all the power of the dark powers to set Tenebris free which is the ancient sword that defeated Tenebris. He first brainwash the guardian of the Earth known as the Earth Warders into murdering it's fellow guardians then have it kill itself. Without the earth's guardians to protect it, Malem launched a attack on the planet. He killed half of it's populace and then enslave the rest. He reign over the planet until one of his slaves named Marius Merlin and his partner Eon Pendragon lead a rebellion against the evil overlord. The rebellion later turned into a full on war which caused the death of millions, Merlin discovered a sword which held incredible and a book that contains every single knowledge across the multiverse. Merlin used the book which was known as the Necroscion to gain immense magical powers but he had to be careful as some of the knowledge contain int the book is incomprehensible to some of the viewers. He later gave the sword to Pendragon and together they were powerful enough to go against Malem.

When the two powerful heroes faced Malem, it took place on his ship known as the Conquest. The two heroes fought their way to get to Malem, they finally met him at his throne room which they find him in his floating chair. Malem began to taunt them as he believes that they are no match for him. He began to mind control one of them, Eon had succumb to his mind control and made him try to kill Merlin. Merlin fought back but almost killing Eon which made Merlin remorseful on attacking him. Merlin finally fought back against Malem and healed Eon which together had continue to fight Malem. Malem tried to absorbed their soul but Merlin used a counter spell that made him weaker, so Malem tried to use some of his destructive dark powers to summon fire and shooting constantly at the two heroes. Eon stabbed Malem with his magic sword which injured Malem, Malem was forced to retreat as it proved the two heroes were indeed strong. He could't accept defeat as he was powerful as the power of Tenebris coursed through his veins. Malem cursed the two that he would return and kill them or their descendants.

### Return to Earth

A thousand years after his defeat at the hands of the two heroes, Malem returns to Earth in the mid 2000s where he seek to conquer the Earth once against under the secret identity of a man name known as Edward Malem. His plan was to secretly build an army of his own and gain enough influence on the Earth's resources, Malem had worked with powerful people like Politicians and Corporate Executives until he would kill them so he can gain their power and authority. He became powerful enough to run his own company he corrupted Happy Smilestone and have him to kill all of his competitors mercilessly and cover it up as a series of murder done by the psychopathic clown. He would then have Happy kidnap several children for his own experiments. Malem would use the children as sacrifices for Tenebris in hopes of providing him a vessel for the Dark Entity to invade the physical universe. However, several children were killed during the process. Malem now knowing that regular children won't, has now decided to use a special child for the process. He learn of a boy named Jeffery McKinley who has psychic connections with the Prime Alphas, using a boy with divine powers mix with the chaotic energies of Tenebris would make an unstoppable force.

## Ned Kirby series

### Ned Kirby vs Von Darkstein, the destroyer of worlds

Malem von Darkstein, the Destroyer of Worlds also known as Von Darksteinis the main antagonists of the Ned Kirby Series. He is a world conquering alien deity that seeks to dominate the universe. He is Ned Kirby's archenemy in this one.

He is main antagonists of the the Ned Kirby animated series, the main villain of it's scratch game Ned Kirby vs Von Darkstein, the destroyer of worlds and it's comic series. This was the prototype version of Malem Darkstein as he started as a simple generic video game villain.

The plot of the game is that Von Darkstein arrives at Earth's moon and send a message to Earth to bow down or be destroyed, hence his name the Destroyer of worlds. Ned Kirby is his arch nemesis of Ned Kirby the titular protagonist who has the power of a crystal that shoots ninja stars. Though named the destroyer of worlds, the only way he attacks is going around and hitting the edges and off to try to hit Ned. He has over a hundred health and can receive damages from the ninja stars.

In the game, he and Malroc were the same and was named "Malroc von Darkstein". However over the years their traits were forgotten, so he and Malroc became separate as Malem narrowed traits from the previous iteration of the character from the Scratch game and old concepts beyond that.

## Personality

He is spiteful and cunning, he is willing to cause mass genocide on his own race or doom the entire multiverse into eternal darkness. He posses a strange desire for hurting people and seemed to enjoy stealing the souls of others so he can become immortal. Malem had shown to have an extreme hatred toward Merlin and Eon (including their descendants Alan & Owen) probably being the one that defeated him during his attack on Earth. Malem across the series seek to become even more powerful to the point of trying to betray his dark master and become a true world destroying tyrant.

He is very callous as he would go to very extreme measures like how he had made ten human sacrifices and mind controlled many innocent people to use as slaves. His lust for power shows no limits, as he posses a unquenchable thirst for supreme power and ruthlessness and would manipulate his friends and allies for such power. He has some interest on burning things which shows that he is a pyromaniac, he shown to burn down cities for merely entertainment and shown to enjoy seeing people bow and worship him as a demigod. He seeks to gain respect and show that he is superior amongst others.

he is shown to tolerate failure as long it doesn't effect his schemes or makes him alter the plan. He is show to be quite intelligent as he posses several back up plans for different types of situation he is in. He seemed to provide payment to those he wants to recruit or try to get information from, but if he lost your usefulness for him or fulfilled your purpose then he would simply kill you and regain the wealth he bestowed upon you. He enjoys using others as his pawns as he thinks that everyone else to him is merely puppets for his grand schemes.

He can easily control his ego and arrogance as he is fully aware that it could bring his down fall. He is very crafty and cunning as it is one of his best traits, He does not let any minor or short-term defeats or set back his plans and if one way of completing his scheme fails, he simply finds another one. If someone hinders him Malem would just give them a brutal punishment as he can be very unforgiving when a plan fails. He is always prepared for a attack, betrayal, or anything that keeps him paranoid.

He often speaks softly and even acts affable, though don't let this fool you as he doesn't even try to hide his true personality to the heroes as he did outright calls himself a villain to Alan and Owen. He also has a habit of holding grudges on certain people and can even be temper mental when things didn't go the way he plans.

## Appearance

### As Malem

In his usual costume, he's dressed in all black dining an iron mask similar to the one Malroc has. As the mask drawn inspiration from the lines of Malcron the Destroyer. He wears metallic arm braces, boots, and armor on his black spandex. He also has green skin and eyes, and has a green slab like logo on his chest that resembles am X.

### As Tenebris

He is shown to be a shadowy being composed of pure dark energy, he is described as being who can take the shape of anyone he desires if he chooses. He is also shown to be wearing a black crown and has Purple Eyes and a skull-shaped face.

## Abilities

Malem is one of the most powerful characters in the Multiversal Legends universe, being a Alien conqueror with special abilities granted by his dark godlike master Tenebris.

* **Genius Intelligence:** being an ancient alien that explored several universes, Malem is amongst the most intelligent beings in his respected universe. Being an expert strategist and a master manipulator, Malem was on of the most successful conquerors running one of the biggest empires in the multiverse. Being prepare for almost any situation and any attack, betrayal, or anything keeping him paranoid.
* **Soul Absorption:** He can take the souls of people he faces but with only on exception, he can only do so if his opponents are weak enough. The he reason he was able to take the souls of his own race was because he used they're only one weakness against them. With this souls he can become stronger and age slower, this ability is his most common chose of power.
* **Umbrakinesis:** Being the champion of a shadow god, Malem is able to shape, create, and manipulate shadows in there night since the sun is effective to his abilities. As such he can also manipulate dark energies as well as summoning weapons for battle. He can also use shadow mass as shields for him, and create constructs in his liking.
* **Mind Control:** Though limited as well, he was able to control Eon Pendragon's mind into killing Merlin but that failed. He really uses it as he wants to challenge himself by using sheer manipulation to get what he wants but he does uses it to help him as well. he only has to look at you straight in the eye and you become his victim.
* **Super-Strength:** Having strength rivaling Thor and Hercules themselves, as stated before he is an alien from a powerful race, and since the souls he take he becomes stronger.
* **Pyrokinesis:** Malem had burn down cities wit his hands and summon fire daemons from the depths of Hell itself. Malem was also able to summon hell fire and make constructs made of flame similar to his umbra kinetic powers. basically he is playing with fire and the flame he uses the most issue flames and shadow flames.
* **Sorcery**: Being a skilled master of astral projection and hypnosis and even mastered dark arts (more commonly soul absorption) like being able to invoke daemons from the Umbra Dimension and even Hell itself. He could also control all forms of the Elements as well.

## Gallery

Tenebris formEarlier designs of Malem (originally named Malum).
## Trivia

* Malem is based on a previous creation of Powermonger2003's villain Malrok van Darkstein.
* He is based on a the ambitious power hungry evil sorcerer type villain known in several fantasy stories. Some example of which is Gul'dan and Shang Tsung.
* Malem's appearance is similar to Malroc's, due to the fact that they're somewhat of a composite character of Malrok van Darkstein as mentioned before. So the creator decided to recycle the design and use it for Malem.