Malice - Origins: The concept of the Chaos God "Malal" was created by comics writers John Wagner and Alan Grant along with Malal's Champion, Kaleb Daark, for the Warhammer World in the Citadel Miniatures Compendium and Journals.In the comic strip Kaleb Daark's mission allied him temporarily with the forces of Law. He fights at the siege of Praag and confronts the followers of the Chaos God Khorne, and also finds himself at odds with the Skaven.Less mutated than other followers of Chaos, he is equipped with his soul-drinking Daemon axe Dreadaxe with its pterodactyl-like head on a shaft of bone. His shield was shaped in the form of Malal's mark, a half-black, half-white skull. His armour was all-black with white details, and his steed was a black Daemonic horse known as a Chaos Steed.Kaleb himself appeared pale, as the contact with Malal supposedly drained him of life energy. His battle cry was "Dreadaxe thirsts for you!"There were three installments completed of The Quest of Kaleb Daark comic with the fourth remaining unprinted:Part 1 : "The Quest of Kaleb Daark" - The Third Citadel Compendium 1985Part 2 : "The God-Slayer!" - The Citadel Journal Spring 1986Part 3 : "Evil of the Warpstone!" - The Citadel Journal Spring 1987Part 4 : "God Amok!" - UnprintedIn the Spring 1986 Journal there was also one additional page of Warhammer Fantasy Battle rules (and a small bit of Malal background) for including Kaleb Daark and his Chaos Steed in games. This issue also saw the first advertisements for the miniature figure set including a mounted and standing Kaleb Daark.The Spring 1987 Journal featured the miniature figure sets of the two Chaos Brothers, Jaek and Helwud, Kaleb's main adversaries in Part 3 of the comic. Part 4 "God Amok!" was also advertised in this issue, but it never saw print. It is uncertain how much of this fourth installment was actually completed. Allegedly the comic was canceled because of "creative differences" between the creators and Games Workshop.With the introduction of Malal in the comics, it was inevitable that the deity would find its way into the Games Workshop Chaos mythos and thereby into other products:The renegade Ogre Skrag the Slaughterer was introduced as a follower of Malal. A short background story told his story as being cast out from his tribe for stealing a "starmetal" axe, with Malal subsequently guiding Skrag to a Chaos Dwarf hold, forcing them to forge him an armor and then slaughtering them all in the name of Malal. White Dwarf 83 (UK) (1983) featured a Warhammer Fantasy Battle mini-scenario The Crude, the Mad and the Rusty, pitting the lone Chaos Dwarf survivor of this massacre, aided by two goblin fanatics and a mechanical warrior, against Skrag. Skrag has since been recast as a devout follower of the Ogre god known as "The Great Maw".In the first edition of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay in 1986, Malal has a short paragraph along with Khorne and Nurgle and is mentioned as a renegade Chaos God dedicated to the destruction of the other Chaos Gods.In the short story The Laughter of Dark Gods in the Warhammer anthology Ignorant Armies, there is also a reference to an unnamed albino Malal Chaos Champion and his warband roaming the Chaos Wastes. This Champion is slain by the novel's main character.The card game Chaos Marauders published in 1987 featured the "Claws of Malal" card. The unit represented in the game by this card was a warband of Beastmen eager to fight, preferably against followers of the other Chaos Gods.Use of Malal in further Games Workshop productions ceased around 1988, the same year the first of the two Realm of Chaos background books was published. Malal is not referred to or mentioned at all in these products. There was also an uncertainty as to who actually owned the rights to the concept of Malal -- the comic's authors or Games Workshop.The one notable exception to this absence of Malal was in the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay supplement The Dying of the Light published by Hogshead Publishing in 1995. This book featured a Chaos Sorcerer of Malal named Heinrich Bors who has struck a deal with Malal to escape from the Chaos God Tzeentch.