there are great champions within dungeons and dragons mighty heroes and powerful demigods but
not all of these champions are good evil creatures exist and push their agenda and they can be just
as powerful today we're going to talk about malkazid the branded king a champion of ruin
hello everybody jordan here the ph is silent let's dive back into some forgotten realms lore it's
it's it's been a while now i've been reading the third edition supplement
champions of ruin links down below which has a lot of information on certain elder evils
that i've been making videos on in the past coming to an end of that supplement there is
an outsider named malkazid and it struck me as interesting now malkazid the branded king
is a fiend but was once a solar an angel who served the seldarine which is the elven word
for the pantheon of elven gods now their leader is corellon who had a fling with lolth before she
turned evil or maybe she was always evil now lolth tried to have corellon murdered and was
uh swaying others to side with her against gorlon it was lolth who convinced malcazid to
follow her and rebel against corellon which this act became his downfall malkazid for his treachery
was branded on the forehead by corellon and banished to the nine hells now the mark the brand
if you will is actually a wound and it takes the form of a large gash across his forehead
that slowly drips blood forever it's a reminder to malcazid of his treachery and his inability
to return to the upper plains it's a warning to others not to cross corellon and the seldarine
cast down into the nine hells malkazid fought through the devils and gained the status of
archdevil being lawful evil now and part of the devil hierarchy he would take orders from those
higher than him the main one being asmodeus now something happened between the two of them and
it's undocumented so we don't really know what asmodeus exiled malchezid from the nine hells
now most likely malkazid tried to rebel against asmodeus and take his spot as ruler of the nine
hells when he was exiled he had a number of devil followers go with him navigating the lower planes
he went towards the gray waist or hades and set up a domain there recruiting eugeloth
that lived there as well as his faithful devils his full title expanded and he was then known as
malchezid the branded king yugoloth lord and archdevil in exile but don't worry i hear if you
get to know him well enough you can just call him malkazid the branded king or even malk malkazid
is very powerful and being a devil he's clever hateful and patient not surprising he really
hates lolth for leading him to the dark side he also hates and fears corellon for not showing him
mercy he knowingly does not have the power to be directly confrontational with either corellon or
lolth thus malcazid has decided to destroy and manipulate the mortal followers of those deities
the surface elves and the drow so way back in the very early days of faerun malkazid offered secrets
and powerful magic to the elves when they were fighting one another during the first flowering
this was a long complicated war where various elven civilizations were being manipulated on
many fronts some by malchezid now much later in 711 dr during the weeping war his minions were
crucial in the destruction of myth draenor which by 1355 dr malcazid positioned himself as the
lord of mythranor well he was a hidden lord of the devils of myth draenor but it was basically just a
staging point for him to execute his evil schemes by 1374 malkazid was defeated by a very powerful
sun elf named a raven to shure these events take place in the forgotten realms novel series
the last mythal current whereabouts of malkazid unknown he was defeated but not destroyed and
most likely still remains on faerun he is clever though hiding and waiting r to his advantage
it is rumored that he has spies and followers all over the sword coast they keep an open ear to
any disgruntled elves recruiting those elves for malcazid's purpose of bringing down the elven race
malchet's plans lately have been to instill distrust between the elven kingdoms getting
them to war with one another and within drow houses he nurtures free thought and the ability
to leave lol's control while at the same time encouraging attacks on the surface elves hoping
to build an army malkazid is looking at the ferry which are the elven equivalent of tieflings now
older editions had tieflings for humans feyre for elves and tana rooks for orcs all of those races
have a bit of fiendish blood the faerie haven't made an appearance in 5e as of making this video
now the fairy came about because there was an idea early on within some elven kingdoms to strengthen
their bloodline they opted to use fiends for some reason and bred with them this created the feyre
and other phari to come about in later generations however it proved to be rather disastrous
who knew that creating half demons within your elven kingdom would be so disastrous everybody
now some of these fairy and half fiends banded together and formed the loose organization known
as the daemon fae many of the damon fae from long ago very very old faerun were sealed away
magically but with the destruction of hell gate keep in 1369 dr they were freed malcazid has
offered his assistance to the damon faye but they are keen to his desires to subjugate them malkazid
would like nothing more than to become the leader of these twisted elves and currently the fairy
are not having it yet malkazed is a great villain to use for a longer campaign especially one that
involves elves a behind-the-scenes archdevil that manipulates others to bring about destruction now
you could use zarya's stats from descent into avernus or just convert his third edition stats
to fifth edition but his special abilities include branded forehead which looking at him in the face
can paralyze you as well as lower your wisdom score he has natural weapons with like bird claw
hands i'm not i'm not really sure a fear aura and loads of complicated spells he was a solar
originally so he has some of those abilities but obviously now corrupted and super evil
how would you use malkazid in a game of dungeons and dragons i really want to run an all drow game
in the underdark in menzoberensen and malkazid just might be my villain who tries to turn the
drow houses to total war now if you don't know i created another youtube channel called jordan's
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