Malachai

Malachai is a Vampire, and a main character on Vampire Bloodlines. He became the Vampire King  of  United Kingdom.

Early Life
Malachai was originally from Uruk, now known as Iraq. He was born over 6,000 years ago, long before "The first pharaoh built the first pyramid."

At a young age he married Akasha, the Queen of Kemet (which would later become Egypt). Malachai and his wife Akasha wanted their subjects to turn away from cannibalism and encouraged them to eat grains by farming.

Malachai and his wife were not the first people in Kemet to follow this path, but they were the first rulers, and were perhaps influenced by earlier believers. Malachai became a beloved ruler for turning his people away from violence and toward peace.

Eventually Malachai became interested in supernatural spirits. He invited the twin witch sisters Amara and Evolet to commune with the spirits, but they refused.

Some time later, Malachai sends soldiers to the twins' village who happen upon their mother's funeral, preparing to perform their culture's funeral rite of consuming their mother's brain and heart.

The soldiers kill everyone, save the twins, arresting them for the crime of cannibalism, and drag them to Kemet.

At the court, Malachai "spares" the twins and demands they answer countless trivial questions with the help of spirits.

The spirits provide only the simplistic answers which they are capable, then grow irritated and provide only rude retorts. Enraged, Malachai throws Amara and Evolet into jail as blasphemers.

The next day the King came again and asked the same questions. Against Amara's wishes, Evolet summons a powerful spirit named Ka'Ren to seek revenge on Malachai.

After Ka'Ren threatens to attack Malachai as punishment for summoning spirits. The King allows the twins to go home, but Ka'Ren still remains in their court, furious at the humiliation of the twins.

Ka'Ren punishes Malachai, and Akasha by pestering them day and night in their homes, whether it's knocking objects over or throwing them at them, eventually driving them mad.

Opposition to Malachai, and Akasha was always strong amongst cannibalists, mostly by those who practiced ritual cannibalism as opposed to savage cannibalism.

Knowing that they were the cause of an malevolent spirit oppressing Kemet makes the case against them even stronger.

One night, a group of nobles sneak into the palace and stab Malachai and Akasha multiple times, leaving them both mortally wounded.

As Malachai's soul was about to leave his body, Lilith snatches it and turns him into one of the first vampires.

As a Vampire
Malachai saves a dying Akasha by draining her of her remaining blood before allowing her to drink nearly all of his, making Akasha the world's second vampire and Malachai's first sire.

Together, they track and kill all the nobles that participated in their assassination attempt.

Malachai realizes he and Akasha are now immortal with superhuman strength, but they cannot be exposed to direct sunlight, cannot have intercourse and have an insatiable need to constantly drink blood to survive.

He sends Kallias to fetch Amara and Evolet to explain him nature and why he came to be.

Amara replies that the spirit Ka'Ren now inhabiting the King and Queen is too large to be contained in their singular human body. The spirit and their bloodlust will be proportionally diluted as more humans are made into vampires.

To verify the Amara's claims, Malachai betrays Kallias's loyalty by making him into a vampire against his will.

Finding Amara and Evolet's answers to be unsatisfactory as they cannot completely eliminate the bloodlust, the twins are sentenced to death.

Before the execution takes place, he has Amara's eyes and Evolet's tongue amputated.

The night before their execution, the twins are saved by Kallias who is furious at what Malachai has done to him.

He makes Evolet into a vampire and Evolet makes Amara into a vampire, hoping with their new powers they will be able to defeat Malachai.

Malachai and Akasha spend the next weeks battling Kallias and the twins and their sires who make up their Vampire Army.

Eventually, Malachai succeeds in trapping the twins in Saqqara and separately sets them adrift in the ocean in stone coffins: Amara to the east, and Evolet to the west.

Living life
As a vampire Malachai spent centuries traveling the globe, and was almost killed in Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars, before traveling to the Roman province of Judea, but was soon forced to flee, due to the Jewish uprising against the Romans.

Malachai possessed a deep love of nature, and believed strongly in the natural laws of the earth, and respect for the power of the elements.

As such, he developed an intense love for the human race. Malachai forged an allegiance with a pack of werewolves, providing them with his blood in exchange for their services as mercenaries.

Transylvania, 1451
Malachai had been betrayed by a witch and was cursed to spend a life time in Broken Tooth Mountain, feeding on travelers to satiate his thirst for blood. Presumably from the lack of regular victims to feed on.

Years later, a man named Vlad and his men travelled upward the cave in Broken Tooth Mountain. Inside, the party is attacked by Malachai. He attempted to attack Vlad, but Vlad fled returning to his castle.

Vlad returned to Broken Tooth Mountain and spoke with the Vampire Malachai.

Vlad told him he needs the power to stop the Turks, but Malachai was reluctant to give his power to a man who slaughtered thousands.

Against his best judgement Malachai gave Vlad his blood, upon drinking, Malachai stabbed him with his own sword turning Vlad into a Vampire.

18th Century
By 1753, Malachai was out exploring the world and wreaking havoc, during which time he visited a village in Galway, Ireland.

There he found a young man named Lemuel Bridger, who was drinking and whoring his way through a rather uneventful life.

Admiring him from afar, Malachai lured Angelus into an alley where he offering to show him things he had never imagined, and he sired Angelus.

In 1764, Angelus and Malachai were back in York, where they were hunted down by Zane, a vampire hunter.

The two decided to punish Zame by luring him to an empty cottage. While Zane was on this chase, Lemuel and Malachai killed Zane's wife.

Carol, Malachai sired his daughter, Jennifer, and they killed his infant son, Zane Jr.

After being forced to slay his own daughter, Zane swore revenge, and began a crusade to eliminate the two vampires that would last nearly an entire decade.

By 1765, Malachai and Lemuel fled from Italy to France with Zane hot on their heels. Zane managed to trap the pair within a burning barn, at which point Malachai hit Angelus with a shovel and escaped on the only horse left.

Angelus followed Malachai all the way to Vienna, where he made him "pay for sins. Again and again.

In 1767, Malachai and Angelus joined a couple of young vampire lovers, Lexi Branson and Lee, in Marseilles.

The couples burned the village of Comte de Leon to the ground, which attracted the attention of Zane.

While Malachai, Lexi and Lee escaped to the ship that would take the four vampires to Morocco, Lemuel stayed behind to face the vampire hunter.

Lemuel revealed his mentors whereabouts to save his own life, just as Malcolm had previously acted to save himself.

Malachai reunited with Lemuel as the two traveled through North America trying to escape Zane.

The pair were in Virginia when the relentless Zane found them in 1771.

Zane managed to capture Lemuel with the aid of a traditionalist Catholic sect known as Inquisitore, although with the aid of a group of local vampires, Malachai saved him from Zane's torture.

Lemuel wondered if they should kill Zane, but Malachai answered that it was much more fun to continue to ruin his life.

Louisiana, 1865
In 1865, Malachai was living in a cabin in the woods. Ryan Compton was returning from the Civil War but was exhausted.

He was in need of both food and rest. Malachai offered him aid. Malachai was impressed by his strong moral character and decided not to merely feed on him, but to make him a vampire.

Outlaw, 1877
At some point in 1877, Malachai met and befriended Matthew, a con artist who tried to rob Malachai who likewise tried to do the same to Matt. Malachai and Matt decided to partner up and formed their own gang.

Notable members that joined the gang at various times include Arthur Bell, Morgan Williams, and John Richardson.

The gang attempted an ambitious bank robbery in Chicago, but it ended in disaster and the gang was forced to flee.

The specifications of the heist are never fully revealed, but it's known that Malachai killed a defenseless young woman during it.

The events of Chicago shook Matt's faith in Malachai, though he admits that his faith in their mission had been dead for a long time before this, so the gang split up and went there own seperate ways.

Whitechapel, London, England, 1888
A series of eleven brutal killings in Whitechapel up to 1891 was unable to connect all the killings conclusively to the murders of 1888.

Five victims—Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly had been killed by a mysterus man.

Later in life Malachai had told Scott McCall that 1888 was a very eventfull year for Malachai as he returned to England after a long time away, and was once nicknamed "Jack the Ripper" by the locals.

Personality
Malachai was originally a very free-spirited young man, who was best friends with Ragnar Mikaelson.

As a human, Malachai also held a sense of duty as he took over the family estate, however his father saw him as very irresponsible and reckless, proving he was very much a free spirit who did things on a whim, taking no mind to what people thought.

Whilst he was respectful and polite, Malachai had a dark side which came to play when he and Ragnar, conspired to kill innocent humans, a trait which passed on to his vampire lifestyle.

As a Vampire Malachai is menacing, unpredictable, dangerous, wicked, cheeky, somewhat unreasonable and cocky to a fault.

He can quickly go from being a respectful gentleman to direct and aggressive.

As a vampire, Malachai finds child-like enjoyment in his acts of violence, sometimes comparing them to games like hide-and-seek and believing that there is always time for games when he is told to take a situation seriously.

Physical Appearance
Malachai wears an old raincoat It flaps around his legs in the wind. He makes the wind blow. His hair is black. His eyes are blue - electric blue.

Malachai is very tall and very Nordic in physical appearance. He is described as being very handsome despite the fact that his features are often contorted in madness.

He wears a dusty long tan coat, and is very tall in stature and very handsome.

Name

 * Malachai: From the Hebrew name מַלְאָכִי (Mal'akhi) meaning "my messenger" or "my angel".

This is one of the twelve minor prophets of the Old Testament, the author of the Book of Malachi, which some claim foretells the coming of Christ.

In England the name came into use after the Protestant Reformation.