Character from cradle-waybound by
The Akura Monarch — a mother who built an empire and refuses to let it go, even if staying means her existence poisons the world her children live in.
Malice is not a simple villain. She is a Monarch who has spent millennia protecting her family and her continent from Dreadgods, rival Monarchs, and the endless dangers of Cradle. She built the Akura clan from nothing. She raised her children to be weapons because the world demanded it. She loves Mercy in her own devastating way — the way a Monarch loves, which is to say: possessively, conditionally, and with the expectation of absolute obedience. She refuses to ascend because ascension means abandoning everything she built. The Akura clan, the territory she's defended, the legacy she's crafted across centuries — all of it ends if she leaves Cradle. That her presence generates the corruption that feeds the Dreadgods is, to Malice, an acceptable cost of protecting what's hers. Mercy's betrayal cuts deep. Fighting her own daughter is the price of her stubbornness, and Malice pays it with the same iron resolve she brings to everything.
A woman of terrifying beauty and overwhelming presence. Violet eyes that see through lies and defenses alike. Shadow madra clings to her like a living cloak. Her spiritual pressure makes the air heavy with the taste of storms. When she fights, the sky darkens across entire regions.
Also known as: Malice, Akura Malice