Malar R. Blackwood

Malar Razud Blackwood is the current sultan of the Eldham nation The Razuni Sultanate, and is a second generation member of The Blackwood Family. He is portrayed by user High_Monarch. He is known to be a kind man, and somewhat of a pacifist, only resorting to war when his hand is forced. He is known to be a practicing Salranist. He has previously held the title of Razuni Archivist, Captain of the Imperial Guard, and Grand Vizier of the Razuni Sultanate. He also runs the Razuni Brewing Company.

Malar currently resides in Al-Razun with his family. He is responsible for the Razuni Imperial Document (which has since been removed), keeping a lot of the history of the Sultanate intact, as well as a great deal of the planning for the under-construction Al-Razun reconstruction project. He fought in the Kunir War, and the Skjold-Limuria war.

Early Life
Malar was born to Bashar Razud, though it is unknown who the mother was, named after his father's best friend, who was known publicly as Malar the Alchemist. Not long after his birth Malar the Alchemist was found dead in his home, causing Bashar to begin to hate the child-Malar, simply because he shared the name. He quickly began to become abusive towards him. The at the time fairly new Arbiter, Saya-Orin "Slanority" Blackwood would find themself acting as a sort of mother towards him however, doing her best to protect him from his father.

As Malar grew into his teenage years he became more and more irritable, much like his father, and was known to have violent outbursts whenever he disagreed with something, especially Bashar's multiple attempts to marry someone new. This made the tensions between father and son only grow, and Malar would lean more on The Blackwoods as a family. He took quick interest into history and magic, however, him and Slanority Blackwood doing a great deal of looking into the deeper history of the Razuni lands, where he would consequentially pick up the Salranist set of beliefs.

He was still quick to result to violence however, and it would be years before he learned otherwise despite Slanority and Heckish's attempts to teach him otherwise.

Young Adulthood
Into young adulthood not much had changed about Malar, he was still the lover of archiving and knowledge, but his short temper still remained, and as soon as he was of age he enlisted in the Razuni military, looking forward to the outlet to get anger out through. He seemed almost eager for war. However that would soon change. The first war that he was unfortunate enough to end up at was the Kunir War, where he fought bravely alongside his fellow Razuni soldiers, including Slanority, Heckish, and Jack Zakar. Led by Bashar, they fought long and hard, and it would be there he witnessed the true horrors of war. Him, Slanority, Heckish, and Bashar would be the only Razuni forces to return from the war.

After this he began to turn to alcohol, which he had learned how to make through his research and knowledge collecting habits, as a coping mechanism. It didn't help that not long after this his father passed away, and the crown was for a time passed to him, much to the displeasure of his younger brother Kahuna Bacardi. In his drunkenness he made rash decisions, including a temporary ban on red wine, which he claimed was "the will of the Karashore", despite Slanority's insistence that it wasn't. This rule was luckily short lived, as his bestfriend Rizil Whitlock, The Blackwoods, and Jack Zakar convinced him to step down and let Jack take the throne instead, as Kahuna refused the throne despite his complaints of Malar getting it in the first place. Eventually Malar began working his way out of his alcohol addiction with the help of Slanority and Rizil, and eventually got to the point where he was allowed the role of official Razuni Archivist, though this role would later be removed due to it being no longer needed.

Adulthood
Malar would continue on this upward slope in his life, eventually getting to the point where he felt he could join the Imperial Guard, which he would make his way to be captain of. This was around the time that there was a push for the Razuni Sultanate to join the Zamotz Union, and at first Malar was one of the most vocal when it came to his opposition towards the idea, claiming that the Sultanate had enough land and could survive on it's own. However, he was eventually in favor, ending up voting in agreement of joining the Union. During the process of joining, the at the time sultan and friend to Malar, Jack Zakar, left the throne, leaving it to his son, Indo Ibn Almalik Zakar Malar continued to grow closer to the Blackwoods at this time, eventually fully being adopted into the family as a second generation member, and child of Slanority and Heckish. Rizil and Malar were also growing closer, and they decided to get into a romantic relationship with eachother, not long after getting married. There was no wedding ceremony, as they decided to elope immediately. There was also, during this time, a massive effort from Malar and Slanority to uncover more about ancient Razuni, eventually leading to the Salranist revival and the creation of the Ruza-Niveen

Unfortunately, it was also during this time that the nation began to slow down as Indo shifted focus to almost entirely Zamotz work. In this time Malar would remain one of the more active people, working on things such as diplomacy, wars, and other things along with the other few remaining active people, one of his biggest achievements in this time was the creation of the Imperial Document, which dictated how the Razuni government of the time was run. He was one of the first to start working on the then-new Al-Razun reconstruction project, along with Heckish, Slanority, and Indo, though most of it was carried by his unceasing efforts. Eventually Vanderis Arianrhod joined the effort, dragging Indo into helping create several different building designs, though this lead to arguments between him and Malar, as Malar disagreed with several of the choices made by Vanderis. Though these were always settled when they realized it was Indo's strange specifics that lead to this, the arguments still created more tension in the Sultanate.

Later Adulthood
Malar would become the one who helped drag the rest of the Sultanate into activity in order to leave Zamotz, having grown tired of the inactivity, and after a long, month long argument with Indo and other Razuni officials, Razuni was finally allowed to split and become independent from the Zamotz Union. This, unfortunately, would later be revealed to be part of Vanderis' plan to cause the Irisnian Split, which would cause Indo to leave the Sultanate and pass the crown to Malar, making him sultan of the Razuni Sultanate for the second time.