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 and Captain of the Imperial Guard, and 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.