Malici

Malici is one of the lesser gods and goddesses worshipped in Esringne. Malici is the God of Destruction, and is the Son of Repses and Qybtia.

Malici was brought to life when Qybtia disguised herself as Repses' wife, Amya, and tricked him into bed. Afterwards, in a rage, he cast the lying goddess from his place of holy rest, deep into a cavern created by the earthquakes fueled by his anger. For weeks he abandoned his duties to the earth, and that winter became the coldest winter ever on Esringne record (so it is said). He spent that time raging at Qybtia, who spent just as much time screaming back. Qybtia's anger flooded the land, causing creatures of all kinds to sin in particularly wrathful and violent ways. In the suffocating miasma of two enraged gods, a child was born (very much unwanted by Repses), though both gods could not find it within themselves to kill the child. Qybtia named the child "Malici", in a show of defiance for Repses repeatedly calling her malicious, and she returned to her own realm with her son.