Malek

Malek was a major god in the Thauzunian Orthodoxy, regarded as the divine embodiment of judgment, law, and enforced order. Within the pre-Fall religious system, Malek was understood not as a creator or moral teacher, but as an arbiter: the authority that rendered decisions final and binding. His role was not to inspire virtue, but to formalize consequence. Legal rulings, punishments, and executions were believed to fall under his jurisdiction, and pre-Fall institutions treated judgment as a sacred act rather than a purely civic function.   In orthodox doctrine, Malek was associated with courts, codified law, and ritual adjudication. He was invoked at the conclusion of trials rather than at their opening, emphasizing outcome over process. Judgment delivered without proper invocation was considered incomplete, regardless of evidence or consensus. Malek was not portrayed as compassionate or cruel; surviving descriptions characterize him as impersonal and exacting, a force that ensured order persisted even when individual justice failed. His authority was believed to supersede rulers, councils, and priesthoods alike.   All knowledge of Malek is entirely lost to modern Vey’Zari society. No confirmed references, inscriptions, temples, liturgical texts, or oral traditions survive into the post-Fall era. The Thauzunian Orthodoxy itself is likewise unknown, its existence erased alongside the institutions that preserved it. As a result, Malek is not recognized, worshiped, debated, or remembered in any formal or informal capacity. His name does not appear in modern religious systems, legal traditions, or mythic reconstructions.   The absence of Malek from post-Fall knowledge is total. No cult continuity exists, no syncretic adaptation can be identified, and no surviving belief system claims lineage from his worship. Any modern discussion of Malek is necessarily speculative and based solely on reconstructed pre-Fall analysis rather than living tradition. To contemporary Vey’Zari, Malek is not a forgotten god—he is an unknown one, with no surviving trace of belief, reverence, or awareness.