Malcolm is the main antagonist of the first Legend of Kyrandia game and the main protagonist of the third game.
Description[]
Malcolm is the son of Court Jester Heinwald and Princess Thelia. His home is the Kyrandia Downtown Toy Factory. He wears a pied jester costume in purple and yellow colors with bells on his cap. With his costume, he carries a baton. He has white hair, a pointy hooked nose, and brown eyes. He has little regard for the welfare of others, is rather unhinged and tends to follow advice from his anti-conscience Gunther to do bad things for his own amusement, especially hurting and teasing animals, particularly squirrels.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Malcolm spend a lot of his early life doing impractical jokes under the influence of Gunther. During one of his pranks, he trapped his good conscience under a large rock. When he grew up, he was appointed the next jester after his father and was a favorite of the court. At some time, he married a lady called Rowena and had a child.
Somehow he obtained a cursed knife without knowing its evil power and when he presented it to his ruling cousins, the power of the knife forced him to strike kill the king and queen despite his best efforts to stop it. He was deemed a traitor and the jester went mad trying to seize power. The mystics imprisoned him inside a force-field.
Fables and Fiends[]
Eighteen years later, a maddened Malcolm freed himself from imprisonment and took possession of the castle Kyragem and gained magic powers to do with whatever he fancied. He began turning people to stone and blowing up trees. His actions were causing an imbalance to the country’s magic forces.
He learned that the crown prince Brandon (who had been kept hidden from him) was going on a quest take his rightful place on the throne. He went after the mystic mage Kallak and turned him to stone.
Malcolm found and tormented Brandon a few times, making his quest as difficult as possible. He also abducted Brandon’s friend Herman and turned him into a brainwashed zombie to kill Brandon inside the castle.
When Brandon opens the Kyragem vault, he confronts the prince one last time, intent on petrifying him. However Brandon tricks the jester into casting the spell on a mirror and rebounding right on Malcolm. With his defeat, the petrifications he did are undone, saving Kyrandia. The petrified jester is deposited in the trash dump outside the castle.
Malcom's Revenge[]
During a storm, a bolt of lightning hit the petrified Malcolm, releasing him from his stony prison, but completely lost of his magic powers. His first goal is revenge against King Brandon and Kallak. He does some adventuring, talking to various people and gathering necessary items. As he makes his way back to the castle by boat, he is frozen in place by Herman and brought before King Brandon, who banishes him to the Ends of the Earth.
Stranded, Malcolm attempts to make his way down the waterfall, but instead ends up in Limbo in a multi-year long sleep.