Zektbach Wiki
Register
Advertisement

Malchut (マルクト) is a Child of the Planet whose story begins in the third part of Chapter 5 of The Epic of Zektbach. Originally genderless, she becomes female from the moment she leaves the Turii island, as she then breaks its balance and gives herself and all other Children of the Planet a gender.

She was the eldest of the children on Turii, and had to be sacrificed as their rites dictated, but she was saved from drowning in her sacrifice by Kukaru, a Sazaragi member, who brought her to kingdom of Masinowa.

She is later revealed to have a role as fundamental as L'erisia's in the Epic's plotline.

Appearance[]

Malchut has black and white hair as well as olive eyes. She is originally clothed in a similar fashion to the other children of Turii, wearing a pink collar, white panties, and a white cape. She has 15 pink rings drawing on her skin : two on her right wrist, three on her left, two on each thigh and three on each ankle.

When Kukaru brings her to Masinowa, she is given a more complete attire, comprised of a plaid dress of an unknown color, on top of which is a white kimono with pink rings at its ends, complete with a large obi on her chest.

After her rebirth as A'milia, her appearance changes entirely. Her hair becomes pure, shining white, and grows to reach her feet. Her eyes become bright green and her skin turns stainless white as well. She then wears a white dress with green lines running along its ends, with a similar cape and boots. A'milia kept Kukaru's red hairpiece as a keepsake, that she dons around her head.

Personality[]

This article section is a stub. You can help by expanding it.

Story[]


Malchut was created on the Turii island along with the other Children of the Planet. Their purpose was to keep the world balanced ; since the Ristaccia War had damaged it, the Turii children helped the recovery process. For them to do so, they were all genderless - thus had no sexuality and could not evolve or mutate in any way - had no knowledge of any sort of "outside world", and could not feel any sensation or emotion ; they just lived quietly and peacefully, isolated on the island, being absolute polar opposites to the chaos and awareness brought by Ristaccia.

At any given point in time, Turii Island only saw ten children : to maintain that number constant, they marked their age on their bodies, using rings, wearing one per new year. No two of them were the same age, and when the oldest reached fifteen, they had to return to nature in a ceremony called the Panta Rhei. Malchut one day realized she had to return to nature, so her companions danced around her as she slowly and quietly went into the water to drown.

Rescue

Malchut is rescued by a startled Kukaru

But, out of youthful exuberance, a thief named Kukaru, who had been observing the ceremony, interrupted it all of a sudden. He belonged to the Sazaragi Agency that was responsible for exploring distant lands and their heritage. following his sense of justice, Kukaru rescued Malchut from drowning, much to his relief and her shock. Because of his interference, the harmonious circulating flow of Turii had been interrupted ; soon, chaos would begin to wreak the world again. Malchut was then taken away to Masinowa and separated from her nine siblings, further unbalancing their once perfect order : soon enough, all of the once stable Children of the Planet opened to Ristaccia's chaos, most notably by acquiring a sex and gender. This break in the ring of harmony caused the disruption of causality between the stars and the planet. Malchut gradually awakened to the disruption of the world's natural balance. She realized that no way of eliminating the unbalance that had now formed.

During her stay at Masinowa, powerless to return to Turii, and unable to actually feel guilt for breaking the balance she no longer felt, she was befriended by Kukaru, who looked over her and provided for her, aiming to teach her how to speak. Even though she was impervious to qualia, she listened to and learned eagerly. She eventually managed to shout out "Miria", meaning "Friends" in her native tongue, which Kukaru mistook for her name, calling her this way from that day on.

Somehow, Malchut was interferring with Kukaru's Kagachi mark, which Gijiri was worried about, as Kukaru was the son of his childhood love Misakuya and one of the only remaining descendants of the Kagachin bloodline. His worry quickly turned to ominous threats, and he planned to kill her to ensure Kukaru's safety, on top of hoping to fix their mistake in preventing her death. Kukaru and "Miria" thus fled, eventually and coincidentally ending up in the ruins of Gijiri's birthplace, Jakotsu.

Malchut-cross

Malchut destroys Masinowa, as pictured in Turii ~Panta Rhei~

Gijiri attempted to gently lure her out, which she fell victim to, but Kukaru swiftly took the hit and died instead. At this moment, Malchut felt emotions for the very first time, and the strongest was despair. Under these unbridled and unknown forces, she destroyed the entire kingdom of Masinowa within a single day.

After this act, she wandered aimlessly, still desperate, frightened by her own power and plagued by questions that brought her to the Skyship Ruins ; L'erisia, who had gained way into her mind when she started to feel, whispered to her that she would find answers there. Upon their meeting, Malchut's power unleashed uncontrollably in response to L'erisia's attempts of corruption, and spawned a giant tree, which L'erisia swiftly dodged. Malchut, was then sealed by the forces she tried to unleash into a gigantic lotus flower, falling into a deep slumber and leaving L'erisia victorious.

An isolated tribe, the Amourina, descending from one of the eight ancient races, and that had not yet been absorbed by the Holy Kingdom of Noigllado, discovered the flower one day ; coming from inside, a faint feminine voice whispered "Miria" constantly. Bewildered, they decided to preserve this flower, that they named "A'milia", for one of their legends said it was a sacred being, "The Sealer", that would one day awaken. Fleeing to the Myutes Falls to protect their discovery from Noigllado, they renamed themselves Milian tribe and devoted themselves entirely to worshiping and caring for the lotus, living in hiding for centuries on end, even Noigllado's imperialism spelled persecution for them.

A'milia

A'Milia, the Sealer born from the Milian flower

According to their legends and thanks to their care, six hundred years later, the flower blossomed like never before, and opened, revealing a transformed Malchut, with a new body and a purified mind, completely free of the emotions that had almost killed her. From then, she took on the name of the flower she had been in for all that time. She traveled the world free Shamshir, Nox, and Matin from the curse of Ristaccia, and ascend them to transcendence ; along the way, she met Gijiri one last time, on the island of L'avide, and knowing his inability to transcend, fulfilled his wish for peace by allowing him to die of old age, which he immediately did. The party then returned to the ruins, where "every mystery in the world became clear" to their superior selves, and fought against L'erisia as equals, opposing the very first threatening resistance to meme the universe had ever seen.

This final confrontation led to both fundamental forces being weakened and nearly destroyed ; all living beings now march on to an unknown fate.

Trivia[]

  • Malchut and all other nine Children of the Planet are named after the Sephiroth of the Judaic Kabbalah's tree of life. Malchut is the bottom-most Sephirah of the tree, and means "Kingdom" ; it represents the physical world, the result of the actions of the divine power and all other nine Sephiroth.
  • Despite Malchut's role as the embodiment of nature, and its defender against L'erisia, embodiment of meme, she can be affected by meme, or at least, could before becoming A'milia. As shown in Raison d'Être, she could retain memories and attach emotions to them before this transformation, abilities only granted by the gem. Even after her transformation, her retaining Kukaru's headpiece appears to suggest that she remembers its meaning ; this might be the cause of her inability to completely eradicate L'erisia.
  • A'milia also appears as a crossover character in the Pop'n Music series.
  • Malchut's original design in her Child of the Planet outfit resembles San, the titular character of Studio Ghibli movie Princess Mononoke. Whether that resemblance is intentional or not is unknown.

Gallery[]

External links[]

Advertisement