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{{Infobox character
{{Infobox creature
| name = Malus Thorm
| name = Malus Thorm
| image = Malus Thorm.png
| image =
| voice = Sean Baker
<gallery>
| titles = Shar's Scalpel  
Malus Thorm.png|Portrait
| family = [[Ketheric Thorm]] (nephew){{cite text|Tissue and Organ Register|Malus Thorm}}<br>[[Isobel]] (grandniece)
Malus Model.png|Model
</gallery>
| va = [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0048917 Sean Baker]
| title = Shar's Scalpel  
| family = [[Ketheric Thorm]] (nephew){{cite text|Tissue and Organ Register|Malus Thorm}}<br> [[Thisobald Thorm]]<br> [[Gerringothe Thorm]]<br> [[Isobel]] (grandniece)
| hometown = [[Reithwin Town]]
| hometown = [[Reithwin Town]]
| race = Undead [[elf]]
| race = Undead, former [[elf]]
 
| full name = Malus Thorm
| modules =
| size = Medium
| type = Undead
| ac = 18
| e hp = 193
| hp = 276
| t hp = 358
| movement m = 9
| weight kg = 100
| level = 7
| str = 14
| dex = 18
| con = 14
| int = 14
| wis = 16
| cha = 8
| wis save prof = Proficient
| dex save prof = Proficient
| t prof bonus = +4
| resistances = slashing resistant nm, piercing resistant nm, bludgeoning resistant nm, fire resistant full
| t conditions = Legendary Resistance: Incapacitation
| passives = Magic Resistance, Multiattack: Wounded (Malus Thorm), Opportunity Attack, Turn Resistance
| h passives = Legendary Action: Wail of Loss, Magic Resistance, Multiattack: Wounded (Malus Thorm), Opportunity Attack, Turn Resistance
}}
}}
'''Malus''' is the undead master surgeon of the [[House of Healing]], and twisted follower of Shar. Having somehow kept his personality despite being in the [[Shadow-Cursed Lands]], he believes graceful pain and calculating mutilation are the key to truly embracing the ideals of his dark faith. At his depraved hospital, he tirelessly works to train his [[Undead]] Nurses to hone such skill, yet their hollowed state leaves them lacking in ability beyond being dutiful assistants.
'''Malus''' is the undead master surgeon of the [[House of Healing]], and twisted follower of Shar. Having somehow kept his personality despite being in the [[Shadow-Cursed Lands]], he believes graceful pain and calculating mutilation are the key to truly embracing the ideals of his dark faith. At his depraved hospital, he tirelessly works to train his [[Undead]] Nurses to hone such skill, yet their hollowed state leaves them lacking in ability beyond being dutiful assistants.
{{Q|The objective of the scalpel, sisters, is to soothe, for a scalpel, indeed, is an extension of Shar. See how the patient reacts when I but stroke the right nerve. Hear its comfort. Hear the melody of mercy. Pray, sister, show us the extent of your beneficence.|Malus Thorm instructing the Undead Nurses in their "medical practice."}}


== Overview ==
== Overview ==
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== Involvement ==
== Involvement ==
{{Spoiler warning|act=2}}
Arriving at the [[House of Healing]] and gaining entry to the surgery theatre, Malus will be busy educating his undead nurses on a poor 'patient'. While cordial at first seeing the talking party members as a new students, preaching his view of Absence being the way to understanding Shar. After mutilating the 'patient' he will urge to do the same to the party. Beyond attacking, there are a mix of [[Skill Check|Skill Checks]] that can be done instead:
Arriving at the [[House of Healing]] and gaining entry to the surgery theatre, Malus will be busy educating his undead nurses on a poor 'patient'. While cordial at first seeing you as a new student, preaching his view of Absence being the way to understanding Shar. After mutilating the 'patient' he will urge to do the same to you. Beyond attacking to defend yourself, there are a mix of [[Skill Check|Skill Checks]] that can be done instead:


*A [[Difficulty Class|DC]] 14 [[Investigation]] check will lead to you pointing out the nurses aren't skilled enough for surgery.
* A [[Difficulty Class|DC]] 14 [[Investigation]] check with advantage for [[Rogue]] to check nurses tools and point out that they're unusable
*A DC 14 [[Religion]] check will let you use the ways of Shar to counter '''Malus''' own views.
* A DC 14 Investigation check will lead to pointing out the nurses aren't skilled enough for surgery.
*A DC 16 [[Persuasion]] check will suggest the nurses aren't ready and just make you sick instead of 'curing' you.
* A DC 14 [[Religion]] check will let the party use the ways of Shar to counter '''Malus''' own views.
* A DC 16 [[Persuasion]] check will suggest the nurses aren't ready and just make the party sick instead of 'curing' them.


If any of these checks are successful, '''Malus''' will ask how to train the nurses properly, leading to two differing DC 21 Persuasion checks.
If any of these checks are successful, '''Malus''' will ask how to train the nurses properly, leading to two differing Persuasion checks.
*Suggest that '''Malus''' offer himself up to be practiced on by the nurses, which he gleefully accepts. After a bloody scene in which they blindly hack away at his body, the nurses will become passive, and the master surgeon very much dead.
* A DC 21 with advantage for [[Monk]] or [[Bard]] to suggest that '''Malus''' offer himself up to be practiced on by the nurses, which he gleefully accepts. After a bloody scene in which they blindly hack away at his body, the nurses will become passive, and the master surgeon very much dead.
*Convince '''Malus''' to have the Sisters test their skills against each other, leading to a bloody brawl between them.
* A DC 21 with advantage for [[Rogue]] or [[Fighter]] to convince '''Malus''' to have the Sisters test their skills against each other, leading to a bloody brawl between them.


If the player has first read the ''[[Surgery and Physiology: A Sharran's Primer]]'' book in the room behind '''Malus''', two additional options are available, both of which are instead DC 18, and both of which result in the nurses killing '''Malus''':
If the party read the ''[[Surgery and Physiology: A Sharran's Primer]]'' book in the room behind '''Malus''', two additional options are available, both of which are instead DC 18, and both of which result in the nurses killing '''Malus''':
* [INTIMIDATION] I have read your treatise. Initiate the final lesson, or die by my hand. (DC 18)
* A DC 18 [Intimidation]] check: 'I have read your treatise. Initiate the final lesson, or die by my hand.'
* [PERSUASION] ‘Only with sacrifice is mastery gained.’ For the sisters to learn, you must submit. (DC 18)
* A DC 18 Persuasion check: 'Only with sacrifice is mastery gained.’ For the sisters to learn, you must submit.'


If the nurses were convinced to fight each other, the mad surgeon will press to tend to you next. He can be attacked, proving much easier to defeat without the support of his nurses. Alternatively, he can be convinced to do the work for you:
If the nurses were convinced to fight each other, the mad surgeon will press to tend to the party next. He can be attacked, proving much easier to defeat without the support of his nurses. Alternatively, he can be convinced to kill himself:
* A final DC 21 [[Persuasion]] check, requesting that Malus perform the procedure on you
* A DC 21 Persuasion check, requesting that Malus perform the procedure on the party.
* DC 21 [[Deception]] check with advantage for [[Sorcerer]] or [[Cleric]], asking that Malus bless you with the blinding procedure
* A DC 21 [[Deception]] check with advantage for [[Sorcerer]], [[Cleric]], [[Fighter]], or [[Druid]] asking that Malus bless the party with the blinding procedure.
Awed by your diligence, '''Malus''' will happily make an example of himself, stabbing and killing himself through the eye.
Awed by the party's diligence, '''Malus''' will happily make an example of himself, stabbing and killing himself through the eye.


== Combat ==
== Combat ==
{{Infobox statistics
| child =
| name = Malus Thorm
| race = Undead
| size = Medium
| type = Undead
| armour_class = 18
| hit_points = 276
| hit_points_tactician = 358
| movement_speed_meters = 9
| movement_speed_feet = 30
| weight_kg = 100
| weight_lb =
| level = 7
| str = 14
| dex = 18
| con = 14
| int = 14
| wis = 16
| cha = 8
| wis_save_proficiency = Proficient
| dex_save_proficiency = Proficient
| resistant1 = Piercing
| resistant2 = Bludgeoning
| resistant3 = Slashing
| resistant4 = Fire
| feature1_name = Legendary Action: Wail of Loss
| feature1_description = Spend a legendary action to make your assistants cast Wail of Loss
| feature1_mode = Honour
| feature2_name = Magic Resistance
| feature2_description = Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
| feature3_name = Multiattack: Wounded (Malus Thorm)
| feature3_description = Can Multiattack if your hit points are at 40% or less.
| feature4_name = Opportunity Attack
| feature4_description = Automatically attack an enemy moving out of your reach.
| feature5_name = Turn Resistance
| feature5_description = Advantage on saving throws against being turned.
}}
=== Attacks and abilities ===
=== Attacks and abilities ===
{{Feature box|name=Claws|image name=Generic Physical.webp
{{Feature box|Claws (Malus Thorm)}}
|* Lash out with deadly claws, dealing {{DamageText|2d4+4|Slashing}} damage.
{{Feature box|Request Surgical Instrument}}
{{action}}
{{Feature box|Bloody Bonesaw}}
}}
{{Feature box|This Won't Hurt A Bit}}
{{Feature box|Terror Trepan}}
{{Feature box|Lethal Leech}}
{{Feature box|Lovely Assistant}}


{{Feature box|name=Request Surgical Instrument|image name=Generic Utility.webp
== Notable loot ==
|* Request a tool for advanced surgery.
{{action|bonus}}
 
Grants {{Cond|Surgeon's Chosen}} onto one of the undead nurses, having them lend a unique Instrument of Loss for him, allow Malus to perform powerful and debilitating attacks. The surgical tools are the following:
 
* {{Cond|Instrument of Loss: Bonesaw}} - {{SAI|Bloody Bonesaw}}
* {{Cond|Instrument of Loss: Syringe}} - {{SAI|This Won't Hurt A Bit}}
* {{Cond|Instrument of Loss: Trepan}} - {{SAI|Terror Trepan}}
* {{Cond|Instrument of Loss: Leech}} - {{SAI|Lethal Leech}}
}}
 
{{feature box|name=Bloody Bonesaw|image name=Generic Physical.webp
|* Hack at a target, dealing {{DamageText|8d8 + Dexterity Modifier|Slashing}} damage, and possibly {{Cond|Slowed|Slow}} it.
{{Action}}
}}
 
{{feature box|name=This Won't Hurt A Bit|image name=Generic Physical.webp
|* Jab a foe with a syringe, dealing {{DamageText|8d8 + Dexterity Modifier|Piercing}} damage, and {{Cond|Poisoned|Poison}} them.
{{Action}}
}}
 
{{feature box|name=Terror Trepan|image name=Generic Physical.webp
|* Bore into a foe's brain, dealing {{DamageText|8d8 + Dexterity Modifier|Piercing}} damage and {{Cond|Frightened|Frighten}} them.
{{Action}}
}}
 
{{feature box|name=Lethal Leech|image name=Generic Physical.webp
|* Suckle a foe with hundreds of piercing teetch, dealing {{DamageText|8d8 + Dexterity Modifier|Piercing}} damage, making them {{Cond|Bleeding|Bleed}}.
{{Action}}
}}
 
{{feature box|name=Lovely Assistant|image name=Animate Dead Zombie Icon.png
|* The Surgeon reanimates the corpse of one of his nurses.
{{Action|bonus}}
}}
 
=== Notable loot ===
*{{RarityItem|Surgeon's Subjugation Amulet}}
*{{RarityItem|Surgeon's Subjugation Amulet}}
*{{RarityItem|Battered Lute}}
*{{RarityItem|Battered Lute}}
== Quotes ==
{{Q|The objective of the scalpel, sisters, is to soothe, for a scalpel, indeed, is an extension of Shar. See how the patient reacts when I but stroke the right nerve. Hear its comfort. Hear the melody of mercy. Pray, sister, show us the extent of your beneficence.|Malus Thorm instructing the Undead Nurses in their "medical practice."}}


==Gallery==
==Gallery==
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Nikolai-chugunov-malus-thorm-nikolai-chugunov-tex-02a.jpg|Concept model by Nikolai Chugunov.
Nikolai-chugunov-malus-thorm-nikolai-chugunov-tex-02a.jpg|Concept model by Nikolai Chugunov.
Malus Alt Model.png|Model.
Malus Alt Model.png|Model.
Malus Model.png|Malus' in-game model.
</gallery>
</gallery>


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== External links ==
== External links ==
* {{FRWiki|Malus Thorm|long}}
* {{FRWiki|Malus Thorm|long}}
{{NavShadowCursedLands}}
 
{{Reithwin Town}}
[[Category:Undead]]
[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Characters in Reithwin Town]]
[[Category:Characters in Act Two]]
[[Category:Authors]]
[[Category:Authors]]
[[Category:Bosses]]

Latest revision as of 08:48, 2 June 2024

Malus is the undead master surgeon of the House of Healing, and twisted follower of Shar. Having somehow kept his personality despite being in the Shadow-Cursed Lands, he believes graceful pain and calculating mutilation are the key to truly embracing the ideals of his dark faith. At his depraved hospital, he tirelessly works to train his Undead Nurses to hone such skill, yet their hollowed state leaves them lacking in ability beyond being dutiful assistants.

Overview[edit | edit source]

Background[edit | edit source]

In life, Malus directed a shift in the House's purpose from tending to the sick and injured among the populace of Reithwin to exclusively serving the Dark Justiciars of Ketheric Thorm's army, as he believed keeping the latter healthy would help them serve Shar while the rest were better off left to her oblivion.[text 2][text 3]

Quests[edit | edit source]

He plays the role of obstacle in the quest Wake up Art Cullagh, holding the quest item the Battered Lute.

Involvement[edit | edit source]

Arriving at the House of Healing and gaining entry to the surgery theatre, Malus will be busy educating his undead nurses on a poor 'patient'. While cordial at first seeing the talking party members as a new students, preaching his view of Absence being the way to understanding Shar. After mutilating the 'patient' he will urge to do the same to the party. Beyond attacking, there are a mix of Skill Checks that can be done instead:

  • A DC 14 Investigation check with advantage for Rogue to check nurses tools and point out that they're unusable
  • A DC 14 Investigation check will lead to pointing out the nurses aren't skilled enough for surgery.
  • A DC 14 Religion check will let the party use the ways of Shar to counter Malus own views.
  • A DC 16 Persuasion check will suggest the nurses aren't ready and just make the party sick instead of 'curing' them.

If any of these checks are successful, Malus will ask how to train the nurses properly, leading to two differing Persuasion checks.

  • A DC 21 with advantage for Monk or Bard to suggest that Malus offer himself up to be practiced on by the nurses, which he gleefully accepts. After a bloody scene in which they blindly hack away at his body, the nurses will become passive, and the master surgeon very much dead.
  • A DC 21 with advantage for Rogue or Fighter to convince Malus to have the Sisters test their skills against each other, leading to a bloody brawl between them.

If the party read the Surgery and Physiology: A Sharran's Primer book in the room behind Malus, two additional options are available, both of which are instead DC 18, and both of which result in the nurses killing Malus:

  • A DC 18 [Intimidation]] check: 'I have read your treatise. Initiate the final lesson, or die by my hand.'
  • A DC 18 Persuasion check: 'Only with sacrifice is mastery gained.’ For the sisters to learn, you must submit.'

If the nurses were convinced to fight each other, the mad surgeon will press to tend to the party next. He can be attacked, proving much easier to defeat without the support of his nurses. Alternatively, he can be convinced to kill himself:

  • A DC 21 Persuasion check, requesting that Malus perform the procedure on the party.
  • A DC 21 Deception check with advantage for Sorcerer, Cleric, Fighter, or Druid asking that Malus bless the party with the blinding procedure.

Awed by the party's diligence, Malus will happily make an example of himself, stabbing and killing himself through the eye.

Combat[edit | edit source]

Attacks and abilities[edit | edit source]

Generic Physical.webp
Claws Claws ()
D8 Slashing.png 2d8 (2~16) Damage TypesSlashing damage

Lash out with deadly claws.
 Melee: 1.5 m / 5  ft
Generic Utility.webp

Request a tool for advanced surgery.

Grants Surgeon's Chosen Surgeon's Chosen onto one of the undead nurses, having them lend a unique Instrument of Loss for him, allow Malus to perform powerful and debilitating attacks. The surgical tools are the following:

 Range: 8 m / 25 ft
Generic Physical.webp
D8 Slashing.png 8d8 (8~64) Damage TypesSlashing damage

Hack at a target and possibly Slow Slow it.
DEX Save
 Range: 2.5 m / 8 ft
Generic Physical.webp
D8 Piercing.png 8d8 (8~64) Damage TypesPiercing damage

Jab a foe with a syringe and Poison Poison them.
DEX Save
 Range: 2.5 m / 8 ft
Generic Physical.webp
D10 Piercing.png 8d10 (8~80) Damage TypesPiercing damage

Bore into a foe's brain and Frighten Frighten them.
CON Save
 Range: 2.5 m / 8 ft
Generic Physical.webp
D8 Piercing.png 8d8 (8~64) Damage TypesPiercing damage

Suckle a foe with hundreds of piercing teeth, making them Bleed Bleed.
DEX Save
 Range: 2.5 m / 8 ft
Animate Dead Zombie.webp

The Surgeon reanimates the corpse of one of his nurses.
 Range: 8 m / 27 ft

Notable loot[edit | edit source]

Quotes[edit | edit source]

The objective of the scalpel, sisters, is to soothe, for a scalpel, indeed, is an extension of Shar. See how the patient reacts when I but stroke the right nerve. Hear its comfort. Hear the melody of mercy. Pray, sister, show us the extent of your beneficence.
— Malus Thorm instructing the Undead Nurses in their "medical practice."

Gallery[edit | edit source]

  • Concept model by Nikolai Chugunov.

    Concept model by Nikolai Chugunov.

  • Model.

    Model.

Related literature[edit | edit source]

Notes by Malus Thorm[edit | edit source]

Books by Malus Thorm[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ Tissue and Organ Register – Malus Thorm
  2. ↑ Patients' Registry
  3. ↑ URGENT: Request for Supplies – Sister Anna Lidwin

External links[edit | edit source]

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