Lord Malagar
Lord Malagar is the sorcerer who picked up Vez'nan's staff after he is killed in the original Kingdom Rush. He is the main villain in Kingdom Rush: Frontiers, however he is only a minion of Umbra, whom he is trying to revive, and even though Umbra is the final boss, Lord Malagar does have more of a role in the entire story.
Appearances
Hammerhold
At the end of stage 1, Lord Malagar flies out of Hammerhold on a cloud, carrying Vez'nan's staff and the Hammer of Ages, an artifact stored within and protected by the stronghold. It's revealed that he entered the fortress and smuggled the hammer out while you were busy fighting his minions. He disables your towers with an unbreakable spell, whose appearance not unlike Vez'nan's, then escapes.
Emberspike Depths
Lord Malagar stealing the Hammer of Ages
He does not reappear until the very end, where he's preparing for the release of his master Umbra. He stands on a high plateau where the crystal binding Umbra stands, and cannot be attacked.
During this stage, Lord Malagar gains access to a very powerful attack, which deals around 200-250 True Damage to a small area, enough to kill all three soldiers in any Barracks, save for only the Templars. The red lightning rips huge chunks of HP out of your Hero - Mirage and Nivus will not survive even one shot. Strangely enough, he almost always try to direct this attack towards Nivus, as if the Grand Wizard somehow offended him. This, and the fact that Umbra also does so, ensures that Nivus remains dead nearly all the time, so it is not recommended to use him in this level.
The good new is Lord Malagar rarely uses this devastating attack, at most once per wave, and he tend to fire at soldiers. Apparently, he prioritizes units sitting closer to the central plateau where he stands, the closer your units are to where Lord Malagar is standing, the greater the chances of him directing his fire towards said units, to the point that those directly below the stairs underneath Malagar, are almost always blasted.
After wave 15, Lord Malagar finishes his ritual and Umbra is freed. The force of the explosion knocks him to the edge of the plateau. Lord Malagar begs Umbra to save him, though Umbra simply zaps him down the abyss, killing him.
After Umbra is defeated, the corrupted Tear of Elynie at the tip of Vez'nan's staff, which had been knocked off when Umbra killed Lord Malagar, is picked up by a monster with green hands and suction cups at the fingertips, saying 'Mine!' in the Futurama alien script.
Quotes
- In the ending comic strip of Kingdom Rush:
- Mine!
- In Hammerhold:
- Resistance is futile!
- Your end is coming soon!
- In the Emberspike Depths:
- It is good you made it this far... you will now witness the release of a god!
- I may not be the devil, but I know how he feels!
- Power is power! HAHAHA!
- Llama face!
- Wake up, it's time to die!
- If you are into evil, you're a friend of mine
- Exit light, enter night
- The cake is a lie!
- You spoony bard!
- I look inside myself and see my heart is black.
- SOMETIMES it's good to be bad!
- It's the end of the world as *YOU* know it.
- Rule number one: living right isn't fun.
- Unliiiiiimmited poooower!!!!
- I am the lizard king, I can do anything!
- You are an inspiration for birth control.
- Hahaha! I cannot be stopped!
- Need a strategy guide?
- Ex-Mortis!
- Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum!
- Fus-Ro-Dah!
- C'mon, show me your moves!
- Corp Por!
- I find your lack of faith disturbing...
- You're off the edge of the map. Here there be monsters!
- I ain't no tailor but I know what suits me!
- This is gonna be Legen - wait for itttt - DARY!
- I do it the hard way!
- Need to take a break?
- It's the final countdown...
- When Umbra is summoned:
- It's moving! It's alive, ALLIIIIVE!
- After getting knocked to the edge of the plateau by Umbra:
- Master, help me!
Trivia
- Lord Malagar's words at the beginning of the stage echo the words of Mactans and Malicia when they corrupted the Tear of Elynie many years ago.