Malad Voltren

AKA Mal

Dragonborn Paladin

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Background

Malad Voltren grew up in New Vale, but much of his family history came from Sablecoast. His parents moved west so his father could take steady work at the docks, loading ships with his Steam Wagon and doing the sort of heavy, practical labor that keeps a port alive whether anyone notices or not. That meant Mal was raised around ship bells, cargo lists, wet planks, and the quiet discipline of work that has to be done before weather or pride gets a vote.

He grew up between two places at once. New Vale gave him routine, responsibility, and the steady rhythm of harbor life. Sablecoast gave him inheritance: family stories of black coast wind, plateau birds, and people who do not separate endurance from identity. That mix settled into him as a kind of natural oathfulness. Mal does not treat duty like a performance. He treats it like dock work - something you shoulder because if you do not, the whole thing shifts the wrong way.

That same inheritance gave him a faith in the Stormwrought Covenant, a spare Sablecoast tradition that treats storms as witness, endurance as devotion, and protection as the highest use of strength.

Mal met the Hatter of Hearthmere long before he was a polished name across Crownvale. Back then he was only Tony Hats, the young man in New Vale who somehow always had a different hat on and an opinion ready before anyone asked for one. The friendship lasted as the Hatter's fortunes rose, and after years of knowing him Mal was given a custom-made red feather plume, which he wears daily and with obvious pride. The feathers come from a land bird found only on the Sablecoast plateau, making the plume both finery and inheritance.

Mal is a lightning dragonborn. His scales are dark blue, with darker purple striping along his back. The outside of his wings is a deeper storm-blue, while his belly and inner wings are a lighter blue that shows when he moves. He looks a little like weather trying very hard to stay polite.

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