Malos

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"What are we, in the end? This hunger I feel, this thirst... Is it my own? Or is it someone else? Sometimes I can't tell."

— Malos

Malos (Japanese: メツ, Metsu) is an antagonist of Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and the antagonist of Torna ~ The Golden Country.

Overview[]

In Xenoblade Chronicles 2, he is encountered as the second-in-command of the secret organization Torna, which is headed by Jin, and want to find and capture Pyra to reclaim his true power. He is a tall man with a wild and rough temperament (contrary to Jin), but is also an extremely skillful Driver on the battlefield. He is accompanied by his Special Blade, Sever.

Malos was designed by Tetsuya Nomura, a lead character designer for the Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts series.

Personality[]

Due to Praetor Amalthus's hatred of mankind at the time of Malos's awakening, Malos displayed nothing but malevolence and extreme bloodlust. He immediately set upon destroying all life in Alrest. He views humans as little more than failures and that they do nothing but wage war and destruction. To that end, he believes that the Aegises are the Architect's weapons to erase this "mistake," and he views Pyra/Mythra as a fool for not wanting to carry out that supposed purpose. However, Malos in truth is unsure of his purpose in the world and at times doubts that his will is his own.

Appearance[]

Malos is a well-built man with fair skin, short jagged black hair and grey eyes. He wears black plate armor with staggered plate pauldrons; as an Aegis he has a purple, crucifix-shaped core crystal in the centre of his chest. In Xenoblade Chronicles 2 this is initially hidden by a chestplate identical to Jin's. Unlike his counterpart Mythra, Malos undergoes no appearance changes throughout the game, presumably because by distancing himself from his Driver he is unable to master his true potential.

Story[]

Main articles: Logos and Aegis

MalosMythraCores — Logos and Pneuma's core crystals

Malos, whose true name is eventually revealed to be Logos (Japanese: ロゴス, Rogosu), was originally one of three units of the Trinity Processor. Logos, along with Pneuma, was modified by the Architect to process data received from the Blade system. Logos's Core Crystal, stored within Elysium, was taken by Amalthus when he climbed the World Tree, along with Pneuma's Core Crystal.

When Amalthus returned to Alrest, he resonated with Malos, becoming his Driver. Being a Blade, Malos quickly began to take on Amalthus's personality traits, including his hatred of humanity and his desire to destroy it. In order to follow through on this wish, Amalthus used Malos's immense power to enforce the Indoline Praetorium's will and begin destroying the world. Amalthus and Indol saw Malos as the embodiment of the Architect's will, and Malos claimed the title of "the Aegis" for himself after an Indoline artifact. After Amalthus was promoted by Praetor Rhadallis to Quaestor, Malos decided that Amalthus was not motivated in achieving their goal and abandoned him. In response, Amalthus sought out a Driver for Pneuma to stop Malos and found Prince Addam of the Kingdom of Torna, who resonated with Mythra and stood against Malos, beginning the Aegis War.

About a year after Mythra's awakening, Malos attacked and sank the Titan Coeia with his personal Siren. Shortly after, he visited Amalthus in Indol and informed him of his plan to attack Torna before leaving. He and his Artifices attacked the Tornan capital Auresco, where he met Addam and Mythra for the first time. Rather than using his Siren to destroy Torna, Malos explained his plan to awaken the Tornan Titan's true form and detonate its core to destroy Alrest. Despite the efforts of Addam and his allies, Malos claimed the Titan's seal and escaped. Not wanting his "game" to end early, Malos invited the party to Torna's core and challenged them to stop him.

After some time, Malos awakened the Tornan Titan and waited until Addam's group arrived to confront him. Aware that Mythra was not going all out on him during their battle, Malos goaded Mythra into using her full power by having his Siren destroy Auresco. Horrified by the destruction, an enraged Mythra awakened a new sword (Pneuma), and clashed with Malos, with the two fighting in the skies above Torna with their Sirens. Mythra's final attack destroyed Malos's Siren and fatally wounded the Tornan Titan, causing it to sink. In the aftermath, Mythra sealed her power away and created Pyra, who was subsequently sealed away by Addam in a ship beneath the Cloud Sea, while Malos was assumed to have been killed in the battle.

In actuality, Malos survived with severe damage to his core, losing access to most of his Aegis powers. He wandered Alrest and soon came to suspect that his hatred of the world was not his own will but was rather inherited from Amalthus, causing him to struggle with questions about the reason for his existence and the nature of Blades. While wandering through a back alley he found Jin, despondent after absorbing his dying Driver and the destruction of Torna's remnants by Amalthus. Empathizing with Jin's misery and feelings of lacking a place in the world, Malos offered for them to join forces, and they began planning to climb the World Tree and kill the Architect. Together, Malos and Jin formed the organization of Torna and recruited Akhos, Mikhail, Patroka, and Nia, and began searching for the other Aegis in order to access the World Tree. Malos also became the Driver of Sever around this time.

Needing a Leftherian to open the seal to reach the other Aegis, Malos hires Rex and takes him, along with Jin and Nia, to where Addam had sealed it away. They come upon Pyra, and when Rex goes to touch her Core Crystal, Jin kills him; however, Pyra awakens and resurrects him, allowing him to fight against Jin and Malos until they are rescued by Azurda and escape.

Malos later travels to Fonsa Myma with Akhos and speaks to Cole, who he knew as Minoth during the war. He offers to help heal him, but Cole refuses; however, Malos is able to take the young girl he cares for, Iona, hostage. He tells Pyra to come to the Olethro Ruins alone.

The party arrives at the ruins, where they fight with Akhos and Malos. They are overpowered, due to Akhos's ability to disrupt the ether flow in the area, until Vandham is able to fight back against them. Telling the others to flee, he is killed by Malos, and in a last-ditch attempt to save Rex, Pyra reverts to her other form, Mythra. Malos's and Akhos's Blades are destroyed by Mythra's attack, and they are forced to retreat.

After Akhos saves Jin from Temperantia, Malos questions whether his hatred for the world is truly his own or someone else's.

He and Jin meet the party again in the Kingdom of Tantal, where Jin reveals his true form and is able to nullify all of Mythra's attacks and abilities, overwhelming the party with his speed. To save the others, Pyra gives herself up to Torna, who escape with her and the Omega Fetter to open the way to the World Tree and fulfill their plans.

Malos and Jin take Pyra to the Gotrock Oracle Ruins at the Cliffs of Morytha near the Great Void, and Malos explains that he was damaged during the war, and plans to use Pyra's Core Crystal to restore his strength by regenerating his own crystal. As he does, he steals Pyra's memories of Rex and the others, and manages to restore his full power. Through Pyra's data, Malos also becomes aware of Artifice Aion's existence. He and Jin are attacked by Ophion, which is revealed to have an autonomous defense mechanism, but repel it.

As the party arrives at the Cliffs of Morytha, they face Malos, whose Dark element weapon is a purple Monado. They battle against him, with him using Monado arts, but his destructive powers are nullified by Nia's newly revealed Blade form that can restore anything damaged by Malos. Though he has the upper hand, Nia and Rex together are able to alter the cell replication in Malos's body, incapacitating him and flinging him off down a cliff.

He survives the incident, and confronts the party again at the ruins alongside Jin, where they easily overpower the party until Rex is able to awaken Pyra's and Mythra's true form. Rex, now a Master Driver, is able to defeat Jin, but does not kill him; Malos explains his plan to kill the Architect and use Artifice Aion to destroy all of humanity. He summons Ophion, to which Pyra and Mythra summon Siren; the two Artifices' battle destroys the cliff, sending Jin and the party tumbling below into the Cloud Sea.

Malos and Torna take the Monoceros down after them, and pick up Jin in the Land of Morytha. They return to Alrest, and use the Marsanes to travel to the World Tree. Jin and Malos disembark and make their way up through the tower, even as the party climbs up behind them.

When they reach the top, Jin stays behind to confront the party one last time as Malos continues on. He finds the Architect, who addresses him as Logos and explains that he is already fading away, which stops Malos from killing him as intended. Malos asks the Architect if his choice to destroy the world is truly his own, to which the Architect responds after a pause that it was "a choice you made together".

Malos leaves and takes control of Aion, sending Artifices to destroy all of humanity and Alrest itself. The party arrives and after a fierce battle damage Aion severely, causing it to eject Malos. This process causes his Core Crystal to shatter. He tells Rex that he wishes he had met him sooner, and as he dies, Mòrag muses that he has finally found meaning to his life.

As Pneuma prepares to use Aion to destroy the World Tree, Malos contacts her asking how it was being alive. She answers just as Aion ignites.

Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Future Redeemed[]

When the worlds of Alrest and Bionis began the process of recombining, Nia and Melia formed a plan to save the peoples and cultures of the worlds from destruction, constructing an ark known as Origin, which would contain all of their societies' knowledge and their citizens' literal souls, allowing them to be reborn after their worlds were reconstructed and then separated back into their original states. However, when the time came for Origin to activate, it failed to do so and instead, due to being seized by Z, caused both worlds to be frozen in time, creating a third one, Aionios, in between. Malos' soul eventually ended up within N's Sword of the End, though it is currently unknown how this happened. During the final fight against Alpha, N lends Matthew Logos's power from within the Sword of the End, allowing Matthew to unleash Pneuma's power from his Ouroboros Knuckles, and its power allows Matthew and his friends to complete the full Ouroboros transformation and vanquish Alpha.

NPC[]

Malos is a temporary NPC found at the C.S.E.V. Maelstrom's deck in the Argentum Trade Guild nation.

In Xenoblade Chronicles 2[]

Arts[]

Sword Tonfa
- Sword Strike (Japanese: ソードストライク, Sōdosutoraiku), Aggroed ↑
- Hammer Bash (Japanese: ハンマーバッシュ, Hanmābasshu), Topple
- Chakra Burst (Japanese: チャクラバースト, Chakurabāsuto), AOE / Knockback
- Spiral Savate (Japanese: スパイラルソバット, Supairarusobatto), Break ※

※ Spiral Savate is learned at level 6, but it can not be selected when Malos is in the party.

Sever's Specials[]

Sever has four Blade Specials, but only three of them are known to be used while Malos is in the party during Chapter 1:

Storm Edge, Blowdown
Engrave, No special effects
Death Match, No special effects

Battles[]

Malos is first fought at level 5 at the Point of Awakening on the Ancient Ship with Rex and Pyra. This battle serves as the tutorial for using Blades in battle.

Details[]

Malos can guard attacks from any side.

Resistances[]

Break	0%	Smash	0%
Topple	0%	Blowdown	0%
Launch	0%	Knockback	0%

Arts[]

Art	Type	Element	Hits	Range	Damage Ratio	Reaction	Effect
Hammer Bash	Physical	-	1	One target	150	Topple	-
Sword Strike	Physical	-	2	One target	200	Knockback	-
Spiral Savate	Physical	-	1	One target	125	Break	-
Chakra Burst	Ether	Wind	1	Circle	300	Blowdown	The user is Invincible when using this Art.

Malos is fought later at level 26 alongside Akhos at the Olethro Playhouse. The first part of the battle finishes once at least one of them has had his HP reduced at 50%.

Details[]

Malos can guard attacks from any side.

Resistances[]

Break	90% / 60%	Smash	0%
Topple	0%	Blowdown	Immune
Launch	0%	Knockback	Immune

Malos' Break resistance decreases after Mythra's awakening.

Enraged[]

Trigger	HP have been reduced below 75%.
Effects	Damage dealt from the front is increased by 50%. Physical defense is increased by 30%.
Element	Wind

Arts[]

Art	Type	Element	Hits	Range	Damage Ratio	Reaction	Effect
Hammer Bash	Physical	-	1	One target	125	Topple	-
Sword Strike	Physical	-	2	One target	150	Knockback	-
Spiral Savate	Physical	-	1	One target	100	Break	-
Chakra Burst	Ether	Wind	1	Circle	350	Blowdown	Increases Block Rate to 100% during this Art.

Malos is fought for the third time at level 52 at Balquors Ruins on the Cliffs of Morytha. Having recovered his powers as an Aegis, he wields a dark element Monado.

Details[]

Malos can guard attacks from any side.

Resistances[]

Break	110%	Smash	0%
Topple	0%	Blowdown	60%
Launch	0%	Knockback	60%

Enraged[]

Trigger	HP have been reduced below 50%.
Effects	Strength increased by 50%. Ether damage received is reduced by 30%. -
Element	Dark

Arts[]

Art	Type	Element	Hits	Range	Damage Ratio	Reaction	Effect
Auto-Attack	Physical	-	1	One target	120	-	-
Striker Edge	Physical	-	1	One target	250	Knockback	Damage from the back is increased by 200%.
Monado Cyclone	Ether	Dark	4	Circle	300	Blowdown	-
Monado Jail	Debuff	Dark	-	Circle	-	Shackle Blade	-
Monado Armor	Status	Dark	-	All enemies	-	-	Increases defenses. Increases Block Rate to 100% during this Art.
Monado Eater	Ether	Dark	1	Ahead	400	-	Blade Affinity Down.
Monado Buster	Ether	Dark	1	Front	1,000	Blowdown	This Art can inflict up to a Level 2 Blade Combo.

Malos is fought for the last time at level 56 at Gotrock Oracle Ruins alongside Jin. The first part of the fight will end after the HP of either of them have been reduced to 50%. During the second part of the battle, Rex will be able to use Pneuma for an unlimited amount of time.

Details[]

Malos can guard attacks from any side.

Resistances[]

Break	110%	Smash	0%
Topple	0%	Blowdown	60%
Launch	0%	Knockback	60%

Enraged[]

Trigger	HP have been reduced below 50%.
Effects	Strength increased by 50%. Ether damage received is reduced by 30%. -
Element	Dark

Arts[]

Art	Type	Element	Hits	Range	Damage Ratio	Reaction	Effect
Auto-Attack	Physical	-	1	One target	120	-	-
Striker Edge	Physical	-	1	One target	250	Knockback	Damage from the back is increased by 200%.
Monado Cyclone	Ether	Dark	4	Circle	300	Blowdown	-
Monado Jail	Debuff	Dark	-	Circle	-	Shackle Blade	-
Monado Armor	Status	Dark	-	All enemies	-	-	Increases defenses. Increases Block Rate to 100% during this Art.
Monado Eater	Ether	Dark	1	Ahead	400	-	Blade Affinity Down.
Monado Buster	Ether	Dark	1	Front	1,000	Blowdown	This Art can inflict up to a Level 2 Blade Combo.

Drops[]

Name	Type	Rarity	Rate
Rare Core Crystal	Core Crystal		First time only

Challenge Battle Mode[]

Malos is fought at level 64 alongside Mikhail during the second wave of the Challenge Battle Torna's Finest.

Details[]

Malos can guard attacks from any side.

Resistances[]

Break	110%	Smash	0%
Topple	0%	Blowdown	Immune
Launch	0%	Knockback	Immune

Enraged[]

Trigger	-
Effects	Damage dealt from the front increased by 50%. Physical defense increased by 30%. -
Element	Wind

Arts[]

Art	Type	Element	Hits	Range	Damage Ratio	Reaction	Effect
Hammer Bash	Physical	-	1	One target	125	Topple	-
Sword Strike	Physical	-	2	One target	150	Knockback (x2)	-
Spiral Savate	Physical	-	1	One target	100	Taunt / Break	-
Chakra Burst	Ether	Wind	1	Circle	350	Blowdown	Increases Block Rate to 100% during this Art.

Malos is fought at level 64 alongside Jin during the Challenge Battle Serious Showdown.

Details[]

Malos can guard attacks from any side.

Resistances[]

Break	140%	Smash	0%
Topple	0%	Blowdown	60%
Launch	0%	Knockback	60%

Enraged[]

Trigger	-
Effects	Strength increased by 50%. Ether damage received is reduced by 30%. -
Element	Dark

Elemental Awakening[]

Base probabilty	50%
Enraged probability	100%
Increased attack power	25%
Increased arts recast	20%
Time reduced from Blade combos	4.5s

Arts[]

Art	Type	Element	Hits	Range	Damage Ratio	Reaction	Effect
Auto-Attack	Physical	-	1	One target	120	-	-
Striker Edge	Physical	-	1	One target	250	Knockback	Damage from the back is increased by 200%.
Monado Cyclone	Ether	Dark	4	Circle	230	Blowdown	-
Monado Jail	Debuff	Dark	-	Circle	-	Shackle Blade	-
Monado Armor	Status	Dark	-	All enemies	-	-	Increases defenses. Increases Block Rate to 100% during this Art.
Monado Eater	Ether	Dark	1	Ahead	300	-	Blade Affinity Down.
Monado Buster	Ether	Dark	1	Front	650	Blowdown	This Art can inflict a Level 1 Blade Combo.

Sever[]

During the fights in the Ancient Ship, Olethro Playhouse and the Challenge Battle Torna's Finest, Malos fights alongside his Blade Sever, who can use the arts Back Attack Up and Critical Up during battle.

Stats[]

Element	Weapon	Auto-attack	Stability	Critical Rate	Block Rate
Wind	Sword Tonfa	43	15	15%	20%

Blade Specials[]

Art	Type	Element	Hits	Range	Damage Ratio	Reaction	Effect
Storm Edge	Ether	-	1	One target	200	Blowdown	-
Engrave	Ether	-	10	Ahead	200	-	-
Death Match	Status	-	-	Circle	-	Taunt	-
Deadly Drive	Physical	-	?	One target	?	Break/Topple/Launch/Smash	-

In Torna ~ The Golden Country[]

Malos is fought alone at level 40 in the Sachsum Gardens of Auresco.

Details[]

Malos can guard attacks from any side.

Resistances[]

Break	110%	Smash	0%
Topple	0%	Blowdown	60%
Launch	0%	Knockback	60%

Enraged[]

Trigger	-
Effects	Ether damage received is reduced by 30%. - -
Element	Dark

Elemental Awakening[]

Base probabilty	30%
Enraged probability	100%
Increased attack power	15%
Increased arts recast	10%
Time reduced from Blade combos	3s

Arts[]

Art	Type	Element	Hits	Range	Damage Ratio	Reaction	Effect
Auto-Attack	Physical	-	1	One target	120	-	-
Striker Edge	Physical	-	1	One target	250	Knockback	Damage from the back is increased by 200%.
Monado Cyclone	Ether	Dark	4	Circle	300	Blowdown	-
Monado Jail	Debuff	Dark	-	Circle	-	Shackle Blade	-
Monado Armor	Status	Dark	-	All enemies	-	-	Increases defenses. Increases Block Rate to 100% during this Art.
Monado Eater	Ether	Dark	1	Ahead	400	-	Blade Affinity Down.
Monado Buster	Ether	Dark	1	Front	1000	Blowdown	-

Malos is fought twice at The Soaring Rostrum in the Tornan Titan Interior; initially, he is accompanied by two Artifice Colossi, and the second time, he uses his Siren as a battle mechanic. For the first half of this battle chain attacks cannot be performed; instead when the party gauge is full Mythra unleashes a Siren attack against Malos.

First battle[]

Arts[]

Art	Type	Element	Hits	Range	Damage Ratio	Reaction	Effect
Auto-Attack	Physical	-	1	One target	120	-	-
Striker Edge	Physical	-	1	One target	250	Knockback	Damage from the back is increased by 200%.
Monado Cyclone	Ether	Dark	4	Circle	300	Blowdown	-
Monado Jail	Debuff	Dark	-	Circle	-	Shackle Blade	-
Monado Armor	Status	Dark	-	Self	-	-	Increases defenses. Increases Block Rate to 100% during this Art.
Monado Eater	Ether	Dark	1	Ahead	400	-	Blade Affinity Down.
Monado Buster	Ether	Dark	1	Front	1000	Blowdown	-

Second battle[]

Arts[]

Art	Type	Element	Hits	Range	Damage Ratio	Reaction	Effect
Auto-Attack	Physical	-	1	One target	120	-	-
Striker Edge	Physical	-	1	One target	250	Knockback	Damage from the back is increased by 200%.
Monado Cyclone	Ether	Dark	4	Circle	300	Blowdown	-
Monado Jail	Debuff	Dark	-	Circle	-	Shackle Blade	-
Monado Armor	Status	Dark	-	All enemies	-	-	Increases defenses. Increases Block Rate to 100% during this Art.
Monado Eater	Ether	Dark	1	Ahead	400	-	Blade Affinity Down.
Monado Buster	Ether	Dark	1	Front	1000	Blowdown	-

Quotes[]

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Post-Battle Dialogue[]

Main Cast

Malos	"We're done here, let's go."
Rex	"You're really strong! It's actually a bit scary!"

Malos	"Stop drooling!"
Nia	"Oi, you don't get to boss me about!"

Unique Battle Dialogue[]

Xenoblade Chronicles 2

Condition: Malos at 50% health

or

Part 1
Condition: Start Battle

Condition: Malos targeting Rex Part 2
Condition: Start Battle Condition: Malos becomes Enraged Condition: Malos at 35% health Condition: Akhos Defeated

In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate[]

Malos appears as a Spirit in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate that can be obtained on the Xenoblade Chronicles 2 DLC Spirit Board. He is represented by Richter accompanied by three Ridleys, which represent Gargoyles.

In Karaoke JOYSOUND for Nintendo Switch[]

In Karaoke JOYSOUND for Nintendo Switch, Malos appears during footage from Xenoblade Chronicles 2 that plays randomly in the background during a song.

Etymologies[]

His English name probably comes from the Latin malus, meaning "bad" or "evil". His Japanese name Metsu in kanji 滅 means "destroy/destruction".

His true name may come from Logos (λόγος), the Greek word for "reason" or "logic".

Trivia[]

Malos is the only party member in Xenoblade Chronicles 2, temporary or permanent, that cannot be controlled by the player at all.
Malos is the only one of the Aegises to not have any kind of separate persona.

Characters in Xenoblade Chronicles 2
Playable Characters	Rex · Nia · Tora · Vandham · Mòrag · Zeke
Legendary Blades	Pyra · Mythra · Pneuma · Dromarch · Poppi α, QT, QTπ · Roc · Brighid · Pandoria · Aegaeon
Supporting Characters	Addam · Amalthus · Architect · Azurda · Bana · Cole · Corinne · Eulogimenos · Fan la Norne · Lila · Niall · Niranira · Tatazo · Turters
Torna	Jin · Malos · Sever · Akhos · Obrona · Mikhail · Cressidus · Patroka · Perdido
	Dagas · Newt · Crossette
	Gorg · Praxis · Sheba
	Godfrey · Theory · Ursula · Perun · Dahlia
	Adenine · Boreas · Finch · Zenobia · Fiora
	Wulfric · Agate · Floren · Nim
	Electra · Kora · Herald · Vess
	KOS-MOS · Poppibuster · Corvin · Shulk
	Azami · Vale · Perceval · Kasandra · T-elos · Elma

Characters in Torna ~ The Golden Country
Playable Drivers	Lora · Addam · Hugo
Blades	Jin · Haze · Mythra · Minoth · Brighid · Aegaeon
Supporting Characters	Amalthus · Azurda · Mikhail · Milton · Tornan King · Zettar · Rhadallis · Baltrich · Stannif
Antagonists	Gort · Malos