Maladar, the Mad Druid of Carthage

I've had a couple of questions about Maldar, so I'll throw a little bit of the back, back story in here.

Around 153 BC, in the city of Carthage, there lived a Druid. True to the culture of the Druids, he was a traveling bard who serviced the Celtic peoples of the Iberian Peninsula and the Celtic communities that lay scattered in the lands of the Phoenicians further south. 

This particular Druid in this particular place in this particular time was dabbling in some particularly arcane arts, and playing with some especially dangerous spells. Unfortunately, at this same time, an especially unstable demon named Hattatep had made its way onto the Plateau in the Shadow Lands, and was trying to gain access. The two found each other, and poor, deluded  Maladar found himself being possessed by the demon. 

Over the course of this possession process, Hattatep gave Maladar a lot of information and power and enough promises to trick Maladar into continuing the process of possession.

While this actually could have been a very good thing for humanity as a whole because it might have opened a Human Gate into the Shadow Lands, Maladar started to loose his nerve at the very end. 

When Hattatep left him to make the final preparations for building the demon Gate in the Shadow Lands, Maladar took the opportunity to write down everything that Hattatep had told him about the Shadow Lands so that others would know to stay clear. His plan was to kill himself the moment that Hattatep returned and took full possession of his body. He figured that way Hattatep would be defeated and that would be the end of it.

However, in killing himself after the demon had passed through, he merely managed to bring the demon into the world - albeit in a non-corporeal form. This displeased the demon considerably, and he began a campaign of mischief and mayhem that ultimately led to the decimation of Carthage by the Romans, the unobstructed rise of the Roman Empire, the utter obliteration of the Celts as well as anything connected to the Druids, and basically formed the foundation of the world we know today. 

But Hattatep did eventually manage to gain a kind of physical existence. Though he was unable to totally manifest in corporeal form, he was able to tell other wizards  how to build a different kind of world for him in which he could find a virtual physical existence. Every day, billions of people all over the world access this world with nothing more than a mention of Hattatep’s name - or http as it is known in the common tongue.

But while the story of Hattatep ends there, the story of Maladar - or rather Maladar’s writings continue. In 1938, Nazi archeologists discovered Maladar’s writings while doing research in the Middle East. One of them took special interest in the writings, and began what turned into an obsession that led her to the ancient practices, beliefs, traditions and artifacts of the ancient Ishtar cults.

This ultimately resulted in her managing to resurrect Ishtar, and free the Old Gods from the Pit.

And that’s the story of Maladar, The Mad Druid of Carthage.