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Location: The lowest, most malice/gloom-saturated section beneath Hyrule Castle — perhaps in a sealed-off chamber directly below the Throne Room or the Sanctum, where the castle sank during the Upheaval
find me done with this version of the malice Blade took longer than I wanted it to, but I like the design better now really mirrors the master sword now and how stupid some people are for trying to seal it away instead approving it but I guess some people don’t learn the first time they try to replicate the power of the goddess

LORE: everyone always after the calamity became peaceful how incorrect that was in the whole kingdom was in ruins entire communities either destroyed or completely annihilated. The economy was in shambles most people barely acknowledge. The kingdom is an actual thing And THIS SWORD was not helping at all, despite being by the hero of the kingdom the fear and uncertainty of the blades very nature made people want to avoid anything to do fully working with the Zelda as a result some be for it to be destroyed others call for it to be a museum or somewhere where public can’t easily access it however there was a group weighed both the group that study and approve upon the sword, and eventually when link was made to give up the blade for the sake of the kingdom, he gave it to the people that wanted to research it believing that would it be the most responsible for the blade agreed in a hurry, trying to restore order in authority without proper supervision of the group’s nature

the Malice blade was but improved upon changing design to resemble master sword and grew a ritual of denial, abundance malice under the excuse of studying the substance only improve the blades power but also making it more deadly to anyone who uses it, sipping away, life force more quickly, and even reports of it, trying to drink the blood of certain people unlike last time they didn’t stop when the incident came they had false rumors spread by the panicking public and further away from any oversight of the project, encouraging her to focus on getting rid of any rogue guardians or other outliers

The project was complete, and the malice blade was fully finished By the time the project was “completed,” the Malice Blade had evolved into something far worse than the original forbidden weapon. It now looked like a dark, perfected counterpart to the Master Sword — beautiful, elegant, and utterly lethal.

And once again, Hyrule had repeated the same mistake: trying to harness and “improve” the very power that had nearly destroyed them.

New abilities:

1.  Gloom Toll Enhancement (stronger version of life drain)
Every successful hit now applies a stacking Gloom effect on the user (temporary max heart reduction, like real gloom weapons in TOTK). At high stacks, it can temporarily turn hearts into gloom hearts. This makes it much deadlier than the original.

2.  Malice Overcharge / Bloodlust Mode
When the blade has absorbed enough malice/gloom (or after draining the user significantly), it enters a temporary “overcharge” state: massive damage boost + even higher speed, plus red malice tendrils that extend attacks (similar to gloom hands or phantom attacks).

3.  Ritual of Denial / Corrupted Sword Beam
A dark mirror to the Master Sword’s beam. At full power/low hearts, Link can fire a red-black malice beam that drains enemy health on hit and returns some life force to the blade (but still costs the user a little).

4.  Adaptive Corruption
The blade slowly “learns” from what it fights. After killing certain enemies (especially guardians, constructs, or gloom-based foes), it gains minor temporary bonuses ( extra damage vs. ancient tech, or gloom resistance for the user for a short time).

5.  Passive Malice Aura (new from the “improved” design)
While equipped, it passively emits a small malice field that weakens nearby enemies’ defenses or slowly corrupts the environment (good for clearing gloom patches, bad because it can attract stronger monsters).
last passive ability. Whispering Seduction — Occasionally whispers temptations or visions to the wielder Whispers to get louder lower Health you are

But yeah, I’m done with this blade . Hope y’all like it.

Since it seems like a lot of you like the malice blade decided to open up this question when I’m in the middle of making the tears of the kingd version of it, I thought about it and the idea came to my mind. How would the characters of Zelda react to link using what it was basically just an evil dark copy of the master sword would they be concerned? Would they be unwilling to work with him anymore else? Oh, and quick summary of the malice blade.

Malice Blade (also known as “Kingdom’s Biggest Mistake”)

A forbidden weapon forged in secret during the height of the Calamity preparations. Hyrule’s top researchers and Royal Guard engineers tried to create an artificial Master Sword by concentrating malice/gloom into a blade, hoping to turn Ganon’s own power against him. The result was far too successful sucking the life out of everyone that touched it even killing its maker just to use their essence into its own power so the family locked it away for a damn reason

You know how everyone talks about a copy of the master sword or a replica or just a dark master sword in general yeah I had the same idea but different format. Remember the Royal guard set how they were trying to replicate the power of the master sword what if that actually worked introducing the malice blade or as I would like to call the kingdom‘s biggest mistake so in their desperation to try to complete this weapon before calamity, Gannon starts waking up someone someway somehow ended up using gloom and making the Malice that technically make it the gloom blade that name is already point is the project succeeded? They’ve created a weapon that can suck up both malice and gloom one problem. It started actively sucking the life force out of people that used it. such a problem. It was locked the deepest pits of the regarded as a failed weapon by everyone even Zelda felt something was wrong with that thing when she looked at it

fast forward one calamity later and link waking up from his 100 year beauty sleep you can find this weapon in the deepest pit of the castle around the area. You would get the hylian shield Just got break a wall fight 4 guardians and then you find it in the bottom room covered in malice The blade takes five hearts to pull it out

base damage is 50 Durability is unbreakable, but it works like the master sword. If you use all of his energy up well it stops working just like however it won’t charge on his own. You need to actively be near malice to fully it should take around four to recharge, and you can even overcharge it by Jumping In the malice Wait till you’re nearly at three hearts and boom Overcharged! Damage is now 60. And you get a passive ability bloodlust The more monsters you kill You get an boost that recharges every time you kill a monster and you even get special moves Hold your attack button and it will send it sickles at your enemy Flurry rush is also different When you hit the flurry or rush, you game a side effect shadow step this increases your movement by two times and three times at night time however, the more you try to spam these moves the Boy, it will start taking away your hearts trade off for its power Bonus if you’re severely low The blade doing twice as much damage the blade feeds your pain and agony

but that’s only half for This interesting weapon I will start trying to think of ideas for tears of the kingdoms Version