| rdfs:comment | - Maldis appeared in the Farscape episodes "That Old Black Magic" and "Picture If You Will". He is a evil sorcerer that feeds of the life force of other peoples pain and suffering. He have reach a non-corporeal form and are able to take any form he desires, but it also makes it more or less impossible to kill him.
- Maldis was a malevolent, powerful supernatural being who had reached a non-corporeal form and possessed considerable spiritual powers. Maldis gained strength from the life forces of others' pain and death and as a result used his abilities to encourage negative emotions such as fear, anger, hate, and pain in his victims. The man clearly had an effect on Crichton as well, who speculated that several strange experiences he had later might have been Maldis' doing.
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| abstract | - Maldis appeared in the Farscape episodes "That Old Black Magic" and "Picture If You Will". He is a evil sorcerer that feeds of the life force of other peoples pain and suffering. He have reach a non-corporeal form and are able to take any form he desires, but it also makes it more or less impossible to kill him. Moya's crew first encounters him on a merchant planet were he traps John Crichton's soul and foreces him to face Crais. His plan is to have Crais hate Crichton even more and be more destructive in his search for Crichton, and that way he would be able to feed on the suffering Crais creates. However Zhaan manages to re-discover a side of herself that she fears and are able to cause so much pain to Maldis that he takes corporeal form and Crichton are able to hit him, after a hit to the face Maldis disappear in a red light. The crew encounters him again in the form of Kyvan, that sells a painting to Chiana, the painting is a portal between the realm were Maldis exit and the realm with Moya. He plans to use the painting to get his revenge on those that defeated him. However Zhaan manges to use her powers against him again and defeat him once again, however she is unsure if he is able to return again.
- Maldis was a malevolent, powerful supernatural being who had reached a non-corporeal form and possessed considerable spiritual powers. Maldis gained strength from the life forces of others' pain and death and as a result used his abilities to encourage negative emotions such as fear, anger, hate, and pain in his victims. His formidable abilities allowed him to enslave entire planets, such as Liko's. After dominating them for some time, the spirits of the downtrodden were less filling to him and Maldis would seek out "fresh meat". One such time entailed his encounter with the crew of Moya, who were visiting the commerce planet where Maldis ruled. He tricked Moya's human crew member John Crichton into following him to his complex and then trapped the spirit from John's body. In order to generate the negative emotions he fed upon, Maldis used his powers to kidnap another spirit he knew could fulfill the role: Captain Crais. Face to face at last, Crais tried to kill Crichton multiple times in spite of John's attempts to talk to the man who had been chasing him for months. John's efforts were sabotaged multiple times by Maldis, until Crais was in an unreachable frenzy. Even so, Crichton got the upper hand in their fight and just as he was ready to kill him, Maldis sent Crais back to his ship. He explained to Crichton that Crais would come looking for John and when that happened he would take over the command carrier and create death on a much larger scale. He then proceeded to try and kill Crichton. Zhaan intervened, making Maldis corporeal and giving Crichton the chance to attack him. Maldis was forced to retreat, freeing Crichton's spirit, though the experience left Zhaan deeply shaken and Crais even more determined to find Crichton. Following his defeat, Maldis did not contain enough power to reform in return to this realm. Wanting revenge on Zhaan, though, Maldis was able to create an extension of himself in the form of the merchant Kyvan and her space station. Through Kyvan, Maldis gave a painting to new Moya crewmember Chiana about a cycle after his initial defeat. The painting was really a portal between the two realms that allowed him to influence this one and bring Moya's crew into his own one by one. One after another Moya's crew "died" under mysterious circumstances. There they learned the truth of the situation. Fortunately, Zhaan had a plan of her own. Feigning her weakness and fear (though not by much), Zhaan was pulled into the painting with the others where she came face to face with Maldis. She had left instructions that Aeryn Sun was to kill Kyvan. When this was accomplished, Maldis was weakened enough for Zhaan to attack him, occupying him long enough to allow her friends to escape back to Moya. Once outside the painting, Maldis continued to come after Moya's crew. Combined fire from a DRD and Aeryn's Prowler destroyed the portal and possibly Maldis himself. Zhaan doubted that Maldis was dead and wouldn't have been surprised if Moya had run into him again. The man clearly had an effect on Crichton as well, who speculated that several strange experiences he had later might have been Maldis' doing.
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