Malduit the Devastator – Malduit the giant
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:Malduit_the_Devastator
https://finalbastion.com/wizard101-guides/w101-spell-guides/wizard101-level-75-minion-guide/
http://nightbringer.se/the-legend-of-king-arthur/arthurian-characters/m-arthurian-characters/malduit/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ywain
This Death Seraph is being controlled by the Mind Robber, and Necromancers will need to free her from his will during their Level 75 Minion Quest, Bad Schooling.
Ask not for whom the bell tolls, Wizard! It tolls for thee!
Malduit the Devastator
A cruel giant, prone to engage in plunder, rape, and murder. Malduit murdered his own parents and became lord of the Hill Castle.
After falling in love with a maiden, he promised to cease his wicked activities, but he soon regretted his vow. Sir Yvain was tricked into battering his shield, hanging outside of the Hill Castle, giving Malduit an excuse to begin another rampage. Yvain tried to fight him in single combat, but was imprisoned in the Castle Penning (Peningue) by people furious that he had released the giant in the first place. Eventually, Bors arrived, slew Malduit, and freed Yvain.
in an illustration for Ascott R. Hope’s
The Old Tales of Chivalry, Re-told (1877)
Malduit’s quote is based on an old poem by 16th-century poet, John Donne. But it was the 20th-century American writer Ernest Hemingway who gave that line more resonance by writing a novel published in 1940 about the Spanish Civil War. Hemingway called that book For Whom the Bell Tolls.
In that context, the message of our common humanity in Donne’s original poem is specifically shadowed by thoughts of mortality. Hemingway was writing for people whose cultural touchstones included the idea of church bells tolling to mark the death of prominent or well-loved citizens in the villages they were part of. The reference basically means “Don’t bother asking who died when you hear a single church bell tolling, because we’re all going to die, so the bell rings not just for him or her (recently deceased), but also for you.”
Fun fact: That the phrase refers to one bell also matters. Bells (plural) would ring for celebrations in Christian (especially Catholic) churches that had them, or to call pilgrims to prayer, but a single bell tolling marked the passing of a soul from this world to the next one.
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Sir Yvain’s battle against Malduit illustration is from Ascott R. Hope’s The Old Tales of Chivalry, Re-told ( Jan 1877). It is borrowed from Wikipedia and is in the public domain.
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