- "Salandra, I've spent my life preparing for the meeting of worlds. I'm fully aware that millions will die, but it's time for the people of both worlds to wake up."
- ―Maleiwa[src]
Maleiwa was the leader of Wayuans and ruled the country of Wayua in the interior world beneath the Earth's crust. He sought to create an army to rule the world, both the interior and the exterior, with the power of the alicorn. He was nearly seven feet tall, had brown skin, black eyes, a shaved head and muscular build. One of his powers was illusion shaping - he could make someone believe that he appeared like someone else.
Biography[]
Early life[]
As a young man, Maleiwa attended the Tepui of Learning in Roraima alongside Salandra. Since they were both outsiders, they became close friends. When he expressed his desire to manipulate events and people and gain power using shadow-thaum, she saw that it would upset the balance and she stopped their closeness. After leaving Roraima, Maleiwa began building up power in Wayua, gaining many supporters of his vision of military conquest. He felt that he would allies on the outside world, given that his father had previously made contact with Samuel Mathers of the Golden Dawn.[1]
Between the Worlds[]
In September 1928, Maleiwa and two lieutenants journeyed to the Channels of Paradise when it would open to the surface world on the equinox. The three passed through, and he grabbed a magical staff - the alicorn. He returned through the gate just before a large explosion caved in the portal, losing his men. Maleiwa was unaware that Salandra had spied on him during these events.[1]
Now wielding the alicorn, Maleiwa became the ruler of Wayua. Using Hans Beitelheimer as an intermediary, he made contact with Adolf Hitler, and hoped to form the Invisible Alliance with him. Nazi scientists would create a drug to replicate nalca so that he could bring his army to the outer world. Wayuan forces and the alicorn would help Hitler in his conquest of the surface world. Maleiwa would then betray Hitler and conquer the outer world for himself. In the meantime, Maleiwa, from his castle began stealing shipments of nalca from the Pincoyans, through inside men like Sacho.[1]
By June 1929, Maleiwa had taken control of Pincoyan and forced King Vicard to flee to Roraima. When the Caleuche arrived, Pincoyan men loyal to him captured Salandra and Indiana Jones. Knowing that Jones was key to Salandra's plan to stop him, he ordered that Jones be deprived from nalca and placed in Salandra's cell so she could watch him wither away. Maleiwa visited them in their cell, revealing his plan for global domination, expecting that Jones would die and Salandra would either join him or die.[1]
In September, Maleiwa had amassed his and broke through the guarded gate to the outer world near the Kogi outpost in the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta, Colombia to find Jones and kill him. His forces chased down the Kogi, but were unable to find Jones, Salandra, or Vicard. Sensing the Jones had returned to the interior world, Maleiwa went back to Wayua. Gathering three men and dressing like outer-worlders, he rode out on horseback into the hills and used the alicorn to summon the Unicorn's Gate. As he started opening the gate, his men captured Jones, Salandra, and Vicard, who had found them. Before they could be executed, a herd of unicorns attacked, killing his three guards.
Death[]
Going through the portal, Maleiwa found himself atop the head of the Statue of Liberty. Looking for a way down, he didn't notice that Jones had followed him through the gateway. Jones attacked but Maleiwa used the alicorn to defend himself and taunted his opponent, saying that he needed to get to Germany to give nalca to Hitler's scientists to replicate. The two fought and Jones went over the face of the statue with the alicorn. Unwilling to lose his magic staff, Maleiwa moved downward to rescue Jones. Jones threw the alicorn off, and it shattered below. Suddenly weakened by the loss of his power, Maleiwa fumbled for his nalca, which Jones whipped away. Maleiwa charged Jones, but Jones slipped on the dropped nalca, Maleiwa tumbled clear over him and fell off the statue, and disintegrated as he was pulled into the maze of Minhocoa.[1]
Legacy[]
During his adventures in the interior world, Indiana Jones had learned about the concept of doubles between the surface world and the world below, and speculated that Maleiwa's double on the outer world was likely Hitler. When Marcus Brody tried to rationalize Jones' adventures in the interior world, he pointed out that Maleiwa was a name of a figure from Guajira mythology, and that the Guajirans looked like the Wayuans from Jones' recollections.[1]