Moloch's Avatars

"Carl: Am I going insane or this mouth was speaking in my voice? Moloch: I am thinking both."

- Carl and the Malice of Moloch, with the latter being merged with the soul of the original Moloch

The Malice of Moloch, with its true name as Moloch and also known as the Firenza Family Curse, Moloch's Shadow, Moloch's Malice and Corrupted Carl Robinson, is the soul fragment of Moloch that combined with The Blackness. It took its form when Moloch cursed the Firenza Family Bloodline and using the newborn and formerly innoncent Carl Robinson as his vessel. It was later used like a key tool by Michael in order to revive Moloch.

Due to its actions, Malice of Moloch is the Greater Scope Villain of LOTM: Witnesses of Sleepy Hollow Spin-Off - Firenza Junior for being the master of Melancholia and Michael Langdon. It is also the true main antagonist of the upcoming fourth season of the main story, LOTM: Witnesses of Sleepy Hollow - Conquest Arc,

Overview
At first, Moloch's Malice lacked of its own free will. Due to its nature of being embodiment of Moloch's remaining hatred and wrath, it only operated via the Blackness and the remaining will of Moloch inside Carl's body. However, as soon as Carl arrived at Sleepy Hollow and got closer to its original self, the Malice of Moloch gained its or "his" will after that, and "he" became essencially one and the same with the original Moloch. By the end of the Conquest Arc, the Malice of Moloch left Carl's body and merged with the shattered soul of the original Moloch, revaling to a horrified Carl that he was manipulated by Moloch all alone in order to revive himself.

Arguably, even Michael and Melancholia are a chess piece of the Malice of Moloch, which represented the original Moloch's will, much less is Carl who was his once vessel. It manipulated Carl after the latter arrived at Sleepy Hollow, in order to contact with the Horseman of Conquest and lead Carl to be take over by the Horsemen, only wanting him to become the original Moloch's pawn to revive himself via consuming the virus power from infected Roanoke ghost citizens.

Description


After Carl was born with Firenza Family Curse, the Blackness itself began to shape itself inside Carl due to Moloch's soul ability, and a demonic shadow made of nothing but pure evil, selfishness and hatred took form inside Carl and took over his soul. It was known as the Malice of Moloch, who is similar to The Fallen's Essence. It was made from Moloch's malicious soul and became the only representation of Moloch's soul after his defeat in the Old Timeline, struck by Henry Parrish with a sword.

Therefore, it could be arguably said that Moloch was still alive inside the body of Carl via the Blackness, influencing him to do evil biddings until he finally comsumed his sanity and took over him. Michael Langdon and Melancholia was awared of this, and so they planned to manipulate Carl via making the Malice of Moloch take over him.

Eventually, due to Melancholia's manipulation, Carl's soul merged with the Malice of Moloch after the host gave up his humanity and sanity (representing via the crucifix given to him by Maria in order to bless him) before locking it inside his mind, allowing the Malice of Moloch taking over him fully and was ready to strike against those who had wronged him (or at least he thought).

Outside of helping Michael to achieve his goal to bring Moloch's will to a future era where he was destroyed, Melancholia had another purpose when she did this manipulation to Carl in order to feel like manipulating Moloch to do her bidding so that she could spit on the real Moloch for killing her family and friends in front of her.

During Conquest Arc, the Malice of Moloch also led Carl to see a vision from the Horseman of Conquest, and it drove Carl to accept the Horseman mantle. What was more, the Moloch's Malice would become Michael's key to reshape the original Moloch's shattered soul, right after the original Moloch was casted back to Purgatory and weakened. The original Moloch would merge with the Malice of Moloch from Carl after the host became useless. Moloch's Malice became the only thing that fully represented Moloch's influence in World War III, and that inflence was delivered via Carl, the boy he had cursed so many years ago.