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In the setting magic has existed for centuries, as observers noted it was becoming weaker over time, in the late 1890s a portal was found in California that lead to another where magic was still strong thanks to Soulstone, a stone that radiated magical power. On the other side of the portal the first explorers discovered an empty city; Malifaux. After an initial colony was setup and a mining operation to extract and ship the soulstone to Earth was up and running, the breach that spanned the two worlds collapsed, years later the rift reopened with city found to be empty of human presence. The game is set 4 years after the breach reopened, round about the year 1900 in the city of Malifaux where the ruling body, known as The Guild controls the mining and shipping of Soulstone, and maintains the only "Safe" area in the city.

The game itself is thematically similar to Games Workshop's [[Mordheim]] skirmish game, and shares some similarity with [[Deadlands]].

 

* [[After the End]]: This is one probable way to describe what Malifaux was like when first discovered, and when humanity entered the city after the second breach.

* [[An Ice Person]]: Rasputina, and most of the cult of December, including December himself

* [[Badass]]: Anyone who volunteers for night patrol outside of Downtown after surviving a prior experience. Anyone who fights Lord Chompy Bits and survives. Death Marshalls, the Outcast faction. Generally non-badasses are defined as Guild Guards, civilians or corpses that aren't trying to kill you.

* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Most humans wear coats or robes that look like coats, the gremlin La Croix clan.

* [[Bad Boss]]: The Governor General, gremlin society, Nyghtmare prior to meeting The Dreamer.

* [[The Beast Master]]: Marcus, who controls many kinds of creatures native to Malifaux, and even modifies some of them to best serve his needs

* [[Crapsack World]]: When the native inhabitants include things that regularly mind rape your species on your home reality for sustenance, its hard to argue that this isn't a horrible, horrible place.

* [[Creepy Child]]: The Woes, Baby Kade and worst of all The Dreamer.

* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: The Neverborn and other natives, except for the Gremlins. The tyrants seem to be this even to the neverborn.

* [[Enfante Terrible]]: Everyone in the [[Creepy Child]] entry above. The Dreamer especially.

* [[Eye Scream]]: Coppelius feeds on eyes, making him quite an outcast to his fellow nightmares. According to in-game mechanics its possible for him to remove more than two eyes from human skull.

* [[Fan Nickname]]: LCB for Lord Chompy Bits, N-Bomber/Dream Bomber/Dream Ghengis/Nightmare Khan/The F***ing Kid for The Dreamer, Doom Bear for Teddy, The Family/Mexican Winchesters/Gun-tegas for the Ortega family, Green-tegas for the La Croix family, The Eye Guy/Eye-Flayer for Coppelius, Ice Bitch for Rasputina, The Hoff for C Hoffman.

* [[Last Breath Bullet]]: The "Slow to Die" ability some models have allows this.

* [[Lethal Joke Character]]: Seamus, a well dressed dandy of a serial killer who loves to raise hookers to form his entourage, has a stupidly powerful pistol as his second most deadly attack. His most deadly attack is whacking someone with his carry bag of tools; it doesn't do damage, it just kills the model outright unless the player controlling it discards 2 cards or 2 Soulstones, considering he can't use the handgun more than once a turn, the tools are best way of making sure something dies.

* Mecha-Mooks: Used mostly by the guild and the arcanists

* [[Mechanical Horse]]: Several chariots in Malifaux use horse shaped robots for locomotion. The mechanical rider rides one

* [[Metagame]]: There is small tournament scene in the US and UK, currently its dominated by Ortega crews for their superior shooting and all the Neverborn crews for being able to Alpha Strike the enemy or put them in an unbreakable death-lock on the first turn.

* [[Mystical Plague]]: Hamelin started a epidemic in Malifaux after being posessed by a tyrant of disease. It's also part of his tactics for fighting enemies.

** Pandora does this as a game mechanic to everything in her presence, whats worse is that a spamming passive ability and often proves fatal to anyone in range.

* [[Oh Crap]]: Seeing a child in the swamps around Malifaux is a prelude to it ripping your entrails out and/or calling for its Teddy...

** Pretty much everything in the Neverborn would cause this reaction, they are after all likely to feed on your fear.

* [[Perverse Puppet]]: Several of the neverborn are demonic toys, especially Collodi, a living puppet AND puppeter.

* [[Plaguemaster]]: Hamelin the plagued.

* [[The Pollyanna]]: Outcasts faction has that cheerful minion girl named Taelor. Her optimistic demeanour is, however, [[Mighty Glacier|very]] [[Boobs of Steel|well]] [[Drop the Hammer|justified]].

* [[Robot Master]]: Hoffman, Ramos and Leveticus

* [[Spider Tank]]: The leviathan, capable of {{spoiler|destroying ancient temples and creatures made entirely of death.}}

* [[Squick]]: The Neverborn as a faction are defined by being this, Resurrectionists, especially Seamus also check this box.

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