Editing Malekith (section)

===What About the Prophecy?!===
As many fans would go on to rage about this was an especially jarring ending for Malekith and seemed like a major contradiction on GW's part given the previously mentioned prophecy regarding his demise:

"''And lo, he shall rule with a dark hand and his shadow shall touch upon every land. Steel will be his skin and fire will be his blood, in hatred will he conquer all before him. No blade forged of Man, Dwarf or Elf shall endure him fear. Though will it come to pass that the firstborn son of noble blood shall rise to power. The child will be learned in the darkest arts and he will raise an army of terrible beasts. Thus will the Dark King fall, slain by neither blade nor arrow but by a sorcerous power of darkest magic and so shall his body be consumed in the flames and for all eternity burn.''"

However, as some other fans pointed out the prophecy never specifically stated the firstborn son meant to kill Malekith had to be an ELF and that furthermore, [[Mannfred von Carstein]] in at least one book stated that he was [[Vlad von Carstein|Vlad Von Carstein's]] first sired vampire spawn - plus he's of noble birth - and therefore technically his firstborn son in a roundabout way. Add to that his whole raising an army of the undead in the past with dark magic (thus fulfilling the part of the army of terrible beasts in the prophecy) and the fact he killed...well EVERYONE by causing a magical spell to go awry and it could be argued that the prophecy was indeed fulfilled, just not as expected. An alternate interpretation of "sorcerous power of darkest magic" refers not to the wayward spell, but the source of Manfred's strength and longevity - the vampiric curse created by [[Neferata]]. A spell born by studying part of the magnum opus of [[Nagash|one of the most powerful and evil practitioners of Dhar magic to ever curse the warhammer world with their presence]]. Another possibility is it refers to the spell of Schtillman that brought back Mannfred from destruction - a spell that required human sacrifice. Any of these cases may be appropriate given a lot of prophecies are vague and prone to misinterpretation in literature and real life. Then again maybe this is just a fanon theory and GW just messed up and was hoping nobody would notice. If so, they failed.