![]() ![]() He was also capable of delaying killing his prey when such restraint was advantageous to his comrades, though he would make it clear that denying him his prey would have resulted in death, despite murder being a taboo among the Skeksis. While contemptuous of his more sedentary brethren, he was nevertheless quick to violence against anyone who slandered the Skeksis' good name. At that point, Rakkida were among the few creatures he still considered worthy of his attention. īy the late Age of Division, he had become so skilled at his profession that he had trouble finding any real challenge, to the extent of finding proposals of hunting Gelfling to be insulting. ![]() He did not share his comrades' love of political intrigue, developing instead a fanatical obsession with hunting worthy prey, taking their remains as trophies which he believed conferred him their strength. As his true loyalty was only to himself, skekMal did not reside in the Castle of the Crystal, preferring instead to live in the wild. SkekMal was the most ferocious and bloodthirsty of the Skeksis, feared by all his comrades save for skekSo, who was rumored to be the only one capable of controlling the Hunter. SkekMal inevitably met his end at the Second Battle of Stone-in-the-Wood when, while gloating about conquering death and that "nothing can stop the hunt," and attempting to kill Rian once more, urVa regained consciousness and took his own life to end his Skeksis counterpart for good, restoring Aughra. After learning the whereabouts of the other Skeksis from skekTek, he rushed to join the battle. It was later revealed that he had been in a comatose state and quickly revived awakening to find the Castle empty save for skekTek. He was assumed dead by his fellows, who decided to honor him by cleaning his body, armoring it, and raising his death-like corpse in the throne chamber so that he would still be among them even in death. During the initial process of draining, Aughra became dust, and skekMal remained lifeless. Aughra, finding her way into the Castle, brokered a trade: her essence for the lives of the Gelfling. ![]() Faced with no alternative, skekSo planned to drain all the remaining Gelfing captured from Stone-in-the-Wood. The Emperor, unwilling to admit they were mortal, spared every drop of essence for skekMal, but even that was not enough to heal the Hunter. SkekTek announced that skekMal's expiration was inevitable to the horror of the Skeksis. ![]() After removing the arrows from skekMal, the Scientist determined that the Hunter suffered from severe exsanguination, extreme distress to the humus, imbalance of intrinsic fluids, and manifold ruptures in his corporeal morphology. He was brought to the Chamber of Life where skekTek did his prognosis of the Hunter's condition. SkekMal managed to return to the Castle, only to collapse before his fellow Skeksis. When Rian escaped, skekMal renewed his pursuit of the Gelfling to the Crystal Desert where, at the Circle of the Suns, he injured both skekGra and urGoh, but got fatally wounded by his counterpart, urVa, while abducting Brea to bait Rian to pursue him. He was later convinced by the Chamberlain to give him temporary custody of the Gelfling for his own agenda. Īfter Rian escaped with proof that the Skeksis were draining Gelflings for their essence, skekMal was summoned by skekSil, having been replaced at skekSo's side by skekVar, to hunt him down, and managed to capture him, killing his father Ordon in the process. Hunting Rian Īt one point during the late Age of Division, he ventured into the Crystal Desert and met Rek'yr, who learned his true name and guided him during a hunt, though he later vowed to never accompany him again. Some songs connected skekMal with the Valley of the urRu, with one claiming that it was his birthplace, while another narrated how it was where he cut out his own soul, which the Spriton believed explained the strange moans emanating from the Valley. His depredations became legendary among the Gelfling, who featured him in cautionary tales, though none suspected that he was in fact a Skeksis, calling him simply "the Hunter", "Bone-Mask" or "Four-Arm" among other names. His career and distaste for castle politics dated back to at least the early Age of Division, as songs were told about him among the Stonewood and Spriton Clans during Thriya's expedition. In his youth, skekMal was considered the most beautiful of the Skeksis by Aughra. ![]()
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