Born to a small sect of Shol cultists in the glacial territory of Zhe-Han, Malqii is considered one of the most dangerous necromancers in A'therys . When he rose to power and command of his cult, he consumed the blood of his predecessor, as is their custom. The ceremony was perhaps a bit easier for him than for others because he has been a devotee of the dragon Shol since he can remember. His mother, a wizened old crone, loved to tell the story about how on their first trip to the temple, the toddler crawled directly to the bloodstained statue of gnashing teeth and hugged it with his chubby little arms.

Known abroad as “The Black Heart of Daidama”, Malqii is a small-boned, tanned, and very agile man with a feral grin. Perhaps because of his stature, he covers himself in layers of expensive - and often blood-stained - fabrics, and has an array of emblems with some fairly spectacular jeweled decorations. He is ruthless, vicious, bloodthirsty and completely without scruples. To those who dare trespass within his domain, he keeps the leader alive long enough to slice him open and eat the man's still-beating heart, leaving a sole witness barely alive to tell the tale. This ghoulish practice would be enough to add to his already fearsome reputation but some whisper of a even darker purpose. Several cultists that have been apprehended by the Adjudicators claim there is a small island to which the necromancer travels alone to visit the sacred temple of Shol; where he communicates with the dragon himself through some bloody pact. For every heart he eats, Shol reveals some important truth to him. This, they whisper, is why the Black Heart seems to know the inner secrets of those he encounters upon the glacial drifts.