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Mallum, the Scarlet King
Biographical information
Other name(s):	The Scarlet King Crimson Monarch Red Khan Lord of the Tarnished Lord of the Scarlet Flame Lord of Blood Bloodied Blasphemer Dread from Below the Depths He Who had Risen from Blood Risen from Blood God of Chaos and Ruin The Forsaken Hive Defiler of Light and Life Defiler of Darkness and Death
Gender:	Male
Political and military information
Affiliation:	The Tarnished Cult of Blood
Rank:	Scarlet King
Class:	Sovereign/Lich

Mallum, the Scarlet King is a Sovereign and Lich hybrid and leader of the Tarnished. An primordial entity of unknown origin, he would be given form by the Hive God of Forge through studies and melding minds with the primordial Darkness of the Veil. Mallum would become a powerful adversary to Shin'ra and its ancient power rivaling or even surpassing that of the Witness.

Biography

Primordial Origins

Much like the Light and Dark, Mallum seems to exist as a primordial entity, however untethered by both forces and acts on his own. Legends claim him to be the Lord of Blood who defiled the first lifeforms in the universe and using their dead as his own puppets. He would be known as the scourge of the universe and the fabled Scarlet King to the point that others would seek to extinguish him from entirely from existence. Many would attempt to banish the Scarlet King, but through unknown means he would be cast out from the physical universe, bound to a dimension without thought or form.

Undeterred, Mallum would persist in the beginning years and would somehow bear witness to the arrival of the Traveler to the Witness's precursors and their later acquisition of the Veil and attempted enactment of the Final Shape. Seeing how the Veil could use to meld minds and the Light being capable of creation, he sought out the means to remanifest into the physical universe.

Trivia

• Mallum is derived from the Latin word malum, meaning evil or an offense against right or law.

List of appearances

• Destiny 2: Season of the Wish (Indirect mention)