Antelop demon royalty, turned his uncle’s succeeding empire into a bankrupt squalor (his uncle being Qurwok XVI Tie, the previous count who died in assassination. Speculation abounds whether it was indeed Mal who organised it but it is unlikely as Mal was only 19 when it happened, and as Antelop demons can live for over 250 years, he was pretty darn young). Mal corrupted his nation, not out of incompetence but by taxing the people thrice fold and spending the money on himself. He established the short lived Yellow-Hounds army, who helped enforce his cruel laws.