the one who tears out souls
Malkar
The cause of everything that roams the lands: he tears souls out of the living, and bodies without souls become monsters.
Characters
Malkar is named in the game’s very first line and stays off-stage the whole road: you never meet him in battle, but every infected beast is his work. That is exactly why a Keeper does not kill — he gives back what was stolen.
The Blight and Malkar stand side by side in Orunthys: she keeps the memories of the souls swallowed, he takes them away.
The same article in Russian — русская версия — carries the game’s own lines word for word.