Names: M'Torku - Ṣērûan / Nahal-Qatr - Bakemian / Makbit - Qorathi
Alignment: Lawful Evil
Province(s): God of Death, Disease and Pestilence
Common Symbol: A hand with five bruised, plum-colored fingers clutching a broken reed.

Malik-al-Maut, known as M’Torku to the Ṣērû, Nahal-Qatr to the Bakem, and Makbit to the Qorathi, is the Lawful Evil god of death, disease, and Pestilence. Once the god of breath and the new life, each child’s first cry is a hymn to his name. When Hēiyào showed him the endless toil and suffering of mortal labour, he saw that even the gift of life was a burden, and the God who had guided the living was remade as the master of decay.

He manifests as a skeletal figure draped in yellowed, swamp-stained linens, fingers dark with bruised plum, riding through mist that halts the wind and chokes the air. His hall, the Empty Tower, crowns the highest peak of the divine realm, a frost-bound alabaster monument to inevitability, where silence is absolute, and no servant, sound, or living thing may enter.

Malik-al-Maut’s corruption is precise and patient. Where life rushes and struggles, he enforces stillness: pestilence creeps through cities, crops rot in secret, and the breath of mortals slows to its final cadence. During the Great War, it was his shadow that first poisoned Naplica’s waters, giving rise to the Black Cough, an end to struggle he called mercy. Once the warm hand of life, he is now the patient, unyielding weight that claims all who resist, and his followers plague doctors, undertakers, the resigned and cynical, honour him in silence, offering no defiance, only acceptance of the final, inevitable truth - death.