Duke Perosto

Formerly, Duke Perosto was a member of the royal family of Malin, and was exiled after a betrayal by his brother, removing him from the succession. Furious with this turn of events, he and his daughter who was exiled with him, began to try to find a way home. Perosto quickly took control of the island with his powerful magics and became the ruler of the island.

After an attempt to gain power went wrong, his daughter died in an accident as a result of the unstable magic, and Perosto's methods changed to become more ruthless and cruel. Using powerful magics, he isolated the island from the rest of the world, and began to use the island's natural connection to the elemental plane of fire to begin building an army to return and take over Malin.

He delved into all the elemental planes, and slaughtered all of the longer lived races on the island, turning the island into a land where due to their shorter lifespan, the human generations quickly became a group that only ever had known Perosto as their leader. He took children from people who had "wronged" him, and experimented on them, infusing them with elemental energies and turning them into insane elemental zombies.

He became obsessed as well with preventing the prophecy, which is part of what put him in the crosshairs of Smoo and the Gang. The day before his planned assault on Malin, Smoo and the Gang, with the help of the islands resistance movements, Decimated his naval vessels, strategically removed his greatest generals, and ultimately killed Perosto.