Antagonist

A long time ago, Sharkhan the Foul, a sorcerer who reveled in corrupting the innocent and the spread of despair neared the end of his mortal days and was dismayed. Consumed with hatred for all things living, Sharkhan sold his soul to the demon lords of the Abyss/Umbra so that his malevolent spirit would survive after his body perished. In an excruciating ritual, Sharkhan's skin was flayed into pages, his bones hammered into a cover, and his diseased blood transformed into the ink to pen a book most vile.