Kouran Darkhand

Kouran, Captain of the Black guard have served Malekith almost thousand years. He rise master of tower of grief in his first decade, choking previous master Diathenar dead with Diathenar's own hair. Later he boiled flesh out of the skull and now keep it as a trophy.

Then Kouran did fight across the world in Witch King armies, earning renown and infamy through his cruel exploits in the Empire, Bretinnia and Ind. When he returned, he sought out the Captain of the black guard, Khanaleth amd hurled him to a bone-splintering death from east wall of Naggarond. Malekith was pleassed his ruthless actions and did gieve him command of Black guard. Kouran had held that position over 400 years, corpses of seventeen challengers now adorn the gates of to the Tower of Grief