Malachi

Malachi, also known as "the Abandoned", is the patriarch and former leader of the Family. He is the biological father and creator of Emmy Crawford and her twin Kammi.

Early Life
It's not known how Malachi himself came to be, but it is said that he is possibly one of the oldest living beings to walk the Earth. Malachi created his own children, whom he shaped using his own blood and mud. He presumably lived happily with his kin, until they began to turn on and slay one another in greed and jealousy.

In an undisclosed time, Malachi and his daughter Amaryllis created the Law, a series of rules to bind members of the Family and forbid them from doing any harm towards one another. The Law was an attempt to put an end to the disorder and deadly feuds between siblings.

The Law seemed to be effective for a short time, until members who didn't agree with what it represented and its rules (like Levi and Odessa). Levi found a loophole in the Law and a way to use it against Malachi, with one of his son's "Old Buck," a minotaur-like creature who briefly terrorised villagers on the Outer Banks. "Old Buck" abandoned the Family for reasons unknown. Malachi and Amaryllis tried to reason with him, but to avail; Levi and Odessa had turned the villagers against him, and had them murder "Old Buck."

The murder of "Old Buck" pushed Malachi to create Hester Beck.

Appearance
Before Malachi became known as the Abandoned, a giant minotaur-like creature, he was human-like in appearance, a tall, thin man with a pale complexion, black hair, and amber eyes.

Trivia

 * After the death of Amaryllis at the hands of Hester Beck, Malachi morphs into the same creature his son "Old Buck" had been, or had morphed into.