Major Story Arcs
300 years before the present day, Mali was in battle with the ancient sorcerer known as Locke. The battle was fierce but in the end Locke banished Mali from the physical world.
In the present, a young cheerleader named Abigail Van Alstine (Abby) chanced upon an ancient spell book in a book store in a small town in Colorado. Abby was holding a bible study group with many of her school friends at her father’s (the town Preacher) request. Abby had secretly switched out the bible with the spell book and the teens thought it would be fun to try and conjure something from the book. Abby began casting incantations, completely unaware of her latent magical potential. Abby released Mali from his imprisonment and to show his gratitude, Mali killed Abby’s parents and all of her friends.
Abby’s home was burned to the ground and Abby assumed that she had somehow killed the demon.
New York City
Sometime later Abby journeyed to New York City during the summer on a field trip. Since moving to California Abby has gotten into art and her school sponsored a trip for the class to visit the MET (Metropolitan Museum of Art). While looking over the various exhibits Abby was drawn to a sacrificial dagger. She was accosted by a naked man who broke into the glass case and impaled the dagger through his skull. When Abby came to she was interviewed by Detective Sara Pezzini. Abby told her about her supernatural history sensing that she could trust Sara. She resurrected the man who revealed he had been possessed by a demon named Beelaroth. The Weaver’s blade was enchanted and he used the blade to sever the demons connection with him, even at the cost of his life.
After explaining the situation to Sara, Abby found herself drawn to the blade again and upon pricking her own finger on the blade she discovered that Mali had been residing within her since she summoned him. Mali tried scaring Abby as he had in the past but Abby has now been trained by Locke in the ways of magic. With the aid of the Witchblade, the two banished Mali for the time being.
Artifacts
Now free from Abby, Mali is recruited by Aphtodite IV in the service of The Survivor. Mail possesses half of one of the 13 artifacts, the Heart Stone. The stone was divided between himself and Abigail. Mali is dispatched with Ian Nottingham,, Alina Elstrom, and Sabine to retrieve the host of the 13th. Ji however soundly defeats them all even though he has only recently acquired the artifact.
Once the majority of the artifacts and their hosts are captured, The Survivor removes the two halves of the Heart Stone and unites the two parts making it whole again. Mali continued to serve the Survior until the final battle. During this event, he sought to kill Abby but before he could strike the killing blow he was impaled through the by back the Magdalena with the Spear of Destiny. This gave Abby the opening she needed to cast one last incantataion vanquishing the demon from the old universe once and for all.