SkekLach

skekLach is the Skeksis collector. He is an obsessive hunter; the contents of his chamber reveal his trophies of war and all that has fallen into his twisted grasp. He has a mechanised arm and a scarred face. His Mystic counterpart is urSen, the Mystic monk. As each portion of the divided urSkeks have opposite traits, skekLach is all about acquisition, while urSen is all about needing nothing. skekLach and urSen appear in the Legends of the Dark Crystal manga series. The pair had disappeared by the events of The Dark Crystal and the reunification of the urSkeks.

In the first volume of Legends of the Dark Crystal, skekLach secretly tries to undermine skekSo's authority by withholding Gelfling essence for himself, whilst convincing the emperor that the shortage is due to skekVar; and he blackmails skekTek into remaining silent.In volume 2, "Trial by Fire",he has trouble with SkekSil, whois angry that the Emperor is favoring SkekLach and tries to find anything that can bring the Collector down. He encounters the two Gelflings, Lahr and Neffi. He captures Lahr but not before Lahr stabs him in the leg. The Collector then tries to use Lahr as a spy among the Gelflings, using his spy-eyes on Lahr's body so the Gelfling cannot escape. During the Gefling escape, he was blamed by SkekSil for letting them go when in reality it was SkekSil who released them in hope of getting SkekLach into troubl.e The two of them endure Trial by Fire,Skeklach being the winner. Despite of this loss, SkekSil still tries to convince the Emperor SkekLach is drinking essence. This falls on deaf ears and SkekLach still holds his favorable title, much to the rage of SkekSil.

In Ultima, SkekLach was revived as a Heartless by the Mad Doctor's experiments, who assigned the designation of Skeksis Collector once more. In this new role of SkekLach, it's his job to go into alternate dimensions and collect the heroes of that A.U. with his personal Nobody collection so that the Mad Doc can remove the hearts of the heroes, and replace it with a shard of the Shadow Blot's evil core, turning them evil by proxy, and eventually over time mutate into humanoid vessels of the Shadow Blot. However, SkekLach is still greedy and hungry for more power, as he is planning to upgrade his collections of personal titles to include...Emperor, once his old friend, SkekUng, is out of the way.