when he reached the Limbo dimension he was still human, he wondered alone until he was weakened by hunger and decided to feed from a fruit growing on a cursed tree. The shape of the fruit reminded him of a coral. After a couple days a chemical reaction provided him with absurd hallucinations and his skin began to mutate. The Emperor of grief has now founded his own kingdom in Limbo and is desperately trying to find a cure for the weird sickness he's suffering from. He would do anything to get back to normal, even kill anyone who stands on his path.
You can find this character as the first boss in the coral lands level of Melancholy Dungeon, a game that never existed.