History Monster / DungeonsAndDragons

** [[VampireMonarch Cazador Szarr]] is a powerful vampire lord with 7,000 vampire spawn in his lair. The master of Astarion, Cazador was a [[AbusiveParents hideously abusive monster]] who regularly abused Astarion and the others by [[SerialRapist raping them]], and [[RapeByProxy forcing them to participate in sex with one another or with prey]] to lure them to Cazador. Thinking only of his ascension, Cazador plots to [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice all his spawn]] for greater power, even the children he has turned into vampires. Having left behind all humanity, Cazador informs Astarion that he, like anything else Cazador has made, was created "to be consumed".
** [[WickedWitch Auntie Ethel]] is a sweet, pleasant old lady who lives alone in the wilderness. Far from the helpless old woman she presents as, Ethel is actually a Green Hag who delights in the suffering of others. Ethel encourages innocents to bring their needs to her, only to [[JerkassGenie cruelly corrupt their wishes]] and place them in torture or death, with numerous victims in her lair. Some have been turned to stone or living walls to watch her kill heroes, while others are enslaved via masks to carry out her commands, [[AndIMustScream unable to stop themselves]]. Ethel later kidnaps and [[ChildEater devours a child]] to birth her own Hag, gleefully using the child as a HumanShield when she is confronted.

** [[AxCrazy Orin the Red]] is a [[MasterOfDisguise Changeling]] Bhaalspawn and one of the most vicious of her kind. A [[EnfanteTerrible monster from birth]] who adores her unholy father Bhaal and grandfather Sarevok by making them the pinnacle of bloodshed and slaughter, Orin desires to kill even Sarevok to become the Lord of Murder's favorite. Orin commits countless murders in disguise and delights in petty and sadistic touches while expanding the plot of the Absolute so she may make the Sword Coast run red with blood. Orin attempts to betray the Cult and see everyone else dead, using the hero's companions as hostages in the process, while gleefully plotting to slaughter everyone so she may be Bhaal's ultimate Chosen.

** [[BigBad Takhisis]] is the [[GodOfDarkness Goddess of Darkness]] and [[GodSaveUsFromtheQueen Queen of Dragons]], who battled the Gods of Light from the beginning of time. In the first age, Takhisis waged a war across the entire world of Krynn, [[RapePillageAndBurn slaughtering and burning everything in her path]], until she was banished by the Gods of Light. In the present, trying to free herself and prevent the return of the Gods of Light, Takhisis leads her [[ReligionOfEvil followers]] to conquer the world, land after land, leaving death and destruction behind, while ordering her minions to hunt down the heroes.

** ''Corsairs of the Great Sea'''s "Of Waters Dark and Deep": [[AmbitionIsEvil Faizah]], the ghul-kin HighPriestess of the Cult of Istishia, takes advantage of her god's neutrality to [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice]] innocent people in his name while reaping the benefit of his powers. Faizah has a special predilection for child slaves, using the Waters of Devotion to fully snuff out the will of her victims, to the point most of the cult are victims of the Waters of Devotion. Children who prove immune to the Waters are simply [[WouldHurtAChild murdered]].

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* [[DepravedDwarf Neb the gnome]] is a criminal first encountered in [[VideoGame/BaldursGate first game]] in the cells of Baldur's Gate's Flaming Fist Headquarters, where Gorion's Ward is forced to work with him to escape their wrongful imprisonment. Neb cheerfully reveals, through a riddle, that he's killed 33 [[WouldHurtAChild children]]. He appears again in the [[VideoGame/BaldursGateII second game]], having stolen a slab of Illithium ore. Cornered at an abandoned house in the Bridge District, Neb sinks to a new level of depravity by summoning the spirits of his young victims and [[AndIMustScream forcing them to fight for him even as they cry]]. While the ''Baldur's Gate'' trilogy is well-stocked on criminals, murderers and supernatural threats, Neb's grimly realistic sadism and the horrific idea he represents make him stand out as easily one of the cruelest and most disgusting minor villains in the series. Even the inventory description of his head intones that "rarely has a more despicable being roamed the land".

* ''[[VideoGame/BaldursGateDarkAlliance Dark Alliance II]]'' SpinOff: [[BigBad Mordoc SeLanmere]], the White Prince and Pale Knight, is a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent powerful vampire lord]] who assists the Spirit of Hatred in attempting to wipe out the city of Baldur's Gate. When she fails, Mordoc steals her powerful fortress, the Onyx Tower, and slowly begins murdering and converting others to the undead to destroy Baldur's Gate for his Mulhorand allies. Mordoc proceeds to transport the Tower into Baldur's Gate and sets about to kill or turn every living thing in the entire city into zombies, using their lives to enhance his powers to near godhood.

* [[DemonOfHumanOrigin Kostchtchie]] is the demonic patron of rage who attempts to subvert the worship of the Frost Giants from their deity Thrym. Having begun life as a mortal warlord who led his armies to multitudes of atrocities before being slain by the Eladrin Paragon Gwynharyf after [[BadBoss annihilating his own followers]], Kostchtchie's angry soul rose to power in the abyss to become so vile that [[EvenEvilHasStandards even other demon lords loathe him for his evil]]. Advocating genocide and mass murder, even seeking to exterminate any frost giant who fails to worship him, Kostchtchie even kidnapped a Valkyrie named Geirskögul, [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raping her]] to beget a half-fiend daughter whom [[AbusiveParents he tortured]] to open a gateway to the realm of Ysgard, leaving Geirskögul broken and insane.

** [[BigBad Takhisis]] is the [[GodOfEvil Goddess of Darkness]] and [[GodSaveUsFromtheQueen Queen of Dragons]], who battled the Gods of Light from the beginning of time. In the first age, Takhisis waged a war across the entire world of Krynn, [[RapePillageAndBurn slaughtering and burning everything in her path]], until she was banished by the Gods of Light. In the present, trying to free herself and prevent the return of the Gods of Light, Takhisis leads her [[ReligionOfEvil followers]] to conquer the world, land after land, leaving death and destruction behind, while ordering her minions to hunt down the heroes.

* [[GodOfDarkness Shar]], Mistress of the Night, the Dark Lady, featured in a story arc in [[ComicBook/ForgottenRealms the comics]] and more prominently in the novels, is one of the oldest and most evil of all the gods. The Lady of Loss, Shar despises the life-bearing universe her [[CainAndAbel once-beloved sister]] Selûne created and sought to [[OmnicidalManiac wipe it out]]. Foiled, Shar formed a [[ReligionOfEvil faith]] based around loss and nihilism with her clergy subverting and destroying hope itself. Shar even maintains a tower where she imprisons those who enjoy freedom so she may savor their despair, and during the Time of Troubles she manipulated Selune to destroy her mentally and eventually kill her and all her friends and worshippers. Taking a more proactive role in the modern day, Shar helped to destroy the goddess Mystra and unleash the Spellplague, later having her chief worshippers unleash the Shadow Storm to blanket all Faerun in life-stealing darkness, a prelude to the Cycle of Night where Shar intended on reducing all of creation to nothingness so she may better enjoy the cold, black void yet again.

** Joleriel Halibeth was the youngest daughter of the twilight elves' House Halibeth. [[PsychoSupporter Becoming a worshipper of the Hatemonger]]. Joleriel converted many to his worship and killed her entire family before blaming her fiancé on their wedding day, killing him and massacring the town they were in to begin a war with the lowland elves. With no true intention of winning the war, Joleriel [[WeHaveReserves sacrificed many of her own people]], prolonging the bloody conflict to put the twilight elves further under her thumb and lure them towards evil where she would set up a system of nightmarish tyranny in the name of the Hatemonger.

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* ''Literature/TheDarkElfTrilogy'' & ''Literature/{{Legacy of the Drow| Series}}'': [[EvilMatriarch Matron Yvonnel Baenre]], the [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen de facto ruler]] of the Drow nation Menzoberranzan, is also the most evil Drow yet seen. Yvonnel Baenre keeps the city in its dark, chaotic state while destroying Drow houses she judges have [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived their usefulness]]. Her own children live in fear of her, and when dealing with her most hatred rivals, the Oblodras, Baenre annihilates their House, sending every inhabitant, even the slaves, to the Abyss to be tortured eternally. Baenre's ultimate goal is to conquer the dwarven kingdom Mithrill Hall, and for this end, she has enslaved the soul of its first king for two thousand years. She also utilizes her Illithid ally to forcibly and painfully [[MindRape mentally torture and devour the minds]] of those she wishes to interrogate while allowing her children and house to torture those who catch their eye. When she assaults Mithril Hall, her goal is nothing less than the deaths or enslavement of all in her path.

* ''ComicBook/{{Rick and Morty| Oni}} vs. [[ComicBook/RickAndMortyVsDungeonsAndDragons Dungeons & Dragons]]'', written by Creator/PatrickRothfuss & Jim Zub: Sebastian and Lucy are a duo of [[EvilSorcerer sorcerers]] who have been [[WouldHurtAChild kidnapping babies]] and stealing shards to start a ritual to "[[KnightTemplar cleanse]]" the world. Posing as innocent farmers whose child was kidnapped, they trick the Smiths into attacking a village of innocent ogres. They then use the chaos as a distraction to kidnap an ogre baby and steal a shard to complete the ritual. The duo then attempts to sacrifice six babies of various races to [[ColonyDrop bring down the sun]] in an attempt to [[OmnicidalManiac end all life in the world]].

* [[AxCrazy Yeenoghu, the Beast of Butchery]], is the demonic patron of [[HeinousHyena gnolls]] after slaying the god Gorellik in the Dawn War. A single-minded beast, Yeenoghu's doctrine involves mass murder with Yeenoghu dreaming of civilization overthrown and the utter erasure of order so that all living beings are exterminated as food or entertainment for the gnolls, who are subject to death at any time [[YouHaveFailedMe for failure]] or at Yeenoghu's whims. Promoting [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]] as part of his rites, Yeenoghu frequently inspires horrific crusades, taking innocents to be tortured and hunted by his followers in his realm while intending on repeating this on a cosmos-wide crusade—something he may have already achieved if not for his own single-minded brutality.

* [[OurGhoulsAreCreepier Doresain]] is the most favored exarch of Orcus and one of his most ghastly followers. A [[EvilOverlord tyrant]] who rules over a bony wasteland known as the Kingdom of the Ghouls, Doresain brings in droves of innocents from all over the multiverse and the City of Doors itself, pulling them in through portals to either dump them into feeding pits full of ravenous ghouls or become the subject of exquisite and gory feasts. Doresain enslaves his most prized followers to eternal hunger to ensure their loyalty, presiding over all manners of atrocities in the Kingdom—-from savage torture, to designing clothes of GenuineHumanHide, to performing plays for an audience of butchered corpses in the Theatre Of The Fleshless-—all in preparation for Doresain to bring up a horrible Primordial and [[OmnicidalManiac exterminate all existence]] with it, enslaving the souls of all life in [[AndIMustScream tortured undeath]] to Orcus.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Assault on Nightwyrm Fortress}}'': Urishtar Nightwyrm is a [[OurDragonsAreDifferent shadow dragon]] that happened upon the fortress of the title during her exploration of the Shadowfell by the design of a being she suspects is plotting against the Raven Queen. In order to empower herself and the fortress itself, Urishtar diverts the path of souls in the Shadowfell to instead lure them into her clutches, whereupon Urishtar [[SoulEating consumes]] or [[YourSoulIsMine twists them]] for her own purposes. Urishtar hands off any problems—defined as anything from "denying Urishtar" to "failing to try harder"—to her sadistic TortureTechnician Kailash, a rakshasa brutal even by the infamous standards of his kind. In her cruelest touch, Urishtar fertilizes her own eggs with captured souls, leaving the resultant hatchlings as [[AndIMustScream stillborn abominations neither living or dead]]. Urishtar has seen herself displacing the Raven Queen itself and works endlessly toward this, no matter how many souls she has to rip from the cycle of life and death.

* ''Literature/TaladasTrilogy'', by Chris Pierson: [[BigBad Maladar an-Desh]], aka Maladar TheFaceless, is the cruel emperor of Taladas. When the series begins, Maladar has been dead for centuries and is remembered in terrifying legends. Flashbacks reveal Maladar was TheCaligula of the old empire who conducted ethnic cleansing, invented torturous deaths for thousands—he was particularly fond of impalement—and he kept [[WouldHurtAChild a slave boy he molested]] until the boy managed to poison him. After death, Maladar's influence lived on, [[SealedEvilInACan his soul trapped in a small statue of his likeness]]. After he's revived, he spreads his influence to modern Taladas, inciting brutal wars to create enough bloodshed to prepare his resurrection. His initial choice of vessel is an innocent boy, but he simply bodyjacks the boy's father instead and enslaves goblin races to send them to their deaths as a cover for him to awaken his army and conquer Taladas anew.

* [[DarkActionGirl Zaiden]] is the leader of the largest [[HeinousHyena gnoll]] tribe in service to Yeenoghu. A monster the moment she was out of the womb who ignores even the few societal standards the gnolls have, such as their familial connections, Zaiden [[SiblingMurder butchered all her siblings]] soon after birth, [[{{Matricide}} sacrificed her mother]] and [[VillainousIncest made her father her unwilling mate]] until she tired of him as well. Nowadays, Zaiden dreams of the day Yeenoghu will make her his bride and spends her days having countless people tortured and slaughtered—including many of her own luckless minions—on scales unmatched by any of his other followers.

* ''Literature/BrimstoneAngels'': [[SmugSnake Adolican Rhand]] is a sadistic and [[AmbitionIsEvil ambitious]] Netherese wizard-lord who takes an interest in [[TheHeroine Farideh]] in ''Lesser Evils'', stalking her and eventually drugging her. It's later revealed that Rhand is a SerialKiller with a fondness for [[SerialRapist raping]] and murdering young women who catch his eye, a fate Farideh barely escapes. He later tracks her party to the lost library of the archmage Tarchamus, hoping to claim a spell the legendary wizard used to wipe out entire cities. In ''The Adversary'', he aligns himself with the forces of the Nine Hells to harvest the souls of Chosen, splitting their god-granted powers between them, though he ultimately intends to double-cross the devils. As part of this bargain, Farideh is forced to work with him, using her power to see souls to sort out the real Chosen from the fakes; when she refuses to comply, Rhand has dozens of innocent captives—including children—summarily executed until she relents, intending to make Farideh his latest victim once she outlives her usefulness.
* ''Literature/CounselorsAndKings'' trilogy: [[BigBad Akhlaur]] is a {{necromancer}} who combines the worst traits of a MadScientist, EvilOverlord, and an EvilSorcerer, performing grotesque experiments on living captives—often though not always elves—so that he can puzzle out the secrets of life and death and acquire their power. He treats servants and captives alike with the same bored disdain, since he views all other people as being equally worthless. In addition, he forcibly turned his former best friend into an undead horror under his complete control, and together, they tried to murder his other former friend to steal his kingdom.

* [[WickedWitch Mormo]] is the titan of poison, snakes, and evil witches and hags. In perhaps her most significant act, when Gormoth—another titan who was technically her brother—created the viren—the first sapient race to be created by the Titans—she felt jealous of his creation and poisoned him with a species of parasitic worms so she could steal his creation, said worm infestation leaving Gormoth [[AndIMustScream completely helpless and in agony for centuries as he writhed beneath the ground]]. Even when he finally recovered he was both permanently disfigured and DrivenToMadness, and thus went around trying to warp countless other creatures into monsters. Additionally, Mormo was responsible for creating numerous AlwaysChaoticEvil races, including most species of hag; and frequently required HumanSacrifice, usually by throwing people into pits full of snakes or poisoning them to death. She was also extremely petty and cruel even to her own loyal followers. In one case, when a powerful hag spellcaster invented a spell to create an entirely new race of creatures, a jealous Mormo cursed the hag by turning her into a [[MookMaker Darkwomb]]. Mormo even [[AbusiveParents tortured her own child Chardun]] endlessly until he became the GodOfEvil she desired.

** [[TheHeavy Bezz]], the [[TheWormThatWalks Vermin-Lord]], matches his own master in evil, personally carrying out the slaughter of the Knights of the New Sun and more bloodshed besides. When Grayson integrates himself into Bezz's band—by [[IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten being forced to kill]] one of its other members on Bezz's initiative—he and the others ingratiate themselves with a small town. When Bezz and the others try to make off with the town's treasure, Bezz deliberately forsakes a more peaceful solution to murder the town's leader while having everyone else in the town massacred to the last man. Having [[BadBoss even loyal members of his own band killed]] afterwards, Bezz reveals to the last member Akordia, who's grown to love Grayson, that he only desires to see Karkorth plunged into darkness in accordance with his own SocialDarwinist beliefs, taunting her that any punishment she could devise for Grayson will pale to the excruciation he and Shathrax put him through.

-->— [[http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Cyric#Dogma Dogma]] of '''Cyric, Prince of Lies''', ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'', ''Faiths and Pantheons'' sourcebook

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* ''Literature/TheLegendOfDrizzt'':
** ''Literature/TheIcewindDaleTrilogy'''s ''The Crystal Shard'': [[AmbitionIsEvil Akar Kessell]] is the self-proclaimed Tyrant of Icewind Dale who formed a pact with [[ArtifactOfDoom Crenshinibon]], the titular Crystal Shard, to fulfill his megalomaniacal aspirations. Even before finding the Crystal Shard, Kessell murdered his mentor, whom he considered like a father, on the order of a cabal of {{evil sorcerer}}s in the hopes of gaining power and prestige. Ultimately nothing more than a loose end to tie up, Kessell was abandoned in the wastelands of Icewind Dale where he found Crenshinibon and set out to use its power to conquer Toril. Kessell would use the Crystal Shard to enslave countless goblinoid tribes and mind-control innocent women to be his {{sex slave}}s. Kessell soon grew bored and, against the advice of Crenshinibon, set loose his armies on the Ten-Towns where thousands where slaughtered, but, proving himself an inept leader, he was outwitted and defeated by Drizzt and the Companions of the Hall. [[TheCorrupter Despite Crenshinibon being known for its corrupting influence]], Akar Kessell proved to be a monster all along who was buried beneath an avalanche by the Crystal Shard when Kessell's own power lust grew too much for even the Shard to handle.
** ''Literature/TheDarkElfTrilogy'' & ''Literature/{{Legacy of the Drow| Series}}'': [[EvilMatriarch Matron Yvonnel Baenre]], the [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen de facto ruler]] of the Drow nation Menzoberranzan, is also the most evil Drow yet seen. Yvonnel Baenre keeps the city in its dark, chaotic state while destroying Drow houses she judges have [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived their usefulness]]. Her own children live in fear of her, and when dealing with her most hatred rivals, the Oblodras, Baenre annihilates their House, sending every inhabitant, even the slaves, to the Abyss to be tortured eternally. Baenre's ultimate goal is to conquer the dwarven kingdom Mithrill Hall, and for this end, she has enslaved the soul of its first king for two thousand years. She also utilizes her Illithid ally to forcibly and painfully [[MindRape mentally torture and devour the minds]] of those she wishes to interrogate while allowing her children and house to torture those who catch their eye. When she assaults Mithril Hall, her goal is nothing less than the deaths or enslavement of all in her path.
** ''Literature/{{Transitions}}''' ''The Pirate King'': [[EvilSorcerer Arklem Greeth]] is a powerful [[OurLichesAreDifferent lich]] and the leader of the Arcane Brotherhood in Luskan. The de facto [[SorcerousOverlord lord of Luskan]], Greeth sought to expand his influence by weakening the Sword Coast and the Silver Marches. He made Luskan a haven for the very worst pirates and tried to dissolve the recent peace treaty between the orcs and dwarves, catching the attention of [[TheCaptain Captain Duedermont]] and [[TheHero Drizzt]] respectively. In the ensuing coup, Greeth displayed his evil by releasing ghouls to butcher the people of Luskan and killing thousands when he set his base to explode when he retreated. Even after losing, he was driven by revenge against Duedermont and destroyed supplies needed to feed Luskan's people and burned the ship, the Sea Sprite, to ensure the captain would die in the ruined city. His supposed love for [[TheDragon his Dragon]], Valindra Shadowmantle, was also made moot when he sent her off to die and then raised her as a lich, proving he cared for her only as a tool. While ultimately only a pawn for [[TheManBehindTheMan Jarlaxle]] and [[ManipulativeBastard Kensidan]], the titular Pirate King, Greeth was vile enough that every faction agreed that he needed to be eliminated.
** ''Literature/TheNeverwinterSaga'':
*** [[VainSorceress Sylora Salm]] is a [[TheNecrocracy Thayan]] sorceress working under the orders of the [[SorcerousOverlord Archlich Szass Tam]] to complete the construction of a [[ArtifactOfDoom Dread Ring]], a powerful necromantic artifact. To go about this, she follows her rival Dahlia Sin'felle into the bowels of Gauntlgrym and mind controls the dwarf Athrogate into unleashing the Fire Primordial imprisoned there. This causes a volcanic eruption that destroys the city of Neverwinter and kills tens of thousands. Sylora uses the corpses to empower the Dread Ring and to create an army of [[OurZombiesAreDifferent ash zombies]] that constantly assault the survivors. Sylora is also shown to be pure evil on a personal level when she manipulates a cultist named Jestry into falling in love with her and then twists him into a constantly suffering abomination to serve as her bodyguard, and dominates the now insane undead Valindra Shadowmantle into being her servant.
*** [[WouldHurtAChild Herzgo Alegni]], unlike most of the relatively few rapists in the ''Forgotten Realms'' setting, likes preying on kids. At one point, he and his warband [[RapePillageAndBurn raided a village]], killing all the men and taking possession of the women. Alegni took a woman hostage to force her 10-year-old daughter, Dahlia, to let him rape her. When he was finished, he had his men hold Dahlia upside down to make her more likely to get pregnant before he [[NeckSnap broke the mother's neck]] for fun. He also uses a powerful magical sword to enslave Artemis Entreri (a former villain who had undergone a HeelFaceTurn and just wanted to be left alone) as his personal assassin, and used the sword to stab pain directly into Entreri's soul whenever he was pissed or just plain bored. He also commits murder for the pettiest of reasons, such as somebody [[ItsAllAboutMe naming a bridge after somebody else besides him]], even though he had nothing to do with the bridge's construction.
** ''Literature/TheNeverwinterSaga'', ''Literature/CompanionsCodex'' & ''Literature/HomecomingDrizzt'': [[AmbitionIsEvil Tiago Baenre]] is considered one of Menzoberranzan's most promising young males. A ruthless, capable fighter obsessed with rising high in the storied Baenre family and [[GloryHound becoming a legend]] to his people, Tiago dreams of destroying the legendary renegade [[TheHero Drizzt Do'Urden]]. Leading attacks on dwarves that kill multiple innocents, Tiago also ruins Drizzt's reputation by framing him for demon attacks, and also helps to manipulate the orcs into savagery by having the peaceful King Lorgru deposed and replaced with a brutal warlord. Tiago leads his new army in an attack on Sundabar, killing massive amounts of civilians, and personally beheads the king before turning his forces to attack the city of Nesme, resulting in the butchering of countless innocents. Tiago interrogates a survivor by threatening to kill a child, and when the survivor gives in, he [[WouldHurtAChild has the child killed]] because she took too long to answer. Tiago has the duke of Nesme crucified and amuses himself by "allowing" knights to escape before [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame hunting them down]] and torturing them to death, in one case having his dragon ally swallow one alive to digest him slowly. Tiago, named as Weapons Master to the restored House Do'Urden, frequently rapes the brainwashed elf Dahlia Sin'Felle who has been installed as the puppet leader of the House, and also rapes a half-drow ally to demonstrate his power over her. His obsession with Drizzt eventually leads him to hunt down the older drow to become a legend by killing him. Tiago stands apart as the single most evil male Drow in the setting, his crimes fueled by nothing more than [[ItsAllAboutMe his own ego]] and [[ForTheEvulz attempts to amuse himself]].

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** [[DepravedDwarf Neb the gnome]] is a criminal first encountered in [[VideoGame/BaldursGate first game]] in the cells of Baldur's Gate's Flaming Fist Headquarters, where Gorion's Ward is forced to work with him to escape their wrongful imprisonment. Neb cheerfully reveals, through a riddle, that he's killed 33 [[WouldHurtAChild children]]. He appears again in the [[VideoGame/BaldursGateII second game]], having stolen a slab of Illithium ore. Cornered at an abandoned house in the Bridge District, Neb sinks to a new level of depravity by summoning the spirits of his young victims and [[AndIMustScream forcing them to fight for him even as they cry]]. While the ''Baldur's Gate'' trilogy is well-stocked on criminals, murderers and supernatural threats, Neb's grimly realistic sadism and the horrific idea he represents make him stand out as easily one of the cruelest and most disgusting minor villains in the series. Even the inventory description of his head intones that "rarely has a more despicable being roamed the land".
** ''[[VideoGame/BaldursGateSiegeOfDragonspear Siege of Dragonspear]]'': [[TreacherousAdvisor Hephernaan]] is supposedly a cleric in service of the Shining Crusade, but is in truth the servant of powerful devils. Manipulating the Crusade's leader [[AntiVillain Caelar Argent]], Hephernaan made her think she could save her uncle Aun from the Abyss, inspiring her to raise an army under the false belief of storming the Nine Hells to liberate the souls of the victims of the first Dragonspear War. Hephernaan oversaw the deaths of thousands and a near-catastrophic war on the Sword Coast as [[TheManInFrontOfTheMan a member of Caelar's inner circle]], but his ultimate plan was to lure Gorion's Ward to Castle Dragonspear. [[EvilGloating Gleefully gloating]] as he reveals his plans in the final chapters of the game, Hephernaan uses the player's divine blood to re-open a long-closed portal to [[FireAndBrimstoneHell the plane of Avernus]], intent on opening Faerun and all Toril to a Baatezu invasion at the hands of his master Belhifet that would see every living thing killed or enslaved to devilish torment forevermore.
** ''[[VideoGame/BaldursGateII Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn]]'':
*** [[BigBad Jonoleth of Suldanessellar]] was a powerful elven archmage who [[GodhoodSeeker attempted to become a god]]. Punished by being stripped of his soul and elven lifespan, renaming himself "Jon Irenicus", or "Shattered One", he concocts a scheme to achieve both godhood and vengeance. With countless [[PlayingWithSyringes experiments]] to perfect the process of transference of divinity, Irenicus helps to engineer murders and risk a war in Baldur's Gate to capture the Bhaalspawn hero, killing several of their companions and awakening the powers of the dead god Bhaal in his children via induced pain. After taking over a mage's prison from within, Irenicus [[YourSoulIsMine takes the souls]] of the prisoners for use in his ritual to steal the souls of the Bhaalspawn and his sister Imoen before arranging for the Drow to attack Suldanessellar, providing him cover to steal the essence of their god-tree so he might steal its energies and rise to godhood with Suldanessellar destroyed in the process. Confronting the Bhaalspawn and his former lover, Queen Ellesime, Irenicus at last abandons the last vestiges of feeling he had for Ellesime and declares that he will at last have the vengeance and power he most desires.
*** Rejiek [[MeaningfulName Hidesman]] is an Athkatla-based tanner who moonlights as the [[SerialKiller Skinner Murderer]]; his modus operandi is FlayingAlive the paupers and beggars trying to survive in the Bridge District. Fleeing after the player confronts him with evidence linking him to his murders, [[CreepyBasement the lower reaches of Rejiek's home]] are discovered to be littered with flayed and rotting corpses and even a shirt made entirely of GenuineHumanHide. Escaping, Rejiek resurfaces after causing the disappearance of a young woman, Raissa, having infected himself with a virus to become a "skinless dancer", a monstrosity that wears the skins of humans to disguise itself. Switching identities with Raissa, Rejiek tries to trick the heroes into murdering her, and when this fails, he attacks them in anger. Even after his own death, Rejiek leaves his curse upon Raissa to try to make her give into the monstrous instincts of the skinless dancer.
*** ''[[VideoGame/BaldursGateIIThroneOfBhaal Throne of Bhaal]]'' expansion pack: [[BigBad Amelyssan the Blackhearted]], former HighPriestess of Bhaal, [[BitchInSheepsClothing poses as a kind figure]], saving the children of the dead God from the brutal blood purges and giving them sanctuary in a city. However, behind the scenes, she is the one [[ManipulativeBastard manipulating]] the purges, killing any with any connection to Bhaal, while simultaneously forming a clandestine group of powerful Bhaalspawn called The Five to plunge the world into war. Amelyssan manipulates the heroes into eliminating the Five, but not before she allows their armies to invade the city, slaughtering everyone within, including the refugees who trusted her. Having gathered all of their Godly essence, Amelyssan is willing to throw the cosmos into disarray to, instead of resurrecting her God, [[TheStarscream betray him and take his place as the new Lord Of Murder]].
** ''[[VideoGame/BaldursGateDarkAlliance Dark Alliance II]]'' SpinOff: [[BigBad Mordoc SeLanmere]], the White Prince and Pale Knight, is a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent powerful vampire lord]] who assists the Spirit of Hatred in attempting to wipe out the city of Baldur's Gate. When she fails, Mordoc steals her powerful fortress, the Onyx Tower, and slowly begins murdering and converting others to the undead to destroy Baldur's Gate for his Mulhorand allies. Mordoc proceeds to transport the Tower into Baldur's Gate and sets about to kill or turn every living thing in the entire city into zombies, using their lives to enhance his powers to near godhood.
* ''VideoGame/DemonStone'': [[TheChessmaster Ygorl the Slaad Lord]], [[SealedEvilInACan imprisoned]] with his [[ArchEnemy nemesis Cireka]] in the Demon Stone, still manages to reach out to shape events to his liking. Bidding trolls to attack and slaughter the town of Nesme to harden the heart of guardsman Rannek, along with hill giants to attack a wood elf settlement to do the same for half-drow Zhai, Ygorl has his dragon ally Caminus launch a brutal attack on a civilian town so he may arrange himself to be freed and resume his fight with Cireka. Intending on being the one to destroy and conquer most of Faerun, Ygorl has his allies launch numerous attacks until Cireka is dead, whereupon he intends to sweep in with his Slaad across Toril.
* ''VideoGame/IcewindDale'': The wicked devil [[BigBad Belhifet]] disguises himself as Brother Poquelin to steadily recruit people to his armies so he may conquer Ten Towns. Using evil beings to wipe out anyone who may get close to the truth, Belhifet intends on sweeping over Ten Towns to destroy it and reap the souls of all there for his infernal armies so he may unleash Baator upon the mortal plane. Even before being defeated, Belhifet [[SerialRapist rapes many women]] to father half-devil children to further his plans. After his defeat, Belhifet turns out to be the secret villain of the [[VideoGame/BaldursGateSiegeOfDragonspear Siege of Dragonspear]], having tried to kidnap and torture Caelar Argent as a child. The secret master of Hephernaan who [[ManipulativeBastard manipulated all the evil of the Shining Crusade]], Belhifet intends on the utter devastation of the Material Plane.
* ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2'': [[OurLichesAreDifferent Black Garius]], the self-proclaimed "Master of the Fifth Tower", is the supposed leader of the Cult of Shadow, a group of necromancers that plunders grave sites and old battle sites for corpses to their army and tries to free the [[BigBad King of Shadows]]. In reality, [[TheStarscream he wants to exploit the King for power]]; [[BadBoss treats his subordinates as expendable pawns]]; and was ready to wipe out the remaining cultists as soon as he was done with the ritual to bind the King. However, [[EvilIsNotAToy the ritual is botched and he dies]]; afterwards he is revived as a Shadow Reaver, a lich-like undead and a slave to the King. He's perfectly fine with this state, however, as his master has augmented his magical powers. His greatest atrocity in the game was ordering the massacre of a peaceful village in order to frame the PlayerCharacter, who had thwarted his efforts. If you prove yourself innocent in the court, he shows no regret over the people that died, but is enraged over his minions for failing him and [[YouHaveFailedMe kills Lorne on the spot]] if you didn't do it yourself.

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* ''ComicBook/AdvancedDungeonsAndDragons''' issues #1-4: [[GeniusBruiser Imgig Zu]] is the ruler of a group of extraplanar beings who once seduced the goddess Selune to obtain access to the world. Defeated and sealed off, Imgig Zu managed to escape and later murders the mage who helped save Selune while spitefully crippling his son's hands and leaving him alive to enjoy his failure. Imgig Zu abducts other mages while letting his Drow ally Kilili murder them in [[GladiatorGames gladiator duels]] for his amusement, all while intending on unleashing his people upon Toril to slaughter all they can so he may rule the world.
* ''ComicBook/{{Rick and Morty| Oni}} vs. [[ComicBook/RickAndMortyVsDungeonsAndDragons Dungeons & Dragons]]'', written by Creator/PatrickRothfuss & Jim Zub: Sebastian and Lucy are a duo of [[EvilSorcerer sorcerers]] who have been [[WouldHurtAChild kidnapping babies]] and stealing shards to start a ritual to "[[KnightTemplar cleanse]]" the world. Posing as innocent farmers whose child was kidnapped, they trick the Smiths into attacking a village of innocent ogres. They then use the chaos as a distraction to kidnap an ogre baby and steal a shard to complete the ritual. The duo then attempts to sacrifice six babies of various races to [[ColonyDrop bring down the sun]] in an attempt to [[OmnicidalManiac end all life in the world]].

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* [[EvilOverlord Orcus]], Prince of the Undead, is a demon prince who became a {{god|Of Evil}}. With horrific, blasphemous rites, even by the standards of evil gods, Orcus seeks to convert all that lives to his undead slaves. Constantly attempting to wipe out living regions, Orcus later achieved godhood and expanded his influence, before being murdered by another god. Returning as Tenebrous in ''[[TabletopGame/{{Planescape}} Dead Gods]]'', Orcus went on a [[KillTheGod god-killing spree]] before inspiring massive catastrophes across the planes. Seeking to punish life itself for his death, Orcus wiped out a world with a plague and kept the souls in tortured anguish, intending on massacring the City of Sigil and converting its inhabitants into an undead army to steadily [[OmnicidalManiac exterminate all life in the multiverse]]. Returning to his demonic status, Orcus continuously seeks his lost godhood, even rerouting souls from his nemesis the Raven Queen to him so he may twist them into his own slaves. Seeking to usurp the Raven Queen's divinity, Orcus's ultimate goal is to enslave and convert every soul until he remains the only deity, with all life ceasing to exist save as his mutilated hordes of undead.
* [[AxCrazy Yeenoghu, the Beast of Butchery]], is the demonic patron of [[HeinousHyena gnolls]] after slaying the god Gorellik in the Dawn War. A single-minded beast, Yeenoghu's doctrine involves mass murder with Yeenoghu dreaming of civilization overthrown and the utter erasure of order so that all living beings are exterminated as food or entertainment for the gnolls, who are subject to death at any time [[YouHaveFailedMe for failure]] or at Yeenoghu's whims. Promoting [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]] as part of his rites, Yeenoghu frequently inspires horrific crusades, taking innocents to be tortured and hunted by his followers in his realm while intending on repeating this on a cosmos-wide crusade--something he may have already achieved if not for his own single-minded brutality.

* [[OurGhoulsAreCreepier Doresain]] is the most favored exarch of Orcus and one of his most ghastly followers. A [[EvilOverlord tyrant]] who rules over a bony wasteland known as the Kingdom of the Ghouls, Doresain brings in droves of innocents from all over the multiverse and the City of Doors itself, pulling them in through portals to either dump them into feeding pits full of ravenous ghouls or become the subject of exquisite and gory feasts. Doresain enslaves his most prized followers to eternal hunger to ensure their loyalty, presiding over all manners of atrocities in the Kingdom—-from savage torture, to designing clothes of GenuineHumanHide, to performing plays for an audience of butchered corpses in the Theatre Of The Fleshless-—all in preparation for Doresain to bring up a horrible Primordial and [[OmnicidalManiac exterminate all existence]] with it, enslaving the souls of all life in [[AndIMustScream tortured undeath]] to Orcus.

* ''[[TabletopGame/AssaultOnNightwyrmFortress Assault on Nightwyrm Fortress]]'': Urishtar Nightwyrm is a [[OurDragonsAreDifferent shadow dragon]] that happened upon the fortress of the title during her exploration of the Shadowfell by the design of a being she suspects is plotting against the Raven Queen. In order to empower herself and the fortress itself, Urishtar diverts the path of souls in the Shadowfell to instead lure them into her clutches, whereupon Urishtar [[SoulEating consumes]] or [[YourSoulIsMine twists them]] for her own purposes. Urishtar hands off any problems--defined as anything from "denying Urishtar" to "failing to try harder"--to her sadistic TortureTechnician Kailash, a rakshasa brutal even by the infamous standards of his kind. In her cruelest touch, Urishtar fertilizes her own eggs with captured souls, leaving the resultant hatchlings as [[AndIMustScream stillborn abominations neither living or dead]]. Urishtar has seen herself displacing the Raven Queen itself and works endlessly toward this, no matter how many souls she has to rip from the cycle of life and death.
* ''[[TabletopGame/TheBastionOfBrokenSouls The Bastion Of Broken Souls]]'': In this 3.0 adventure, [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Ashardalon]] is an incredibly ancient, powerful and wicked red dragon. Already a cruel and rapacious creature in his own right, after having been mortally injured by a powerful druidess who didn't live long enough to celebrate the deed, he managed to sustain himself by substituting his own failing heart with a denizen of the Abyss, a Balor. The demon was not enthusiastic about this, and Ashardalon had to search for another way to extend his lifespan. He discovered an EldritchLocation deep inside the Plane of Positive Energy where the souls of every living creature are born and reside before getting a body. There, he settled down with a few of his servants and began [[SoulEating devouring pre-incarnated souls]] in order to live forever. This act causes countless beings across the universe to be [[TheSoulless born without a soul]], [[AndIMustScream horribly alive and at the same time utterly dead]]. If the [=PCs=] call the dragon out on his crimes, his answer is that he doesn't care, as long as [[ItsAllAboutMe he gets to enjoy eternity]] as the self-styled "ultimate predator".

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* [[BigBad Rajaat]], the War Bringer, was a Pyreen who despised the Green Age he was born into. Desiring a return to the Blue Age to achieve a sense of satisfaction, Rajaat organized the ruination of the world, training the Champions of Rajaat and having them commit genocide on almost every race of the world of Athas, some being rendered completely extinct. Rajaat planned to betray the Champions and [[KillAllHumans exterminate humanity]] as well in the end, before being defeated and {{sealed|Evil In A Can}}. In the end of the ''[[Literature/ThePrismPentad Prism Pentad]]'', Rajaat emerges again, intent on [[OmnicidalManiac exterminating most life in the world]], gleefully enacts revenge on some of his treacherous former disciples, hellbent on bringing ruination to Athas for the sake of his own twisted desires.

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* ''Literature/TaladasTrilogy'', by Chris Pierson: [[BigBad Maladar an-Desh]], aka Maladar TheFaceless, is the cruel emperor of Taladas. When the series begins, Maladar has been dead for centuries and is remembered in terrifying legends. Flashbacks reveal Maladar was TheCaligula of the old empire who conducted ethnic cleansing, invented torturous deaths for thousands--he was particularly fond of impalement--and he kept [[WouldHurtAChild a slave boy he molested]] until the boy managed to poison him. After death, Maladar's influence lived on, [[SealedEvilInACan his soul trapped in a small statue of his likeness]]. After he's revived, he spreads his influence to modern Taladas, inciting brutal wars to create enough bloodshed to prepare his resurrection. His initial choice of vessel is an innocent boy, but he simply bodyjacks the boy's father instead and enslaves goblin races to send them to their deaths as a cover for him to awaken his army and conquer Taladas anew.

* ''VideoGame/DungeonsAndDragonsOnline'''s "Demon Sands" module: [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Lailat]] is the [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demonic]] ruler of the Menechtarun desert and the one behind the region's perpetual violence. Summoned to Eberron by King Raiyum, Lailat helped him achieve lichdom and then imprisoned him in his tomb so that she could turn his kingdom into her own personal killing field. Lailat led the Firebrand gnolls to become vicious man-eating slavers, taught the Vulkoorim scorrow to adopt [[HumanSacrifice ritual sacrifice]], and set them against each other and Menechtarun's surviving humans simply to enjoy the violence. When the players raid her lair, Lailat is shown to have killed another adventuring party and revived them to fight for her as undead, [[AndIMustScream reanimating them each time they die to ensure that their suffering never ends]]. She also keeps a rakshasa bound as a SexSlave and considers replacing him with a player when he dies. A boundlessly cruel tyrant concerned only with causing as much violence and suffering as she can, Lailat is a vicious monster even among demons.

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* [[DarkActionGirl Zaiden]] is the leader of the largest [[HeinousHyena gnoll]] tribe in service to Yeenoghu. A monster the moment she was out of the womb who ignores even the few societal standards the gnolls have, such as their familial connections, Zaiden [[SiblingMurder butchered all her siblings]] soon after birth, [[{{Matricide}} sacrificed her mother]] and [[VillainousIncest made her father her unwilling mate]] until she tired of him as well. Nowadays, Zaiden dreams of the day Yeenoghu will make her his bride and spends her days having countless people tortured and slaughtered--including many of her own luckless minions--on scales unmatched by any of his other followers.

** ''The Golden Voyages''' "Broken Talons": [[EvilSorceress Melisende]] is a cruel, cold-hearted sorceress who works with her father on the island of Kaff. Using her magics, Melisende crashes sailors onto the island, lures them to her father, then works with the man to torture and [[PlayingWithSyringes experiment]] on their captives, turning them into [[GhostPirate ghoulish pirates]] that Melisende then releases into the seas to cause chaos. Melisende has done this to countless men, leading to untold pain and death, and when the [=PCs=] arrive on Kaff, Melisende tries to repeat the process on them, successfully subjecting half of the [=PCs=] crew to the horrible fate.

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* ''Literature/BrimstoneAngels'': [[SmugSnake Adolican Rhand]] is a sadistic and [[AmbitionIsEvil ambitious]] Netherese wizard-lord who takes an interest in [[TheHeroine Farideh]] in ''Lesser Evils'', stalking her and eventually drugging her. It's later revealed that Rhand is a SerialKiller with a fondness for [[SerialRapist raping]] and murdering young women who catch his eye, a fate Farideh barely escapes. He later tracks her party to the lost library of the archmage Tarchamus, hoping to claim a spell the legendary wizard used to wipe out entire cities. In ''The Adversary'', he aligns himself with the forces of the Nine Hells to harvest the souls of Chosen, splitting their god-granted powers between them, though he ultimately intends to double-cross the devils. As part of this bargain, Farideh is forced to work with him, using her power to see souls to sort out the real Chosen from the fakes; when she refuses to comply, Rhand has dozens of innocent captives--including children--summarily executed until she relents, intending to make Farideh his latest victim once she outlives her usefulness.
* ''Literature/CounselorsAndKings'' trilogy: [[BigBad Akhlaur]] is a {{necromancer}} who combines the worst traits of a MadScientist, EvilOverlord, and an EvilSorcerer, performing grotesque experiments on living captives--often though not always elves--so that he can puzzle out the secrets of life and death and acquire their power. He treats servants and captives alike with the same bored disdain, since he views all other people as being equally worthless. In addition, he forcibly turned his former best friend into an undead horror under his complete control, and together, they tried to murder his other former friend to steal his kingdom.

** ''Literature/TheDarkElfTrilogy'' & ''[[Literature/LegacyOfTheDrowSeries Legacy of the Drow]]'': [[EvilMatriarch Matron Yvonnel Baenre]], the [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen de facto ruler]] of the Drow nation Menzoberranzan, is also the most evil Drow yet seen. Yvonnel Baenre keeps the city in its dark, chaotic state while destroying Drow houses she judges have [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived their usefulness]]. Her own children live in fear of her, and when dealing with her most hatred rivals, the Oblodras, Baenre annihilates their House, sending every inhabitant, even the slaves, to the Abyss to be tortured eternally. Baenre's ultimate goal is to conquer the dwarven kingdom Mithrill Hall, and for this end, she has enslaved the soul of its first king for two thousand years. She also utilizes her Illithid ally to forcibly and painfully [[MindRape mentally torture and devour the minds]] of those she wishes to interrogate while allowing her children and house to torture those who catch their eye. When she assaults Mithril Hall, her goal is nothing less than the deaths or enslavement of all in her path.

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*** ''[[VideoGame/BaldursGateIIThroneOfBhaal Throne of Bhaal]]'' expansion pack: [[BigBad Amelyssan the Blackhearted]], former HighPriestess of Bhaal, [[BitchInSheepsClothing poses as a kind figure]], saving the children of the dead God from the brutal blood purges and giving them sanctuary in a city. However, behind the scenes, she is the one {{manipulati|ve bastard}}ng the purges, killing any with any connection to Bhaal, while simultaneously forming a clandestine group of powerful Bhaalspawn called The Five to plunge the world into war. Amelyssan manipulates the heroes into eliminating the Five, but not before she allows their armies to invade the city, slaughtering everyone within, including the refugees who trusted her. Having gathered all of their Godly essence, Amelyssan is willing to throw the cosmos into disarray to, instead of resurrecting her God, [[TheStarscream betray him and take his place as the new Lord Of Murder]].

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* ''Harvest of Darkness'': [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Y'nene]] is a powerful vampire and servant of [[GodOfEvil evil gods]]. Responsible for a multitude of atrocities and {{human sacrifice}}s, Y'nene reveled in his vampirism for centuries until growing bored. Seeking to sacrifice a hundred [[VirginSacrifice virgin]] maidens to the dark god Zazimash, Y'nene would create a hundred new vampires and set them loose upon the world for a mass of slaughter. [[SealedEvilInACan Sealed away]] in defeat, Y'nene attempts to lure power hungry villains to unleash him and then find one hundred new virgins to sacrifice and complete his plan.

* ''Garden of the Plantmaster'': [[WhenTreesAttack Lamash]] is a wood demon who was summoned by the Planemaster Clahz in his bountiful gardens. Torturing Clahz for years in horrific ways. Lamash turns the gardens into a place of corruption, having his creatures kill people, while twisting others into [[BodyHorror corrupted and tortured monstrosities]]. Patiently, Lamash intends to unleash them all over Tellene, to make the world his {{garden|Of Evil}} where all within are turned into twisted and tormented forms of life for him to play with.

** Drow'deltha, granddaughter of Joleriel and the Hatemonger, [[{{Matricide}} murdered her own mother Meluria]] and attempted to have her [[SiblingMurder twin sister Persephinae murdered ]]to seize control. Known for [[ColdBloodedTorture torturing]] servants and peasants [[ForTheEvulz for the joy of it]], Drow'deltha eventually changed the theocracy to worship only her, launching a brutal CivilWar to subjugate her own people. Intending on killing her sister and even dethroning and replacing her own grandfather, Drow'deltha embarked on a campaign to subject all the elves to genocide or to her own tyranny.

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* [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Vlad Drakov]], Darklord of Falkovnia, is one of the [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters least supernatural]] Darklords, and unmistakably one of the most evil. Vlad was a mercenary captain from Taladas who arrived in the Mists and, after massacring a village, was driven off where he founded the kingdom of Falkovnia. A gruesome tyrant, Drakov enslaves or murders any nonhuman found in his borders and oppresses the people hideously, being a SerialRapist who claims [[DroitDuSeigneur the right of First Night]] on any woman for her wedding night and believing women serve no purpose save childbirth. Drakov perpetrates horrific military campaigns with brutal massacres, and his own people suffer no better, with Drakov having people {{impaled|With Extreme Prejudice}} for minor or imagined crimes, even being sure to impale at least one a night for his evening meal. The setting itself even concludes that if the Mists are a hell for those trapped there, "few deserve it more than Drakov".

** {{Dracula}} is one of the eldest and mightiest of the [[EldritchAbomination Red Death]]'s servants. As UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler, Dracula subjected 100,000 Turkish soldiers to the stake, and his [[{{Sadist}} appetite for suffering]] was so great that he put entire villages to the sword, with men, women and children {{impaled|With Extreme Prejudice}} and left to suffer for hours in agony. As a vampire, Dracula, who has killed so many in Transylvania that the region suffers from a population problem, later emerges to do the same to other regions. Happily turning the loved ones of his enemies, Dracula savors watching them trying to kill one another after, and is a vicious predator as either man or undead.
** [[{{Sadist}} Delphine LaLaurie]] is initially presented as a charming {{socialite}} in New Orleans's French Quarter. In truth, Delphine was a SerialKiller who focused on her slaves, having countless innocents tortured and murdered with the "lucky" ones having [[EyeScream eyes]] or [[TongueTrauma tongues]] removed. After being driven from Louisiana by a mob, Delphine moves from region to region, mentally dominating her own family into participating in her actions and always aiming for areas where she has fresh access to servants who can never please her, long before she proceeds to torture and slaughter them as well.

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* The [[GodOfEvil wicked god]] Izrador fell to Aryth long ago. Rising anew, Izrador launched brutal campaigns to take over the lands before resorting to more subtle means. Achieving victory, Izrador runs a nightmarishly despotic regime, with [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil slavery]], sacrifice, and more, all while seeking [[FinalSolution genocide]] on the remaining elves and dwarves. Draining the land of magic with mirrors that require HumanSacrifice, Izrador [[YourSoulIsMine enslaves the souls]] of his victims and converts them to hideous undead monstrosities known as the Fell. Even his own elites fare no better, as one of his vaunted Night Kings was once a hero tortured and broken by Izrador into a corrupt shell of himself. Seeking to drain all of Aryth's magic, Izrador's ultimate plan is to return to the heavens and take over, overthrowing the gods of light and extending his evil reign across the cosmos.

* [[TheCaligula Baron Ludwig von Hendriks]] is an insane [[AristocratsAreEvil aristocrat]] who rules the Barony of the Black Eagle. Von Hendriks has raids conducted where innocent halflings are often taken and enslaved, and is most infamous for the tortures he inflicts. In the Black Eagle Barony, being accused of a crime gets one put before his court. The problem is von Hendriks only cares [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming how loud the victims can scream]] and [[TortureTechnician devises nasty tortures]] that he's used on countless innocents.

* [[WickedWitch Mormo]] is the titan of poison, snakes, and evil witches and hags. In perhaps her most significant act, when Gormoth--another titan who was technically her brother--created the viren--the first sapient race to be created by the Titans--she felt jealous of his creation and poisoned him with a species of parasitic worms so she could steal his creation, said worm infestation leaving Gormoth [[AndIMustScream completely helpless and in agony for centuries as he writhed beneath the ground]]. Even when he finally recovered he was both permanently disfigured and DrivenToMadness, and thus went around trying to warp countless other creatures into monsters. Additionally, Mormo was responsible for creating numerous AlwaysChaoticEvil races, including most species of hag; and frequently required HumanSacrifice, usually by throwing people into pits full of snakes or poisoning them to death. She was also extremely petty and cruel even to her own loyal followers. In one case, when a powerful hag spellcaster invented a spell to create an entirely new race of creatures, a jealous Mormo cursed the hag by turning her into a [[MookMaker Darkwomb]]. Mormo even [[AbusiveParents tortured her own child Chardun]] endlessly until he became the GodOfEvil she desired.

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* ''[[ComicBook/AdvancedDungeonsAndDragons Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]]''' issues #1-4: [[GeniusBruiser Imgig Zu]] is the ruler of a group of extraplanar beings who once seduced the goddess Selune to obtain access to the world. Defeated and sealed off, Imgig Zu managed to escape and later murders the mage who helped save Selune while spitefully crippling his son's hands and leaving him alive to enjoy his failure. Imgig Zu abducts other mages while letting his Drow ally Kilili murder them in [[GladiatorGames gladiator duels]] for his amusement, all while intending on unleashing his people upon Toril to slaughter all they can so he may rule the world.
* ''ComicBook/{{Rick and Morty|Oni}} vs. [[ComicBook/RickAndMortyVsDungeonsAndDragons Dungeons & Dragons]]'', written by Creator/PatrickRothfuss & Jim Zub: Sebastian and Lucy are a duo of [[EvilSorcerer sorcerers]] who have been [[WouldHurtAChild kidnapping babies]] and stealing shards to start a ritual to "[[KnightTemplar cleanse]]" the world. Posing as innocent farmers whose child was kidnapped, they trick the Smiths into attacking a village of innocent ogres. They then use the chaos as a distraction to kidnap an ogre baby and steal a shard to complete the ritual. The duo then attempts to sacrifice six babies of various races to [[ColonyDrop bring down the sun]] in an attempt to [[OmnicidalManiac end all life in the world]].

** [[TheHeavy Bezz]], the [[TheWormThatWalks Vermin-Lord]], matches his own master in evil, personally carrying out the slaughter of the Knights of the New Sun and more bloodshed besides. When Grayson integrates himself into Bezz's band--by [[IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten being forced to kill]] one of its other members on Bezz's initiative--he and the others ingratiate themselves with a small town. When Bezz and the others try to make off with the town's treasure, Bezz deliberately forsakes a more peaceful solution to murder the town's leader while having everyone else in the town massacred to the last man. Having [[BadBoss even loyal members of his own band killed]] afterwards, Bezz reveals to the last member Akordia, who's grown to love Grayson, that he only desires to see Karkorth plunged into darkness in accordance with his own SocialDarwinist beliefs, taunting her that any punishment she could devise for Grayson will pale to the excruciation he and Shathrax put him through.

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* [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Vlaakith CLVII]], debuting in ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'', really makes her mark in "[[Magazine/{{Dungeon}} The Lich Queen's Beloved]]". Ruler of the Githyanki, Vlaakith is a powerful undead tyrant out to become a god. To prevent any challenges to her rule, Vlaakith takes those with potential and devours their souls, turning them into powerful undead monsters under her control, doing the same to those who anger her and imprisoning countless others in [[AndIMustScream living agony]] within the walls of her fortress Susurru, the "Palace of Whispers". Vlaakith painfully experiments upon her captives, also intending to [[FinalSolution wipe out the Githzerai race]], and has many sapients abducted and kept in living agony or fed to her half-dragon creations, with one Illithid prisoner frozen under a spell of eternal agony. Should she succeed, Vlaakith kills half her capital city in her ascension and intends on leading the Githyanki on bloody crusades through the cosmos.

* ''Assault on Nightwyrm Fortress'': Urishtar Nightwyrm is a [[OurDragonsAreDifferent shadow dragon]] that happened upon the fortress of the title during her exploration of the Shadowfell by the design of a being she suspects is plotting against the Raven Queen. In order to empower herself and the fortress itself, Urishtar diverts the path of souls in the Shadowfell to instead lure them into her clutches, whereupon Urishtar [[SoulEating consumes]] or [[YourSoulIsMine twists them]] for her own purposes. Urishtar hands off any problems--defined as anything from "denying Urishtar" to "failing to try harder"--to her sadistic TortureTechnician Kailash, a rakshasa brutal even by the infamous standards of his kind. In her cruelest touch, Urishtar fertilizes her own eggs with captured souls, leaving the resultant hatchlings as [[AndIMustScream stillborn abominations neither living or dead]]. Urishtar has seen herself displacing the Raven Queen itself and works endlessly toward this, no matter how many souls she has to rip from the cycle of life and death.
* ''The Bastion Of Broken Souls'': In this 3.0 adventure, [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Ashardalon]] is an incredibly ancient, powerful and wicked red dragon. Already a cruel and rapacious creature in his own right, after having been mortally injured by a powerful druidess who didn't live long enough to celebrate the deed, he managed to sustain himself by substituting his own failing heart with a denizen of the Abyss, a Balor. The demon was not enthusiastic about this, and Ashardalon had to search for another way to extend his lifespan. He discovered an EldritchLocation deep inside the Plane of Positive Energy where the souls of every living creature are born and reside before getting a body. There, he settled down with a few of his servants and began [[SoulEating devouring pre-incarnated souls]] in order to live forever. This act causes countless beings across the universe to be [[TheSoulless born without a soul]], [[AndIMustScream horribly alive and at the same time utterly dead]]. If the [=PCs=] call the dragon out on his crimes, his answer is that he doesn't care, as long as [[ItsAllAboutMe he gets to enjoy eternity]] as the self-styled "ultimate predator".
* ''Elder Evils'':

* ''Monstrous Arcana'': ''The Sea Devils'' trilogy (''Evil Tide'', ''Night of the Shark'', ''Sea of Blood''), by Bruce R. Cordell: [[MultiArmedAndDangerous Baron K'thstraam]] is a [[FishPeople sahuagin]] war leader who throws in with the Deep Mother to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy the world]]. Allowing the Deep Mother to enthrall his own kind, K'thstraam leads raids that devastate Angler Island, killing many and dragging others back to serve as food for the sahuagin, with others taken as slaves or sent to be subjected to [[PlayingWithSyringes ghastly experiment]]s by a collaborating priestess. K'thstraam takes others and has them slowly devoured by sahuagin, intending on [[HumanSacrifice sacrificing captives]] with the Deep Mother to revive her god and drown the world.

* ''Taladas Trilogy'', by Chris Pierson: [[BigBad Maladar an-Desh]], aka Maladar TheFaceless, is the cruel emperor of Taladas. When the series begins, Maladar has been dead for centuries and is remembered in terrifying legends. Flashbacks reveal Maladar was TheCaligula of the old empire who conducted ethnic cleansing, invented torturous deaths for thousands--he was particularly fond of impalement--and he kept [[WouldHurtAChild a slave boy he molested]] until the boy managed to poison him. After death, Maladar's influence lived on, [[SealedEvilInACan his soul trapped in a small statue of his likeness]]. After he's revived, he spreads his influence to modern Taladas, inciting brutal wars to create enough bloodshed to prepare his resurrection. His initial choice of vessel is an innocent boy, but he simply bodyjacks the boy's father instead and enslaves goblin races to send them to their deaths as a cover for him to awaken his army and conquer Taladas anew.
* ''Dragons of Autumn Twilight'' (2008 animated film):

* "The Chimes of Midnight", "Quoth the Raven", "Hell's Heart": [[FallenHero Genius Inquisitive Viktor/Victor Saint-Demain]] has his [[ItsAllAboutMe massive ego]] bruised by Baron D'Medani and plots a gruesome revenge, recruiting {{serial killer}}s to commit murder all over Sharn with intention of wiping out the Baron, his House and to drop D'Medani's beloved daughter Zelina to her death. Foiled and placed in a sanitarium, Viktor [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates]] a troubled man into becoming a serial killer who kidnaps and tortures his victims to death, with the intent of sending the heroes to die against him after creating a large body count. Locked away in the asylum of Hell's Heart, Viktor uses his manipulative brilliance to take over, allowing the insane doctor in charge to torture other inmates, before recruiting more serial killers. Having the D'Medanis captured, Viktor tries to have them killed, intending on framing the heroes for [[WaterSourceTampering poisoning Sharn's water supply]] to kill thousands upon thousands of innocents, releasing his killers on the population and "clearing" his name to take advantage of the horrible chaos.

* ''[[VideoGame/DungeonsAndDragonsOnline Online]]'''s "Demon Sands" module: [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Lailat]] is the [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demonic]] ruler of the Menechtarun desert and the one behind the region's perpetual violence. Summoned to Eberron by King Raiyum, Lailat helped him achieve lichdom and then imprisoned him in his tomb so that she could turn his kingdom into her own personal killing field. Lailat led the Firebrand gnolls to become vicious man-eating slavers, taught the Vulkoorim scorrow to adopt [[HumanSacrifice ritual sacrifice]], and set them against each other and Menechtarun's surviving humans simply to enjoy the violence. When the players raid her lair, Lailat is shown to have killed another adventuring party and revived them to fight for her as undead, [[AndIMustScream reanimating them each time they die to ensure that their suffering never ends]]. She also keeps a rakshasa bound as a SexSlave and considers replacing him with a player when he dies. A boundlessly cruel tyrant concerned only with causing as much violence and suffering as she can, Lailat is a vicious monster even among demons.

** ''Corsairs of the Great Sea'': [[AmbitionIsEvil Faizah]], the ghul-kin HighPriestess of the Cult of Istishia, takes advantage of her god's neutrality to [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice]] innocent people in his name while reaping the benefit of his powers. Faizah has a special predilection for child slaves, using the Waters of Devotion to fully snuff out the will of her victims, to the point most of the cult are victims of the Waters of Devotion. Children who prove immune to the Waters are simply [[WouldHurtAChild murdered]].
** ''A Dozen and One Adventures'''s "Weave of the Carpet": [[{{Pyromaniac}} Ali al-Lazan]] is a member of the Brotherhood of the Flame who burns [[ManOnFire people]] and [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals pets]] alive for fun, [[{{Sadist}} loving nothing so much as consuming innocent lives in fire]]. Savoring torture by fire of his victims, Ali intends to burn down the local royal palace, plotting to fly over it and rain flame and down upon all innocent lives. Should he be exposed, Ali will attempt to annihilate the local market.

** ''[[Literature/LegacyOfTheDrowSeries Legacy of the Drow]]'': [[EvilMatriarch Matron Yvonnel Baenre]] (who first appears in ''Literature/TheDarkElfTrilogy''), the [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen de facto ruler]] of the Drow nation Menzoberranzan, is also the most evil Drow yet seen. Yvonnel Baenre keeps the city in its dark, chaotic state while destroying Drow houses she judges have [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived their usefulness]]. Her own children live in fear of her, and when dealing with her most hatred rivals, the Oblodras, Baenre annihilates their House, sending every inhabitant, even the slaves, to the Abyss to be tortured eternally. Baenre's ultimate goal is to conquer the dwarven kingdom Mithrill Hall, and for this end, she has enslaved the soul of its first king for two thousand years. She also utilizes her Illithid ally to forcibly and painfully [[MindRape mentally torture and devour the minds]] of those she wishes to interrogate while allowing her children and house to torture those who catch their eye. When she assaults Mithril Hall, her goal is nothing less than the deaths or enslavement of all in her path.

** [[AmbitionIsEvil Tiago Baenre]], [[Literature/TheNeverwinterSaga who]] appears [[Literature/CompanionsCodex throughout]] the [[Literature/HomecomingDrizzt series]], is considered one of Menzoberranzan's most promising young males. A ruthless, capable fighter obsessed with rising high in the storied Baenre family and [[GloryHound becoming a legend]] to his people, Tiago dreams of destroying the legendary renegade [[TheHero Drizzt Do'Urden]]. Leading attacks on dwarves that kill multiple innocents, Tiago also ruins Drizzt's reputation by framing him for demon attacks, and also helps to manipulate the orcs into savagery by having the peaceful King Lorgru deposed and replaced with a brutal warlord. Tiago leads his new army in an attack on Sundabar, killing massive amounts of civilians, and personally beheads the king before turning his forces to attack the city of Nesme, resulting in the butchering of countless innocents. Tiago interrogates a survivor by threatening to kill a child, and when the survivor gives in, he [[WouldHurtAChild has the child killed]] because she took too long to answer. Tiago has the duke of Nesme crucified and amuses himself by "allowing" knights to escape before [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame hunting them down]] and torturing them to death, in one case having his dragon ally swallow one alive to digest him slowly. Tiago, named as Weapons Master to the restored House Do'Urden, frequently rapes the brainwashed elf Dahlia Sin'Felle who has been installed as the puppet leader of the House, and also rapes a half-drow ally to demonstrate his power over her. His obsession with Drizzt eventually leads him to hunt down the older drow to become a legend by killing him. Tiago stands apart as the single most evil male Drow in the setting, his crimes fueled by nothing more than [[ItsAllAboutMe his own ego]] and [[ForTheEvulz attempts to amuse himself]].
* ''Songs & Swords'' series and ''Evermeet: Island of Elves'', both by Elaine Cunningham: [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Kymil Nimesin]] is a Sun Elf who [[FantasticRacism utterly despises Moon Elves]] and views the reign of the Moon Elf Moonflower dynasty as the worst atrocity to ever befall Elvenkind. Kymil organizes a conspiracy and begins to have the Moonflower family murdered one by one, including the goodhearted King Zaor and many of his children. [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulating the half-elf daughter of one victim]], Kymil plans to use her abilities to destroy the remaining Moonflower dynasty, even [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness murdering the assassin who killed Zaor]] to keep the secret. After his initial defeat, Kymil sells out to the Gods who are elvenkind's worst enemies, including Lolth herself. Kymil assists in an attack on the elven kingdom of Evermeet where he even allows the monstrous [[EldritchAbomination Elf-Eater]] to be summoned, caring nothing for the genocide of his own people as long as he can fulfill his megalomaniac fury.
* ''The Twilight War'' trilogy and ''Godborn'', both by Paul S. Kemp: [[PsychoSupporter Rivalen Tanthul]] is one of the 12 Princes of Shade, the remnant of the empire of Netheril, and the most powerful of his brothers. Rivalen is the Nightseer, HighPriest, of the Dark Goddess Shar, and [[{{Matricide}} murdered his own mother]] to instill his family with the loss needed to turn them to Shar's worship. Rivalen [[MindRape mentally tortures]] his younger brother Brennus with the vision of the murder and mocks his father, High Prince Telamont, about loving Rivalen too much to stop his mad plans. In the vision, Rivalen's dying mother simply asked Rivalen to hold her hand so she wouldn't be alone, to which Rivalen calmly denied her request, in order to savor her suffering. Rivalen engineers massive casualties and Shade's takeover of the lands of Sembia, savoring the bitterness and pain of those he betrays. A century after Sembia's takeover, Rivalen attempts to finish Shar's manifestation, revealing his ultimate goal: [[OmnicidalManiac to die and take all that exists in Toril with him]]. Defined by his cruel nihilism and utter lack of regard for any living being, Rivalen sought deaths on scales that not even Gods such as Cyric would attempt.

!!''Kingdoms of Kalamar''

* ''Garden of the Plantmaster'': [[WhenTreesAttack Lamash]] is a wood demon who was summoned by the Planetmaster Clahz in his bountiful gardens. Torturing Clahz for years in horrific ways. Lamash turns the gardens into a place of corruption, having his creatures kill people, while twisting others into [[BodyHorror corrupted and tortured monstrosities]]. Patiently, Lamash intends to unleash them all over Tellene, to make the world his {{garden|Of Evil}} where all within are turned into twisted and tormented forms of life for him to play with.

* [[MadScientist Frantisek Markov]], [[Characters/RavenloftDarklords Darklord]] of Markovia, was a pig farmer turned "surgeon" who would [[CruellaToAnimals experiment on animals]], resulting in their painful deaths. When his kind wife found out, Frantisek [[DomesticAbuse made her his newest experiment]], where she lingered for three days in agony before succumbing to death. Becoming Darklord of Markovia, Frantisek creates the "Broken Ones", beast men who are subject to [[PlayingWithSyringes agonizing experiments]]. Any passers-by are turned into his experiments as well and devolved into Broken Ones, with the process so agonizing that many lose their minds and become Frantisek Markov's broken slaves in his kingdom of madness and horror.

* [[MadScientist Daclaud Heinfroth]], aka Dr. Dominiani, is the [[MonsterProgenitor first]] of the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Cerebral Vampires]], Desperate to uncover the truth behind madness, Dominiani experiments on all those who fall into his clutches with [[MindRape horrific mental torture]] until they are insane, wasted shells. Those he tires of are given to his vampire orderlies or hungry dogs to rip apart. To seize greater power, Doniniani attempted to [[WarForFunAndProfit manipulate a bloody war]] against Kartakass to murder its lord Harkon Lukas and his own lover, Lukas's daughter Akriel. Involved in the plot to destroy famed monster hunter van Richten, Dominiani only cared that he could break the mind of such a famous stalwart against the darkness of Ravenloft.
* [[AristocratsAreEvil Baron Bakholis]], former Darklord of Invidia, Gabrielle's predecessor, was a savage man well known for levying harsh taxes, killing countless innocents and abducting women to [[SerialRapist rape]]. Upon a woman he desired refusing his advances, Bakholis abducted her and her lover, having him eaten alive and tortured while she was subjected to gang rape by his henchmen. As she died, she cursed him with [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent lycanthropy]]. Initially horrified when he devoured his own family, Bakholis came to [[SavageWolves love his curse]] and began killing people at higher rates than before, delighting in the savage murder of those who crossed his path, distinct as one of the few Darklords to relish in his curse.

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* ''Advanced Dungeons and Dragons''' issues #1-4: [[GeniusBruiser Imgig Zu]] is the ruler of a group of extraplanar beings who once seduced the goddess Selune to obtain access to the world. Defeated and sealed off, Imgig Zu managed to escape and later murders the mage who helped save Selune while spitefully crippling his son's hands and leaving him alive to enjoy his failure. Imgig Zu abducts other mages while letting his Drow ally Kilili murder them in [[GladiatorGames gladiator duels]] for his amusement, all while intending on unleashing his people upon Toril to slaughter all they can so he may rule the world.
* ''ComicBook/{{Rick and Morty|Oni}} vs. Dungeons & Dragons'', by Creator/PatrickRothfuss, Jim Zub, et al.: Sebastian and Lucy are a duo of [[EvilSorcerer sorcerers]] who have been [[WouldHurtAChild kidnapping babies]] and stealing shards to start a ritual to "[[KnightTemplar cleanse]]" the world. Posing as innocent farmers whose child was kidnapped, they trick the Smiths into attacking a village of innocent ogres. They then use the chaos as a distraction to kidnap an ogre baby and steal a shard to complete the ritual. The duo then attempts to sacrifice six babies of various races to [[ColonyDrop bring down the sun]] in an attempt to [[OmnicidalManiac end all life in the world]].

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** ''[[Literature/LegacyOfTheDrowSeries Legacy of the Drow]]'': [[EvilMatriarch Matron Yvonnel Baenre]] (who first appears in ''Literature/TheDarkElfTrilogy''), the [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen de facto ruler]] of the Drow nation Menzoberranzan, is also the most evil Drow yet seen. Yvonnel Baenre keeps the city in its dark, chaotic state while destroying Drow houses she judges have [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived their usefulness]]. Her own children live in fear of her, and when dealing with her most hatred rivals, the Oblodras, Baenre annihilates their House, sending every inhabitant, even the slaves, to the Abyss to be tortured eternally. Baenre's ultimate goal is to conquer the dwarven kingdom Mithrill Hall, and for this end, she has enslaved the soul of its first king for two thousand years. She also utilizes her Illithid ally to forcibly and painfully [[MindRape mentally torture and devour the minds]] of those she wishes to interrogate while allowing her children and house to torture those who catch their eye. when she assaults Mithril Hall, her goal is nothing less than the deaths or enslavement of all in her path.

!!''Kingdoms of Kalamar''

* The wicked [[EvilSorcerer Damodar]] is [[Film/DungeonsAndDragons2000 first]] the [[TheDragon right-hand-man]] of Profion, seeking to dominate all Izmir. Damodar kills those in his path to recover a map that leads to the staff of dragons, torturing the heroine Marina for its location as well. Seemingly slain, Damodar [[Film/DungeonsAndDragonsWrathOfTheDragonGod returns]] a century hence while killing more people to obtain the Dragon Orb to awaken the evil Faluzure, the DragonGod of Decay and Undeath. Killing and torturing even more people, Damodar requests the dragon burn all Izmir to massacre the people, all for petty revenge on their ancestors for his first and well-deserved end.

* [[SerialRapist The Gentleman Caller]] is an [[HornyDevils Incubus]] who delighted in [[MindRape destroying the minds and hearts of others]] before fleeing the angel Isolde by escaping into the Mists. Becoming trapped there, the Caller is hunted by Isolde and seeks to escape the Demiplane of Dread, as well as sow destruction for its own sake. In Carnival, he seduces a young woman who goes to Isolde's side, incites a riot of people whom he later murders and attempts to kill his seduction victim so "Isolde's failure may be complete!" The Caller stalks the Lands of Mists, raping women to spawn half-fiend children while causing conflicts for his own ends. In one such incident, he raped Gabrielle Adarre to father her wicked son Malocchio, the memory of their night being so traumatic that she was driven catatonic when her memory of it was restored. Using his children as pawns for greater bloodshed and to help him free himself, the Caller remains one of the single most vile beings in the Demiplane of Dread and one of the most wicked Incubi in all the planes.

* [[DarkIsEvil Shar]], Mistress of the Night, the Dark Lady, featured in a story arc in [[ComicBook/ForgottenRealms the comics]] and more prominently in the novels, is one of the oldest and most evil of all the gods. The Lady of Loss, Shar despises the life-bearing universe her [[CainAndAbel once-beloved sister]] Selûne created and sought to [[OmnicidalManiac wipe it out]]. Foiled, Shar formed a [[ReligionOfEvil faith]] based around loss and nihilism with her clergy subverting and destroying hope itself. Shar even maintains a tower where she imprisons those who enjoy freedom so she may savor their despair, and during the Time of Troubles she manipulated Selune to destroy her mentally and eventually kill her and all her friends and worshippers. Taking a more proactive role in the modern day, Shar helped to destroy the goddess Mystra and unleash the Spellplague, later having her chief worshippers unleash the Shadow Storm to blanket all Faerun in life-stealing darkness, a prelude to the Cycle of Night where Shar intended on reducing all of creation to nothingness so she may better enjoy the cold, black void yet again.