YMMV / Bazil Broketail

• Complete Monster:
  • Master Heruta Skash Gzug, Sorcerous Overlord of Padmasa, is the overarching villain for the first four books of the series. All the bloodshed and slavery Padmasa is responsible for traces back to Heruta and his endless, insatiable lust for power. Millions suffer under his reign, where at best punishment for any and all crimes will result in execution, and at worst the unlucky victim will be fed to a Thingweight to be consumed for weeks at a time. Thousands more become breeding slaves for Heruta's demon imps, replenishing his armies through demons borne of women kept in states of agony for months at a time. Projects under Heruta's purview usually entail the sacrifice of innocents as a basic function of their existence—such as the creation of the orcs, who need to be fed human slaves directly after they are born, which Heruta happily signs off on after ordering a demonstration. Despite his pretensions of being a Well-Intentioned Extremist, Relkin and Lessis see through Heruta's lies in an instant and drive him to his Villainous Breakdown by exposing what he is; an ego unchecked who won't stop until the Nine Cities of Argonath have been destroyed, to leave "not one stone atop another, except for the gibbets and the pyramids of skulls."
  • Waakzaam the Great, the Deceiver and the Dominator, is the Big Bad of the latter half of the series. Formerly one of the seven divine spirits tasked with building and ordering worlds for the Great Mother, Waakzaam's pride gradually but totally consumed him, as he eventually committed the first murder in existence and went thereon from uplifting civilizations to destroying them. In the present day, any vestige of goodness in Waakzaam is dead and gone, as he rules twelve worlds as a cruel tyrant. Some of these worlds have their populations almost completely eradicated, leaving nothing but barren planets for Waakzaam to plunder resources from and a few select survivors upon which Waakzaam experiments. Waakzaam has a particular proclivity for children and infants in his monstrous experiments; in one instance, the heroes find a laboratory filled with over a hundred dead and dying children, kept in agony as subjects for Waakzaam's plagues. Waakzaam is responsible for the death of billions and seeks the death of billions more, seeking to conquer Ryetelth—or otherwise cull it of most life—and then a whole skein of new worlds alongside it.
  • Bazil Broketail (first book): The Blunt Doom of Tummuz Orgmeen is a living rock imbued with an evil consciousness by the Masters of Doom themselves. The Blunt Doom runs Tummuz Orgdeem as a hellscape of slavery and torture; the male slaves are castrated to depopulate the areas they're taken from, and the females are either put up for sex slavery or made breeding fodder for the demonic imps which make up so much of Padmasa's army. The Blunt Doom itself is a capricious sadist who, envious of all life for having the flesh and blood it does not, mutilates and tortures its own servants as a means of joy. It projects its mind into three slaves—respectively its Eyes, Ears and Mouth—who have had all other redundant orifices sewn up. Its Eyes, in particular, used to be a human magician who made the mistake of sneezing in the Blunt Doom's presence, and paid for it with ritual mutilation.
  • A Sword For A Dragon: Mesomaster Gog Zagozt, one of the most depraved apprentices of the Masters of Doom and already halfway to becoming a Master himself, is The Man Behind the Man to the cult of Sephis the Terrible. Gog dresses up a demon as the return of the pagan god Sephis the Terrible, and binds both the demon and its thousands of cultists to his will, brainwashing them into a campaign of slaughter and Human Sacrifice that soon consumes thousands of innocent lives. Entire villages are butchered at a time so their flesh may be used as the building material for grotesque golems known as "blood myrmidons". Having the cult of Sephis sweep across the country of Ourdh, decapitating its leadership and overrunning entire cities, Gog eventually plans to have the female population of the country enslaved for the imps, while keeping the rest of the country as a human-sacrificing puppet state for Padmasa.
  • Dragons at War: General Lukash is the soldier assigned to lead the Padmasa military campaign against the coastal cities of Argonath. A dangerous combination of stupidity and bullheaded cruelty, Lukash engages in a general campaign of Rape, Pillage, and Burn across the Argonathi countryside, and engages in war crimes that infuriate and disgust even his allies with their pointless atrocity. Despite being explicitly ordered to keep the demon imps in his army under control and to spare officers who may offer valuable intel, Lukash openly shows no interest in trying to control them and repeatedly lets his imps off the leash. This results in his prisoners of war being roasted alive over open flames, eaten alive by demons and indiscriminately tortured to death, in such numbers the nearby lakes run red with blood.
  • A Dragon at World's End: Lord Zulbanides is a ruling member of the golden elves who rule the hidden city of Mirchaz. In Mirchaz, human life is comparable to an animal's; tens of thousands of slaves are used as living psychic batteries to power an artificial universe in which Zulbanides and the other lords play their "Great Game". Life as a Living Battery is a short and miserable one, as slaves are replaced in no more than a year and then abandoned to die after their minds give out. The artificial universe itself is even worse; life is created simply to be tortured to death, or used to fuel pointless wars that consume hundreds of millions, all for the entertainment of the elves. As the most prominent and most influential member of the ruling clique, and one of the top ten players, Zulbanides is the one chiefly responsible for all this horror. Zulbanides comes off as monstrous even in comparison to his fellow elves, with a particular proclivity for torture and horrific human sacrifice that eclipses even the cruelty of his compatriots.
• Fan Nickname: Rowley's nickname is "Master Kaymo," for the insane god of the series. You will often hear it among Rowley's fans for his Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers work.

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