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Okay, I\'d like to talk about Padan Fain/Mordeth/Ordeith/Jeraal Mordeth/Shaisam from \'\'Literature/TheWheelOfTime\'\', who just got deleted, as I still think he belongs here (and that there\'s no other trope that adequately sums up his unique and horrifying nature. Here\'s the rundown- Fain (or at least the version of Fain who appears in most of the series) is essentially a hybrid of four entities- the original human Padan Fain, Mordeth (a deeply malevolent ghost who tried to possess Fain), the Dark One\'s Hound (an entity impressed into Fain by [[GodOfEvil the Dark One]] to give him both the power and the compulsion to hunt down [[TheChosenOne Rand]] anywhere in the world) and the nameless dark power that had corrupted Mordeth and through him caused the destruction of the city of Aridhol and filled it with the killer fog called Mashadar.

Okay, I\'d like to talk about Padan Fain/Mordeth/Ordeith/Jeraal Mordeth/Shaisam from \'\'Literature/TheWheelOfTime\'\', who just got deleted, as I still think he belongs here (and that there\'s no other trope that adequately sums up his unique and horrifying nature. Here\'s the rundown- Fain (or at least the version of Fain who appears in most of the series) is essentially a hybrid of four entities- the original human Padan Fain, Mordeth (a deeply malevolent ghost who tried to possess Fain), the Dark One\'s Hound (an entity impressed into Fain by [[GodOfEvil the Dark One]] to give him both the power and the compulsion to hunt down [[TheChosenOne Rand]] anywhere in the world) and the nameless dark power that had corrupted Mordeth and through him caused the destruction of the city of Aridhol and filled it with the killer fog called Mashadar. Exactly which of these forces is most dominant in Fain varies across the series (though he\'s a big ball of AxCrazy under the best of circumstances) but the unknown dark power gradually establishes itself as the most significant and Fain becomes less and less human as a result. He has powers that cannot be at all explained by the main magic system of the series (particularly over time and death), he spreads corruption in his wake wherever he goes (sometimes by being a ManipulativeBastard, mostly because merely being in his presence can make you more evil), and perhaps most telling of all, per WordOfGod he exists at least partially \'\'outside the Pattern\'\' (the Pattern, for those unfamiliar with the series, is basically fantasy-speak for the space-time continuum. Fain isn\'t part of it). Oh, and he\'s explicitly \'\'worse\'\' than the Myrddraal, who remain on the list, and got much worse himself after that call was made. By the last book he\'s no longer remotely human, though still attached to his human body; he appears to have been totally subsumed by the nameless dark power and now calls himself Shaisam, is continually surrounded by a halo of killer fog that causes anyone in the vicinity to drop dead and rise as zombies under his control, and he plans to \'\'eat TheChosenOne\'s soul, shuck off his mortal body, and take over from the GodOfEvil\'\'. When he\'s killed, his mortal remains melt into black goo.