History Characters / CriticalRoleMarquetVillains

* WellIntentionedExtremist: At least some of their members, like Tuldus, have legitimate reasons to hate the gods and understandable motives for why they believe destroying them would help people.

[[folder:Zathuda]]
!!Sorrowlord Zathuda

* TheFairFolk: He is a known figure of the Feywild from what Fearne's grandmother's tales taught her, and Chetney identifies him as a such.

Ludinus Da'leth is the leader of both the Cerberus Assembly and the Ruby Vanguard. As a centuries old arch-mage with connections to the fall of Molaesmyr, the Empire's war with the Dynasty, and the oddities surrounding Ruidus, he's one of the most dangerous and ambitious men in Exandria.

* PsychicPowers: Like her daughter she has {{Telepathy}} and {{Telekinesis}} but demonstrates more fine control and raw power in both abilities.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Apparently the Calloways stealing from them merits the Unseelie Court ''erasing their entire family line''. [[spoiler:Episode 87, however, reveals that there may be a bit of a more personal edge to it since Zathuda is actually Fearne's biological father.]]

* DisproportionateRetribution: Apparently the Calloways stealing from them merits the Unseelie Court ''erasing their entire family line''.

* TheCorruption: She's gone through it. Based on what the Shade Mother says in Episode 16, Emoth has been corrupted into her slave. Imogen probing deeper into Emoth's mind has made it somewhat unclear if this change was willing or not, but even the side of her than can still maintain her own thoughts is totally devoted to the Shade Mother.

* WeaksauceWeakness: Sunlight, which causes her actual damage. Justified by her being a subterranian creature, though.

* ActuallyADoombot: [[spoiler:In episode 75 he confronts the party inside of a volcano. He captures Fearne but the party manages to turn the environment to their advantage to promptly incinerate his underlings and Laudna even manages to counterspell a 9th- level spell cast by Ludinus, only for the Ludinus they were facing to turn out to be a simulacrum controlled remotely by the real Ludinus.]]

* NeverMyFault: Interestingly he does this on behalf of ''all mortal life''; he blames the Calamity entirely on the Gods (specifically the Prime Deities), seeing it as being their divine punishment towards mortals because of how powerful mortal arcanists had gotten during the Age of Arcanum, and didn't want to share their power and prestige with them. As we saw in ''[[WebVideo/CriticalRoleExandriaUnlimited EXU: Calamity]]'', however, the Calamity was triggered by [[Characters/CriticalRoleExandriaUnlimitedCalamity several extremely arrogant mortal mages]] who's experiments resulted in accidentally releasing Asmodeus and the Betrayer Gods, and the resulting devastation to befall Exandria was direct fallout of this. The Gods actually worked hard to ''save'' mortality from being completely wiped out, and not without their own losses (notably, Ioun suffered an injury that she still suffers from, as Vox Machina can attest to). Despite this, Ludinus refuses to see the Calamity as the result of mortal arrogance but instead holds the Gods themselves to blame.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The most reasonable member of the Cerberus Assembly that the Mighty Nein has met. He sits down with them in a room that is completely private to hear their side of the story, tries to come to a mutual understanding about how to end the war between the Empire and the Dynasty, and also hinders the investigation into the attack on Zadash's Cobalt Soul branch so Yasha can remain free. As it turns out later in the second campaign, [[spoiler:he has his own very vested interests in ensuring a smooth ending the war to ensure his complicity in it beginning is not uncovered.]]

* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: Every time Imogen makes contact with her mother, Liliana quietly tells Imogen she shouldn't be here and sends her away. As Imogen asks why she left her as a child, all Liliana tells her was that she was trying to keep her safe.

* SympathyForTheDevil: Upon learning of his childhood abuse, Imogen becomes sympathetic towards Tuldus and understand why he joined the Ruby Vanguard.

* ForTheEvulz: Contrary to what F.C.G. believed, it's not some avenging spirit or ancient curse. It just an asshole who likes to ruin his day for the hell of it.

* BigBad: Seems to be the dominant antagonist of Campaign 3 spearheading the work in releasing Predathos from Ruidus, with Otohan Thull and an Exaltant serving as his CoDragons.

* HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler:With the revelation of his use of the Quitessence Array to feed and assimilate the magic of uncountable magical creatures, a horrified Allura states that she wouldn't know '''what''' to call Ludinus anymore.]]
* ImmortalityImmorality: [[spoiler:The party discovers a curious harness in Ludinus's forgotten bag of holding that was later revealed to be a device called the Quintessence Array. The harness is a heavily modified version of older artifacts called power stills, which had allowed Ludinus to parasitically [[LifeDrinkerfeed off]] the life and [[MagicEater magic]] of fey creatures in order to extend his own life and empower himself. His main targets were [[NatureSpirit dryads and nymphs]] since they were abundant sources of vitality and magic and by their nature, were bound to their environment, making them easy prey for Ludinus.]]

* HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler:With the revelation of his use of the Quitessence Array to feed and assimilate the magic of uncountable magical creatures, a horrifyied Allura states that she wouldn't know '''what''' to call Ludinus anymore.]]

* HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler:With the revelation of his use of the Quitessence Array to feed and assimilate the magic of uncountable magical creatures, Allura horrifying states that she wouldn't know '''what''' to call Ludinus anymore.]]

* FantasticRacism: Whilst he remains outwardly unreadable throughout Campaign 2, ''Explorer's Guide to Wildemount'' confirmed he has a deep hatred for the Kryn Dynasty and spares no effort gathering information on their weaknesses and secrets which gives greater context to his motivations for [[spoiler:starting a war so he could master Dunamancy.]]

* ItsAllAboutMe: The elven king of Uthodurn, who was Ludinus's peer in ancient times, reveals a bit of his background. Notably, he was always a pompous, self-centered {{Jerkass}} who only cared about his research, provoking fights with prominent clerics and cared little if anything for helping the community with his powers.
* KarmaHoudini: Suffers no comeuppance for his misdeeds in Campaign 2, icnluding [[spoiler:starting the war, getting thousands of people on both sides killed, to study Dunamancy.]] It's especially notable given the various fates of his co-cospirators with [[spoiler:one being guilt ridden and trying to become TheAtoner as an ally of the Mighty Nein, one is killed by Lucien, and another ends up imprisoned by the Cobalt Soul.]]

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: While elves are quite long-lived in this setting, Ludinis takes the cake [[spoiler:with the revelation in Episode 51 of Campaign 3 that he has been working on his plan to release Predathos from Ruidis for ''1000 years'', meaning he was alive and already a powerful practitioner of the arcane arts during the Age of Arcanum and personally lived through the Calamity.]]

A pale, pasty-looking dwarf.

--> "''You don't have to trust me. Just let me do my work.''"

* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: In episode 69, FCG manages to destroy Shithead (seemingly) once and for all with a Destroy Undead spell.

[[folder:"Shithead"]]

* NoNameGiven: Shithead is just what F.C.G. calls it, since [[MeaningfulName it lives just to shit on their head.]]

* PoweredByAForsakenChild: The final Malleus Key requires [[spoiler:a captured Celestial in order to pierce through the divine lattice barrier around Ruidus. The vision the Raven Queen grants to the party shows her captured champion in such extreme pain from the process that all he can do is [[IMustSceam scream]].]]

-->'''Race:'''Dwarf

-->'''Race:''' Elf

Ludinus Da'leth is the leader of both the Cerberus Assembly and the Ruby Vanguard. As a centuries old elf with connections to the fall of Molaesmyr, the Empire's war with the Dynasty, and the oddities surrounding Ruidus.

[[folder: Otohan Thull (Spoilers)]]

[[folder:The Archmage (Spoilers)]]

For more information on Ludinus, see Characters/CriticalRoleNPCsDwendalianEmpire.
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[[folder: Otohan Thull (Spoilers)]]
!!Otohan Thull
-->'''Race:''' Human\\
'''Class:''' Fighter (Psi Warrior)

The leader of the Paragon's Call and a famed warrior from the Apex War. She also has a mysterious connection to Ruidus and Imogen's dreams...

[[folder:The Necromancer (Spoilers)]]