History Characters / WaterdeepDragonHeistVillains

* CloningBlues: The result of the original Manshoon's attempts at immortality via the Clone spell, but he, like several other clones, woke up, and [[MirrorMatch fought each other to the death]] in what is now known as the Manshoon Wars. This Manshoon is one of the last living ones in the Forgotten Realms.

!!The [[spoiler:rouge]] Zhentharim

* AnAxeToGrind: Typically for a dwarf (and for minotaurs), he wileds a greataxe in battle.

** Case in point, if the players get to the Vault first, when the party is ambushed by the chosen {{BigBad}}'s minions, [[NoNonsenseNemesis they try to kill them on the spot]]. Jarlaxle, on the other hand, [[VillainRespect congrats on beating him to it]], and [[WeCouldRuleTogether makes one final attempt to negotiate with the party]] [[EnemyMine to kill Aurinax]] to steal the treasure [[spoiler: and the Dragonstaff of Ag

* KnowsWhenToFoldEm: Should the players have joined the Lords' Alliance during the "Maestro's Fall", [[BigGood Laeral Silverhand's]] [[BigDamnHeroes presence alone]] [[InstantWinCondition almost immediately causes Jarlaxle to give up]], choosing instead to escape [[VillainRespect with a tip of his hat to the players]].

* TheThingThatWillNotLeave: Even if the players manage to kill him once, that will NOT stop Jarlaxle, since his faction will literally just revive him later to seek revenge.

* BackStab Backfire: On the giving end. [[spoiler: When Yalah Gralhund betrays him ([[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder twice over, in fact]]), what's left of his patience with her dries up and he leads a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against her house]].

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* NiceHat: He wears a musketeer-style feathered hat. It doubles as a HatOfPower with a MagicFeather.

* CloningBlues: The result of the original Manshoon's attempts at immortality via the Clone spell, but he, like several other clones, woke up, and [[MirrorMatch fought each other]] [[UpToEleven to the death]] in what is now known as the Manshoon Wars. This Manshoon is one of the last living ones in the Forgotten Realms.

* KillThePoor: What their plan effectively boils down to: sacrificing 99 people from the impoverished Field Ward--people they think nobody important would miss, even burning their corpses to dispose of the body-- and [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink poison them with midnight tears]] so they die precisely as Victoro pays the money to Asmodeus. They then plan to cover their tracks by blackmailing the nobility as [[AccessoryByInaction accessories to mass murder]], which would ruin ALL of them.

* KnowsWhenToFoldThem: Should the players have joined the Lords' Alliance during the "Maestro's Fall", [[BigGood Laeral Silverhand's]] [[BigDamnHeroes presence alone]] [[InstantWinCondition almost immediately causes Jarlaxle to give up]], choosing instead to escape [[VillainRespect with a tip of his hat to the players]].

* ExpendableClone: Prefers sending out Simulacrums rather than face threats head-on himself, and will only fight personally if he has to.
* FauxAffablyEvil: When confronted in person, while he may seem polite, odds are high that he's already planning your brutal death once YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness to him, whether its eliminating Xanathar for its obsession with revenge against the Zhentarim or getting the treasure itself.

* OrcusOnHisThrone: He won't ever be seen in person outside his Extradimensional Sanctum. Unless the players lose the Stone of Golorr or Cache of Dragons for any reason to him as the BigBad, [[TheUnfought they will not run into him]].

* BackStab Backfire: On the giving end. [[spoiler: When Yalah Gralhund betrays him ([[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder twice over, in fact]]), what's left of his patience with her dries up and he leads a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against her house.

* EvilIsPetty:

->'''Class:''' Cleric

* PapaWolf: His failure to be this in the past cost him the soul of his firstborn son. Now, he's out to save his other children, competing with beholder crime bosses, evil wizards, and a drow mercenary to get his hands on Nevermember's cache.

* SinisterMinister: Not very often in D&D do you see an evil Cleric that's not a Death Domain serving as an antagonist. FridgeBrilliance comes when you find out that Asmodeus is a Knowledge, Order, and Trickery Domain diety, and judging by Victoro's stat block, he's Option C.