History Monster / DungeonsAndDragons

* [[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."
* ''The Beast Within'': [[MayorPain Mayor Charles de Tantoine]] is a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Loup du Noir]] who often gives in to his bloodlust to don his wolfskin and become a savage werewolf, stalking and killing innocent people. Having gone on a killing spree in another town, Charles [[FrameUp framed many innocent people]] for his crime to see them executed. Coming to Villebois, Charles became mayor after killing all his political opponents, where he uses his [[CompellingVoice magic of suggestion]] to frame over a dozen innocents for his crimes, having them hanged while truly believing they are guilty of lycanthropic murders. Charles even induces people to a stoic philosophy with public torture should they break it, while luring in travelers to serve as new victims for his endless bloodlust.

** [[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 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, Krynn 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.

* [[TheChessmaster Takhisis]], the [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen of Darkness]], is the [[BigBad head]] of the Pantheon of [[GodIsEvil evil deities]]. Unlike her fellow evil gods, who may have people they care for, Takhisis cares only for her lusts, greed and power. After mothering the second generation of Chromatic dragons, Takhisis brutally killed two of them solely to make a point to the others. Takhisis threatened the world multiple times, sending her armies out to commit a host of atrocities, with her servants enslaving whole countries in living nightmares. Takhisis betrayed all her gods by stealing the world of Krynn at the conclusion of the Chaos Wars against Father Chaos after she abandoned her followers and forced every soul of those who died into an army of the dead. [[BadBoss Not even her own followers are safe from her]].

* [[FantasticRacism Shazogroth]], from the ''Wildspace'' module, is a [[{{Oculothorax}} beholder]] who was [[EvenEvilHasStandards exiled from his people]] for his political views. Blinded and banished, the evil beholder ended up becoming a mage thanks to the group called the Arcane and learned of a superweapon called the Ravager. Becoming the captain Jon Tobart in disguise to convince the heroes to lead him to the items he needs to power the Ravager, Shazogroth intends on [[GenocideFromTheInside exterminating all the other Beholders he can]]. Not content to stop there, he intends to wipe out the heroes' homeworld and feeding on all the lives there to empower the Ravager before moving in, sacrificing billions to fuel his ship and plans of conquest.

* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty vs. Franchise/DungeonsAndDragons'', 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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* Borys "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Butcher of Dwarves]]" of Ebe is a former member of the Champions of Rajaat, a cult of genocidal lunatics who attempted--in many cases sucessfully--the [[FinalSolution complete extermination]] of all non-human sentient races by using the environment-raping defiling magic and turning the world of Athas into a warped desert dying world. He later [[TheStarscream betrayed]] the Champions and their master, absorbing them and killing a city in the process, and turning into a dragon-like EldritchAbomination.

* [[EvilSorcerer Vecna]], the God of Secrets and Lichdom, is a once-human wizard who became the most feared of [[OurLichesAreDifferent liches]]. One of the most monstrous villains to ever emerge from Oerth, Vecna's evil deeds have filled volumes, having conducted murders, massacres and in one instance at the city of Fleeth shortly after becoming a lic. When Vecna was unsatisfied with how the city's officials begged for mercy, Vecna had everyone in the city tortured and massacred before [[CruelMercy sparing said officials]] just to let them live with the agony. Vecna has attempted to [[OmnicidalManiac kill all living things]] to revive them in a kingdom of undeath, before [[AGodAmI becoming a god himself]]. In the adventure ''Die, Vecna, Die'', his most audacious act was attempting to consume all reality and kill everyone who existed, solely to remake it with himself as the supreme god. One of the most recognizable and monstrous villains in all of Dungeons and Dragons, Vecna is never satisfied no matter how high he climbs, and will never stop trying for more power regardless of the countless innocent beings who suffer and die for it.

** [[DepravedDwarf Neb the gnome]], from the [[VideoGame/BaldursGate first]] two [[VideoGame/BaldursGateII games]], is a criminal first encountered in the cells of Baldur's Gate's [[CityGuards Flaming Fist]] Headquarters, where Gorion's Ward is forced to work with him to escape their wrongful imprisonment. Offering to show them a secret way out if they correctly answer a riddle, Neb cheerfully reveals to the party that he's actually a SerialKiller who [[WouldHurtAChild specifically targets children]], and the riddle is to guess how many victims he's killed, the correct answer to which is 33. Neb escapes and leaves the city for Athkatla in distant Amn to hide from the authorities of Baldur's Gate, but by chance, Charname meets him again following their own arrival in the city while looking for a slab of [[{{Unobtanium}} Illithium ore]] he stole from a duergar merchant. 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 [[VillainOfTheWeek minor villains]] in the series; even the inventory description of his head intones that "This is the head of Neb the gnome. Rarely has a more despicable being roamed the land."

*** Rejiek [[MeaningfulName Hidesman]] is a tanner who moonlights as a SerialKiller who [[FlayingAlive skins alive]] any vagrants he can make his victims. Fleeing after evidence links him to his murders, [[CreepyBasement the lower reaches]] of Rejiek's home are discovered to be littered with flayed and rotting corpses. Escaping, Rejiek resurfaces after causing the disappearance of a young woman, Raissa, having infected himself with a virus to become a "[[HumanoidAbomination 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 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.

* [[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.

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* [[BigBad Ghul]], the Half-God, pretended to be the half-demon son of the previous BigBad to establish a base of power he called Goth Gulgamel in the great spire. Taking the name the Skull King, Ghul [[PlayingWithSyringes conducted horrible experiments]] to create and breed an army, while sacrificing [[WouldHurtAChild children]] to desecrate his temples, imprisoning the souls of unborn babies as well to experiment on and [[AndIMustScream trap eternally]]. Unleashing his armies, the Shrieking Hordes, in the Ghulwar to raze entire lands and murder countless innocents, Ghul held a special hatred for elves, many of whom were tortured to death in his dungeons. Some were twisted and turned into darker beings known as Harrow Elves, whom Ghul spared solely for [[CruelMercy the dark joy]] of seeing the devastation their new lives gave them. Upon being pushed back, Ghul later unleashed a brutal winter to freeze and starve many innocents to death, being remembered, for good reason, as one of the worst villains in the history of the world.

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* [[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.
* [[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."
* ''The Beast Within'': [[MayorPain Mayor Charles de Tantoine]] is a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Loup du Noir]] who often gives in to his bloodlust to don his wolfskin and become a savage werewolf, stalking and killing innocent people. Having gone on a killing spree in another town, Charles [[FrameUp framed many innocent people]] for his crime to see them executed. Coming to Villebois, Charles became mayor after killing all his political opponents, where he uses his [[CompellingVoice magic of suggestion]] to frame over a dozen innocents for his crimes, having them hanged while truly believing they are guilty of lycanthropic murders. Charles even induces people to a stoic philosophy with public torture should they break it, while luring in travelers to serve as new victims for his endless bloodlust.

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* [[EvilSorcerer Acererak]] is a cambion [[OurLichesAreDifferent demilich]] who founds cults, so he may manipulate their members into being his shield, resulting in their deaths when convenient. [[KillerGameMaster Creating the titular tomb of horrors]] to entrap adventurers, kill them horribly and [[YourSoulIsMine drain their souls]] for his dark purposes, Acererak crafted even more tombs, in some cases [[CivilizationDestroyer wiping out entire cities or civilizations]] to do so while experimenting on countless innocents to create undead monsters, while also crafting a device to drain the souls of the dead to eventually create a new god to unleash to destroy as many innocents as possible. After his supposed defeat, Acererak returns to seek godhood by draining the essence of dead gods. Killing countless people via undead attacks, Acererak even orders a mass suicide of his followers to empower his abilities, intending on becoming a being strong enough to challenge the gods themselves and rise to force every living thing in the multiverse to suffer.

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* [[BigBad Ghul]], the Half-God, pretended to be the half-demon son of the previous BigBad to establish a base of power he called Goth Gulgamel in the great spire. Taking the name the Skull King, Ghul [[PlayingWithSyringes conducted horrible experiments]] to create and breed an army, while sacrificing [[WouldHurtAChild children]] to desecrate his temples, imprisoning the souls of unborn babies as well to experiment on and [[AndIMustScream trap eternally]]. Unleashing his armies, the Shrieking Hordes, in the Ghulwar to raze entire lands and murder countless innocents, Ghul held a special hatred for elves, many of whom were tortured to death in his dungeons. Some were twisted and turned into darker beings known as Harrow Elves, whom Ghul spared solely for [[CruelMercy the dark joy]] of seeing the devastation their new lives gave them. Upon being pushed back, Ghul later unleashed a brutal winter to freeze and starve many innocents to death, being remembered, for good reason, as one of the worst villains in the history of the world.

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* [[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.
* [[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."
* ''The Beast Within'': [[MayorPain Mayor Charles de Tantoine]] is a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Loup du Noir]] who often gives in to his bloodlust to don his wolfskin and become a savage werewolf, stalking and killing innocent people. Having gone on a killing spree in another town, Charles [[FrameUp framed many innocent people]] for his crime to see them executed. Coming to Villebois, Charles became mayor after killing all his political opponents, where he uses his [[CompellingVoice magic of suggestion]] to frame over a dozen innocents for his crimes, having them hanged while truly believing they are guilty of lycanthropic murders. Charles even induces people to a stoic philosophy with public torture should they break it, while luring in travelers to serve as new victims for his endless bloodlust.

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* [[EvilSorcerer Acererak]] is a cambion [[OurLichesAreDifferent demilich]] who founds cults, so he may manipulate their members into being his shield, resulting in their deaths when convenient. [[KillerGameMaster Creating the titular tomb of horrors]] to entrap adventurers, kill them horribly and [[YourSoulIsMine drain their souls]] for his dark purposes, Acererak crafted even more tombs, in some cases [[CivilizationDestroyer wiping out entire cities or civilizations]] to do so while experimenting on countless innocents to create undead monsters, while also crafting a device to drain the souls of the dead to eventually create a new god to unleash to destroy as many innocents as possible. After his supposed defeat, Acererak returns to seek godhood by draining the essence of dead gods. Killing countless people via undead attacks, Acererak even orders a mass suicide of his followers to empower his abilities, intending on becoming a being strong enough to challenge the gods themselves and rise to force every living thing in the multiverse to suffer.

* ''Advanced Dungeons and Dragons'': [[GeniusBruiser Imgig Zu]], from the first 4 issues, 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.

* [[EvilSorcerer Vecna]], the God of Secrets and Lichdom, is likely the most dreaded and feared villain ever to grace the face of Oerth . A once-human wizard who became the most feared of liches, Vecna's evil deeds have filled volumes. For just one example, in his conquest of the city of Fleeth, shortly after becoming a lich, the city officials begged for their lives, offering the whole city and their wealth in exchange for mercy; they even offered their own lives when Vecna wasn't satisfied with that offer. Vecna gave one of them, Artau, and his family, to his lieutenant [[TheDragon Kas]], who tortured them to death in front of the other officials in a day-long ordeal. Vecna, still unsatisfied, had every citizen in the city slaughtered except the remaining officials, [[ForcedToWatch forcing them to watch]] as he did, then had [[DecapitationPresentation every victim's head stacked]], with prominent placement for those belonging to the friends and families of the officials. He never killed the surviving officials, and [[CruelMercy allowed them to leave the city]], saying they'd be under his protection for the rest of their lives--simply so they would live it with the horror they had seen. Unlike other evil gods, Vecna doesn't care about anybody but himself and constantly hungers for power, and in the epic module ''Die Vecna Die'', he planned to unmake and consume reality---killing billions in the process---simply to remake it [[InTheirOwnImage with himself as the only true god]], and while he failed, the ramifications caused changes in the universe that explained the differences between the 2nd and 3rd editions of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''.

[[caption-width-right:350:Lolth, the "Tyrant Poisoner".]]

{{Complete Monster}}s from the ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' franchise.

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* In the 3.0 adventure ''The Bastion Of Broken Souls'', we have Ashardalon, an incredibly ancient, powerful and wicked [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience red]] [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragon]]. Already [[AlwaysChaoticEvil a cruel and rapacious creature in his own right]], after having been mortally injured by a powerful druidess [[TakingYouWithMe 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 devouring pre-incarnated souls [[ImmortalitySeeker in order to live forever]]. This act causes countless beings across the universe to be [[TheSoulless born without a soul]], [[FateWorseThanDeath horribly alive]] and at the same time [[AndIMustScream 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".
* ''TabletopGame/DarkSun'': Borys "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Butcher]] [[RedBaron of Dwarves]]" of Ebe is a former member of the Champions of Rajaat, a cult of genocidal lunatics who attempted (in many cases sucessfully) the complete extermination of all non-human sentient races by using the environment-raping defiling magic and turning the world of Athas into a warped desert dying world. He later [[TheStarscream betrayed]] the Champions and their master, absorbing them (and killing a city in the process) and turning into a dragon-like EldritchAbomination.
* ''Literature/{{Dragonlance}}'':
** [[TheChessmaster Takhisis]], the [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen of Darkness]], is the [[BigBad head]] of the Pantheon of [[GodIsEvil evil deities]]. Unlike her fellow evil gods, who may [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes have people they care for]], Takhisis cares only for her lusts, greed and power. After mothering the second generation of Chromatic dragons, Takhisis brutally killed two of them solely to make a point to the others. Takhisis threatened the world multiple times, sending her armies out to commit a host of atrocities, with her servants enslaving whole countries in living nightmares. Takhisis betrayed all her gods by stealing the world of Krynn at the conclusion of the Chaos Wars against Father Chaos after she abandoned her followers and forced every soul of those who died into an army of the dead. [[BadBoss Not even her own followers are safe from her]].
** Lanther Darthassian, Spectre of the Blackened Starjewel, is a seemingly crippled member of the Legion of Steel who is a former Knight of Takhisis and member of the brutal Tarmak Empire. Lanther, [[ObfuscatingDisability faking his disability]], betrays the Missing City to the Tarmaks and helps to murder its good-aligned dragon overlord, the brass Iyesta. Lanther's actions lead to a massacre of hundreds with more enslaved by the Tarmaks when Lanther personally murders members of the Legion. Lusting after the knight Linsha Majere, Lanther seeks to make her his and manipulates her into dueling and killing one of the Tarmak Emperor's daughters, a former lover of his he's grown tired of, so she won't bother him further. Lanther [[WouldHurtAChild destroys several of Iyesta's dragon eggs]] for Tarmak rituals and also uses his magic to torture Linsha and her own beloved, the bronze dragon Crucible, before Linsha escapes. When he pursues her, Lanther tries to kill her friends, kills one baby dragon in the egg and opts to use his magic to rob Linsha of her mind so she can bear his child as an empty shell, just before the rest of the eggs hatch and the baby dragons make their first meal out of the murderous would-be warlord.
** Cyan Bloodbane is a green dragon who [[FantasticRacism despises elves above all else]]. When the elven king Lorac was enslaved by a Dragon Orb, Cyan arrived to whisper horrible suggestions in his ear with the power of the orb making them real, poisoning the land of Silvanesti and killing its people, driving others to insanity and death. Years later, Cyan would disguise himself as an elf and convince the Slvanesti elves to erect a magic shield, but without telling them that the shield would literally drain the life of every living thing in Silvanost, allowing him the pleasure of watching every elf suffer and die while he tormented them from the shadows.
** Gellidus, AKA Frost, is a white dragon who won his territory in bloody struggle and murder like any other Dragon Overlord. After he is the only Overlord left, Gellidus makes a bond with the Dark God Chemosh and uses a ritual [[AGodAmI to channel the worship of other gods to Gellidus himself]] to enhance his power and intellect. Gellidus mentally enslaves the silver dragon Silvara as a potential consort and forces her lover, the elflord Gilthanas, to do his bidding with Silvara's fate as blackmail material. Using his Whitescale society for murder, discord and to start wars for him, he also has a drug spread through Ansalon's communities that are highly addictive. In the ''White Apocalypse'' path of ''Price of Courage'', Gellidus reveals his intention: the drug can be detonated in its users, creating a killing frost called the Deathchill that will spread over the world and kill everyone and everything save Gellidus himself, leaving him to reign over his new kingdom of death as a divine dragon.
** Malystryx the Red, one of the first and mightiest dragon overlords, is a titanic and brutal monster who carved out territory by [[KillItWithFire simply incinerating anything in her way]]. After settling in Krynn, Malystryx hunted down and murdered other dragons, taking their skulls and inciting a dragon purge . Using the skulls as a sinister totem, she mutated the land around her into a hellish wasteland and allied with barbarians and ogres to destroy and enslave any innocents left. Malystryx killed her own mate to complete her totem and proceeded with a genocide of the PluckyComicRelief race, the kender, only prevented by the HeroicSacrifice of the warrior Riverwind. Establishing herself as a brutal tyrant, Malystryx would occasionally attack random targets for her own amusement, [[ForTheEvulz delighting in the instinctive fear she spread]]. Without doubt, Malystryx was the most evil dragon ever to set foot in Krynn.
* ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'':
** [[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.
** [[MadArtist Bhaal]], a member of the [[GodOfEvil Dead Three]] along with the below-mentioned Myrkul (as well as Bane), was once a mortal assassin who ascended to godhood as the God of Death. Interpreting "Death" as "Murder", Bhaal's [[ReligionOfEvil dogma]] dictated that his followers make it a habit of killing innocent people on a regular basis as [[HumanSacrifice sacrifices to Bhaal]]. Receiving a vision of his own death in the Time of Troubles, Bhaal sired countless mortal children with one specific purpose: serving as his eventual SoulJar. [[ArchnemesisDad Despising all of them simply for existing]], Bhaal left a curse to [[AbusiveParents condemn them all to pain and suffering while arranging for them all to be murdered]] in hopes of bringing him back to life and punishing them for their very existence. Responsible for countless deaths and the entire [[Franchise/BaldursGate Bhaalspawn crisis]], Bhaal remained a figure of terror and hatred to all other Gods, even his ostensible allies.
** [[JerkassGods Myrkul]], Lord of Bones, was the old god of death before Kelemvor. While Kelemvor has a firm set of morals and only tolerates the Wall of the Faithless because it's necessary for [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly the continued existence of the other gods]], Myrkul was an utter {{sadist}} who, besides creating the Wall, took gleeful joy in witnessing the [[AndIMustScream agony and suffering]] the Wall caused. He is stated to have ruled his faith with an iron fist, purposefully leading his followers through sheer fear of his retribution, and executing anyone who defied him, be they man, woman or child, in sadistically brutal fashions, such as [[ManOnFire burning them alive]] in a giant furnace. His greatest atrocity, however, was [[NeverwinterNights2/MaskOfTheBetrayer what he did to one of his best priests]], who had had enough of the injustice of the Wall and attempted to destroy it. Initially, he just left the priest to rot on the Wall, but just before the priest fully merged with the Wall and attained some measure of peace, Myrkul decides that he hasn't suffered enough and transforms the priest into a mindless being of pure, unbridled hunger that feeds on souls, then sets it loose upon the world, knowing full well the chaos it will surely cause.
** Cyric is the Prince of Lies. In the aftermath of the Time of Troubles, when the three prime gods of evil died, Cyric was [[GodOfEvil raised to godhood for his evil]] in order to replace them. Cyric proceeded to prove his cruelty by murdering and oppressing other gods, sending his servants to steal faithful worshipers from the afterlife to torture in his realm, and instituting cruel punishments on the dead. Cyric invented new ways to [[DrivenToMadness drive beings mad]], even succumbing to them himself for a time. Even after regaining his sanity, Cyric gleefully murdered his enemy Mystra, the Goddess of Magic, inflicting the hideous Spellplague that scarred the face of Faerun forever and claimed many lives.
** [[GiantSpider Lolth]], the Demon Queen of Spiders, is the goddess of the Drow, of spiders and of chaos. Once a member of the Elven pantheon, the Seldarine, and named Araunshee, Lolth betrayed the Seldarine out of growing malice, discontent, and lust for power. She betrayed her husband, the chief elven God Corellon Larethian, to his enemy, the Orc God Gruumsh, and tried to help the destruction of the Seldarine. When she failed, Lolth fled to the Demonweb Pits and led her chosen race, the Drow, into the Underdark, becoming a [[GodOfEvil twisted and cruel goddess]]. Lolth would soon trick her own grandson into absorbing the essence of a demon lord to [[TheCorrupter corrupt him into serving Lolth as her champion forever]]. Lolth had the Drow establish a society built on sadism and backstabbing, solely for her own pleasure, with cruel edicts consisting of demands for the [[WouldHurtAChild sacrifice of every newborn male child at birth]] and demands for her priestesses to carve out the hearts of males they grow too fond of. What sets Lolth apart from other evil gods is that she cares nothing for her race or her worshipers, viewing them as merely tools for power. [[ForTheEvulz For her own amusement]], she will capriciously withhold her favor from loyal Drow just for the pleasure of seeing them die. Lolth has nothing less than genocidal fury towards all surface elves and routinely directs her followers to murder them. After becoming more powerful, Lolth proceeded to purge the Drow pantheon of other deities, ending her victory by [[spoiler:seemingly]] [[OffingTheOffspring murdering her own children, Eilistraee and Vhaeraun]], with savage glee.
** Rivalen Tanthul, one of the 12 Princes of Shade, the remnant of the empire of Netheril, is the most powerful of his brothers. While his father and siblings are certainly ruthless, they genuinely love one another. Rivalen is the Nightseer, high priest, of the Dark Goddess Shar and murdered his own mother to instill his family with the loss needed to turn them to Shar's worship. Rivalen 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 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.
** 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 [[WouldHurtAChild 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, and even [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness murders 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 the aforementioned 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.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Greyhawk}}'':
** Iuz The Evil, the cambion child of the demon lord Graz'zt and the human witch Iggwilv. In his early career, Iuz rallied an army and launched a series of brutal campaigns that gave him the name 'Lord Of Pain'; that or the atrocities he committed on innocents. Eventually, Iuz gathered powerful sorcerers and drained them of life to add their powers to his in a path to godhood. Eventually becoming a demigod, Iuz ended up feared by all those who knew him, with no care towards either of his parents or any in his way. He eventually resorted to murdering his formerly loyal servants and replacing them with Fiends solely for convenience and power.
** Likely the most dreaded and feared villain ever to grace the face of Oerth is Vecna, currently the [[GodOfEvil God of Secrets and Lichdom]]. A once-human wizard who became the most feared of liches, Vecna's evil deeds could - and have - filled volumes. To give a notable example: in his conquest of the city of Fleeth, shortly after becoming a lich, the city officials begged for their lives, offering the whole city and their wealth in exchange for mercy. When Vecna wasn't satisfied with that offer, they [[TakeMeInstead offered their own lives]]. Vecna considered this, and gave one of them, Artau, and his family, [[TheDragon to his lieutenant Kas]], who tortured them to death in front of the other officials in an ordeal that lasted a day. Vecna then said he was still unsatisfied, and had every citizen in the city slaughtered ''except'' the remaining officials, forcing them to watch as he did, then had every victims' head stacked, with those belonging to the friends and families of the officials prominent. He never killed the surviving officials, claiming he was satisfied then, and [[CruelMercy allowed them to leave the city]], saying they'd be under his protection for the rest of their lives - simply so they would live it with the horror they had seen. What truly sets Vecna apart from other evil gods is that no matter how powerful he becomes, he desires more, and like Lolth, cares nothing for anybody but himself. ''Unlike'' Lolth, he thinks on a far greater scale, and would unmake and consume reality (killing billions in the process) simply to remake it with himself as the only true god. (This was his actual plan in the epic module ''Die Vecna Die'', but while he failed, the ramifications caused changes in the universe that explained the differences between the 2nd and 3rd editions of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''.)
* In the ''TabletopGame/{{Mystara}}'' supplement:
** 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 you before his court. The problem is von Hendriks only cares how loud you can scream and devises nasty tortures that he's used on countless innocents.
** The Baron's former [[TheDragon right hand man]] Bargle the Infamous is just as evil. As the Black Eagle Barony's number two, Bargle enforced its brutal reign of terror, and deserted it when it fell. Bargle had used many innocents and captives in twisted experiments. He later participated in destroying the flying city of the gnomes and captured a well known cleric to father his child on her, after presenting her with the tortured corpse of her husband.

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* ''Literature/{{Dragonlance}}''
** ''Taladas Trilogy'': [[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 {{impale|d WithExtremePrejudice}}ment--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.
* ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'':
** ''Literature/BrimstoneAngels'' may deal heavily with the devils and their machinations, but the series's worst antagonist, the ArcVillain of the second and third books, is [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters all too human]]. [[SmugSnake Adolican Rhand]] is a [[TheSociopath sadistic]] and [[AmbitionIsEvil ambitious]] Netherese [[EvilSorcerer wizard-lord]] who takes an interest in [[TheHeroine Farideh]] in ''Lesser Evils'', stalking her and eventually drugging her with something that induces a MindRape-like effect. It's later revealed that Rhand is a SerialKiller with a fondness for [[SerialRapist raping]] and murdering young women who catch his eye--the details are left vague, but were apparently brutal enough to traumatize Dahl when he investigated and ultimately drive him to drink--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; Farideh and her companions destroy the library to deny him his prize, leaving him only with scraps. In ''The Adversary'', he aligns himself with the forces of the Nine Hells to harvest the souls of [[SemiDivine 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 [[AuraVision see souls]] to sort out the real Chosen from the fakes; when she refuses to comply, Rhand has dozens of innocent captives--including [[WouldHurtAChild children]]--summarily executed until she relents, and he still intends to make Farideh his latest victim once [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness she outlives her usefulness]].
** ''Literature/CounselorsAndKings'' trilogy: The {{necromancer}} and BigBad Akhlaur 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. Oh, and 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/TheLegendOfDrizzt'':
*** ''Literature/TheIcewindDaleTrilogy'': [[AmbitionIsEvil Akar Kessell]] from ''The Crystal Shard'' 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, [[GeneralFailure 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/LegacyOfTheDrowSeries Legacy of the Drow]]'': Matron Yvonnel Baenre (who first appears in ''Literature/TheDarkElfTrilogy''), the 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}}'': [[EvilSorcerer Arklem Greeth]] from ''The Pirate King'' 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 [[MagnificentBastard Kensidan]], the titular Pirate King, Greeth was vile enough that every faction agreed that he needed to be eliminated.
*** ''Literature/TheNeverwinterSaga'':

*** Herzgo Alegni, unlike most of the relatively few rapists in the ''Forgotten Realms'' setting, likes [[WouldHurtAChild preying on kids]]. At one point, he and his warband 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 naming a bridge after somebody else besides him, even though he had nothing to do with the bridge's construction.
*** Tiago Baenre, who appears [[Literature/TheNeverwinterSaga throughout]] [[Literature/CompanionsCodex the]] [[Literature/HomecomingDrizzt series]], is considered one of Menzoberranzan's most promising young males. A ruthless, capable fighter [[AmbitionIsEvil obsessed with rising high]] in the storied Baenre family and 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 [[FrameUp 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 [[OffWithHisHead 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 [[ItAmusedMe amuses himself]] by "allowing" knights to escape before [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame hunting them down]] and [[ColdBloodedTorture 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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** ''VideoGame/BaldursGateII: Shadows of Amn'':
*** Joneleth [[BigBad Irenicus]] introduced himself by putting the hero and his sister through ColdBloodedTorture, having already murdered one of their companions and dissected the other in his [[MadScientist experiments]]. An inspection of his lair reveals twisted abominations he has created, [[AndIMustScream living in endless agony]], and a host of Dryads he has kept enslaved as his concubines. Irenicus forces the hero to awaken his power as a child of the dead god Bhaal so Irenicus can steal his soul, powering his magic with the souls of luckless captives who he states have no purpose but to die by his hand. It is revealed Irenicus was one an elf named Jonoleth who attempted to seize power by usurping a God of the elven Pantheon and killing their tree of life, for which he and his sister were stripped of their souls and banished. Irenicus tries to repeat the same action, and when confronted by his former lover, the Elven Queen Ellesime, Irenicus says he no longer remembers their love, and he feels nothing. He is only "Irenicus," meaning "Shattered One," and all he desires is power and vengeance.
*** ''[[VideoGame/BaldursGateIIThroneOfBhaal Throne of Bhaal]]'' expansion pack: [[BigBad Amelyssan the Blackhearted]], The Annointed 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]].

* ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2'': [[OurLichesAreDifferent Black Garius]], the self-proclaimed "Master of the Fifth Tower," is the leader of the [[ReligionOfEvil 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]]. Or so it seems. In reality, [[TheStarscream he wants to exploit the King for power]], something he can't get enough of; [[BadBoss treats his subordinates as expendable pawns]] (even his own [[TheDragon Dragon]] admits this if you spare her after his death) and was ready to [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness wipe out the remaining cultists as soon as he was done with the ritual to bind the King]]. However, the ritual is botched and he dies, only to be revived as a [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Shadow Reaver]], a slave to the King. Even after that, he's perfectly fine with his state, as he has more magical powers than he had in life. His greatest atrocity in the game was ordering the massacre of a peaceful village in order to {{Frame|Up}} 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 [[YouHaveFailedMe failing him]] and kills Lorne on the spot if you didn't do it yourself. Garius was all in all a [[SmugSnake smug]], power-hungry backstabber with no redeeming features whatsoever.
* ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'': The worst monster is a former incarnation of The Nameless One, known simply as "The Practical Incarnation." Combining a wicked intellect with a lack of morals, the Practical enslaved an adventuring party to him, most notably by convincing a githzerai to follow him based on a religion the Practical invented. The Practical manipulated and murdered countless people, but the worst was what he did to the one woman who deeply loved him: after winning her love, he murdered her so her ghost, bound to the material plane by that love, would remain as a guide for future incarnations should the Practical's quest fail. At the end, the Practical confronts the current incarnation The Nameless One and attempts to [[GrandTheftMe absorb him into the Practical's own consciousness]] along with all the others so the Practical can achieve his goals.

*** ''[[VideoGame/BaldursGateIIThroneOfBhaal Throne of Bhaal]]'' expansion pack: [[BigBad Amelissan the Blackhearted]], The Annointed 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. Amelissan 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, Amelissan 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/BaldursGateII: Shadows of Amn'':
** Joneleth [[BigBad Irenicus]] introduced himself by putting the hero and his sister through ColdBloodedTorture, having already murdered one of their companions and dissected the other in his [[MadScientist experiments]]. An inspection of his lair reveals twisted abominations he has created, [[AndIMustScream living in endless agony]], and a host of Dryads he has kept enslaved as his concubines. Irenicus forces the hero to awaken his power as a child of the dead god Bhaal so Irenicus can steal his soul, powering his magic with the souls of luckless captives who he states have no purpose but to die by his hand. It is revealed Irenicus was one an elf named Jonoleth who attempted to seize power by usurping a God of the elven Pantheon and killing their tree of life, for which he and his sister were stripped of their souls and banished. Irenicus tries to repeat the same action, and when confronted by his former lover, the Elven Queen Ellesime, Irenicus says he no longer remembers their love, and he feels nothing. He is only "Irenicus," meaning "Shattered One," and all he desires is power and vengeance.
** ''[[VideoGame/BaldursGateIIThroneOfBhaal Throne of Bhaal]]'' expansion pack: [[BigBad Amelissan the Blackhearted]], The Annointed 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. Amelissan 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, Amelissan 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]].

*** [[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.
*** Herzgo Alegni, unlike most of the relatively few rapists in the ''Forgotten Realms'' setting, likes [[WouldHurtAChild preying on kids]]. At one point, he and his warband 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 naming a bridge after somebody else besides him, even though he had nothing to do with the bridge's construction.

* ''The Book of Vile Darkness'' gives us The Dread Emperor. An imposing, 2 meter (6'6'') tall man in golden armor, the Dread Emperor keeps children [[HumanShield chained to his armor]] at all times with any damage done to the Emperor himself [[WouldHurtAChild transferred to the children]]. The Emperor uses these children as a bait for any heroes foolish enough to take him on and will often destroy entire city blocks when he's a mind to. When a hero challenges him, the Dread Emperor feels no compunction slaying hundreds simply to kill a target or mentally enslaving any civilians nearby and using them to attack his opponent for him.