YMMV / Cassandra Palmer

• Complete Monster: Cassandra Palmer, as the Pythia, is in charge of protecting the world from supernatural threats, with the following being the worst:
  • Jonathan, first appearing in Touch the Dark, is a leader of the Black Circle who for over 900 years has tortured vampires for days or even weeks, bringing them back from the edge of death, only to resend them to near death over and over again in order to gain power to rejuvenate himself. Desiring to return the gods in order to increase his power, Jonathan, over his long run in the series, attempts to kill the pregnant woman who carries the heir to faerie in order to start a civil war between the fey which could kill thousands; tortures Louise-Cesare to near death; unleashes zombie vampires to kill the North American Vampire Senate; tries to crash magical Hong Kong into normal Hong Kong—which would kill millions—in order to create an energy wave to exterminate the various Vampire Senates which oppose the gods; tries to unleash the Ancient Horrors in order to conquer; grafts the skin and ghosts of creatures and people to himself in order to gain their powers, keeping them in agonizing pain; and later painfully experiments with the souls of hundreds of deceased soldiers, warping them.
  • The wicked god Apollo, first appearing in Touch the Dark, once ruled portions of the world, terrorizing, sacrificing and tormenting mortals en masse while feeding on magic. To escape his prison and resume brutal dominion where few humans survive, Apollo hunts for the Pythia, Cassandra Palmer, to sway her to his side. Secretly arranging for a genocide of magic users, Apollo tries to break free and devastate the mortal world to resume his godhood.
  • Ares, first appearing in Hunt the Moon, has his children, the Spartoi, try to hunt down and slaughter anyone who will be a problem to his return, particularly the traitorous goddess Artemis who helped the mortals banish and bind the other gods. Ares sways Nimue into conflict with her grandson Arthur and kicks off a brutal war between the Fey, funding it with sex slavery to eventually free himself and throw the world into war to establish his own dominion.