YMMV / Kane Series

• Complete Monster:
  • The Demonlord, Sathonys, known by Tloluvin, Lato and Satan, is the greatest evil of the setting. Ruler of Hell, Sathonys hunts for wayward souls to drag into the depths of eternal torment under the Demonlord's Moon, going astride the land with his hellhound Serberys to reap evil in all its forms. In a particularly monstrous move, Sathonys promised Ionor, a victim of one of Kane's rapes, revenge—but only if Ionor sacrificed her bastard daughter Klesst to him, delighting in how Ionor tormented herself and drowned in her hate for seven straight years for the will to kill her daughter. In his final chronological appearance, Sathonys intends to open up the gates of Hell and bathe the world in hellfire, ending the series ready to kickstart a cosmic war.
  • Dark Crusade: Orted Ak-Ceddi, a murderer, rapist and bandit, becomes the prophet of the dark god Sataki and forms a brutal group of religious fanatics that conduct Human Sacrifice, torture and mass murder. Orted leads them in a grand war where they set upon towns and cities, killing and raping all they find within. Plotting to bring Sataki to the world by grand amounts of death that might wipe out all existence, Orted later realizes his army cannot defeat a coming crusade of light and abandons his followers to be slaughtered as he escapes with his treasure.
  • "Reflections for the Winter of my Soul": The seemingly inconspicuous albino minstrel Evingolis uses his gentle, charismatic exterior to belie a predatory nature. Evingolis travels from area to area, blending in seamlessly with large groups of people who slowly find themselves cut away from civilization. When bodies begin to drop, Evingolis is there in the background, pitting friends against each other in their fear before he reveals the terrible truth: Evingolis is the alpha of a monstrous werewolf pack. Evingolis delights in murdering vast swathes of people at a time, gloating about how much he revels in manipulating the terror of his victims before slaughtering them all and moving on to repeat it all over again.
  • "Cold Light": Mollyl is the one member of Gaethaa the Avenger's band that lacks either a Knight Templar conviction or reason for Revenge. A sadistic Serial Rapist and Torture Technician combination, Mollyl has a long history of murdering people in the name of Gaethaa's deranged justice, sometimes dozens at a time. Mollyl demonstrates his cruelty dragging off a blind woman named Rehhaile off to have her gang-raped, all to give himself and his men something to amuse himself with. Mollyl later publicly tortures the innocent mayor of the town Sebbei in order to extort the location of Gaethaa's target, Kane, and gleefully proposes torturing Rehhaile the second he realizes Kane may have an attachment to her.
  • "Lynotris Reprise": King Masale of Westvin attempted to conquer Lynotris in his dream of empire. Wiping out all villages and towns in the vicinity, Masale subjected the city to a years-long siege where countless people died, with Masale even using poison gas on the city. Throwing his own men in as Cannon Fodder, Masale later boasted he left not a living soul, taking only the ruler's daughter Princess Reallis as a tortured concubine. Later returning to claim Reallis's supposedly lost treasure from his and Reallis's daughter Sesi, Masale attempts to have Sesi tortured to gain the gold, intending to kill her after.
  • "Misericorde": Sitilvon Vareishei is the worst of her wicked clan and brothers. Having helped to murder her father, Sitilvon helps to run the Vareishei lands as a place of horror where any "trespassers" are tortured and murdered, or sacrificed. A poisoner in her spare time, Sitilvon subjects countless to horrific poisons for fun, including forty children in one batch, simply to study their agony.
• Squick: Kane having sex with Efrel in Darkness Weaves.
• The Un-Twist: In Dark Crusade, the evil god's dark prophet has amassed an army of fanatics. They march to face a vastly superior force of well-armed, well-trained knights and soldiers. The knights are naturally confident that they will easily defeat this rabble. The reader holds his breath in anticipation of some dark magic that will turn the tide for the fanatics, but it never materializes, and the dark prophet's horde gets stomped.
• Tear Jerker: the conclusion of "Two Suns Setting" is heartbreaking enough to even make Kane behave magnanimously.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: granted, it was probably through no fault of Karl Edward Wagner himself but still, it'd be awesome to see more of Klesst.

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