YMMV / The Elemental Trilogy

• Anti-Climax Boss: For all his buildup as the most powerful living elemental mage, the Bane is consistently beaten with relative ease throughout the series, up to his death.
• Complete Monster: The Bane, originally Pyrrhos Plouton, is the Lord High Commander of Atlantis and the most powerful tyrant and mage the world has ever known. Afflicted with a deadly illness in his past, the Bane resorted to using taboo sacrificial magic to save himself at the expense of his close friend, a fate he would later inflict on his entire family. Conquering the mage world, the Bane spends centuries regularly sacrificing young elemental mages to prolong his life, in addition to bodyjacking people who closely resemble him when his original body falls out of use. When Iolanthe Seabourne's status as an elemental mage is revealed, the Bane becomes hellbent on capturing and sacrificing her by any means necessary. In his pursuit, the Bane wipes out hundreds of his own soldiers to prevent his use of sacrificial magic being revealed to the public; orders thousands of civilians in the Kalahari Realm put to death as a warning to the Domain; and tortures Prince Titus while inhabiting his father's body, stopping at nothing to extend his life beyond humanely possible.

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