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* ''Literature/BeneathNightmareCastle'': [[EldritchAbomination Xakhaz]] and his wicked [[TheDragon right-hand-woman Senyakhaz]] are a pair of {{evil sorcerer}}s. Long ago, Xakhaz formed the Cult of the Howling Gods, starting a war while twisting countless people into misshapen monstrosities. Defeated and [[SealedEvilInACan sealed off]], Senyakhaz works to unleash him upon an unsuspecting world, awakening him beneath Neuberg Keep while mentally enslaving Baron Tholdur and killing those in her way. Senyakhaz delivers countless innocents to Xakhaz to use as "raw materials", where he [[BodyHorror twists them into misshapen monstrosities]] and uses others to enhance his own body, the two even using a monstrous plague to twist people into mutilated monsters. Plotting to escape Neuberg, Xakhaz gleefully remarks on his plots to slaughter the descendants of those who imprisoned him and use them for "raw materials", raising a new army of agonized beasts to sweep over the world, killing and transforming all in Xakhaz's path.
* ''Literature/CryptOfTheSorcerer'': Obtaining incredible power after ghastly deeds, Razaak becomes a powerful lich after being slain by the hero Kull, who he damns to living death in retribution. Originally seeking to rule Allansia, Razaak furiously spread misery and pestilence, killing many people via plague when being refused. Awakening long after, the lich begins spreading new plagues and draining the life of many victims to turn them into undead slaves. No longer content with ruling the living, Razaak means to kill every living being in Titan to make them his undead servants for all time.

* ''Stealer of Souls'': The wicked archmage Mordraneth perfects the art of robbing beings of their souls, with every victim killed by his designs reaped, or pulled from the afterlife. In order to create an army of living nightmares, Mordraneth tortures the souls in his captivity, subjecting them to their worst fears to manifest their nightmares, even attempting to wipe out his enemies' entire lands, while adding more to his soul collection. Unwilling to ever stop, Mordraneth will kill and enslave every soul he comes across if it fuels his ambition.

* ''Literature/HouseOfHell'': In modern-day Earth instead of Titan, [[AristocrateAreEvil Lord Kelnor, Earl of Drumer]], is a wicked Satanist who inherited Drumer long ago while making [[DealWithTheDevil pacts with a powerful demon]] known as TheMaster who takes the form of his butler Franklins. The Master and Keldor fed Keldor's own sister to his vampire lieutenant, before taking countless people to gruesomely sacrifice for demonic power with Keldor's cult. Working in tandem, the two abduct many innocents, in many cases having them tortured with some in so much pain that they lose their minds, before they are [[HumanSacrifice sacrificed]]. When the protagonist arrives, Keldor wastes little time trying to have them sacrificed as well, willing to stop at nothing to preserve his dark powers.
* ''Literature/TrialOfChampions'': Carnuss Charavask is a wicked [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil slaver]] DrivenByEnvy for his brother Sukumvit. Carnuss launches raids to kill, and take survivors as slaves where he proceeds to treat them atrociously to find one who will survive his brother's infamous Deathtrap Dungeon. Carnuss has them tortured mentally and physically, put through grueling tasks and forced to kill one another until only one remains so he may send them to near certain death, hoping to show up Sukumvit and win the plaudits himself. As one of the most deeply personal foes in the series, Carnuss will kill countless slaves, putting them through the worst torments imaginable, just for a chance to spite his superior brother.

* ''Literature/{{City of Thieves|1983}}'' & ''The Port of Peril'': Zanbar Bone is a wicked sorcerer who murdered his own parents for their fortune, and began to sacrifice fellow students at his academy for power. Defeated, Bone later established his own base of operations where he also secretly rules Blacksand through Azek Vazur, causing untold atrocities and torture. Zanbar Bone happily sacrifices innocents for power, and unleashes his Moondog hellhounds to run rampant and kill innocents when he is denied a victim. Later revived, he leads his armies to the slaughter, rising to demonhood and being known as the potential antichrist of Titan.
* ''Literature/HouseOfHell'': In modern-day Earth instead of Titan, Earl Keldor of Drumer is a wicked satanist who inherited Drumer long ago while making [[DealWithTheDevil pacts with a powerful demon]] known as TheMaster who takes the form of his butler Franklins. The Master and Keldor fed Keldor's own sister to his vampire lieutenant, before taking countless people to gruesomely sacrifice for demonic power with Keldor's cult. Working in tandem, the two abduct many innocents, in many cases having them tortured with some in so much pain that they lose their minds, before they are [[HumanSacrifice sacrificed]]. When the protagonist arrives, Keldor wastes little time trying to have them sacrificed as well, willing to stop at nothing to preserve his dark powers.

* ''Literature/{{City of Thieves|1983}}'' & ''The Port of Peril'': Zanbar Bone

* ''Literature/CryptOfTheSorcerer'': Razaak
* ''Stealer of Souls'': Mordraneth

* ''Literature/{{Moonrunner}}'': Karam Gruul
* ''Literature/NightDragon'': Bone Stalker Mage
* ''Literature/{{Spellbreaker}}'': Nazek

* ''Night of the Necromancer'': Unthank
* ''Literature/BloodOfTheZombies'': In modern-day Earth instead of Titan, Gingrich Yurr...
* ''The Gates of Death'': Ulrakaah

* ''Night of the Necromancer''

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* ''Literature/BeneathNightmareCastle'': [[EldritchAbomination Xakhaz]] and his wicked [[TheDragon right-hand-woman Senyakhaz]] are a pair of {{evil sorcerer}}s. Long ago, Xakhaz formed the Cult of the Howling Gods, starting a war while twisting countless people into misshapen monstrosities. Defeated and [[SealedEvilInACan sealed off]], Senyakhaz works to unleash him upon an unsuspecting world, awakening him beneath Neuberg Keep while mentally enslaving Baron Tholdur and killing those in her way. Senyakhaz delivers countless innocents to Xakhaz to use as "raw materials", where he [[BodyHorror twists them into misshapen monstrosities]] and uses others to enhance his own body, the two even using a monstrous plague to twist people into mutilated monsters. Plotting to escape Neuberg, Xakhaz gleefully remarks on his plots to slaughter the descendants of those who imprisoned him and use them for "raw materials", raising a new army of agonized beasts to sweep over the world, killing and transforming all in Xakhaz's path

-->-- '''Xakhaz''', ''Literature/BeneathNightmareCastle''

''[[AC:Literature/ChooseYourOwnAdventure]]'' is the TropeCodifier, and has its own evildoers:
* ''Prisoner of the Ant People'' & ''War with the Evil Power Master'', by R.A. Montgomery: [[OmnicidalManiac The Evil Power Master]] is the leader of an alliance of planets that were angered by being rejected for membership in [[TheFederation the Lacoonian System]], and plans to conquer the Lacoonian System. In his first outing, he develops a [[DoomsdayDevice weapon that can destroy the universe]]. In his second outing, he is far more direct, destroying two planets, Haemog and Arouth, killing billions of beings. He threatens to destroy three more planets, including Earth, if the Lacoonian System does not surrender to him. From there the story branches into different paths: He takes the form of marine biologists and attempts to destroy the planet Lacoon, the System's capital; he destroys a colony on the planet Follop. In some endings, he is defeated, but at a terrible cost, with his destroying three more planets before he is defeated.
* ''Journey to the Year 3000'', by Edward Packard: [[EvilOverlord Styx Mori]] is an evil dictator who controls the world in the year 3000. He has [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil enslaved]] everyone on the planet; the lucky ones are forced to build monuments to his ego like his summer palace, while the unlucky ones are put into [[POWCamp military prisons]] where they are beaten, starved and deprived of sleep. Some people have escaped to planets like Mars to be free from his tyranny, but he despises the idea of anyone living outside of his rule and sends his military forces to Mars to kill any rebels they find. He is shown to be very cruel in how he deals with dissent, attempting to send the main character in a rocket ship to either freeze to death on Mars or burn alive in the sun.
* ''Tattoo of Death'', by R.A. Montgomery: [[BigBad Big Guy]] is the leader of the Red Flowers Gang and [[PsychoForHire Anaconda]] is his [[TheDragon right-hand man]]. Under Big Guy's direction, the Red Flower Gang is involved in a [[HumanTraffickers human trafficking operation]]. Big Guy takes money from poor families in China, and sends them from China to America in a tramp steamer, where living conditions are poor and many die during the trip. When the steamers reach America, Big Guy forces the Chinese immigrants into smaller boats a mile or two offshore, with many drowning or getting captured by immigration officials. Anaconda is Big Guy's point man in Los Angles, recruiting children to join the Red Flowers Gang. During the story, Big Guy and Anaconda are shown to be ruthless criminals, with Anaconda willing to [[BadBoss kill gang members]], who are [[WouldHurtAChild young boys]], for being a liability, either brutally killing them by hand or [[FedToTheBeast feeding them to a shark]]. One ending involves the protagonist tipping of the cops about Big Guy and Anaconda's operation, but when the cops investigate the drop off point, the criminals are long gone, having murdered all the immigrants they were transporting that day, leaving a trail of bodies scattered on the beach.

''[[AC:Literature/FightingFantasy]]'': Here are the worst from the world of Titan:

* ''Literature/CavernsOfTheSnowWitch'': [[LadyOfBlackMagic Shareela]], the [[WinterRoyalLady Snow Witch]], is a wicked [[SorcerousOverlord sorceress]] and [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]] out to dominate the world. Ruling the frozen north, she murders innocents for their blood or to gain slaves while outfitting her minions and slaves with magic collars that inflict suffering and death, at one point killing a minion just to prove she can to the hero. Upon being encountered, she reveals her intention is to gain and kill far more slaves while amassing an army of the undead to spread her blizzards and [[EndlessWinter plunge the world into an ice age]] and create a world of death and undead slaves.

* ''Literature/HouseOfHell'': In modern-day Earth instead of Titan, Earl Keldor of Drumer is a wicked satanist who inherited Drumer long ago while making [[DealWithTheDevil pacts with a powerful demon]] known as TheMaster who [[spoiler:takes the form of his butler Franklins]]. The Master and Keldor fed Keldor's own sister to his vampire lieutenant, before taking countless people to gruesomely sacrifice for demonic power with Keldor's cult. Working in tandem, the two abduct many innocents, in many cases having them tortured with some in so much pain that they lose their minds, before they are [[HumanSacrifice sacrificed]]. When the protagonist arrives, Keldor wastes little time trying to have them sacrificed as well, willing to stop at nothing to preserve his dark powers.
* ''Literature/TrialOfChampions'': Carnuss Charavask is a wicked [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil slaver]] DrivenByEnvy for his brother Sukumvit. Carnuss launches raids to kill, and take survivors as slaves where he proceeds to treat them atrociously to find one who will survive his brother's infamous Deathtrap Dungeon. Carnuss has them tortured mentally and physically, put through grueling tasks and forced to kill one another until only one remains so he may send them to near certain death, hoping to show up Sukumvit and win the plaudits himself. As one of the most deeply personal foes in the series, Carnuss will kill countless slaves, putting them through the worst torments imaginable, just for a chance to spite his superior brother.

* ''Literature/BeneathNightmareCastle'': Xakhaz and his wicked right hand woman Senyakhaz are a pair of {{evil sorcerer}}s. Long ago, Xakhaz formed the Cult of the Howling Gods, starting a war while twisting countless people into misshapen monstrosities. Defeated and [[SealedEvilInACan sealed off]], Senyakhaz works to unleash him upon an unsuspecting world, awakening him beneath Neuberg Keep while mentally enslaving Baron Tholdur and killing those in her way. Senyakhaz delivers countless innocents to Xakhaz to use as 'raw materials,' where he twists them into misshapen monstrosities and uses others to enhance his own body, the two even using a monstrous plague to twist people into mutilated monsters. Plotting to escape Neuberg, Xakhaz gleefully remarks on his plots to slaughter the descendants of those who imprisoned him and use them for 'raw materials', raising a new army of agonized beasts to sweep over the world, killing and transforming all in Xakhaz's path

* ''Literature/HouseOfHell'': In modern-day England instead of Titan, Earl Keldor of Drumer is a wicked satanist who inherited Drumer long ago while making [[DealWithTheDevil pacts with a powerful demon]] known as TheMaster who [[spoiler:takes the form of his butler Franklins]]. The Master and Keldor fed Keldor's own sister to his vampire lieutenant, before taking countless people to gruesomely sacrifice for demonic power with Keldor's cult. Working in tandem, the two abduct many innocents, in many cases having them tortured with some in so much pain that they lose their minds, before they are [[HumanSacrifice sacrificed]]. When the protagonist arrives, Keldor wastes little time trying to have them sacrificed as well, willing to stop at nothing to preserve his dark powers.

* ''Literature/HouseOfHell'': In modern-day England instead of Titan, Earl Keldor of Drumer is a wicked satanist who inherited Drumer long ago while making pacts with a powerful demon known as TheMaster who [[spoiler:takes the form of his butler Franklins]]. The Master and Keldor fed Keldor's own sister to his vampire lieutenant, before taking countless people to gruesomely sacrifice for demonic power with Keldor's cult. Working in tandem, the two abduct many innocents, in many cases having them tortured with some in so much pain that they lose their minds, before they are sacrificed. When the protagonist arrives, Keldor wastes little time trying to have them sacrificed as well, willing to stop at nothing to preserve his dark powers.
* ''Literature/TrialOfChampions'': Carnuss Charavask is a wicked slaver driven by envy for his brother Sukumvit. Carnuss launches raids to kill, and take survivors as slaves where he proceeds to treat them atrociously to find one who will survive his brother's infamous Deathtrap Dungeon. Carnuss has them tortured mentally and physically, put through grueling tasks and forced to kill one another until only one remains so he may send them to near certain death, hoping to show up Sukumvit and win the plaudits himself. As one of the most deeply personal foes in the series, Carnuss will kill countless slaves, putting them through the worst torments imaginable, just for a chance to spite his superior brother.

* ''Literature/BeneathNightmareCastle'': Xakhaz and his wicked right hand woman Senyakhaz are a pair of evil sorcerers. Long ago, Xakhaz formed the Cult of the Howling Gods, starting a war while twisting countless people into misshapen monstrosities. Defeated and sealed off, Senyakhaz works to unleash him upon an unsuspecting world, awakening him beneath Neuberg Keep while mentally enslaving Baron Tholdur and killing those in her way. Senyakhaz delivers countless innocents to Xakhaz to use as 'raw materials,' where he twists them into misshapen monstrosities and uses others to enhance his own body, the two even using a monstrous plague to twist people into mutilated monsters. Plotting to escape Neuberg, Xakhaz gleefully remarks on his plots to slaughter the descendants of those who imprisoned him and use them for 'raw materials', raising a new army of agonized beasts to sweep over the world, killing and transforming all in Xakhaz's path

* ''Literature/TowerOfDestruction'': Zeverin the mage is a former student of the elven wizard Elokinan. Betraying and murdering his mentor and all his fellow mages, Zeverin enslaved their souls to eternal torment and allied with the Night Demon Relem to create a tower powered by pain and anguish. Forming a Sphere of Destruction, Zeverin begins obliterating random villages to test it, keeping prisoners locked up and tortured, including one of his renegade apprentices who he later murders via a fast aging spell. Zeverin's ultimate plan is to open a path to the pits of hell and unleash demon hordes on Allansia, believing he will be allowed to rule what remains.
* ''Literature/{{Bloodbones}}'': [[GhostPirate Captain Cinnabar]] is the ruler of the Port of Crabs, and an evil pirate who raids villages along the coast of the Diamond Sea, slaughtering and enslaving those he encounters. Cinnabar raids the hero's village at Clam Beach, slaughtering almost their entire family and people, prompting the hero to seek revenge. To achieve immortality, Cinnabar serves the voodoo deity Quezkarl and delivers people to become tormented, mindless zombies at the hands of the priestess Ramatu, while occasionally massacring entire ships and cursing their crews to living death, sailing the waves eternally. Cinnabar also feeds the souls of his victims to Quezkarl in exchange for immortality, plotting to stop at nothing in order to become the immortal pirate lord of the waves where he may pillage and kill forevermore.

* ''Literature/{{Bloodbones}}'': Captain Cinnabar is the ruler of the Port of Crabs, and an evil pirate who raids villages along the coast of the Diamond Sea, slaughtering and enslaving those he encounters. Cinnabar raids the hero's village at Clam Beach, slaughtering almost their entire family and people, prompting the hero to seek revenge. To achieve immortality, Cinnabar serves the voodoo deity Quezkarl and delivers people to become tormented, mindless zombies at the hands of the priestess Ramatu, while occasionally massacring entire ships and cursing their crews to living death, sailing the waves eternally. Cinnabar also feeds the souls of his victims to Quezkarl in exchange for immortality, plotting to stop at nothing in order to become the immortal pirate lord of the waves where he may pillage and kill forevermore.

* ''Literature/HouseOfHell'': In modern-day England instead of Titan...
* ''Literature/TrialOfChampions'': Lord Carnuss Charavask

* ''Literature/BeneathNightmareCastle''

* ''Literature/TowerOfDestruction'': Zeverin
* ''Literature/{{Bloodbones}}'': Captain Cinnabar

->''"The descendants of those who imprisoned me here shall die--quickly, if they grovel for mercy. All will make a useful contribution, however. They are the raw materials for my army of conquest!"''
-->--'''Xakhaz''', ''Literature/BeneathNightmareCastle''

''[[AC:Literature/ChooseYourOwnAdventure'']] is the TropeCodifier, and has its own evildoers:

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* ''Literature/HouseOfHell''

''[[AC:Literature/ChooseYourOwnAdventure'']] is the TropeCodifider, and has its own evildoers: