YMMV / The Lumatere Chronicles

• Complete Monster:
  • Finnikin of the Rock: The Imposter King is the traitorous cousin to the king of Lumatere who, after being snubbed, helps invade it out of spite. The Imposter King has the wife and daughters of the true King raped and murdered in front of him before killing him. After seizing control using the forces of Charyn, the Imposter King begins a campaign of utter terror in Lumatere, leading to religious persecution and witch burnings, forcing the girls and women into sex slavery, and rampant murder by his soldiers. Not content with this, the Imposter King is also petty, and hence subjects his rival Trevanion to an awful fate to pin the blame for the royal family's murders on him, having Trevanion's wife tortured to near-death in front of him to force a false confession from him.
  • Froi of the Exiles & Quintana of Charyn:
    • Bestiano of Nebia is the adviser to the mad king of Charyn and uses his position to oppress his people through torture and murder. After an infertility plague hits Charyn, Bestiano subjects the Princess Quintana to repeated rapes for both his lust and to beget a child; this results in her becoming insane. Bestiano ultimately plans to subject the entire young female generation of Charyn to sex slavery in order to produce an heir to better control the kingdom. After Quintana escapes, Bestiano murders all the people at the compound she was being housed in, and later, when his men question him, he has them killed off as well. Bestiano releases the brutal street lord Donashe on Lumatere to hunt Quintana, leading to near-war, with his ultimate plan being to unleash his army upon Lumatere in a quest that will wipe out the region.
    • Donashe is Bestiano's worst street lord, a brutal misogynist out to secure Charyn's power for his own benefit. Assisting Bestiani in all of his evil deeds and introducing himself by killing his way through the occupants of a castle, Donashe later assumes command of the valley separating Charyn and Lumatere, using his position to heinously massacre a band of travellers in a sadistic attempt to draw out their designated protector. Hunting for Quintana and the women hiding with her so as to forcibly turn the lot of them into sex slaves and baby-producers for Charyn, Donashe tries to kill any who stand in his way, risking full-blown war with his bloodthirst, and uses his final moments of life to taunt one of his victims over her potential fate.
• Moral Event Horizon: All the villains have one.
  • Bestiano crosses this when he slaughters Tariq of Lascow and his entire compound.
  • The old Charyn King crosses this when he orders the murders of Isaboe's family and invades Lumatere.
  • Donashe gets this when he kills Rafuel's men in cold blood in the valley between Lumatere and Charyn.
  • The Impostor King gets this when he forces the followers of Sagrami from their homes and burns them at the stake.

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