Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
White Dwarf Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Nest
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions, OSR, & D&D Variants
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
EN Publishing
Twitter
BlueSky
Facebook
Instagram
EN World
BlueSky
YouTube
Facebook
Twitter
Twitch
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions, OSR, & D&D Variants
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
BBEGs, the Book of Vile Darkness, and Good Acts
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Hexmage-EN" data-source="post: 8036153" data-attributes="member: 79428"><p>Part of the concept for this villain is that she's so power hungry and ambitious that she's spreading herself thin and taking on the absolute maximum amount of stress she can, which her yuan-ti abomination psychology aids her in being able to take on thanks to her drastically suppressed emotionality compared to the human norm.</p><p></p><p>To sum it up, the BBEG, Seghulerak, has had her lust for power amplified by the Book of Vile Darkness as one of its traits, she was forced by a geas placed on her by the Book to aid followers of Vecna in a way that for all she knows could undermine her own ambitions, she innately knows an empyrean has been dispatched to wrest the Book from her and is coming for her at some point, she must figure out every possibility for what could be considered a "good" act and ensure she never commits any of them to keep the Book from departing, she hears the homicidal ravings of the insane marilith Sizlifeth in her mind due to her attunement to the artifact known as the Lash of Shadows (Explorer's Guide to Wildemount), the souls of those she's slain with a legendary sacrificial Riteknife (Gulldmaster's Guide to Ravnica) haunt her dreams, she's chosen to provoke Orcus by instructing her followers to retrieve a treasure of Zehir's called the Jewel of Gharan from Orcus' Abyssal layer of Thanatos, she's decided not to ask her god Zehir for anything but the bare minimum to prove herself competent and worthy, she's concerned with forming an alliance with the demon lord Shaktari, she doesn't trust the loyalty of any of her lieutenants, and she has an entire secret organization of cultists spanning the coasts of Wildemount, the Underdark of Tal'Dorei, and even other planes to run.</p><p></p><p>All these responsibilities, concerns, and psychic assaults upon the mind from multiple sources piled one on top of another could destroy almost anyone's sanity. The suppression of emotion that undertaking the evil rituals of ascension has provided have helped Seghulerak to withstand all this mental pressure without breaking.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hexmage-EN, post: 8036153, member: 79428"] Part of the concept for this villain is that she's so power hungry and ambitious that she's spreading herself thin and taking on the absolute maximum amount of stress she can, which her yuan-ti abomination psychology aids her in being able to take on thanks to her drastically suppressed emotionality compared to the human norm. To sum it up, the BBEG, Seghulerak, has had her lust for power amplified by the Book of Vile Darkness as one of its traits, she was forced by a geas placed on her by the Book to aid followers of Vecna in a way that for all she knows could undermine her own ambitions, she innately knows an empyrean has been dispatched to wrest the Book from her and is coming for her at some point, she must figure out every possibility for what could be considered a "good" act and ensure she never commits any of them to keep the Book from departing, she hears the homicidal ravings of the insane marilith Sizlifeth in her mind due to her attunement to the artifact known as the Lash of Shadows (Explorer's Guide to Wildemount), the souls of those she's slain with a legendary sacrificial Riteknife (Gulldmaster's Guide to Ravnica) haunt her dreams, she's chosen to provoke Orcus by instructing her followers to retrieve a treasure of Zehir's called the Jewel of Gharan from Orcus' Abyssal layer of Thanatos, she's decided not to ask her god Zehir for anything but the bare minimum to prove herself competent and worthy, she's concerned with forming an alliance with the demon lord Shaktari, she doesn't trust the loyalty of any of her lieutenants, and she has an entire secret organization of cultists spanning the coasts of Wildemount, the Underdark of Tal'Dorei, and even other planes to run. All these responsibilities, concerns, and psychic assaults upon the mind from multiple sources piled one on top of another could destroy almost anyone's sanity. The suppression of emotion that undertaking the evil rituals of ascension has provided have helped Seghulerak to withstand all this mental pressure without breaking. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
BBEGs, the Book of Vile Darkness, and Good Acts
Top
