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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kae'Yoss" data-source="post: 3893877" data-attributes="member: 4134">What about a Godslayer?Good villains are driven, good villains have some big motivation - and because they're villains, Goodwill Towards Mankind doesn't work. So look for Revenge. A big Vendetta against the guys who killed his father and thair employer. His father, a petty criminal - not even a real criminal, he just had money problems, took on a job as a lookout, but it wasn't a minor robbery, it was some blood ritual. The inquisitors of Deity X arrived, didn't bother to ask questions and just killed everyone. His mother died (they were starving and she sick to boot, hence the money problems), and he only survived because he sold himself to sick men.He vowed to avenge the death of his family and his dignity. Since they were ultimately sent by Deity X, and acted on his behalf and with his consent, he now has a Vendetta against Deity X.And he's frantic. He's driven. He really wants to kill that god. That's not an easy thing, so he's researching all apotheosis and ascension rituals he can find, looks into all possible ways - lichdom, transforming himself into a fiendlord with old rituals, getting ascendency by sacrificing a whole country to achieve godhood, and so on. Since he's not really fit for the (few) ways you can become a deity via acts of virtue, he looks into all the stuff that makes you an evil god. And that stuff's vile. They don't all work in one go, of course, and a lot of it is bogus, too (a lot of sick jokes by various evil gods of deception, murder, secrets, and so on), so the results of his previous failed attempts will be all over the place.That's how the players first tangle up with him: They find out he's been feeding virgins to a half-demonic black dragon, or murdered all innocent people in a town that is in a special location (including children, of course), leaving only the sinners alive (who all had to prove their sinful nature by commiting a sin). Stuff like that.In the beginning, he's "merely" a not-too-low-level character with an extreme case of megalomania who manages to stay one step ahead of them. Later, as several rituals prove to be at least a partial success, he becomes monstrous not only in behaviour, but in physical nature, too, and in the end, he'll either be a new evil god or something close to it.</blockquote>

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