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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Zardoz" data-source="post: 3895090" data-attributes="member: 704">Here is my own suggestion for an epic scope villain.  Consider the following scenario:Lets say that Xaxos is a very high level diviner.  He wants basically to be all knowing.  He has managed to reach the very peak of mortal power, and is a powerful and feared wizard king, has vast armies at his command, and is essentially the ruler of the world.  Of course, for Xaxos that is just not good enough.  So he keeps searching, and delves into the very fabric of the cosmos at the time of creation, simply wanting to know what had come before.Then he manages to learn the Terrible Secret that Man was Not Meant to Know.  Beyond time and space there is a great and terrible intelligence that is barely aware of the existence of mortals.  But his constant prying into the secrets of the cosmos managed, for a brief instant, to gain the direct attention of that intelligence.  And it spoke to him.The merest sound tore through the minds of every living creature within 50 miles.  For many years afterward, those who entered the city to discover what had happened went mad from the mere suggestion an echo of that unearthly sound.  Eventually, when the city could be entered, there was no trace of any living creature.  The kingdom of Xaxos faded from the memory of mortals.Xaxos himself though, was not dead.  The great one had taken him for closer study.  For one breif instant, Xaxos was forced to exist outside of time, and the very fabric of his existence was laid bare, taken apart and reassembled to satisfy the curiosity of an intelligence so vast that even gods cannot comprehend it.The great one did grow bored with Xaxos, however.  Time had no meaning to it, and when it was finished, he returned Xaxos more or less where he had found him, in more or less the condition he had discovered him.  Xaxos had learned the merest fraction of what he wanted to, but the cost was too much.  He suffered pain beyond imagining for a period of time beyond the ability of his mind to comprehend.  His soul was no longer completely intact, and the remembered agony was more than he could handle.But he did learn some things about existence.  He learned, for example, that his agony would never end so long as he managed to exist.  Death would not be enough because what was left of his soul would bear the imprint of his experience.  He now belongs to the things from beyond, and every time he dies, he is returned to them, to suffer once more.  His mind would always be returned, in one form or another, to the mortal world.  But Xaxos learned that it was possible to undo his existence, so that he would never have to that place beyond time.  But the nature of creation is that every soul is bound to every other, and all souls are bound to the creations of the gods.  To undo his own existence would be to undo the existence of what passed for reality.Xaxos is ok with this.  To end his own suffering, he will do anything.Result:You have a mad wizard who essentially knows way too much, and does not wish to exist any more.You have a villain you can kill as many times as you like and have returned.You have a cosmic scale plot (I suggest that protection from Chaos will become very important)END COMMUNICATION</blockquote>

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