D&D General evil plan ideias - why would the villain require 100 souls?

[roll_for_deception]

i need to get rid of 100 mercenaries and i out of brain juice
let's say the villain in question is a evil wizard or something like that

 

[Iry]

Lanterns. He just needs to illuminate his villainous lair.
Bonus points if the lanterns are hauntingly beautiful, and the players pass them several times across the campaign.

 

[Krachek]

100 days of spare life.
He sign up at 1 life a year, but soul value just get down since.

 

[roll_for_deception]

Lanterns. He just needs to illuminate his villainous lair.
Bonus points if the lanterns are hauntingly beautiful, and the players pass them several times across the campaign.

i was planning to be more dark and serious but your idea is too funny to miss, i might keep it lol

 

[roll_for_deception]

100 days of spare life.

that's a simple plan, witch is good, is hard to go wrong with simple things,

 

[Azzy]

To wrest the soul of his beloved from the cluches of an archdevil.

 

[J.Quondam]

• To power fighting construct/s, such as clay golems.
• To guard a powerful prisoner in the underworld or on a demiplane.
• To fuel a summoning ritual, exchanging souls for audience with archfiend.
• To use as ingredients in an elixir of immortality.
• To sprinkle on top of a cupcake.

 

[roll_for_deception]

To guard a powerful prisoner in the underworld or on a demiplane.

he could be using the souls to hold back on the astral plane a powerful enemy who would bring trouble for him and the adventurers as well on the material plane. that could make room for an entirely different quest. i'll keep it

 

[The Glen]

Evil patron is doing one of the coupon book things. 100 souls gets him the rotisserie cooker. Petty evil is the best evil.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Have you read Waterdeep: Dragon Heist? One of the four villains you can choose from are a pair of nobles that sold their childrens' souls to Asmodeus and want to break the pact, but that requires them to sacrifice a bunch of money and 100 other souls to Asmodeus in exchange. You could do something like that.