D&D 5E Good-Aligned Antagonists

[schnee]

This is a super-old reference, but Order of the Stick has a great antagonist Paladin called Miko Miyazaki.

She's an example of the morally inflexible Lawful stick-up-the-butt that has no ability to think in any shades of gray and is as much of a barrier to the team succeeding in their quest as some of the villains. She's a great foil, and might be inspirational.

 

[tardigrade]

an ancient red dragon who grew remorseful over his own centuries of tyranny and slaughter could theoretically withdraw into contemplation and eventually turn gold. (Or a silver could suffer some brutal trauma, turn bitter and hateful towards everything, and become black.)

It doesn't work for every colour/metal, but it just occurred to me that tarnished silver is black, and tarnished copper, green...

 

[tardigrade]

I mean, birth rates /are/ below replacement in much of the developed world. And no one's even trying to make that happen...

...that we know of.

'The Screwfly Solution' could actually make a great campaign with these elves as antagonists.