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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Priest_Sidran" data-source="post: 3419210" data-attributes="member: 30857">Sounds like a mother goose story...somehowUsing a misguided villain, especially one with a napoleon complex is a neat idea, though I would suggest that instead of having him hurt his own people (something I can't seem to bring myself around to seeing, personally) he is being played towards a mass act of homicide against children abducted from the cities of men, and any other race that may have tormented him. You could have him rationalize this request made by the evil god in sheeps wool, by thinking that its preventing more big folk that are like minded (similar to those who tormented him). More reasonable leap than to go about the act of killing ones own people. Perhaps, to take a page from real life, their is a ethnic group of halflings which are slightly better off, or even way better off than his followers are, he, like some of the major villains of our own world might begin to act in a racist attitude towards these, more benign halflings, and these not his own followers, are the ones scheduled for ritualized sacrifice.  Perhaps he has visions of former glories, his people once prominent in the halfling homeland are now seen as the reason for the downfall in the first place, and are thus persecuted by both the big folk (because of their size, and apparent weakness), and by other halfling ethnic groups who see them as the responsible party involved in the loss of a home land. Now this god whispers that he will restore what was once his birthright, and that he must do some things that might seem wrong but in the end are beneficial to his people. Here is another take, the God might actually be a good deity, think of Abraham and Isaac, some might say that being told to kill ones son was a cruel and evil thing to do, it may be a test, one that this character passes/fails based on the needs of the plot. He might be prepared to sacrafice his own people to better the whole of his race, and that would be sufficient, or he might fail and the god tells him that because you were ready to do this your life and the life or your children are forfit. Or it could be an evil trickster entity posing as a god, just for the kick of causing mischief on such a broad scale. Like Loki and Baldr, loki did not actively participate in the death of Baldr but he made it so that the death was possible, and then when the other gods were going about asking the things of the world if Baldr could be restored he hid himself in another shape, and would not shed a tear for Baldr. Loki himself makes a good study, for a character such as our villain here. At first loki is tolerated, perhaps even liked by the other gods of Asgard, then slowly his pranks become more sinister until finnally Baldr dies, and the gods cannot tolerate him anymore, chaining him beneath the earth with chains that cannot be broken. In the end loki fights on the side of Fenris the wolf, and Surtur, against those people who once he was friends with and lived beside. Dying (I believe) at the hands of Thor, his sometimes friend sometimes target. Loki t is said has a two sided nature, he is associated with fire, and trickery, Like a flame he is warm, and comforting, but at a seconds notice can harm, and ruin. PS Out</blockquote>

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