One-line villains

[Tonguez]

1. A paraelemental (magma) Ogre Scorcerer who has been trapped inside a volcano for a hundred years and is plotting his return and revenge via his goblin worshippers

2. Twin feindish plaguebearing trolls who are the avatars of the god of disease and insanity

3. A human alchemist who has invented a means of rejuvenation by bathing in humanoid blood, he has sold this invention (called the Blood Crucible) to the wealthy of the city

4. A erlking (who is a human raised by fey) who has infected the minds of a cities children so that he can gain power over their dreams (and thus the world of Arcadia (which is composed of dreams)

5. A cannibalistic cult who worship an insane god and are violently expanding their borders bringing destruction in their wake

 

[jerichothebard]

The willing servant of an evil power, he traded everything for immortality, allowing him to return to plague the heroes again and again...

 

[CronoDekar]

A wise, frail wizard who would do most anything to restore a lost loved one to him, but also sincerely cares about the PCs.

On the one hand, a prestigious Jorasco halfling who believes he can only keep those close to him safe by either keeping the warforged PC friend ignorant, or otherwise destroy him. On the other hand, a high-ranking Cannith human who seeks to tap the warforged's inert powers and use them to achieve his own goals.

 

[LostSoul]

A lawyer, obsessed with his work and the rule of law, manipulates the nobility behind the scenes.

 

[Talmun]

The Wizard of Stavin (no proper name) is a mad chronomancer that exists simultaneously at all points in time; meaning that one could encounter both a young, low power version and an old, powerful version at the same time.

Cheldia, a White dragon Dracolich sorceress, has the penchant for walking among humans as a lady in white, and the ability to turn into a blizzard of negative energy-charged snow.

 

[Campbell]

A knight desperately seeks supernatural means to prolong his king's life to preserve order and prevent the civil war likely to errupt in the event of the king's death.

 

[The_Universe]

A king who gained his throne through patricide, he bargained with dark power in order to recover power his father had lost to his advisors and the Noble's Council; in so doing, he *became* the dark power he thought would serve him - the kingdom he coveted lies in ashes around him.

 

[Mouseferatu]

Here's another one of mine, from the same campaign setting--albeit it several campaigns down the road--as the lich with whom I started this thread off.

A kobold who fancies himself a king has, through a mystical accident involving arcane tomes beyond his ken, gained a strange form of immortality: He always returns from the dead, and is thereafter immune to whatever it was that previously killed him.

 

[Turanil]

An insufferable, arrogant, idiotic, smelly, and unpleasant thief, who had gotten a peculiar form of immortality as, thanks to a strangely worded Wish spell, he could only be slain by "a stinking beggar using a rusted knife during a foggy night". It really took time to the aggravated PCs to figure out how to bring the culprit's life to a definitive term...

 

[blargney the second]

This thread is simply brilliant.

A vargouille druid accidentally freed onto the Prime that wants to establish a fiendish outpost.

The belligerent, arrogant son of a wealthy baron, who taunts the PCs for being poor and uncouth. (For extra fun, the baron is the liege lord of a PC's father.)

-blarg