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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andrew D. Gable" data-source="post: 251750" data-attributes="member: 4144">My greatest villains to date (well, the biggest villains in the campaign world) are the blackguard Ivean Kaisser "Gidalean" and his consort, the drow Marina DeVir.  Ivean and Marina are joint rulers of the Dark Hegemony, an alliance of three evil kingdoms.  Both have interesting backstories, that tie them together.Ivean/Gidalean was a paladin when met by the PCs early in the campaign, held prisoner (or so it seemed) in the first dungeon by a group of bugbears.  On a quest to rid the world of all that he deemed evil, he was unbeknownst to the PCs contacted by the devil Glasya (who the PCs knew as Constance).  The devil told Gidalean of a way to destroy evil once and for all, and so thus the paladin was corrupted by the fiend.  As a blackguard, he tormented the PCs for a bit, eventually offering himself as the host for the exiled spirit of Mammon, Lord of the Third, who had been defeated in an infernal war precipitated, at least in part, by the PCs.For reasons unknown, Glasya was also exiled from Hell.  Her spirit likewise possessed a native of the Prime Material, this time a drow priestess called Marina DeVir.  Marina was also at least partly behind the plot of my Oriental Adventures campaign, in which an orphaned and abused shugenja named Yogo Sayuri attempted to banish the sun-god into oblivion and send the world into an ice age; Marina hoped to take advantage of the weakened defenses of the humans to send an invading army of drow to the surface.  Marina and Gidalean slew the king of the illithid kingdom of X'thuul, swiftly allied with the nations of Langstrand and Phrygia, and formed the Dark Hegemony.Which is, in more ways then one, literally hell on earth.</blockquote>

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