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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 2340009" data-attributes="member: 11697">Pure evil can have friends too. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Unless your evil is one dimensional and shallow you'll need them acting in ways that are smart and frankly needed for longterm success. Organization is a good thing, though it may not be a classic heirarchy (such as the armies of an Abyssal Lord, as chaotic as they are).For example, in the campaign followed by my <a href="http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=77613" target="_blank">first storyhour</a> , the main antagonists are a cabal of yugoloths united really only by one charismatic leader, the eventual Oinoloth, who maintains cohesion and cooperation between his partners by a combination of knowledge about what the others want, raw power, and ensuring that they both benefit by helping him. At the same time he ends up elevating a protege to a serious position of influence, giving him a 4th supporter in power, and someone else to play off the other two in the event that they got too headstrong for his like. Those two partners and his protege all have various reasons to loathe one another, but their organization works for the most part like a well oiled machine because they have enough common goals, and enough benefits coming to them, to keep it from breaking down by their own greed and nature as effectively elementals of treachery and lies.One of those fiends, the Keeper of the Tower Arcane in Gehenna, I actually ended up writing a <a href="http://www.planewalker.com/fiction/entry.php?intEntryID=9669" target="_blank">love story of sorts</a>  involving him and his predecessor and lover. He betrayed her in the end, but in a twisted, perverse sort of way, they both loved one another. That 'love' of course might be wrong, ugly and unrecognizable to mortals, but it was there nonetheless.Villains, even ruthlessly evil beings with no spark of good in their body, aren't going to be the evil equivalent of 'lawful stupid' paladins <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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