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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 7973057" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>For the campaign I'm running myself, the main antagonist is essentially an organisation vaguely inspired by (but vastly exaggerated upon) the East India Company (not going to name it in case my PCs google it and find this thread!). They initially set up just to make lots of money, but have gradually got into the world domination game (albeit preferring to have other nations and kingdoms as their catspaws, rather than directly ruling them with giant banners and all that). There are a lot of conflicting forces. There's no single individual who is "the villain", and the ultimate victory would be breaking up the Company and cutting off the source of a huge amount of it's power (which is Tiamat incarnate and comatose, impaled on a gigantic spear by Bahamut, who himself is dead-ish - Tiamat's blood leaks eternally and is a source of amazing magic and power for the company - not really of corruption, because they're smarter than that - they don't handle it directly or ingest it or anything - they have people for that. Also I find "magical corruption" storylines less interesting than more human motives, like greed and fear).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 7973057, member: 18"] For the campaign I'm running myself, the main antagonist is essentially an organisation vaguely inspired by (but vastly exaggerated upon) the East India Company (not going to name it in case my PCs google it and find this thread!). They initially set up just to make lots of money, but have gradually got into the world domination game (albeit preferring to have other nations and kingdoms as their catspaws, rather than directly ruling them with giant banners and all that). There are a lot of conflicting forces. There's no single individual who is "the villain", and the ultimate victory would be breaking up the Company and cutting off the source of a huge amount of it's power (which is Tiamat incarnate and comatose, impaled on a gigantic spear by Bahamut, who himself is dead-ish - Tiamat's blood leaks eternally and is a source of amazing magic and power for the company - not really of corruption, because they're smarter than that - they don't handle it directly or ingest it or anything - they have people for that. Also I find "magical corruption" storylines less interesting than more human motives, like greed and fear). [/QUOTE]
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