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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wombat" data-source="post: 2496974" data-attributes="member: 8447">My greatest villain was Sir Tarrabil, Lord of the Groaning Oaks, a Unseelie sidhe-lord of terrible power, coldly polite disposition, and a twisted sense of humour.  He has been with me in three different campaigns -- two Ars Magica (the second time brought back by player request!) and one D20-variant.  He is tall, elegant, handsome, with pale skin, silver-white hair, and eyes almost the colour of ice.  He always dresses in the height of fashion and is fastidious about all the social niceties, including gift-giving, fin amour (much to the delight of two of my female players), and knowledge of rank and presidence.  He is also almost unthinkingly cruel; his lands get their name from the fact that he impales humans and faeries who thwart (or simply annoy) him on the branches of oak trees.  These "guests" are then magicked so that they stay alive but in excrutiating pain for years upon years.  Like many successful villains, he is always levelling up (or equivalent thereof) at about the same rate as the heroes, thus he is always at least their equal.  When once the players were forced to work with him (much to the chagrin of both sides of the contract) they found out just how powerful of a sorcerer he truly was ... and they never forgot it.There is something truly horrible about cold elegance...</blockquote>