From your Windrunners to your Mistmantles, Gorefiends to Staghelms, this little world we inhabit is full of despicable people and more despicable acts. As a local villain, enemy of the righteous and bane of the innocent, I have done my fair share of EVIL.
But what about you? Have you been EVIL lately, my friends? Or, even if not in RP, backstory-wise. What’s the WORST your character has done?
With a veritably long list of crimes against kin and nature, I don’t know what’s the worst Corpseburner has ever done.
Draenei Genocide? Enslavement? Experimentation on the living?
Truth is, I’m running on empty on EVIL ideas, and I am looking to find inspiration to properly bring terror to the world.
Torkazi had long held a distaste for the survivors of the old Hand of Zul guild’s effort to emancipate the wayward tribes present in Zandalar (for a variety of bigoted reasons, why do they deserve to scoff at Talanji’s rule when they seemingly refuse to learn masonry - squatting in ruins and eating roots, grrr.)
But also, as he’s keenly aware of the reverance Shadow Hunters enjoy amongst all trolls. Ergo, can’t have a surging star with a history of campaign victories and a penchant for demagougery to return to Zandalar.
Yes, Yokaizu seemingly had no intention of even going back to Zandalar anytime soon and the old zulians had long-since scattered into smaller warbands. Torkazi sent a surviving Atal’shadra troll-killer as far as Zangarmarsh to slit his throat. Definition of petty revenge and I recall their player enjoyed the consequences of the resulting injury a great deal!
Prolly not the most evil thing he did if we think backstory, but the most rotten thing commited in RP.
He’s a bandit, so he has assaulted and killed innocents. He tries to go out of his way to avoid going too far but I do not believe in shying away from the fact that thieves are generally not good people, are often driven by greed, envy and spite as well as frequently being whitewashed by various forms of media.
I’ve had friends and family members left shaken and even injured by thieves so I did not want to sanitise the situation. I plan to kill him off at some point and have his actions catch up to him once he finally crosses paths with the wrong target.
Partaken in the development of a biomagical weapon of mass destruction codenamed Hellblight and unwittingly contributed to the destruction of a Pandaren lagoon.
Draenei Genocide? Enslavement? Experimentation on the living?
No, yes, and of course. But that is “evil” on a broad scale and hardly personal. No, the most evil thing he’s done is shooting a former lover in the face over a betrayal.
Evil? No no, the killing, the maiming, the torture is all done for the sake of good. A means to an end. Does it even count if a demon’s on the receiving end?
While not necessarily the most evil thing she’s ever done, I’m often reminded of a campaign against the Cult of the Damned, back in BFA if I remember correctly.
The group of Illidari she was with were tasked with heading into a village full of civilians captured by the Cult of the Damned to rescue them.
They quickly realized there were far too many prisoners for them to save them all in time. So they freed the strongest first, the ones who looked like they could pick up a weapon and fight the Cult. By then, their enemies were threatening to overwhelm them, so there wasn’t much time before they had to retreat.
All the other prisoners, women and children alike were burnt to death in a blaze of fel-fire.
Better to watch them burn, than to risk having the Damned raise their corpses.
Nothing. That Forsaken was hurt, corrupted, and he benefited by the flames cleansing him.
Torture, you say? How can Holy Light torture someone when it’s pure and good? Do you suggest the Forsaken was evil? I guess ending him was the right choice then.
Similarly, that orc, he was shouting “I Ser Ender!”
Was he crazy? He was no knight, the orcish culture knows no such concept. His mind was clearly shattered by the crimes he surely had to commit in Horde’s name. Freeing him of life was an act of mercy.
On a serious note: My current character did so much evil that atonement is a core theme of her design. And no… she is not a Man’ari. She was just a practitioner of faith for the majority of her life, around 150 years. All she did was morally justifyable and in the greater good for all, I swear! Here are some of the good things she did as part of her religion:
Engaging in the practice of legal indentured servitude in her culture and used extended interviewing methods on people if they were too uncooperative and / or heathens. She also got herself into the practice of recycling, where the people who passed away from a sudden and impactful case of happy accidents found another way to help, usually by becoming rather passive parts and pieces of rituals. She also worked alot with fire… you know, the usual testing of materials for the means of security. Does it matter that the materials she tested were integral structural parts of buildings that already had inhabitants? I dont know, but its better to test if the constructions are sound. No one wants to lose their family because the house had several code violations in its construction. That would be tragic. She tested alot of these buidings all over Khaz Modan and what did she find out? ALL houses she tested had fatal flaws and were falling apart once the testing began! You cant blame her for that, really.
All that and much more. You know, the usual stuff you get up to when you are part of a doomsday cult… ahem, major religious movement with a claim to make Azeroth great again.
Maybe the Hozen hanging out on that lagoon shouldn’t have smeared their dook on Alliance graves first. It was an appropriate, albeit unintended response.
As a result the Lagoon Incident™ doesn’t feel like the most evil thing my illustruous and now retired Grand Marshal has committed. That award goes to either the capture and enslavement of a void seer to be a psychic communication tool or using illusions to mislead a squadron of Blood Elves into carpet bombing a Sin’dorei outpost filled with civilians during the War of the Thorns.
In short, Atahalni managed to trick the Horde forces that evening into releasing an old-one servant of yogg-saron upon the world, forever known as “The Deceiver of Gloomspire”. For more context, see the story above.
In another campaign in Outland, he also defiled the burial of one of Hand of Conquests’ members, by having placed a curse on his soul, that damned his soul into the void. I believe later on the same character was also resurrected as an undead void aberration, all because of him.
Then there was Bearan Brokensun’s son, last living kin. Displeased with the Rotgardes’ ongoing negotiations with the Horde to seize hostilities after Sylvanas had turned against the jailer, the two went rogue against orders from both the Gest and Rotgarde, kidnapping Brokensun’s son and infecting him with a pair of horrible void worms that burst out of his chest in the barrens. Though no obvious, physical evidence was left that it had been the two of them, there was enough evidence for the Horde to pin the blame on them and by proxy Rotgarde and Grim Gest. This eventually lead to Melany Ashemere sacrificing her head for the rest of the Rotgarde to be allowed back into the Horde proper in Hellfire peninsula campaign.
Last but not least, he nearly convinced Grimace, an undead character beloved by many at the time, to lowtiergod themselves.
And these are just the most notable things he has done to player characters. He has also done a number of horrible things to several NPC’s over the years.
Galek here? Nothing really, he’s still too young and hasn’t had enough of a roleplay presence to had any opportunities for it either.
Jeyce on the other hand, he has commited a number of questionable [REDACTED] all in the service of his Kingdom but the cherry on top has to be when he tracked down the people he thought responsible for killing his loved ones only to realise he has been duped and the people he tortured and slaughtered for revenge were relatively innocent.
It made him think back on how easily it came for him to be cruel, all for a cause he deems just. Patriotism was always the shield he hid behind to avoid the consequences of his actions but eventually he realised that there’s no going back, he is the man that he is now and the world/Alliance/Stormwind needs men like him too.
The only thing he can do now is to make sure his son won’t end up like him.
