A Few Fantasy Bad Guys …
I often think of The Wall of Night series as “heroic” Fantasy, but in order to have heroes there also need to be bad guys.
I don’t mean lovable rogues, here, or even anti-heroes, but full-on villains, the sort you go out of your way to avoid.
Three such Fantasy bad guys who spring to mind include:
‘The Mountain Who Rides’ in George RR Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series. In the “equal opportunity brutality” world of Westeros he is in a brutal league of his own.
The assassin Szeth in Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight series terrorises kingdoms and is close to unstoppable — not the sort of opponent anyone wants to meet.
The sorceress Zyerne in Barbara Hambly’s Dragonsbane is cruel and totally ruthless in the pursuit of her ambitions: definitely not a person you want to cross, if she crosses your path.
