{"id":30663,"date":"2015-11-30T06:30:35","date_gmt":"2015-11-29T17:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=30663"},"modified":"2015-11-29T23:45:53","modified_gmt":"2015-11-29T10:45:53","slug":"a-few-fantasy-bad-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/11\/30\/a-few-fantasy-bad-guys\/","title":{"rendered":"A Few Fantasy Bad Guys &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I often think of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helenlowe.info\/wallofnight.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Wall of Night<\/a> series as &#8220;heroic&#8221; Fantasy, but in order to have heroes there also need to be bad guys.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t mean lovable rogues, here, or even anti-heroes, but full-on villains, the sort you go out of your way to avoid.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/07\/10\/six-great-heroes-of-epic-fantasy-part-2\/gameofthronesp-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6719\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6719 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/gameofthronesp-88x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"88\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/gameofthronesp-88x150.jpg 88w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/gameofthronesp.jpg 142w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 88px) 100vw, 88px\" \/><\/a>Three such Fantasy bad guys who spring to mind include:<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The Mountain Who Rides\u2019 in George RR Martin\u2019s <strong>A Song of Ice and Fire<\/strong> series. In the \u201cequal opportunity brutality\u201d world of Westeros he is in a brutal league of his own.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/11\/23\/just-arrived-the-way-of-kings-parts-1-2-by-brandon-sanderson\/way_of_kings1_uk\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9855\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-9855\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/way_of_kings1_uk-97x150.png\" alt=\"way_of_kings1_uk\" width=\"97\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/way_of_kings1_uk-97x150.png 97w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/way_of_kings1_uk.png 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 97px) 100vw, 97px\" \/><\/a>The assassin Szeth in Brandon Sanderson&#8217;s <strong>Stormlight<\/strong> series terrorises kingdoms and is close to unstoppable &#8212; not the sort of opponent anyone wants to meet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/07\/10\/six-great-heroes-of-epic-fantasy-part-2\/dragonbane\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6695\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6695\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Dragonbane-88x150.jpg\" alt=\"Dragonbane\" width=\"88\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Dragonbane-88x150.jpg 88w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Dragonbane-177x300.jpg 177w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Dragonbane.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 88px) 100vw, 88px\" \/><\/a>The sorceress Zyerne in Barbara Hambly&#8217;s <strong><em>Dragonsbane<\/em><\/strong> is cruel and totally ruthless in the pursuit of her ambitions: definitely not a person you want to cross, if she crosses your path.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often think of The Wall of Night series as &#8220;heroic&#8221; Fantasy, but in order to have heroes there also need to be bad guys. I don&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-epicfantasy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30663"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30665,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30663\/revisions\/30665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}