{"id":42427,"date":"2024-09-02T13:49:07","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T01:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=42427"},"modified":"2024-09-02T13:49:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T01:49:07","slug":"on-supernatural-underground-now-the-year-of-the-villain-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2024\/09\/02\/on-supernatural-underground-now-the-year-of-the-villain-8\/","title":{"rendered":"On Supernatural Underground Now: The Year of the Villain #8"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know the drill, right? Right on — 1 September has rolled around and that means a new post on Supernatural Underground.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Although I’m sticking with my “villains in fantasy” theme, so not completely new — but I’m still happy to get post #8 out there. The theme is:<\/p>\n

Secret Villains: Year of the Villain in Fantasy #8<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Halbrand in Rings of Power 1<\/p><\/div>\n

Yep, these are the exponents of duplicity and manipulation, the \u00e9minences noire and fifth columnists of Fantasy literature. I’ve only used a few examples, but I’m sure it’s enough to illustrate the point. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

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Black Ajah masquerading as Red, Wheel of Time<\/p><\/div>\n

I hope you like the Secret Villains<\/a> — and when you’re done reading you may also like to check out:<\/p>\n

Choose Your Weapon: The Unarmed<\/a><\/h4>\n
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon<\/p><\/div>\n

From the Backlist: Interview With A Witch<\/a><\/h4>\n

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From the Backlist: Taking A Break From It All<\/a><\/h4>\n
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Cats know how it’s done…<\/p><\/div>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know the drill, right? Right on — 1 September has rolled around and that means a new post on Supernatural Underground. Although I’m sticking with my “villains in fantasy” theme, so not completely new — but I’m still happy to get post #8 out there. The theme is: Secret Villains: Year of the Villain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supernatural-underground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42427","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=42427"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42435,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42427\/revisions\/42435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}