In my story magic is addictive but the more you use it the closer you come to insanity. The government are working on a way to prevent you going mad but are planning on keeping it for yourself. The protagonist/villain is a rebel who starts off with good intentions to destroy the plans so no one can become omnipotent but she ends up being forced to use magic in the process , thus starting the slippery slope to insanity. She soon realise that the only thing that can save her is the knowledge the government are working on, and as she slips into insanity she becomes more and more focused on getting it until she becomes even worse than the government itself. I’m trying to decide whether or not to kill her at the end though
White Eagle became a psychopath because illusions of his dead mate telling him to kill haunted him.
In an attempt to keep things short my main antagonist called Mara is a hybrid, half elf half human. Technically science doesn't allow races to interbreed but because of a violent war with the hybrids' ancestors, the ravens, elves and humans used magic to keep the ravens alive without affecting the balance of their world by purging the corrupt species. So they made hybrids but because of the fucked up science the hybrids in turn became very fucked up.
Their brains don't properly register emotions, they heal unnaturally slowly and instead of becoming corrupt from overuse of magic they become corrupt whenever, slipping between corrupt and normal like that's a thing they should be doing.
To get to the actual answer (short is impossible)
Mara was abandoned by her parents in a panic because forbidden elf/human romance etc, she was found by another human and raised then betrayed, was imprisoned by the elves and tortured etc (was also fed her late caretaker rip), lived longer than hybrids usually do because of drive for numb revenge, didn't get the chance cos some jerk stole it, said jerk takes her prisoner, tortured and used for magic, escape, corruption, then she does a thing where she lives for a really long time and resists her hybrid nature, slowly slips into madness, betrays and tries to kill her only friend and killing the jerk at the same time like a troll, slowly goes mad. (btw hybrids can live for about 5,000 years but usually lose themselves to their hybrid corruption by their 20s-30s en then die, Mara lived to be around……..over 120 years old im not sorry)
I'm good at this.
I've basically got an entire history of my world… with a plot for each major point… which leads to a lot of villains.
In pre-history, Tara and Rey turned out evil because Tara was sick with a mentally degenerative illness. Rey sold hers and Tara's souls to the demon Anifur in exchange for healing Tara. However, Anifur stripped Rey of her capacity for love and only halted the illness. This meant that her brain was half-destroyed, driving her mad. It all happened for love and healing.
Also pre-history, Enya turned evil for the sake of scientific discovery. (This one's actually pretty straightforward). She needed resources that legal means couldn't get her.
Second gen, Annabelle went dark to save herself. In Khia's anti-silver purge, she was the governor's wife. He wanted to save her and she wanted to live, so they allied themselves with the killers in their city to avoid getting killed themselves. She goes to extreme means to hide the fact that she is a silver magician.
Also second gen but a different region, Seraphine goes evil in order to do good. She wants to remake the Lakeshore into a utopian nation with her brilliant knowledge of politics and economics, but to do that, she has to usurp the king and take the throne.
Third gen, Moria turned evil in a mad search for power. She wanted magic back (was that so wrong?) and would do anything to get it. It wasn't just for her, but for the entire community.
Tbh, I have no legit villains, just antagonists. xD
To be perfectly honest, my hero is actually also the villain some times
He gained powers and simply thought: "Welp, everyone else is an idiot. Time to start on a long-term plan for taking over the world!"
He's kinda full of himself.
Ok Richmond isn't exactly a villain but he tries to kill George Washington Carver and kidnaps three people bc he's bitter about his peanut allergy
Ok Richmond isn't exactly a villain but he tries to kill George Washington Carver and kidnaps three people bc he's bitter about his peanut allergy
That's a great reason to turn "evil". ^.^
Not villains in exactly in that sense of the word. They were from one of the Eight Houses of the Ketyrei (Elves), who ruled the land. Their House was believed to be all gone but it wasn't like that. Extra-long story short, the Lady and two of her kids died, the last one was fostered and didn't tell anyone who she was. She married a mortal and died after another extra-long, dark story. Her half-mortal sons went to their father's kin, and later died because they are half-mortal. The High Kings had always said that they were willing to return to their House their land if they were still alive. Their descendants was mislead, believing the High King would not return their land and properties and form their own rebellion band thing that roughly translate to Nightshade.
The current leader was a boy not yet past his majority, so the leader was actually his uncle who basically is an usurper in all senses except he's not technically the Lord. He was angry his father didn't pass him the Lordship and is not a nice person but not exactly evil
High intellect and great curiosity. The desire to know about the universe and obtain ultimate power through magic, science, and knowledge. It went from being a noble religious goal to being able to reshape the world for the better to being a selfish one.
