Category:Dark lords

Articles related to dark lords (evil overlords, evil emperors) and their depictions. They are an antagonistic archetype, acting as the pinnacle of villainy and evil within a typically heroic narrative. The term and similar concepts enjoy widespread popularity as a stock character and a villainous moniker in fantasy and related genres as well as in literary analysis of such works. As the name implies, a dark lord is characterized as a given setting's embodiment of evil, darkness, or death (either metatextually or as literal figure within a work's mythopoeia) in a position of immense power, most often as a leader or emperor with a variety of minions and/or lesser villains at their disposal to influence their conflict against a heroic protagonist in a primarily indirect way, though they may additionally be depicted as wielding great physical or magical capabilities should a hero ever confront them personally.

Pages in category "Dark lords"

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