#AntagonistApril 2. Glad to read about the success! 🙌🏽

Yes, my enemies have groups or, as they're called in-world, sects.

Quan Chi is the leader of the Covenant of Shadows, which is mooostly composed of undead he raised but also has some "unique" creatures... including (1/6)

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Technically not, but in the world of The Chosen One Con we have the Arcanum, a council of 5 Archons, powerful mages who rule the city. To our MC's, these guys are a group of antagonists 😂 To everyone else, they're respected leaders! #AntagonistApril

I suppose it depends on if you view The Sisters as fascist antagonists that strangle Gora Island or cutthroat leaders doing what must be done to save their country and people. Even the Gora can’t make up their minds 🤷‍♂️

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So far, I have one planned antagonist group.

Still working on a name (I am very particular about these), but essentially they're a growing econationalist group appealing to emotion and wanting to purge outside influences from their land.

And it's an Auncult* under the hood.

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In book 8 of my Whimsical Dreams series, there is a group of baddies hidden innocuously under an organization called Reflex Rebranding, which indulges in embezzlement, money laundering, and fraud.

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Yes. One of the main antagonists in Thief of Death are the Blackboots, which is a criminal organization that Wren belonged to when she was young. She ran away from them because they were abusive and controlling. They saw that as a 🧵

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2: For Karnassia stories (co-authored with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social), two recurrent organized antagonists are the Bureau of Espionage in Atmoriel and the Vizrani Inquisition in the Vizrani Empire. Both are organized and pursue protagonists throughout the stories, both during...

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The villain’s group is The Spartan Soldiers. They’re a human supremacy group that are trying to take over a town the heroes are staying in.
The protagonists despise them and work to try and kick them out of town
But, they’re a small piece of something bigger ;)
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#AntagonistApril Harlan in PSI leads the Pharaoh Syndicate, which controls all the criminals in Arkham. Their dynamic is almost entirely antagonistic with Lazarus and Carmine actively working to take them down, but the syndicate mostly sees them as flies to swat away, not even worth killing.

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Unbeknownst to him and the wider world, the Faithful actually see the Alliance as their Promised Heaven, and its citizens as heretics, beasts, and demons.

They do not want to join the wider world. They want to cleanse it and take it for themselves.

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They are known through the rest of the Alliance as a standoffish, close minded people, and are more or less ignored by everyone.

Rodgier, current Sovereign of the Alliance, has made it his goal to open the Faithful up to the rest of the world, and wants to end their isolation.

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The main group all the antagonists belong to is called The Redeemer’s Faithful.

They arrived in the world 200 years ago. They demanded to be able to build a city of their own, Megiddo, which they have since sealed and only allow a limited number of Evangelists to leave.

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Taipan runs a group of investors and other business men called the Serpent's Club. Omnes has a currently unnamed organization doing her bidding

#AntagonistApril #⚔️🌿🌼 Reverend Pryce’s organized group is the town of Eden Hollow itself.
Being a cult leader a la Jim Jones, he has everyone under his thumb. Those that aren’t quickly find themselves under it, whether they like it or not.
One of the MCs, Avery, was born and raised in this cult. 1/3

It's not that easy! Some say the guilds, especially the Guild of Peace behaves antagonistically. But that's impossible, of course. How could the Guild of *Peace* be bad?
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Theres very few groups I would describe as outright villainous.
Yes the imperial Mage order is a bit fucked up (Nothing like "You will become a good mage or we turn you into a living batterie FOR said better mages) but they are also

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Oh man, do I wish my villains would form some ministry of evil or something. That would be SO fun to write.

Xechariah, as mentioned in my last post, is very charismatic and has quite a following of people he's duped into cheering on his blight, known as Akasha.

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One of the main villains for Beyond The Crystal Sky - Nihilox (not his birth name) - is part of a faction known as Tahr’Tareos. The faction is largely mysterious in BtCS, with Nihilox as the only present representative.

They also aren’t the only questionable faction…

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Depending on how you count that, Beyond The Crystal Sky arguably has three.

One of them is just kind of a dickhead that learns to unf—k himself a little, and the other two are straight up villains.

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As my main antagonist is the queen of the nation of Esrasea, you could say that the entire country is her group.

And she does use their spies, mages and military for her own ends.

This includes hunting the protagonists. 🧵

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Y'know, I should name Orkus' followers one day. They're usually just Orkus' demons, or his goons, or something like that~

The bounty hunters also don't have a group name, but their ship name is the Angel's Kiss.

And then 20 years ago, there were the Cardinals of the Grand Cross--

In Hero/Villain, the superheroes' League becomes the antagonist for book 2. This is a very organized and respected organization in the city

Evie belonged to them (and they're sort of antagonistic) in book 1, & she works for them as a civilian in book 2

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Yesterday was a smashing success!

Today for #AntagonistApril we are going to be focusing on antagonist groups.

Do the antagonist or villains in your story have any organized groups? How do these groups interact with your protagonist?

Are they officially respected groups?

Are these groups named?

#AntagonistApril host by Mystic (@mystic888wizard.bsky.social) Week 1: Set up 1: How many antagonists? 2: Named groups of antagonists? 3: First antagonist your MC meets. 4: Main villain of your story? 5: Redeemable villains? 6: Twist villains or fake outs? 7: Greatest villain of all time? Week 2: What makes a Villain 8: Goal of the first villain who's beaten? 9: Does your main character think their enemies are all evil? 10: Do your villains think they are evil? 11: How does the public see your Villain group? 12: Have any of your villains been imprisoned? 13: Villains viewed positively by the public? 14: Who is willing to sacrifice more, heroes or villains? Week 3: Antagonist Structure 15: Henchmen and their view. 16: Opinions on villain's second in command? 17: Comic relief antagonist. 18: Monsters and non-human minions. 19: Does the main Villain fight their own battles? 20: Loyalty of other villains to the big bad? 21: Is your main villain reliant on others? Week 4: Main Villain 22: Show us your main antagonist. 23: Main villain's opinion of MC. 24: Main villain's origin. 25: Main villains mundane hobbies. 26: High powers your main villain is afraid of? 27: Weapons of your main Villain? (or others) 28: Main villain's powers and abilities. Finale: Big Picture 29: What happens if your villain's win? 30: Villain inspirations. [31: Free space!]

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1: How many antagonists?

In my WIP, Kingdom of Sleeping Gods (Book 2, Gods of the Deep series), there are 2 main antagonists but the MC truly believes that he is being forced to team up with another antagonist in order to solve the problem and he isn't happy about it

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I'll answer for Aloe (TFTNG #2). There are two main antagonists - Nekane Diaz & François de Toulouse - who are antagonists for different reasons.

Nekane wants to kill Acanthus for who they are. François want to steal Acanthus back and keep them like a pet.

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Sunseeker, the first book of the Seeker Saga, only really has one main villain: Rabas, The Observer. An ancient evil imprisoned in the underworld, he seeks to steal the power of the sun and break free of his shackles to destroy all of Theryl.

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I have two active projects, so I'll talk about both!

On Bloodmaster #3, we have only two named antagonists:

- Tenebra, a foreign mercenary hired to retrieve the same artifact as the MC. Best described a chaotic neutral. Not evil, but definitely not good either.

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1: For Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social), the story is told with four-prequel-ish stand alones, a four book series, and there are plans for more after that. Given that, there's a lot of antagonists, potentially, and there is some intentional ambiguity of if...

ooh this seems cool !

I’ll go w talking about my second WIP “Pal” for this, as it has a much clearer antagonist rather than just. . . a clusterfuck of circumstances lol

“Pal” has one main antagonist, Nim, who has the support of a /cult/ural community behind him
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#AntagonistApril There are 2 main antagonists in The Witch of Eden Hollow.
In the past, Elias recounts his turbulent relationship with his abuser, Obadiah.
In the present, Eden Hollow is ruled by Reverend Pryce, a pious cult leader that has everyone in his congregation under his thumb. 1/2