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A merchant of the city-states
Commerce is an important function of the city-states (and the root of the word "empire"). The merchants of the city-states are powerful and influential and organized into Byzantine Merchant Guilds that hatch plots within plots.
They are not nobility, but provide a counter power to the nobility. Their wealth makes them powerful adversaries and even kings fear a guild strike.
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Misophaes
Those Who Hate the Light
One of the spawn of Typhoneus. The misophaes feast of the corrupt flesh of the great worm. They live in the subterranean labyrinth of tunnels under the earth, spewing forth to rape and kill.
they are unthinking, unemotional killing machines. Think a cross between apes and sharks. Having no eyes, they hunt by elocation (like moles or bats). The perfect idiot children of the Spawner of Monsters and the Black Sun
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Soldier of the city-states
My campaign takes place in a Bronze Age world
The technical reason is Aerkhe is an artificial world built by the Adamantean scientists (it's complicated) and all the iron and steel and heavy industrial metals were used in it's construction.
But mainly it's an excuse to use chariot combat and chariots rock!
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Leonides. the Lion Kings
One of the Noblest and most powerful of the city-states, scions of the city of lions are a proud and heroic people.
But underneath that greatness lies a hint of madness. Lion Kings can be great heroes, or psychopathic madmen
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Solispides
The Silver Shields, one of the most acclaimed of the Aerkhian Legions
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a Keledone, the golden dancers
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Emmisary
Emmisaries are the bards of my campaign- all of them are agents of the Sol Invictus. The nobles and kings of the city-states are aware of this, but the prestige of having an imperial Emmisary in one's court outweigh the risks of having one's schemes and plots known by the Sol Invictus.
Emissaries serve their host king with honor and loyalty- until the time they don't, at which time a new king usually is installed. Such decisions are calculated, but calculated by a rubric beyond the ken of the kings- some Emmisaries served evil and psychopathic kings loyally for decades, only to turn one them and be instrumental in their downfall over some (seemingly) trivial matter
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Typoneus, the Spawner of Monsters, The Chaos Worm. The avatar of the Black Sun.
Would pimp slap the Tarrasque and Godzilla. Purple Worms (as well as the misophaes) spawn on it's flesh.
Think about THAT!
The ultimate engine of destruction. An blind, mewling Idiot God that destroys by merely existing
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Good stuff! Thanks for sharing. I especially like those last five. 
Blackadder23: Insanely long villain soliloquy, then "Your action?"
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Great post, Morty! My favorite was post #25. Awesome! Keep them coming.
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