Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: Difference between revisions

* Ho boy, does this ''ever'' happen in the eleventh book of ''[[Everworld]]'' to {{spoiler|Senna Wales}}. K.A. "[[Ambition Is Evil|Ambitious]], intelligent, controlling, [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]] [[Visionary Villain]] with a taste for power" into "batshit insane, power-mad, [[Genre Blind]] [[Bad Boss]] [[Evil Overlord]]."

* In ''[[Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn]]'', this trope in a nutshell is the [[Backstory]] of the [[Big Bad]], the [[The Fair Folk|Sitha prince]] Ineluki. Once a purely heroic figure, his ambition and willpower darkened when the Sithi's lands were invaded by savage humans. Dismayed by his people's despair in the face of their approaching doom, he delved into [[Things Man Was Not Meant to Know]] and constructed a weapon so terrible that his father the king insisted he destroy it. Maddened by this rejection and by his torments, Ineluki [[Self-Made Orphan|murdered his father]] and took the crown, leading a final, futile resistance against the humans that ended in his death via [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique]]. It is deeply unfortunate for the world of Osten Ard that he did not stay dead.

 

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