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** The vampire Kas was this to Vecna. The attempted coup didn't really work (at least not in the long term), although Vecna ''did'' lose his hand and eye. |
** The vampire Kas was this to Vecna. The attempted coup didn't really work (at least not in the long term), although Vecna ''did'' lose his hand and eye. |
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** The MO of drow elves, in a nutshell. Practically ''every'' drow in a position of power got their position by double-crossing whoever last had it, and they know enough to expect no less from their own underlings. Lolth herself encourages this as part of her [[The Social Darwinist|social Darwinist]] dogma. |
** The MO of drow elves, in a nutshell. Practically ''every'' drow in a position of power got their position by double-crossing whoever last had it, and they know enough to expect no less from their own underlings. Lolth herself encourages this as part of her [[The Social Darwinist|social Darwinist]] dogma. |
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*** Lolth herself, in 4th Edition, has an [[The Dragon exarch named Enclava]] who has betrayed her not once, but twice. Amazingly, Enclava has not been punished and is still Lolth's exarch, possibly because Lolth can't help but admire her audacity. |
*** Lolth herself, in 4th Edition, has an [[The Dragon| exarch named Enclava]] who has betrayed her not once, but twice. Amazingly, Enclava has not been punished and is still Lolth's exarch, possibly because Lolth can't help but admire her audacity. |
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** This Trope plays a part in the history of two infamous [[Artifacts of Doom]], the [[Billions of Buttons|Machine of Lum the Mad]] and the [[Humungous Mecha|Mighty Servant of Leuk-O]]. Leuk-O was a battle mage and warlord who found the Machine in a castle belonging to the ruler of a nation his army conquered. Being somewhat of a prodigy with mechanical devices himself, he learned how to use the terrible Machine, and became more of a threat than ever, using it to unleash cataclysms and hordes of monsters upon foes. Eventually, however, his second-in-command, General Leuk-O became jealous of his lord's power, and found a second artifact that seemed connected to Lum's Machine in some way, the Mighty Servant. Eventually, the two fought using their artifacts, until a dimensional rift apparently sucked them both into oblivion. While Leuk-O's fate remains unknown, Lum and his machine were later part of the module ''The Vortex of Madness'', where it is suggested that the ultimate goal of the Machine is to locate the Servant again, for some mad reason. It would seem that these two devices are sentient beings that are fated to either oppose each other or combine their powers in some way; the reason can't be good. |
** This Trope plays a part in the history of two infamous [[Artifacts of Doom]], the [[Billions of Buttons|Machine of Lum the Mad]] and the [[Humungous Mecha|Mighty Servant of Leuk-O]]. Leuk-O was a battle mage and warlord who found the Machine in a castle belonging to the ruler of a nation his army conquered. Being somewhat of a prodigy with mechanical devices himself, he learned how to use the terrible Machine, and became more of a threat than ever, using it to unleash cataclysms and hordes of monsters upon foes. Eventually, however, his second-in-command, General Leuk-O became jealous of his lord's power, and found a second artifact that seemed connected to Lum's Machine in some way, the Mighty Servant. Eventually, the two fought using their artifacts, until a dimensional rift apparently sucked them both into oblivion. While Leuk-O's fate remains unknown, Lum and his machine were later part of the module ''The Vortex of Madness'', where it is suggested that the ultimate goal of the Machine is to locate the Servant again, for some mad reason. It would seem that these two devices are sentient beings that are fated to either oppose each other or combine their powers in some way; the reason can't be good. |
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* In the ''[[Scarred Lands]]'' tabletop RPG, one of the villains is a being called Mormus, AKA The Jack Of Tears, who rules over his own part of the world. He has four lieutenants, and all but one of them is planning to usurp him and betray each other. Mormus's well aware of this, but he lets them continue their machinations just because it amuses him. |
* In the ''[[Scarred Lands]]'' tabletop RPG, one of the villains is a being called Mormus, AKA The Jack Of Tears, who rules over his own part of the world. He has four lieutenants, and all but one of them is planning to usurp him and betray each other. Mormus's well aware of this, but he lets them continue their machinations just because it amuses him. |
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