A Few Fantasy Bad Guys …

I often think of The Wall of Night series as “heroic” Fantasy, but in order to have heroes there also need to be bad guys.

I don’t mean lovable rogues, here, or even anti-heroes, but full-on villains, the sort you go out of your way to avoid.

Three such Fantasy bad guys who spring to mind include:

‘The Mountain Who Rides’ in George RR Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series. In the “equal opportunity brutality” world of Westeros he is in a brutal league of his own.

The assassin Szeth in Brando...