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I like the evil ghost as police idea. Too bad it's been used already CES
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Well he might be a villain, but his motivations are important I think - first of all, is he a good ruler (ie cares about his people)? You can be a villain in the traditional sense and still be a good...
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Let's see here. He's already emperor and wants to release evil spirits? Thinking.... 1. Gives him more power & control 2. More likely his subjects won't object (or else they suffer at the evil...
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I was thinking something like this as well. A living army needs fed, supplied, and after a while, if you're conscripting, the peasantry start to get restless because they don't have the men they need...
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why wouldn`t he want an army of evil spirits?
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he's a tyrant, and thus will lose control of his kingdom, fearing that he would lose his grip on the reigns of power, he summons the wraiths
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If it were my plot that would be the winner!
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Because if he can control spirits, then he can rule _two_ worlds, with a possible option on a third.
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Room for one more? Wraiths make a better standing army than the living. They don't get tired, they don't disobey orders, they don't need room and board, they'll work for free, and they don't retire and...
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Wow, so many great ideas! Thanks, guys!:D Since the story involves travel between worlds, I really like the idea of him trying to get control of a different world...that could work. (Maybe he's after...
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It depends what the spirits can do, obviously. But if he already rules the world, then why indeed? Perhaps he lost a loved one or has some obsession with death, so he wants to merge the worlds of dead...
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To raise an army of workers to do his Empire's most menial/dangerous tasks that the subjects don't want to do or get killed doing on a regular basis.
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Every person the wraith kills transfers a fraction of life essence to the Emperor. It's an immortality gamble.
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He doesn't know exactly who or where his enemies are, but he knows how they act. They will oppose the wraiths, and try to help the population. This will ferret them out. Once he knows who they are,...
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Perhaps when your protagonists begin their journey to stop him, he calls up this army to oppose them based upon a prophecy--or what he thinks is a prophecy. For a bad guy to unleash that sort of army,...
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He controls the land, but not the people. Wraith possession would be a good way to control the people and stamp out any freedom fighters resisting his authority. Or maybe he got his vast amount of...
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Resources! Maybe the parts of the world he doesn't have has things he needs: fertile agricultural lands, deposits of rare metals, rubber trees, the BEST VINYARDS EVER, the only virgin sacrifices that...
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I'm rewriting my NaNo, and I'm a little stuck. The villain's plot is to release all the wraiths---basically, evil spirit-y things---from their prison, and control them via MacGuffin, but...why? In the...
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