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Dark lord figures are characterized by aspirations to power and identification with some fundamental force of evil or chaos, such as a devil or antichrist figure. [1] The Encyclopedia of Fantasy notes that common features of a dark lord character include being "already defeated but not destroyed aeons before" and engaging in "wounding of the land" or other rituals of desecration.
Adam was the darklord of Lamordia, a domain which "paid homage" to Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. [1] Known as Mordenheim's Monster or 'the Creature," he is an extremely intelligent and nimble dread flesh golem.
The Dark Powers then proceeded to craft a personal kingdom around the Darklord. This crafted domain serves both as a kingdom and a prison: [ 1 ] the Darklord gains incredible powers while within its borders but can never leave it, although most Darklords can seal their domain borders with a thought. [ 2 ]
Middle-earth's first dark lord is Morgoth in The Silmarillion. Morgoth originates as Melkor, the most powerful of the divine or angelic Valar. Like Satan in the Book of Genesis, who was the highest of the angels, he chooses to go his own way rather than to follow that of the creator, and creates discord. [T 8] He is renamed Morgoth, the dark enemy.
As well, Darklords is a must own for anyone even casually interested in Ravenloft to see just how much depth and detail was put into even a C-level minor lord of the Dark Domain". [1] On the digital edition, he wrote, "this PDF rerelease is a bit pricey consider the physical copy was only a dollar more back in 1991, but D&D PDFs do tend to be a ...
Sauron, the main antagonist of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien; Lord Voldemort, the main antagonist in the Harry Potter novel series by J.K. Rowling, called Dark Lord by his Death Eaters; Dark Lord Chuckles the Silly Piggy, a character from Dave the Barbarian; Ganon or Dark Lord Ganondorf, the main antagonist of The Legend of Zelda series
The tenth Ravenloft adventure, RM4: House of Strahd (1993), was a revamp of the original Ravenloft module with the following changes: it was updated to the AD&D 2e ruleset, Barovia lore was brought in line with the lore of the campaign setting, and Strahd was given a power boost "to reflect his status as a Dark Lord". [13]
Like Sauron, he has a host of other titles: Lord of the Dark, the Dark Power of the North, the Black Hand, and Great Enemy. The Edain, the Men of Númenor, call him the Dark King and the Dark Power; the Númenóreans corrupted by Sauron call him the Lord of All and the Giver of Freedom. He is called "Master of Lies" by one of the Edain, Amlach.