Editing Order of the Stick (section)

====Team Evil====
* Xykon the formerly human [[lich]]. An [[epic]] level [[sorcerer]], Xykon is bored out of his skull and as such toys around with holes in reality that serve as gates to [[Warp|a dimension containing a world-eating Snarl]]. Used to be Redcloak's pawn and henchman as the magical equivalent of a stupid brute, until the intelligence and wisdom boosts from being lich-i-fied gave him the brains to snap any kind of controls his former master could put on him, (or at least thinks that he has). Doesn't like [[wizard]]s because they were condescending to him during his life, and likes beating the shit out of them with his ability to cast spells over and over again  (like Energy Drain). He is wholly and unapologetically evil, and [[Eldrad|kind of a dick]], but he's still kind of funny because his charisma is through the fucking roof (as a sorcerer, it kinda has to be).  In fact, the author purposefully avoided giving him a sympathetic backstory in the prequel book so that readers wouldn't see him as any less evil, unlike Redcloak who does a sympathetic motivation for evil.
* Redcloak the [[goblin]] [[cleric]] and high priest of the Dark One, a goblin hero turned god outraged by what he sees as a divine conspiracy to use his people as XP fodder for other races. Xykon's main henchgoblin and ruler of a major goblin tribe and later also the leader of a much larger hobgoblin army, Redcloak is the guy who's told to "get it done". And hoo boy, does he get it done. He murders the resistance to his people's occupation of a major city, has another of Xykon's servants eaten by her own wights and reveals that he was using Xykon from the beginning for the good of his people, all in the span of a half dozen pages.  Has a lot of backstory in the prequel comic, but you have to pay for it so f*#$ that noise. ''During'' the comic, he grows out of his racism towards hobgoblins, and is generally the cool, logical, rules-nerd left brain to his boss's impulsive, screwball right brain.  He gets his name from the Crimson Mantle he wears, which is an artifact created by the Dark One that grants the goblin that wears it knowledge of the plan to take control of the Snarl, as well as an extended lifespan.  He has never revealed his original name because Xykon hates long names. Although superficially more reasonable and rational than his evil boss, Redcloak is also very guilty of moral cowardice and egotism, on some level wanting to be right more than he actually wants to help his people, something Durkon astutely sums up as being right about what's wrong but wrong about how to make it right.
* The Monster in the Darkness is a creature of many mysteries and few truths. All we know that it has two yellow eyes and acts even stupider than Elan. It also is stupidly powerful: it can punch people so far they are launched into the sky; it stomping on the ground is powerful enough to cause localized earthquakes; and it can teleport people with but a word and a thought.  Has the personality of a child (a non-evil one).  After extended contact with O-Chul, has begun to think for himself, discovering, to his own surprise, that he is actually ''extremely'' intelligent and doesn't ''want'' Team Evil to win, and so has begun subtly undermining their efforts from within, something that has been enormously successful because none of his teammates see it coming or expect him to do ''anything'' smart.  [https://forums.giantitp.com/showthread.php?646977-MITD-Sweet-XVI-and-Never-Been-Guessed If you think you've got the brains, feel free to jump on the ride that never ends and try to follow the breadcrumbs and figure out what he is.]  We'll wait.  [[Troll| Remember to only pick ones with Trenchant Political Analysis as a listed special attack!]]
* Tsukiko, a mystic theurge. A necrophile necromancer with a crush on Xykon (which grossed <i>him</i> out) and also a parody of the [[Mary Sue]] archetype. She was in charge of the wight brigade until she discovered Redcloak's plan to double-cross Xykon, which got her eaten by her own wights for her troubles. Ultimately a somewhat tragic figure; in the end, she was just a stupid teenager assuming the opposite of the society she hated had to be right and was just desperate to be loved, something the Monster in the Darkness points out while noting that he's literally the only one who cares that Redcloak killed her.
* Beastmistress Oona, a [[bugbear]] of ambiguous class (although popular fan money's on the "beast heart adept"). Extremely cheery and friendly, she speaks entirely in broken "foreigner" English and is known to lavish unexpected bone-crunching hugs and headpats when least expected. She's part of a clan of bugbears that lives outside of a dungeon whose self-replenishing monstrous inhabitants they essentially farm for powerful magical spell materials, and is helping out Team Evil mostly so she can get them going on their way sooner rather than later and make sure there's still a dungeon for them to farm in when it's over. Controls her many beastly and magical beastly minions through positive reinforcement and mutual respect, up to and including the jars full of bees she uses like makeshift hand grenades. Despite being a silly character and source of great comic relief, Oona is far more intelligent and perceptive than her broken English and cheerful personality would imply, and has got an extremely clear-eyed perspective on what's actually going on within Team Evil. Her major beast minions have so far included Lancer, an arctic variant of a yrthak, and Greyview, an hilariously morose and gloomy warg who uses all its dialogue to express nihilistic viewpoints.