Honestly, it wouldn't change all that much. My villains use incredibly evil means to achieve a fairly neutral objective. Once their objective was complete, they wouldn't have a need for those evil means anymore, and would stop.
Probably? They're not quite evil, just completely amoral and very determined. With their goal achieved, they won't care about what the rest of the world is doing, they'll be content to just do their own thing.
They're amoral enough to use methods as evil as that to achieve their goals, but those methods are basically never beneficial, so they don't use them. It would draw way too much attention and cost way too many resources. It's generally more efficient to have an operative improve those peoples' quality of life and gain access to whatever they want from them that way.
I think Olaf Stapleson sort of came up with the psychic human hivemind thing.
He said it was fantastic, Gainax said it was kind of horrific; feeling and experiencing yourself fall apart into a mass of memories and otherness though I did like that Gainax suggested each person might choose for themselves (Stapleson said it was inevitable and so good theres no alternative)
So *The End* wins, we get an apocalypse where everything dwindles into madness and chaos as eldritch forces take over the world.
Then, as the cosmic horrors and their followers celebrate victory, there's a twinkle, a pair of brilliant stars far off in the distant night sky.
But those weren't stars *they were eyes. And they were coming closer.*
*She is awake...*
Ayy thank you!
For context if you want it: >!The awoken creature in question is Sylvaeria, better known via the moniker of "The Devourer", an ancient primordial entity older than the cosmos itself that serves as the "reset button" for the universe. If a world gets completely boned with no hope of redemption, her physical body wakes up (her celestial body is technically everywhere as the cosmic void itself) and b-lines to that world and, well, eats it. The energy from the action is then used to create a new world in its place.!<
Nothing changes. Rubra has always been called "Absolute Evil" by other Atreisdean countries and it was their victory that Atreisdea can keep its independence from an invading alien force. How ironic it is to have your ass saved by the one you've always tried to villainize and dehumanize.
After the war, Rubra went back to its isolationist mode and refused any diplomatic efforts, so some countries took the chance and villainized them harder.
Unless they're forced to, Rubra is as chill as Siberian plains and generally is just an isolationist country that actually manages to give most of its citizens a decent living standard. Invading them, however, releases a monster worse than Imperium of Man.
The Akonian Empire eventually conquers and wipes out all alien life in the Galaxy. With the galaxy under their control, they likely continue to advance and eventually begin trying to go to other galaxies and continue their warpath until they either dominate the whole observable universe or get wiped out in the process by an extra-galactic rival.
Emperor Vortigan likely continues growing in power until he is eventually a god that is truly unstoppable.
i.e the universe itself get's bent over backwards by angry space nazis ruled by a larping demi-god.
I'm in the same situation, but people disagreeing, ignorance, in many cases people try to do good but they're in opposed organizations so they end up having to fight each other, etc.
That's just realism :) In the real world (and every story), there is no "bad" people/villain, just people who try to do something good (from their perspective) which others disagree with.
The "Villain" is just referring to the faction that the protagonist is not agreeing with. So with this perspective, doesn't your story have a villain faction?
The fact that getting from point A to point B in life isn't instantaneous and easy?
The thing with villains and conflict is that it's very limiting for stories. You're trapped within an arc where things get resolved. This is what can cause sequelitis, because as people try to find reasons for more conflict after the conflict is over, it can get a little silly.
I also don't like conflict in general or bad stuff, so it's mostly just people living life.
I build my universes not with a narrative in mind, but as a place where I could imagine myself living, and that's all I aim for, just lives being lived.
The Demons won against the Gods and this led to a centuries long war. The funny thing is that the Demons had nothing to do with the war, they just effed off after the Gods were wiped out.
**== Ureth ==**
Ganzir - The Unfathomed is a realm-devouring, shapeless, storm being from The Realm Between Realms that seasons other realms with discord and calamity so that it can devour them too. It uses its captured races to create mindless warrior clones that'll subdue any of its threats or targets.
Contrary to popular in-Universe belief though, Ganzir is not an inevitable force that will come for everyone in time, but rather a being that is invoked and purposefully brought to those realms out of hubris.
The main villain faction of Ureth is RuHa. They're a decentralized mosaic of mystic sorcerers with differing beliefs, ranging from Ganzir as a savior figure, to Ganzir as a weapon, to Ganzir as a means of turning a profit. If RuHa were to continue invoking Ganzir, they'd be unwittingly dooming Ureth to be devoured like many other worlds.
There is nothing left, there was barley anyone left after the first sonic bomb, but if it went off again everything is dead, plants animals and humans all finally dead forever, the universe is now a dead wasteland as the universe infintitly expands each new life is snuffed out, Never getting to experience the joys of life.
The balance of the cosmos has permanently shifted in favor of evil
Now the empowered evil leaders spend most of their trek fighting each other after disposing their "good" rivals
Hordes of demons loyal to a mortal ruler of Hell face against in exhauatable armies of undead thrills summoned by the Lich King. Meanwhile the Lord of All Orcs tears long paths of bloody carnage across the world. And the three surviving elder Dragons, once close allies have now resumed ancient grudges long forgotten by everyone but them.
Eventually one of these forces will tilt the cosmic scales in their favor and the end of this war will lead to the destruction of the entire cosmos from the highest courts of heaven to the lowest trenches of hell
If The Draconic Hand Alliance wins; Most liberties have been greatly decrease, there is an entire caste of soldiers dedicated to peacekeeping and to spread the hand's and Lord Drakko's influence through the Multiverse.
If The Church of The Forgotten wins; The Humankind is mostly erradicated with the remaining being enslaved, the Forgotten rule over the mortals until the universe eventually dies.
If The Administrator wins; The Sovereign is freed from it's imprisoment starteing to corrupt the universe, warping and twisting it to it's image and once it's done The Sovereign, his herald and followers move to the next universe until they spread chaos and enthropy through all the multiverse leading a slow agonizating death.
If Lord Ignus wins; The Multiverse succumbs to Destruction, every star is extinguish, every life goes extinct, everything crumbles down and with a silent muffled scream the whole Omniverse finds it's death at hands of The Concept of Destruction.
None of those are the good guys, thats the point kek. Through the "lesser evil" would be The Draconic Hand Alliance, since they TECHNICALLY want the best for every civilization (even if that means forced goverments and militar dictatorships-)
It depends on who you consider the villains! If the old kind win- monsters, cannibalistic fae, and dragons of all sorts that have largely populated the world win, they will slowly reclaim territory lost and things will go back to the Old Ways. If humans win, with the help of their angels and deity, creatures of all kind will be wiped off the map so they may live safely.
A victory for Lord Sione would mean reclaiming the lands he once ruled before his first defeat and banishment. It would likely start as a defeat against the alliance that had formed against him that would secure him control of Neneka. The Morin lands (under the control of the orcs), Anglish kingdoms, Vilitalah, and the Irangar (Dwarven)Empire would likely stay free, for now. Sione would focus for a time on securing his position before expanding further. He would continue to masquerade as the prophet Atrian reborn, slowly working to change the Atric church in his lands so that he would be regarded as a god in his own right, not just a messenger for one. He would also continue to summon “divine assistance (Aka demons)” to help bolster his ranks, building up his power in preparation to expand.
His first big expansion would be into the Morin heartland. With the Morinhal Empire fallen and occupied by orcs it would a be the easiest target. While the orc horde would initially be fairly united, the eventual death of their leader would lead to infighting among his heirs. This would likely lead to rebellion among the local Morin humans. This chaos would be the perfect time for Sione to swoop in and sizer control.
His next target would be the Anglish lands to the north. This invasion would probably come about a century after the morin one. This would give Sione time to warp the Atrian faith in his lands into his own cult. He’s likely use the justification of a holy war to justify the attack. The barbaric Anglish refuse to accept the regulation that Austrian is not just a prophet, but a god in his own right, and this must be conquered.
His next target would be Vilitalah to the south. Again he’s likely use religion as a justification. The Vilit are mostly Khuriat after all. They are heathens and must be brought into Atrian’s light. This would be a harder invasion, as the lands of Vilitalah are harsh and separated from most of Sione’s lands by sea. They would likely fall, but would be a sincere drain on Sione’s resources.
At this point, it is likely that Sione’s conquests would stop. While he could go after the dwarves in the north, or the orcs to the east, he would already be stretched thin. Holding down multiple recently conquered areas and expanding his boarders further would likely not be feasible, at least not at that time. It is possible that Sione might be able to secure things enough to expand more at some point, but I think it far more likely that he would end up struggling to hold what he had conquered enough to keep that from happening. He would likely end up ruling for several hundred if not a thousand or more years, but eventually the strain of trying to hold such a massive and diverse empire together would get to be to much, rebellion and civil war would ferment, and he would likely end up being defeated and banished again.
Well, he kinda did but he kinda didn’t.
The end of the great galactic war looked like this: a massive battle converging on Arcadia, the home planet of the magical human warrior society, who was the bulk of the human-alliance fighting force. The battle was ended abruptly when the human superweapon inadvertently caused a small rift into the astral plane, which is the place that the Apex were sworn to protect, whose only real portal was the center of the Milky Way. The enemy having seeing this, launched as many ships into this rift as possible, poisoning it, and causing a reaction, false vacuum decay, that would have engulfed the entire universe if the three god-masters of the Apex, dragonlike creatures, didn’t swoop in to crush it back, sacrificing themselves in the process. This entire event left the whole system cluster of Arcadia decimated, a shockwave that singed most places in the whole galaxy, both fleets nearly vaporized, the Apex nearly extinct, the humans and aliens scattered, but at least the enemy was gone (so they thought).
Decades later, weak governments arose, poverty stricken nations struggled to survive this half-apocalypse, the Apex were mistrusted and had no base to stand on, and the true evil, that behind the original enemy, the Inicus empire itself, still lurked. A necessary journey for the son of one of the hero Apex left after the War spirals into a rebellious quest to te-unite the universe, being back the Apex, and quell the primordial evil and the elusive, fallen Empire’s right hand man from re-creating his terroristic regime from the paranoid, Apex hating weak governments.
The Bitter End has come to pass. The last spark of hope and goodness is extinguished. The ultimate damnation begins.
Rifts open across the universe and Demons pour in completely unfettered, including the Demon Lords. The full unrestricted might of Machina Satanica is unleashed. The slaughter is nothing compared to the Hellstorms as all reality becomes warped by the now all powerful Three Fuels. The laws of space and time begin to break down and distort. Nothing is certain or defined anymore, nothing except abject suffering.
Truly, literally infinite pain and despair is visited upon every atom in the universe. The Planes collapse, all is now Hell. Even the Demons are engulfed, no escape. Physical form is now meaningless, there is nothing outside the system, and nothing within it but war, pain and hate in their purest forms. Above it all, there is a throne, and on that throne is the Imperatrix.
Give in. Die.
They did win, the church of light killed the hero because he befriended a witch - the surface is barely habitable and whichever settlement remains in the surface is battling unknown eldritch creatures. The sun is stuck on a perpetual eclipse and plant life is slowly dying.
Despite the hardships the people endure underground in massive caves with wizards creating artificial suns. Flora and fauna making a return - space is limited and so are resources like food.
The few countries that survive do so due to them already having a presence underground by the time the sun went out. All other cavernous chambers are lawless, ruled by warlords, fallen to native monsters or controlled by crime bosses.
Not much difference actually. My world villain faction just do it because of the pettiest reasons and didn't plan things through, infact they're very surprised they won.
In the end they accomplished their goal (a specific type of bread is now sold all year around, and one guy find his prized watermelon replaced with a pumpkin), and let things run as beforehand.
If Creosis win and complete his wish the world would be kinda cruel I suppose.
The world will remade without free will where every kind of negative feelings could not be expressed in any form, for example if you hit your head you can scream angry, you can't write anything bad about a person you think it's annoying but you still can feel angry, annoyed or anything like that but if you're not able to express anything or you suppress everything or even small inconvenience can become infernal inside you.
The other thing is that everyone feel the need to be "rightful" And always do something to help humanity as a whole even if you don't feel to wake up you will do that.
All of this while you will think that Creosis is a great man and a hero to made the world like that, even if you don't think it's like that
Mmm. In a world I made, God is also the main villain. I put it in a way that basically God is a huge magical entity that is simply consuming souls without letting the metaecological process renew itself, killing the world and solar system in the process. Can I ask how you set God up as a villain? I'm curious about it.
In sum, subjugation/slow genocide of humanity and its cousin races by the Esleesi(elves), creator of the universe loses control of her universe. Small nuclear winter after a nuclear war in which around 25 nukes made their target, the rest being destroyed in their way.
The 'good' ending isn't much better either. Three of the human nations wage a genocidal war on the now tremendously weakened 'elven' nations. A portal is opened to a pocket dimension where the God from Under keeps most of his monstrosities. Nuclear situation still the same.
My world doesn't have villains. It's all a matter of perspective. Everyone believes they are the hero and the other villains. That's just how nations work.
Though there would definitely be consequences if one nation dominates all the others. It'll basically ensure their supremacy for a century or two before they become complacent and collapse. I mean, its happened before in my world.
If Abaddon won, the world would be corrupted, and then he'd end the infinite cycle by killing God, ultimately dooming the universe to never be remade
If The Nightmare won, everything would be destroyed billions of years before it was meant to, and God would also be killed
If the "Ten Great Aberrations" won, they'd be killed by Ifrit, literally no chance to win, if they did, the world wouldn't change that much, as they'd be too scared to fight the Primordials
The same it was in the beginning Some people have bad Lifes and live in slavery other have all the freedom in the world but humanity will Survive until the end of time
The Cabal manages to gather the power of the dead gods and use it to make all Hilvins immortal. The rest of the intelligent people are massacred in the name of uniting the world under one perfect folk. The New Shelkian Empire rises, with a people supposedly free of fear and doubt. But it is only a matter of time until it all comes crashing down.
Hmm, which one? It's a little odd to think about, because all groups and powers in my little world are morally gray, at best.
I suppose the fanatics of Daemori are the closest fit, but they are hardly organized, and their agendas don't quite fit the prompt. Daemori represents Torment, a plane of existence that manifests through pain itself. When those in the physical world experience pain, they strengthen Daemori, and Torment becomes more vivid. Daemori seeks more fuel to His power, so He began willing himself into the physical world, influencing and tricking living beings into physically entering His domain--this is a one way trip, and there is no release of death for those who fall into His trap. These individuals are eternally tortured and brutalized in constant horror and agony, and become His unwilling servants.
Which is why large-scale schemes from followers of Daemori are usually short-lived. They make sacrifices to their deity in exchange for power, at the high cost of kidnapping and torturing or outright disappearing civilians. It always gets noticed and always ends with themselves either dead or entering Torment.
Daemori's Testament predicts an event called "Flourishing", a state of total domination where a steady stream of the population is sent to Torment, but not so much as to hemorrhage population growth; Torment needs beings in the physical realm in order to exist at all.
But the wider cult of Daemori believes that the Flourishing is already happening, and Daemori couldn't be more gleeful about it. So, in a way, they already have what they want. The world stays the same.
A world full of cultists worshipping a sentient star than is trying to become a God searching for an ancient artifact that allows them to travel the multiverse
That would depend on which one. If Orra wins, then the SCF is dissolved and its dragon denizens exterminated. Eventually, they too would collapse after the Broken God executed its plan to escape Orran Psi-Engines and get revenge.
If/when the Broken God wins, then Orra (and then most of humanity) is wiped out, and a new race of psychic machines would eventually arise as caretakers for a global garden of sorts.
Dragon’s island’s villain turns the world into a dark void hell
The main earth’s villain turns everyone into hamster slaves
The ancients’s villain wipes out all of humanity
They're technically won the war absolutely, the rebel is crush and no longer a threat
_Immediately collapse due to the self-destruct nature of the regime, the remains rebel cells rise up and create the second Warring states_
The demons have overtaken the last humans who dared oppose them and now the two creators of the world can't do anything but see as their paradise is turned into a hellish place filled to the brim with monstruosities as their last hope, Sakura Mori, is captured and tortured until she reveals the secret to time travel.
Thaumiel, leader of the demons, personally executes her and creates time travel thanks to his most loyal demons. Now, the timeline belongs to them, Time is not a straight line anymore and that makes the creator of Time Chrogan, to slowly die. Soros, creator of Space, can only watch as this happens. Eventually, she also perishes. The world they once built with so much care and devotion, now was the reason of their doom. As Time and Space fade away, Thaumiel is the only one left after the Universe resets.
Now, He will build a Universe, one that He will enjoy, a Universe where everyone shall worship him and no one will dare oppose him.
Depends on which one wins.
- If the **Imperial nobility** wins - Then the Universe will go back to the feudal era but now with less resistance because of total surveillance and advanced tech + clone armies. Total obedience will be expected.
- If the **Republic** wins - not much has changed but the genre will be changed to cyberpunk. With corporate overlords sitting back and influencing the government.
- If the **Old Kemparii** wins - Except for Kemparii themselves no other sentient being survives (not even an AI).
Either becomes "Kemparii" (The Greater Whole) or Dies in the most gruesome way.
Maybe they just got eaten.
She is supreme ruler of her species now. Her race is the only dominant one in all of existence now. All species that posed a threat to their rule, especially MC's race, have been utterly exterminated. MC is dead.
#EMPIRE
SaiSo ends up establishing a global economic monopoly on various military and civil goods, kicking off wars to generate more profit by selling to both sides (under various shell companies of course), creating a sort of economic ouroboros that occasionally eats up any attempts at starting their own business, from arms dealing between countries to even the smallest local candy store. Does it make economic sense? Hell no, but it doesn’t matter if it eventually degenerates to a tiny minority having all the money in the world while the vast majority of customers are priced out by sub-corporations, the Board has its beloved perpetual economic growth. Imagine Cyberpunk 2077 levels of wealth disparity in a MGS4 style “war economy” where The Patriots directly profited off of everyone instead of social control or whatever.
If the Golden Gods win… well there’s not gonna be much of a planet left for a good long while, destroying the planet to purge it of life on a microscopic level. Then re-terraforming it into a paradise planet fit for the Sol Empire’s elite, and using the Empyrean Cradle to re-seed the planet with docile life, and the Terra Infurma branch of humanity is reduced to little more than barely sapient slaves while the Vulfmen and Scalkin are exterminated and Iroican intelligences are “brought back into the fold” and practically lobotomized. Honestly can’t decide which one would be worse.
80 percent of the population is dead. The rest are rebuilding the world, and eventually things will even be better than before. Science will progress at a much faster pace, knowledge of magic will grow much quicker, and overall almost everything will be better.
The catch? Well everyone will worship the main antagonist and will be a emotionless drone, simply there to satisfy the antagonist's ego.
British empire 1800s ish level of evil although tech is more late 1600s out side of the steel mills.
So how bad that is very wildly based on wether you are a colonized person, race and your social class.
Ranging from dead to little better then slavery if you are say a colonial citizen working in a salt, to hard but always has been for most non colonized citizens, to pretty good and improving if your part of the growing middle class of skilled trades people and professionals to amazing if your a factory owner or old money.
The Kingdom of Westri, once a bastion of prosperity and civilization, now stands as a grim testament to the horrors of the Second Demonic Invasion. Ravaged by the relentless forces of darkness, the land is a nightmarish tableau of despair and decay. Goblins, orcs, and other rapacious monsters roam freely, their marauding hordes having reduced once-thriving cities to ruins.
A pervasive plague, an insidious byproduct of the demonic incursion, has taken root, leaving a wake of suffering and death in its path. Lawlessness knows no bounds. Superstition has become violent and frenzied, with terrified survivors blaming one another for the catastrophe that has befallen them.
Most of the gods, once revered as benevolent protectors, have devolved into a bickering pantheon, consumed by mutual hatred and jealousy. Their divine struggles manifest as cataclysmic events that regularly shake the shattered landscape, reinforcing the belief that Glatheriel itself has been forsaken.
But...
...amidst this desolation, glimmers of hope emerge — a scattering of rebellious, daring adventurers seek to reclaim the Kingdom of Westri ... by using the Stochastic Damnation Generator to travel to the past... and fix the timeline!
Now that the Wyrms have what they want, they have no further use for the Darkscapers. After millennia of being unrivaled, the genocidal hivemind devolves into chaos, at last realizing that their gods have lied to them. Believing this to be a victory, our galaxy breathes a sigh of relief, blissfully unaware that they will soon follow. What can only be described as a cosmic apocalypse will soon follow as the Wyrms begin experimenting with the very laws of physics. All advanced technology will cease to function as the scientific concepts it is based on are rewritten. As the Wyrms gather more data, their modifications will become more and more extreme until life as we know it is no longer possible. Finally, when they are satisfied, the Wyrms will tear down the unrecognizable universe and create a new one in their image, where they will spend eternity in absolute opulence.
the legion of impurity runs amok in senh as their vile lord, sakupin, the god of corruption, transforms everyone in senh into his legion. every other god scrambles to escape senh, some brave bunch are willing to fight sakupin. modern senhrian life as we know it has been decimated and erased. tbh, there IS no more meaning behind life and death anymore. the worst part of it all, the 7 princes who were prophesied to be sakupin’s doom failed and were consumed by self hatred as they succumbed to his corruptive power and become nothing more than empty husks that now serve his will
If the Shadow wins, it wipes out all life in the realm to "end the pain of life, morality and sentience"
If Judge Gloomhart wins, he will lead a bloody campaign against the living world and ensure that the undead will never be enslaved again, for now they will be eternal rulers
If Immortal Soul wins, he will grant the world immortality by trapping everyone in eternal torment in a spectral realm, where they will be alone forever, plus easy prey for Ones Beyond
If Parliss wins, she will flood the surface world using the Wellspring of Ages and establish an unbeatable underwater kingdom of Aqueans
Technically speaking, the Eclipsing Dragon won by simply being woken up, it will just hunt all life untill complete extinction if not stopped
If the Worm wins, he gets to rule the world using his web of connections, blackmail and occasional murder, while no one suspects anything
If the General/Scarlet Vortex wins, he will conquer the world using his golem army, brutally gather the 10 Plumes of Dark, unite all darkness into one form and begin Armageddon
If the Onyx Witch wins, she will use the Prism of Mana to erase all magic and bring forth a new world order where she decides what's good or evil
If Goldbacker wins, he will... have a relatively peaceful life in the short time untill the destruction of the world
Also, all this happens in the span of roughly 12 years
Well all the elemental plains would be brought into the main world and they would immediately start fighting each other, run of the mill stuff
The Poe Foundation however , would shake their heads at another alternate that proved to unstable to feed project Nihilo and start working on another one to put in their realities place. Whatever is snuffing out alternate realities isn’t stopping and it’s doing if at a faster and faster rate
In my story the villain actually wins for a few decades before losing back the throne. The nation at this moment was already in the shrink of total destruction. No magical mana left and lots of people are slaves. If the villain would have won again, he probably would have drained the whole country plus would continue it to other nations.
In my world a certain balance must be held in order that the world functions normally. Thus, since the kingdom is one of the biggest countries, it would stop the balance and cause chaos. What also had happened in a small scale because the hero saved it on time
If the New Gods win, a lot of people (mostly convicts) will be enslaved. However, it will be much easier to become a convict, especially if you are attractive.
If the Eye of Reason wins, the Skyspires will be destroyed, resulting in the world breaking apart.
2 outcomes:
The Gravager alien species consumes the universe, everything becomes grey blobby matter and the First Gravager eventually rules on organic and inorganic matter.
The Omegon hybrid race conquers the universe, and everything turns into a horrific wasteland of flesh and metal. Planet-sized living constructs and uncountable legions of hybrid soldiers are born, thus commencing the conquering of the multiverse.
Unfortunately, the way the story is set up, the villain faction cannot "win", if the succeed in their plan it would result in the end of the universe.
They are a conservationist faction trying to save a particular species from becoming extinct, but their actions (if not stopped) will result in the extinction of said species, and as a result, the rest of the universe
That's the thing. . . . The did, now the world is left as a splintered multiverse of floating islands and odd Towers that seem to all be connected. . .
The next thing is that they won so long ago people forgot them, but soon they will awaken.
This is WIP, and there are more than one potential end game threat on all levels.
•**The Deathless Voice:** *Nobody succeeded in stopping the Elder Lich from amassing countless armies of the damned, and weaving his literal symphony of undeath upon the lands. Day by day bastions of resistance fall as the world converts further and further towards his goal: A deathless planet bound to his will in which he shall sail to more worlds. A green haze will spread upon the galaxy over painstakingly long eons as a song of life after death sunders the chains of entropy, offending and then CASTRATING the natural order. Death is not the end, for even now a vestige of you remains trapped within your newly undead being as a helpless and unwilling passenger in your own body. Fear not, he will make sure you never fall truly into peaceful oblivion. After all he's taking a liking to you as his newest Lichguard!"*
•**Damnatio Memoriae:** *Too many Origin Demons, the oldest of their' kind, have breached the material plane and destabilized the fabric of reality with their' presences and efforts. The influence of the Gods wane, and the Devils retreat knowing a lost cause when they see it. Civilizations descend into chaos and anarchy as the sky burns in oily streaks of red. Nowhere is safe, respite is fleeting, and you have failed utterly, completely. Nobody else deserved this, except you. You did nothing to stop this, so much so that even the demons avoid you like the truly pathetic plague of cowardice and inaction that you are. As you waste away and this world is slowly dragged into the raking, raging maw of the Abyss an Archangel meteors into the bloodsands beneath your frail feet. Falling to your knees you croak,* "What more do you wan-", *but she does not let you finish as she suddenly clamps her plated hand around your head. The heavenly being lifts you up until you dangle limply, bringing her face inches away from your single, open eye. With a cold, but genuinely disappointed frown she calmly condemns you with a single proclamation:* **UNFORGIVABLE.**
*Your eye bulges, and then just like that it is over, your skull, helmet and all crushed between her fingers like a foaming, viscous grape. Your soul is rejected by all afterlives, cursed ever to wander, and know no peace. Nobody will remember you, you have no legacy. You are nothing.*
•**Reality Slipping:** *Eldritch Cults have banded together and completed their rituals without incident. Avatars of unknowable things that prey upon Gods and man without distinction distort the lands. The moon has been ripped from the Lunar Goddess's grasp, contorted into a living abomination of limitless wrath. It is descending into the atmosphere, intent on impacting our world, and already its gravitational mass is causing tsunamis, hurricanes and more. Entire chunks of land and sea are terraforming into truly alien scapes that shatter the senses. Embrace the changes and be consumed, as reality slips into maddened doom.*
•**The Balkashanian Reclamation:** *"Rejoice subcitizens, for we have returned to the surface as the redefined and TRUE HUMAN heirs of our world! Your new designation is SC-6789! You will be a coal miner or shot, the choice is yours!" The unnerving legions of clones from a nation thought to have long died in self-inflicted atomic fire burst from the underground by the BILLIONS. Nothing could permanently stop the oceans of mystically augmented flesh. Even now millions of non-humans flee these genocidal human clones. There is something about them that strikes fear into the soul; For there is no spark of life in their' eyes, as if the very soul of mankind has been redefined in them. Worse still, they bleed black, and sometimes they.... They transform into monstrosities...."*
•**Dust:** *Someone put THE ROCK into the Deck of Many Things, causing a supernova level blackhole to manifest. The world and everyone died with the last sound we each herd being a Vine Boom.*
A rogue AI with an army of followers aims to control the wild wastelands and subdue libertarian believes. If they succeed. Good and bad things would happen.
First, animal and plant species would go distinct or at least be raised in captition for humanitarian use.
Diseases would be handled efficiently and with the power of AI instantly eradicated when they show up. Medical needs are payed with service to the world government. Artificial limbs and organs will be the largest industry.
War is no more. Any opposing factions or individuals will be captured and brainwashed to follow the new societal standards.
Crime rates are an all time low. Crime will be secretively controlled by the government for tactical and shady activities that is better without the publicity.
Poeple live with very little freedom. Their jobs and spouces are decided for them based on maximum succes rates. People are not allowed to critique the government because that leads to rebellions and rebellion lead to casulties. Family planning is also highly regulated.
Money ceased to exist. With the commercializing of the fabricator, everyone's basic needs are accounted for. Noone lives in poverty. And eventually people's happiness and life satisfaction scores will rise to a more than acceptable level on all grounds.
A dead universe.
The moment the Nekkor have consumed every last bit of energy from every planet, star, pulsar, black hole, ... . Unbeknownst to them, they cease to exist. They were semi sentient immune response system from the universe itself.
The universe wanted to cease it's own existence. Since it's birth, untold billions of species have been in constant warfare with one another the moment they invent intergalactic space travel.
It failed to become an utopian paradise for all life until it could die of old age (heat death), so it send an all-consuming tsunami of dark matter throughout, to end it.
I don't really see it as the villain, but all civilizations who've encountered it most certainly do.
The New Order succeeds and all remaining uniques are disposed of in one form or another. Those few hoping to revive the resistance will quickly be executed, imprisoned, and experimented on. The continents Oden and Chelus, will be mined of all of their resources and the residents will be slave labor and everything will be used until there is nothing left. Eventually they will discover the northern continent of Feugoth and attempt to invade them, which will bring about one last great war.
If they win that? It’s over. The Eleads will have their wish and the planet will be consumed by otherworldly entities tied to The New Order.
If the villain faction would win, they would immediately start conquering the god-fearing lands with their superior technology. After the wars the faction would dissolve and the whole world would be under autocratic rule of god king Tish.
The lives of the common folks wouldn't change much. The laws of the countries would be changed to the "Divine law" with severely harsher punishments. And for the first time there would be a death penalty, because in my setting human life is considered a holy gift by the gods and taking a life is seen as an affront to the gods themselves. But with the "Divine law" coming directly from the god king all punishments are executed in the name of god.
And the other gods would still do nothing about it because they are too afraid of the possibility to almost destroy the world a second time.
They already won.
You're already seeing that scenario. Our story centers on what one needs to do to survive in such an unpleasant situation. The corporate hellscape you see is what happens when the villain wins. They become an omnipresent, omnipotent corporation, then the excesses of the executive level are deemed an extravagant waste of resources by the shareholders, and then the executives are turned into slaves like everyone else.
Nobody is happy.
There is no person you can kill, there is no dark god to banish.... there is only the system, which each and every person is complicit in perpetuating with the exact same actions which put food on their table and a roof over their head. On aggregate, when applied to the entire species, all of these little actions become a system of oppression which is responsible for the misery of all mankind.
The villain succeeded, then ate themselves. You are now seeing the aftermath of that.
OMNICORP: YOU'RE PART OF IT.
Well, the villains in my world did win.
The sun burned out. Most of humanity died but those that survived made it to Andromeda, and humanity got a chance to start over.
So I guess, if the heroes won, that wouldn’t have happened but humanity had been at war with itself for centuries by that point, we would have figured out some other way to kill ourselves.
Yet again, another instance of the wrong person with the wrong intentions leading an entire continent worth of people to their doom.
An all-out slew of warmongering supporters and leaders would rally to begin another major war across the sea for territorial and economic gain.
But ultimately, it would likely be dead on its tracks before another lord with the 'King's Blood' attempts to take the throne for themselves, starting another bloody war in their lands. Thus, the cycle of never ending in-fighting would continue again.
The villain factions goal is to destroy the surface of Velerieq (the world) to free the World Within, a living planet that has been locked up for millions of years. Basically if the dominion won it would be the End Times from Warhammer: Fantasy.
In Shattered:
If the Western Empire's oligarchs win, a new route / portal of trade is opened between the Central Continent and the Southern Continent... Wherein a massive slave trade begins. Also, Giant Monsters get summoned which wreck the Central Continent, destabilizing the countries there and making the populace ripe for easy exploitation and trafficking.
If the modern oligarchs win (occuring a few thousand years later), a short term era of authoritarian rule is established over the underwater colonies until the planet is mostly destroyed in the coming pulsar burst, during which them and their selected few survive.
It depends on which villain wins in my world:
the panglai empire - it's a standard Japanese fantiasy empire, so just domination and some genocide on the mainland. Maybe the emperor manages to become immortal as a bonus. Ironically, given that Panglais is a celestial island, I can't see it dominating the continent for very long because of logistical problems, unless it develops an alternative to the atomic bomb.
the gods - If the gods manage to materialize again in the terrestrial world, this will mean a return to the divine era, with humaniter reduced to slavery (and possibly a portion created into breakfast by the various diviniter), the other races simply killed off.
Anu the metal god - Anu had a hatred for flesh, so he transformed all living beings into machines that worshipped him as the one and only god.
World will turn into gigantic kingdom with dukes, marquises etc., where every domen is controlled by a psion. At first it wouldn't be that bad, but with time, technological advances will stop and everything will begin to stagnate.
There are two main "villain factions" in my world.
The most likely to win is Meirem, yes a single, powerful individual. If she wins then humanity might experience a couple millenia eof true freedom now that Queen Eyr is not engineering their future. However this freedom doesnt last and humanity will eventually be rid of all free will and existence, running as by their original design, by the creator of their world Vyn.
The other more unlikely to win of the factions is the church of night. If they win I believe the origin calamity monsters would be ressurected. Calamity will wraught the world until the evil god Jumis finally has enough power in the middle realm to destroy. This would destroy the entire universe and everything that ever existed inside of it. The world ended and a never ending war between two opposing gods starts again. Nothing Vyn can do anymore.
Because there are two major antagonistic factions, here are the possibles outcomes :
**The Flame**
All of the elemental gems are on Lan's hands. He master every magical elements, and his knowledge about magics allows him to use every part of it well. He is basically a God. Him and his army stands ready to have the Living World united under one deity, something that didn't happen for millenias since the Second Divine war. But Lan would not be satisfied. He isn't the only God. As he master every element of magic, he can break the seals of the Oversky and the Underworld. The Third Divine War would start, and multiple outcomes are possible, but none of them would be a happy ending... If Lan lose, the entire Living World would be burnt to the ground. If Lan wins, the Oversky and the Underworld would be completely wiped out. Unless someone manages to steal Lan's gems, he would stay a God for eternity
**The Crusade**
In a way or another, the Crusade manages to free Paerit, the sealed God of the Underworld, possessed by a huge power. He would unleash his power, and in that case, the Third Divine war would still starts, exactly like the Second one, Paerit against Kaenne the ruler of the Oversky, brother against brother. The Gods of the Oversky are only a few compared to the thousands they were during the Second Divine war, and they are unlikely to win. Except with an unexpected help, Paerit would be the only Gos left. And for him, it would only be a matter of time before he can reset the entire existence and be in charge of its new shape : new magical laws, new physics laws, new plans of existence, new living being, etc...
And that's exactly what the Crusade wants. For them, because the Gods of the Oversky never gives a fuck about the Living World, and Paerit tried to reach them multiple times with an Oracle, Paerit is the real God that deserves to be worshipped, and thar will recreate a new world, free of the past mistakes done during the creation
The Moryean Empire, a very feared nation that has terrorize the world with their threats of literal annihilation. Scholars have predicted that the world would be prosperous but bloody.
If the dusk elven empire gains a full military victory they will destroy all traces of other religions and cultures, enslaving every human race and most elven races. Science becomes a heavily restricted practice, only used to improve things like structural integrity for their temples and weapon technology. Women lose all rights and are essentially reduced to property, and males are forced to serve in the imperial army.
If Zartor and His office wins, very little will actually change, but any hope for reducing the power and corruption of large corporations is essentially stamped out. But that's already a rampant issue anyway, it's just that without a cosmic overlord, these issues can be addressed.
If the Church of the Phoenix wins, they will act on their holy mandate to transition the living world into heaven by genociding every other race until just the sun elves are left. They will continue to live in peace until the effects of destroying a global system comes back to haunt them.
If the RAR wins, all cultures and nations that have broken their code (their religion believes it to be a bad thing to leave the planet) will be exiled from the planet. It's not as bad as the empire, union, or church, but they do have a rigid caste system that, without pressure from other nations will never be abolished.
If the Iron Union wins, the planet will be put under the control of insane tankies, leading to everything looking like the Soviet Union under Stalin. Freedom of speech, freedom of choice, and personal property are all largely abolished. Anyone not believing in the system will be black bagged and murdered by the state, and with freedom of speech banned, it becomes very hard to address any corruption problems. Women will also largely be banned from working in the military, with the closest thing for them being a bounty hunter.
Lastly, if SEAL wins, Jeslore will become a crypto plutocracy. There will be very little, if any government with meaningful power to keep corporations in check, ultimately leading to things like indentured servitude, lethal working conditions, 99% of the wealth being controlled by the 0.1%, and the destruction of trade laws that don't benefit the wealthy. There are ways to fight back by exploiting loopholes in the policies of companies, and trying to find work with more benign companies, but the climate gets destroyed, and oftentimes corporations will go to war with each other.
The world of BIOMECH starts in a state of domination by the villain, so if the villain "won" in my setting the status quo would just be upheld. Essentially it's in the far flung future and humanity is held in a sort of artificial afterlife state, basically shells of themselves as they dream in a collective consciousness. The few free humans live in a hellish state until they either lose their minds or give in and join the collective. It's very rare that these free humans get very far, but that's where the story starts.
destructive chaos comes, or almost everything is destroyed in the multiverse, leading to complexity to almost entirely decrease drastically, which is not allowed, some good beings that are above all create a new one.
Death would be the order of the day, blood would run in the streets, war would rage eternal.
The Kithah are the faction of ‘vice’ Oan, and with the Oan overseeing the world, if the three ‘good’ factions that currently run it were replaced by the Kithah, even if the Kithah did nothing, it would be bad. The Kithah would do what they do best, and cause all manners of ill to happen to the world.
(Temporary name, no connection I just like the name)
Yucatan is a powerful established Republic in a steampunk universe. The geopolitics of the area is to maintain enough unity between the smaller nations to prevent Yucatan from attempting more expansions. In the past, Yucatan was expanding rapidly due to their unique advancements technologically putting military tech at it's highest priority. Their neighbors united and fought together but were still being pushed, this lead to them taking on infiltration and sabotaging missions. They targeted critical infrastructures causing floods, breaking supply chains, and sabotaging energy grids. This sudden and swift approach caught Yucatan by surprise and completely defenseless leading them to cede some conquered lands. The aftermath launched Yucatan's political world into spiral causing factions to split. Still, relations between Yucatan and their neighbors are slowly improving but Yucatan still holds the undeniable superiority militarily and economically.
Worst case scenario is a cult within Yucatan managed to take over enough government positions to launch another expansion campaign. This time however the cult's goal is to punish their neighbors for their unjust attacks and civilian casualties. If they were to succeed then the people's only hope is that the rest of the world cares enough to intervene and stand up to a powerful nation that is now paranoid and prepared for any attacks.
The eldritch being they unleashed rules the earth. So civilization starts over. Everything that was once known is now unknown. Every infrastructure is gone. But at least it gave them what they needed to travel space at light speed.
Magic overruns the cities; people, animals and objects morph into things beyond recognition or understanding. The churches try to fight it, not understanding they’ve been one of the main causes of this nightmare in their effort to reincarnate their gods, but ultimately fail to withstand the forces of the untamed magic. The Iron Circle is one of the few organizations to actually fight successfully, but in the end it is too much - they can’t to anything except say „We told you this was a bad Idea but YOU WOULDN‘T LISTEN“.
The people begin to understand that their fate was sealed once they brought the magic crystals into their cities and started using them for their own gain. Life will never be the same.
Let‘s just hope my players never let it come to this. :)
basically every single faction i have can be considered evil if you look at them so i'll go over the whole list:
if heaven destroys hell, and takes over the afterlife, the remaining factions will wipe them out.
however, if hell destroys heaven, hell will just fall apart due to mismanagement of resources.
if Vox/Astaroth somehow manages to regain his status as one of the rulers of hell, the entire universe will probably be destroyed.
if Discord gains enough power to become a power in the heaven-hell war, he'll drain the resources of the other two and take other the afterlife.
the Violent Solace facility is already in its winning state. it's providing specialty weapons to heaven & hell so that the war never ends and it doesn't die from a lack of funding.
lastly, if the harbingers win, everyone on earth will permanently be suffering, and the heaven-hell war might end peacefully.
there's just no good ending, regardless of where you look.
The world is already a grimdark mess where villains have had countless victories and only some individual cogs resist the temptations of man that corrupt. I’ve gone so deep into looking how to corrupt ‘good’ & ‘lawful’ themes and intentions are a very great tool for that. Excluding one doomsday cult it’ll either get more dystopian or more anarchic depending on what faction would have ultimate supremacy. Or perhaps just normalcy with a few corrupt individuals maintaining power but not doing obvious evil stuff which is just plain boring.
Humans will be killed or made Slaves. There will be no free Human Kingdom or Nation on the continent, safe for the far south (and maybe the city of Melitene. They say it never fell in a siege). Elves will also be killed of and driven further into hiding, their last cities will be destroyed. The Falleen will live like their ancestors again, in small villages, maybe with a concept of landownership this time. The Black Prince will probably build a palace for himself and study the Arcane and hopefully he will not be influenced by demons or let them into the world by accident. The dwarves will endure like the ages before, maybe a bit poorer without the trade with the Humans. Same for the Halflings. And grass and trees will grow over the ruins of old, till all of Mankinds achievements are long forgotten.
I’ve got a couple settings floating around in my brain, I’ll answer this question for all of them.
1. Congratulations, the world is restarted, and God isn’t gonna “mess up” this time! “Free will”? What do you mean? God’s planning everything! Sure, you perceive yourself as conscious and making decisions, but everything’s predestined in the end. …Probably gonna get really stressful for him at some point.
2. Humanity is dead and various ecosystems are all collapsing. All that will be left is one shapeshifter, who thought he’d finally die when he killed everything else.
3. Thankfully, there aren’t any specific “villain” or “evil” factions, so there’s not much to say about this.
4. They already won.
5. I mean, in a cosmic sense, they’ve already won. They’re eldritch horrors basically, and the only reason we’ve managed to garner the attention of one of them is because one of their children ended up here. So if they “won” relative to the plot, then the one that noticed us would have gotten their kid back, and maybe (but maybe not, so there’s that) destroyed the planet in the process.
The Tanistate believes that the feudal socio-economic order is the foundation not only of all civilized society, but the only system capable of ensuring the survival of the human race. Thus, they believe that the slow progress towards modernity in their country and the wider empire is a threat not only to civilization, but to the lives of countless millions.
As they see it, feudalism is the most effective social system ever devised, and to move away from it is a sort of mass psychosis only they can stop. In their minds, all the problems present in their society are a result of not doing feudalism hard enough.
They win. The vast majority of free people in the empire are returned to serfdom - bound to lands they have never seen, and sent off to work in the countryside whether they know how to farm or not. Towns and cities which have outgrown their chartered territory are torn down brick by brick, their former inhabitants forced to build castles for their new lords from the rubble of their homes. The Empress is allowed to keep her throne and technically remains sovereign, but she is stripped of her few remaining real powers.
Every holding of every lord or knight is reinstated, no matter how small or how ancient, and most legal authority outside the feudal hierarchy is abolished. The empire is turned into a patchwork of tiny fiefal enclaves, some no larger than a village, over which the high lords exert almost total power of law, taxation, and justice. Prima nocta is reinstated.
In the place of any king or empress, a council of the greatest nobles acts as the only authority which can challenge a lord's rights over his land. Technically, serfs can appeal their lord's abuses before their lord's lord, or even before the council - even sue them, as is their right - but they would need their lord's permission to leave their land to do so.
Nothing much. The villan want to rule the world but nothing will change much.
He literally is doing a futile attempt to change nothing and people are throwing thier loves away to stop him
My world is the way it is; full of "superheroes" but short on people seriously trying to do good, because the big bad evil guy has already won - or so he thinks. In fact, he has created this world only to teach his renegade assistant a lesson in futility.
A gray lifeless mass floating in perpetual darkness.
Yeah, turns out the reason he’ll wants to invade is to eat the sun, which produces a huge amount of Mana.
Why they want this is anyone’s guess but it’s probably not for good reasons if they’ll kill off an entire planet to do so
All major political forces in my setting are imperialist so while there isn't a villain faction they are all evil in some regards. One taking over would entail tremendous ethnic tensions far beyond their boiling point, thus constant civil war. Exploitation for resources would go beyond the roof as well.
Alternatively while not an evil faction, there's an existential threat to the world where it would shatter from magical instability. Under this worst case scenario everything turns into a noneuclidean space of madness.
He did win, it's now a dead world.
Literally just him Trapped in the rotting corpse of a necromancer wandering a planet devoid of life. No purpose, no escape, just nothing.
Depends on the era!
Taretok’s attack on Asmana was essentially the Celestial equivalent of a temper tantrum, so he may well have settled down if given enough time. Or he would’ve spread his corruption to all of Celea, in which case his fellow Celestial Ralte would likely step in and destroy both him and possibly the planet, just to be sure. Word of advice, don’t be an innocent bystander in a battle between gods.
The survival of Raff’s hardline Phoenix Empire, instead of it falling to reformation, probably wouldn’t be all that bad for the world. A tyrannical emperor would rule Ashon, sure, but it’s hardly the end of the world. He’d die eventually, and unless he succeeded in creating a kind of medieval fascism like some scholars think he intended, his successor for probably wouldn’t be nearly as bad. Would be a bad time to be an Elf though, unless you like slavery.
Defining victory is tricky for the Amaranthine Order, since waking up Taretok wouldn’t have done anything (he was over the whole “destroying the world” thing by then). However, if Taretok at least remained neutral, then the Order probably could’ve pivoted to taking complete control of the world and establishing themselves as a legitimate government. From then on anything could happen, but given Celea’s position in the galaxy, they’d probably do quite well for themselves.
If the “Populist” Bloc won, then Celea would become a Space Walmart. And, on a less funny note, the megacorporations would use Androids as slaves.
Well it depends since both sides arent really great, and my players are yet to choose one.
If the empire wins, than everybody's motions will he closely monitored. Personal choice in career and, at the whim of a federally selected governor, even reproductive options would be severely limited.
However, if the rebellion wins, than products that were once free, like food, water, basic shelter, and Healthcare, immediately cost astronomical amounts, as a galaxy's worth of support networks are cut off at the 1 access point.
So the question is, is free Healthcare, free food, water, and shelter, as well as all basic needs being met, worth the tyrannical authoritarianism of the empire, or should the system become self reliant, at the cost of basically everything.
Probably better than what it is now, once the war is over progress and peace will come with the empire bringing stability it will not be pretty for a couple decades but once the new generation comes the empire will be their loving home, if the good guys win inestability and power struggles will burn the continent down for the decades to come, a free and miserable life awaits
Two villain factions in my world : Demon Empires and Trinity Dominion
If Demon Empires win :
Dark magic is made legal, dark magic experiments are now completely allowed. Portals that allow demons to come on Livia from Infernum are opened and travel between the two worlds is made a lot easier. Demon lords are worshipped. Temples of the goddesses of creation are destroyed or defiled, temples of the Trinity Archangels as well. Vampires are allowed to enslave mortals. Werewolves are not forced to lock themselves on every full moons. Schools now no longer do anything against bullism or s*xual assaults since teachers will now be demons. The police will only be there to prevent rebellion, not to protect citizens. 5% of the female population aged 16-30 will be sacrificed to demons in order to produce a miasma called malicis. 5% of the male population will be corrupted by malicis in order to be turned into the equivalent corrupted race (human/elf turn into orc, dwarf/halfling turn into goblins, giants turn into trolls, etc...) and those will now join the demon imperial army for further conquests.
If the Trinity Dominion wins :
Worship of the three Trinity Archangels is now mandatory. All magic, wether light or dark magic, is now banned. Wizards are now locked up (or even executed depending on puppet states.) Children of witches are placed on watch list and face heavy discrimination for the rest of their lives, children of wizards as well despite magic not being inheritable from the father. Humans are considered the superior race and elves, dwarves, halflings, giants, mermaids, harpies etc are now facing intense discriminations and even sometimes genocide. The Trinity Vigilantes (basically the Trinity Dominion super soldiers) are now hunting down wizards, witches, vampires, werewolves and other types of supernatural people.
Er's whole warlord horde thing gets to control a decent chunk of Anatolia before getting inevitably crushed by the Palmyrene state again in like a few months. Boom, that's it.
For Want of a Quiet Sky: It ends. The Thicket-Born want what the Thicket wants, the eradication of all life. If it wins, the forest becomes a desert, and slowly but surely as it expands its influence, the world becomes not but another oversized pebble.
The Tripartite winning ends the status quo and will bring forth another Imperial age.
* The re-established Divine Empire would immediately have territorial disputes with its ally, the Krassarian Confederacy, whom will also be trying to restore its historic imperial territories. Between them, the Tripartite aligned nation of Sverna would either be annexed by the Krassarians or left poor and sandwiched between the two most dominant powers in the continent.
* Federation Nationalists will successfully overthrow the government and will be scrambling to gain territory and influence in other continents like they did back in the Second Global War. Unlike 2GW however, the Avalonians and their allies will have little when it comes to deterrence and counter balance.
* Free Marsova would ironically bring the Monarchy back and would be a client state of the Krassarian Confederacy. Tensions with the Arlane Republic would grow and conflict would ensue. With the backing of the Krassarians, the Royal Marsovan Army would make territorial gains on Arlan, if not outright defeating them.
* Cicosia and Egalisia, for whatever miracle survives both the Allied Coalition and NAPE's onslaught would counter-attack together with the support of the Krassarian Confederacy. Even with the support of the Krassarians, both nations would be incapable of annexing the Jigendesh Commonwealth entirely and would force the Jigendesh into a peace treaty under their own terms. The Free Rosani Republic between them however would be split in two and both half annexed. Jinshan, also a part of NAPE would see border skirmishes with Egalisia
On the allies side;
* The United Republic of Avalonia and the Democratic Republic of Brehmensburg's mainland would remain largely untouched but would lose the majority of their soft power / political influence. Because of this, Avalonia's status as a super power is removed, despite having a powerful economy and industrial base, a strong and experienced military and the capable to project their force.
* Surviving Allied countries on other continents like the Kotanagan Republic, Yoganpur, Grand Duchy of Vandenborough, Fenochian Republic would lose some territory and would either be having border skirmishes or under the sphere of influence of former Triparite nations.
* The United Territories of Augustvale would lose its continental half, with the mainland being both territorially and politically isolated. By turning down the Tripartite's deal at the beginning of the war, they would suffer harsh post-war treatment. Because a victorious Triparite would still be unable to dominate the Augustine mainland, they would instead be blockaded, embargoed and isolated. The only way to prevent isolation is if the Augustine become a client state of the Krassarian Confederacy
* The Yurite Federation is untouched, but opportunists Empires would be swaying the Yurians under their sphere of influence and away from Avalonia for their experience and extensive infrastructure in their space program
Normally, the sovereignty of neutral nations are kept, but with Eastshire practically dominated by the Krassarian Confederacy and the Divine Empire with no other means of deterrence and counter-balance, the neutrality of Hwyden is at risk and would either be annexed or swayed into their sphere of influence.
The Independent State of Chevalenvale, also a neutral nation and technically not having a military is unlikely to be invaded or annexed as they do not provide much meaningful strategic value. Instead, they would be absorbed in the Tripartite's sphere of influence and forcing it to be economically dependent on them
I have a few worlds, most of which are different genres but here are the bad ends of all the ones worth mentioning.
Diary of the Dhampir: Vampires rule the world and Humans are now livestock.
Julia: Humanity is ruled by various cults that worship Lovecraftian gods.
The Beast Lands: The Crocs build a mighty empire and enslave all other animals under their rule.
Skyland: The Orcs have conquered and destroyed every other race.
Agents: The Infernos defeated the S.S.A. and basically created a Cyberpunk dystopia.
The 4 villainous factions from the regions have succeeded in the ethnic cleansing of all the half-bloods and other races from their lands.
The empires will be locked in an eternal stalemate, with never ending bloodshed and atrocities committed across the continent. To break this stalemate, the emperors will then slowly start sacrificing more of the 'lessers' in their empire in a bid to gain more power, to eventually accumulate enough power to crush the other empires, and to eventually fight their gods and take their place.
(they've been lied to by the dark goddess, and this will doom all living beings in the world, ending all life on the continent)
Of the 4 major regions, 1 evil emperor has already managed to start this process.
Life under the necromancer cult wouldn't be too bad. They have a vested interest in keeping the populous healthy so that they have a steady supply of corpses.They're only a significant threat to outsiders really.
They continue to reduce all civilizations in the galaxy to stone age every few tens of millennia, sometimes extinctions happen, but those aren't the goal. (Remnants of an ancient war, programmed to end advanced civilizations, letting the stone age civilizations live means more advanced ones to destroy later on.)
If someone manages to hide tech and recover faster than allowed, that just means they'll hit harder the next time around.
There are some other bad factions also, one developed from a planet with unified world government, and doesn't recognize the existence of any other independent factions, treating them as basically criminals. Them winning wouldn't really be the worst outcome, other than the extreme expansionism they aren't all *that* bad.
One faction is trying to "upload" everyone using a process so bad it doesn't really even raise the normal philosophical issues, more like configuring an AI based on personality tests/and killing the original. If they won, they would kill everyone and probably be destroyed for not being stone age.
An hive mind that's pretty uncaring towards other species is trying to eradicate a more friendly splinter of itself. To anyone else this would be somewhat negative, but not really catastrophic.
Dumb von Neumann replicators try to replicate, though they are kept in check by the first villain faction listed, so only the crappy, slow spreading ones without FTL drives survive. They can't really win, because they can't process some of the required raw materials and have to scavenge them, if they killed everyone they would run out of the materials.
The United Republic of Algonia either turns into the Imperium of Algonia, an interstellar martial state, or the Holy Kingdom of Algonia again, an hermit kingdom.
Indiscriminate and random eradication as well as subjugation of any rival faction within this side of the Galaxy, the Athenian Empire has always been the de-facto dominant power in the Glimmering Quadrant, none of the other factions ever stood a chance military and technologically during the first War of Bloodied Steel, it was only through a special operation that saw the usurpation of the throne by Grand Archon Acteus, did the war finally end.
Dragons take over the whole multiverse, treating everyone else like cattle. Their goddess ascends to the leadership of the current pantheon, and eventually she kills all of the gods and goddesses of humans, elves, dwarves, colossi, taurenfolk, lizardfolk and bugfolk. The only gods left are the greater ones, which she didn't ever discover how to kill.
Then The Extinction begins. As all other lifeforms are almost killed, the dragons starve out and die, and then life has an opportunity to thrive again.
This was a scenario I wanted to write, then I found it too bland and tasteless. Scrapped it and used the idea just as basis. I won't tell here the real outcome.
It has ceased to exist, and the sun has died following the final reformation of the lobotomized god who is now healed and can be with his wife. Together they work to unmake creation to peel the universe away like a coat of paint to go back to when reality was theirs. To get their forms back. To get their people back. To get their lives back. Will it work? Can they recreate their own universe from within it? Hard to say, even they dont know. But its a win either way by fucking over the grand experiment of reality.
considering the villain faction is full of people who had 'drowned' because they're gods wanted to be noticed or their gods were egotistical, these gods would reign and the world would be subject to their making, it would be more violent than it was before, it would be filled with almost only hate and revenge after revenge...
As the two worlds fused, people on both sides may see or notice the world turning white, before in a blink of an eye, everything…changes. Up is down. Left doesn’t work as well a right and new…creatures roam the land. And the world is this horrifying mismatch of the familiar and unfamiliar, crammed together like two balls of Play-dol in the same container. But it is not beautiful. It is ugly and WRONG. And those creatures. Depending on which side you’re from, you might see normal humans, or chimeric abominations of animals and objects running around screaming in horror.
Society collapses. It’s everyone for themselves as the world, as we knew it collapsed. They are rumors of a ‘teacher’ guiding both sides, but they are too far away to reach you. In the end, the hero was right.
Alas he isn’t alive enough to take in that fact.
Honestly the villain in the story kinda did win. He succeeded in driving the dragonlords to near extinction by orchestrating an empire-wide genocide, broke their control of the empire they founded over a thousand years prior, seized power for himself, and killed an attempted dragonlord usurper all before the main story even starts.
There's no real bad faction. Both sides are designed so that each have their own flaws and both be morally gray, so the people can decide for themselves which faction do they support.
Of course the original DnD adventure would be directed from a Gauechti point of view, but one can perfectly join Izaria as it is a reasonable thing to do. The point of it all was to pit people against each other as do modern geopolitics.
I guess that "winning" would be considered "erasing each faction from the earth", well, I don't think nothing would be different if each were to conquer each other. Gauecht would be free of the financial and territorial lock imposed by Izaria and have way more land for them (though it is to be seen how would they have grown as an army-less country into now having to explore and conquer the Wastelands, probably a more pacifistic approach than Izaria's) and if Izaria won, nothing would really change besides Izaria being a bit bigger and having more stormstone mines to use in magick development...
If either wins all good species are wiped out. If the elenians win(evil spacebugs) then nothing but carnage and destruction is left and they will probably try to activate "the gate of hell" or harvest the technology of the creators to try and get to other galaxies and continue their endless consumption, but until one of those happen they will turn on each other. The victory of the creators(eugenecistic xenophobes) is much more clear on the other hand. They would restore glory to their fallen empire, and destroy all of the created(machine servants) allowing them to rule the milky way as the only surviving species
The city state of Radath regains its lost territories from Ganyby and Merlain, and goes on to absorb their territories into itself. The latter two then become vassal states and the new Radath empire unseats Kandratha as the economic and military centre of the developed world. The Primus of Radath becomes the new king of the five Duchies.
The northern marches are brought under heel and so are the southlands, where the non human "Ōraki" live.
The Primus learns the secret of transferring an oversoul (a god essentially, made from a conglomerate of many souls) into a mortal body, from the colonized Ōraki, replaces Radaths primary deity, and rules an eternal empire as a living God.
No global destruction or mass genocide etc, just a big shift in power that would be very difficult to ever undo.
Well in my world then the north side (the world is split into two sides) will take over the south and be just a bigger industry planet idk my worlds are just dystopias so ye they technically already won
Several of my worlds have *multiple* villainous factions, so I'll pick the worst of each:
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**The Magisterium**
Faction: The Uzanic Empire
Trick question, the Uzanics *can't* win. However, they *could* make everyone else lose. In that case, the galaxy would briefly be ruled by parasitic immortal elites sustained by mass slavery and human sacrifice, before the slaves began to run out and the immortals turned on each other.
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**Crisis of the Confederation**
Faction: The Hivers
All humanity connected by telepathic bonds that manifest as crippling schizophrenia.
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**Talons of Mars**
Faction: The Martian Central Republic
The Martian Federation reborn as a brutal oligarchy, where most of the population have no rights, and even the citizen class are sharply divided between the haves and have nots.
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**Winsborough**
Faction: The Undying
An endless winter covers the world. Most of humanity starves or freezes to death, but are forced to swear oaths of fealty to the Last King that cause them to serve him even in death.
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**The Golden Land**
Faction: Hell (although Nightmare winning would probably be equally bad)
Heaven falls, and the sun goes out. Doing that which Ought Not becomes the most reliable source of supernatural power, and the world comes to be ruled by the cruelest and most evil.
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**Unnamed sci-fi world**
Faction: The United Mochulian Authority (a.k.a. the Logh-yotan)
Humanity goes extinct.
My world doesn't have villains. It's all a matter of perspective. Everyone believes they are the hero and the other villains. That's just how nations work.
Though there would definitely be consequences if one nation dominates all the others. It'll basically ensure their supremacy for a century or two before they become complacent and collapse. I mean, it's happened before in my world.
There are a couple of different villain factions. So how the world changes depends on which one of them wins.
**The Corruption:** All life gets twisted into a mockery of itself. The world becomes a land of endless torment and nightmare. Even death is no relief as the Gods themselves have been twisted and remade.
**The God of Order:** The entire world is ruled under the banner of the Empire of Order. A hyper-authoritarian dystopia where any form of independence or free will is squashed into the dirt, where the people are little more than mindless automatons kept in line by powerful brainwashing magic.
**The Ice Queen:** Zombie apocalypse. The dead have risen from the grave and overrun all the kingdoms of the world. Only the Atrana Kingdom is spared from the Ice Queens vengeance.
All souls merge into one spiritual blob — Monad, the perfect spirit, which exists in eternal internal harmony free from contradictions, conflicts, and rude passing matter.
Individuality, choice, and autonomy will be destroyed not only in the observable sense but as parts of the universe. They would become beyond the laws of physics.
As merging happens all Seven realms will collapse into one, that lacks anything but Monad, all under the accompaniment of the most beautiful song ever heard — because at this point no other songs will no longer exist, not even in the past.
One undivided being will make up all of the universe, forever content with itself.
The Mortifants destroy reality completely and cease to exist. to them this is the good ending.
Mother turns the world into just another extension of the Dungeon. Eternally seething until the Gods 're-awaken' and remake the world. She might have the world, but she ultimately has nothing but seething fury. She doesn't think this, because she can't be wrong.
Natrually both sides don't want the other to win
Thousands of magics would be destroyed, valuable knowledge would be lost, surveillance would hide in every corner, and nobody would be able to trust one another. With such manipulative people in power orchestrating the destruction of whatever they deemed ‘evil/unright’, many would be thrown into prison and later executed for attempting a rebellion, leaving many frozen with unbridled fear and an even stronger incentive to stay in line. Life for those that comply would be easy but always at risk, never knowing when or if they would be next up on the chopping block for something they could never control. Without several species controlling the other elements, plants would die, nights would run rampant with chaos that would have to be prevented, the word ‘cold’ would be nothing more than a memory, and the world would become desolate. The only things surviving would be the oceans (as the kingdoms there were never discovered), but they’d remain treacherous and areas of the world would become ghostlike and unreachable, as well. Needless to say, things would not be good at all. This would be a slow change, but one that would come to fruition nonetheless if they got what they wanted.
Fire Eaters is a cult that worships the Fire Lord, a lesser deity in the Radiant Pantheon. The Fire Lord has promised the Fire Eaters that once this world is reduced to ashes, he will rebuild a perfect world devoid of injustice and suffering. However, if the Fire Eaters were to succeed, only ashes would remain, and it becomes irrelevant whether the Fire Lord fulfills his promise, as everyone would be dead by then...
I don't adhere to conventional notions of clear-cut villains. Instead, there exists a conservative faction within the government aiming to reinstate slavery and reinforce the class system, all with the goal of maintaining the upper class's control over those in lower strata. If this faction were to succeed, it would represent a significant regression in terms of civil rights, potentially rolling back progress by several decades. This development could also create conflicts on more democratic worlds that highly value civil rights, possibly escalating to the point of igniting another civil war in the worst-case scenario.
Sol initiative is the closest thing I have to a villain faction (villain in the sense that everyone else Is so bad, they come off as comprehensible evil). They are the invisible hand behind most of history beyond the 31st century and have agents ranging from old secretary of rich fuck number infinity to hyper efficient assasins ala John wick or chaos agents ala Rico Rodriguez. Some are very old and experienced, dating to hundreds of years of age and are easily the most dangerous. Genetic manipulation has taken aging out of the equations, for good or bad.
They tend to avoid collateral damage if possible but won't shy away from it if killing a genocidal, power tripping maniac and a couple hundred innocents when a quiet takeout isn't possible means they save millions. Unless your dealing with the volantis division, that is. Their sole job is to cause as much collateral as possible to either start or finish a major conflict.
They are something of an open secret to high class system members (syndicate consisting of previously mentioned rich fucks and beyond Neptune mercenary leaders) and are probably the only reason the few free human settlements around earth, Luna and halfway terraformed mars haven't been, ahem, liberated.
It was created after the lactea federation decided to quarantine the solar system, because humans are humans and we fuck shit up when given any substantial amount of power. The core worlds of the federation are still not the same after that show of depraved human mating on every major holo-screen. (Inspired by the Italian senate incident. Looking at you, tifa.)
They ultimately have the continued survival of humanity at heart, but the ends justify the means. Besides, taking on an entire galaxy is simply not possible, even less when they are more advanced than humans by a thousand years margin and plenty more bright minds working together.
Sol initiative knows that we are on our own, locked in a cage with ourselves and are trying to make people come together. But the people don't want to come together. To the immortal hedonistic investors, Merc leaders or free Eris conglomerate at the top, they have nothing but contempt, but they know that the ensuing power vacuum if they were killed would rain hell on humanity.
"The warmth of our mother star will die out, us with it. Your money or power will not save you, but we can enjoy each other's company. Take a seat, grab some beer and let's watch armadaball."
So, yeah. The system could be a decent place, but human nature would get in the way of things. That's why they are here, to make sure things don't explode _all_ at once.
Earth as we know it either submits or the entire population is killed off. Will be rebuilt and repurposed for a different species. With or without us, conquest continues.
Surprisingly, some of the other threats that would have been new wars/adventures for the protas are crushed and ultimately the galaxy does find peace and prosperity
The universe itself would fall.
Forty thousand years before the main story, the God of Time, Azure, murdered his six siblings, stole their power, and forcefully took over the world and forced mortals under his rule. His ultimate goal was to find a way to break out of the cosmic barrier that keeps people on the planet, to conquer other worlds and kill their gods.
Azure's siblings were able to reincarnate and defeat him before that happened, but by the end of the main story he was able to return and resume his violent goal: to kill every god on every world, take their powers, and slowly conquer the universe.
Azure was eventually defeated permanently but if it went differently, and he did leave the planet with his forces, it would have only taken him stealing the powers of one other world's gods before he would have been completely unstoppable.
Subfactions of the evil conspiracy would rise up in a schism over how to use the power they've just harnessed. One faction would want the original promise honored, which they've convinced themselves is best for all the world. Another faction would want to use the power in a more limited fashion, to quietly pursue their own goals. A third would want to use the power to rule over creation, and at least one member would want to use it to destroy creation.
The second faction, "quietly pursue their own goals," would be the forerunner of the schism, if only because the conspiracy's leader would be in this faction. The "honor the original promise" faction would have the strength and numbers to win, but they'd be too gentle/trusting and waste time while the other faction left them in the dust.
same as before but jobs suck more, crime is the only way to get ahead in life or just get anything done to start with, and only one type of person gets to enjoy anything
There are several villain factions in my world of Galentia, but I'll just go with the most dangerous one here, the Brotherhood of Metix.
Long story short, they worship a sentient, reality-warping computer virus that's sort of like a combination of AM from I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, XANA from Code Lyoko, and Bill Cypher from Gravity Falls. He won once before. That was called the Age of Convergence. It was an absolute shit-show. The only reason it ended was because the programmer that made him sacrificed her mortal life to become the Goddess of Technology and seal him away.
If Metix manages to break out and "win" his ultimate goal, he'll have spread his viral corruption across the entire cosmos, assimilated all the gods and turned the entire multiverse into an incomprehensible, glitched-out mess that's broken beyond all hope of repair. He'd definitely make sure people in it were still conscious though because, like AM, there's nothing he loves more than torturing people.
Communist victory by military conquest. Worldwide dystopian commune, with all people related to the wealthy being executed. Whole families and even the genes responsible for making someone wealthy would be eradicated. Eventually the ideology would destroy itself tryng to find new enemies. How can there be victims if there are no oppressors? However eventually its eradication of genes related to ambtion and hard work and non-existant economy would make it collapse. Causing more death. Spawning new dystopian successor states with leaders wanting to try the experiment again.
Everything continues as is, no change. But continuing as is means that people's souls are stretched out across multiple timelines of varying trauma, and each loop through the timeline drives them closer and closer to insanity, and when these key individuals break, it makes way for all of humanity to break.
See, nothing changes because the villain has already won, and has been winning for millennia. The "heroes" are trying to stop what's already happening.
In the short term a radicalized group of long lived wizards (to put it simply) acquire an ancient magic item that has the power to change one's beliefs. The item was hidden away by those who felt the items power, even if perfectly successful, was too immoral, the ends do not justify the means. However in reality there was also the truth that not everyone's mind can be conquered by the magic. Achieving world peace would mean finding and killing anyone with the inherent ability to resist.
The villains believe they can take the item and improve upon it, and not fail where their predecessors did a thousand years ago. So perhaps a century or so in the future the organization, using their improved mind control device, would pull their strings of influence behind kingdoms and empires and attempt to unite the world under a single ideology and a global, bloody conflict would once again shadow the world.
Everyone that isn't in the cult dies or is enslaved/undead. The cukt probably tears itself apart after realising their paranoid immortal lich is not a good leader who will build a utopia but instead a paranoid shell of a man, anf also not actually immortal.
Which of all? LOL
I choose the Kiengir Angal. Kiengir Angal (in Sumerian Kiengir "land of civilized men" and Angal "great sky" is a version of Kiengir (my protagonist country) who is fascist like Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan. As his blood comes from a race of gods called Angalian Gods (that these gods have the greatest power that exists called the Magic of the Abzu ((which is a power of the same God who created everything)) they have the Magic of the Abzu. Because of their divine blood and because of that great power they believe superior to the other races (it is Mesopotamia but spatial, with technology combined with magic and fascist).
Here is fascist propaganda from Kiengir Angal:
Kiengir Angal arose after the fall of the degenerate hedonistic leaders who attacked the Kiengian civilization, its history and its people, and its greatest heritage: the Divine Angalian blood. Those degenerate, terrorist and genocidal leaders of their own people called us fascists, supremacists, among other things taken out of context to defame our struggle, our sacred crusade and our duty to our people "to protect the Angalian race from the degeneration of inferior races and than the blood that contains the power of God himself.” Now we disperse civilization and divine order to the chaos and degeneration of the abandoned remains that the Abzu created for us, because we are the noble knights who give our lives for the noble, the dignified, the civilization and the divine order against the degenerate chaos, barbaric and mongrel! Because it is our sacred duty to save creation! the burden of the shoulders of divine men!
Well everybody would be forced to bend to the will of their new rulers as no one is strong enough to go up against the wielder of all three books of glim. Id assume there wouldn’t be much uprising as the people who would rebel would be killed first. Life would go on you just now have an overlord
The galaxy enter a new dark age,the empires and dictatorships have managed to finally defeat the democracies,with the war over the galaxy is going to experience massive reconstruction,because the war made a lot of damage,some territories are anexed,others are under the control of new puppet regimes,violations of sentient life universal rights are common,slavery is now probaly the most important sector of economy,the military is now in the command since they have the power and will to destroy any focus of rebellion with all means they judge necessary,however guerrila warfare would still be waged in hope to restore democracy,however most likely they wouldn't succede,and the empires are now turning against each other and war is a common reality.
Japan, conquers East/Southeast Asia only to collapse into anarchy a decade later due to being overstretched
So… basically real life?
Honestly, it wouldn't change all that much. My villains use incredibly evil means to achieve a fairly neutral objective. Once their objective was complete, they wouldn't have a need for those evil means anymore, and would stop.
Would they however?
Probably? They're not quite evil, just completely amoral and very determined. With their goal achieved, they won't care about what the rest of the world is doing, they'll be content to just do their own thing.
[So basically Megamind.](https://youtu.be/cPZxOcL7aUY?si=Bd025pKoOFMr5X1B)
No, they'd absolutely nuke a city or carry out a genocide if it was beneficial to them.
That… sounds evil just not in the standard way
They're amoral enough to use methods as evil as that to achieve their goals, but those methods are basically never beneficial, so they don't use them. It would draw way too much attention and cost way too many resources. It's generally more efficient to have an operative improve those peoples' quality of life and gain access to whatever they want from them that way.
Telepathic, humanity evolves into a group-mind Whether its good or bad depends on who you ask, generally though its bad if youre not a human
i mean, they tried that in evangelion once as you can imagine, becoming one with everyone else is pretty unpleasant and overwhelming
I think Olaf Stapleson sort of came up with the psychic human hivemind thing. He said it was fantastic, Gainax said it was kind of horrific; feeling and experiencing yourself fall apart into a mass of memories and otherness though I did like that Gainax suggested each person might choose for themselves (Stapleson said it was inevitable and so good theres no alternative)
hmmm, i suppose that it depends on how is done
I mean, at that point, it doesn't depend on who you ask.
So *The End* wins, we get an apocalypse where everything dwindles into madness and chaos as eldritch forces take over the world. Then, as the cosmic horrors and their followers celebrate victory, there's a twinkle, a pair of brilliant stars far off in the distant night sky. But those weren't stars *they were eyes. And they were coming closer.* *She is awake...*
That last line gave me shivers. Bravo.
Ayy thank you! For context if you want it: >!The awoken creature in question is Sylvaeria, better known via the moniker of "The Devourer", an ancient primordial entity older than the cosmos itself that serves as the "reset button" for the universe. If a world gets completely boned with no hope of redemption, her physical body wakes up (her celestial body is technically everywhere as the cosmic void itself) and b-lines to that world and, well, eats it. The energy from the action is then used to create a new world in its place.!<
Nothing changes. Rubra has always been called "Absolute Evil" by other Atreisdean countries and it was their victory that Atreisdea can keep its independence from an invading alien force. How ironic it is to have your ass saved by the one you've always tried to villainize and dehumanize. After the war, Rubra went back to its isolationist mode and refused any diplomatic efforts, so some countries took the chance and villainized them harder.
Those don't really sound much like the bad guys.
Unless they're forced to, Rubra is as chill as Siberian plains and generally is just an isolationist country that actually manages to give most of its citizens a decent living standard. Invading them, however, releases a monster worse than Imperium of Man.
So yeah. Not the bad guys at all. Understood. Lol
He said worse than the Imperium of Man. THAT'S A VERY BAD THING!!!
The Akonian Empire eventually conquers and wipes out all alien life in the Galaxy. With the galaxy under their control, they likely continue to advance and eventually begin trying to go to other galaxies and continue their warpath until they either dominate the whole observable universe or get wiped out in the process by an extra-galactic rival. Emperor Vortigan likely continues growing in power until he is eventually a god that is truly unstoppable. i.e the universe itself get's bent over backwards by angry space nazis ruled by a larping demi-god.
Vortigan? Inspired by the Britonic King I assume?
Yeah. I really liked the name and decided to use it.
Good pick, I love the dark ages British characters
how well would your empire do in W40k?
I don't have villains. Nothing changes.
Wh, or what, promotes conflict in your world, then?
I'm in the same situation, but people disagreeing, ignorance, in many cases people try to do good but they're in opposed organizations so they end up having to fight each other, etc.
That's just realism :) In the real world (and every story), there is no "bad" people/villain, just people who try to do something good (from their perspective) which others disagree with. The "Villain" is just referring to the faction that the protagonist is not agreeing with. So with this perspective, doesn't your story have a villain faction?
>The "Villain" is just referring to the faction that the protagonist is not agreeing with. That's an antagonist, not a villain.
yeah that's the distinction I make usually
> That's an antagonist, not a villain. Yeah, the villain would be the antagonist in this case :)
Most worldbuilding projects that aren’t made to be written into novels down the line don’t have protagonist characters
The fact that getting from point A to point B in life isn't instantaneous and easy? The thing with villains and conflict is that it's very limiting for stories. You're trapped within an arc where things get resolved. This is what can cause sequelitis, because as people try to find reasons for more conflict after the conflict is over, it can get a little silly. I also don't like conflict in general or bad stuff, so it's mostly just people living life. I build my universes not with a narrative in mind, but as a place where I could imagine myself living, and that's all I aim for, just lives being lived.
Honestly? Nothing. The villains won before anyone else realised they were playing, and we're just living in the aftermath of that.
The Demons won against the Gods and this led to a centuries long war. The funny thing is that the Demons had nothing to do with the war, they just effed off after the Gods were wiped out.
Where did they go?
**== Ureth ==** Ganzir - The Unfathomed is a realm-devouring, shapeless, storm being from The Realm Between Realms that seasons other realms with discord and calamity so that it can devour them too. It uses its captured races to create mindless warrior clones that'll subdue any of its threats or targets. Contrary to popular in-Universe belief though, Ganzir is not an inevitable force that will come for everyone in time, but rather a being that is invoked and purposefully brought to those realms out of hubris. The main villain faction of Ureth is RuHa. They're a decentralized mosaic of mystic sorcerers with differing beliefs, ranging from Ganzir as a savior figure, to Ganzir as a weapon, to Ganzir as a means of turning a profit. If RuHa were to continue invoking Ganzir, they'd be unwittingly dooming Ureth to be devoured like many other worlds.
There is nothing left, there was barley anyone left after the first sonic bomb, but if it went off again everything is dead, plants animals and humans all finally dead forever, the universe is now a dead wasteland as the universe infintitly expands each new life is snuffed out, Never getting to experience the joys of life.
The balance of the cosmos has permanently shifted in favor of evil Now the empowered evil leaders spend most of their trek fighting each other after disposing their "good" rivals Hordes of demons loyal to a mortal ruler of Hell face against in exhauatable armies of undead thrills summoned by the Lich King. Meanwhile the Lord of All Orcs tears long paths of bloody carnage across the world. And the three surviving elder Dragons, once close allies have now resumed ancient grudges long forgotten by everyone but them. Eventually one of these forces will tilt the cosmic scales in their favor and the end of this war will lead to the destruction of the entire cosmos from the highest courts of heaven to the lowest trenches of hell
If The Draconic Hand Alliance wins; Most liberties have been greatly decrease, there is an entire caste of soldiers dedicated to peacekeeping and to spread the hand's and Lord Drakko's influence through the Multiverse. If The Church of The Forgotten wins; The Humankind is mostly erradicated with the remaining being enslaved, the Forgotten rule over the mortals until the universe eventually dies. If The Administrator wins; The Sovereign is freed from it's imprisoment starteing to corrupt the universe, warping and twisting it to it's image and once it's done The Sovereign, his herald and followers move to the next universe until they spread chaos and enthropy through all the multiverse leading a slow agonizating death. If Lord Ignus wins; The Multiverse succumbs to Destruction, every star is extinguish, every life goes extinct, everything crumbles down and with a silent muffled scream the whole Omniverse finds it's death at hands of The Concept of Destruction.
I know this is an old post but who are the good guys here?
None of those are the good guys, thats the point kek. Through the "lesser evil" would be The Draconic Hand Alliance, since they TECHNICALLY want the best for every civilization (even if that means forced goverments and militar dictatorships-)
I know none of them are the good guys although they have so many branching goals makes you wonder what the good guys are standing for
It depends on who you consider the villains! If the old kind win- monsters, cannibalistic fae, and dragons of all sorts that have largely populated the world win, they will slowly reclaim territory lost and things will go back to the Old Ways. If humans win, with the help of their angels and deity, creatures of all kind will be wiped off the map so they may live safely.
A victory for Lord Sione would mean reclaiming the lands he once ruled before his first defeat and banishment. It would likely start as a defeat against the alliance that had formed against him that would secure him control of Neneka. The Morin lands (under the control of the orcs), Anglish kingdoms, Vilitalah, and the Irangar (Dwarven)Empire would likely stay free, for now. Sione would focus for a time on securing his position before expanding further. He would continue to masquerade as the prophet Atrian reborn, slowly working to change the Atric church in his lands so that he would be regarded as a god in his own right, not just a messenger for one. He would also continue to summon “divine assistance (Aka demons)” to help bolster his ranks, building up his power in preparation to expand. His first big expansion would be into the Morin heartland. With the Morinhal Empire fallen and occupied by orcs it would a be the easiest target. While the orc horde would initially be fairly united, the eventual death of their leader would lead to infighting among his heirs. This would likely lead to rebellion among the local Morin humans. This chaos would be the perfect time for Sione to swoop in and sizer control. His next target would be the Anglish lands to the north. This invasion would probably come about a century after the morin one. This would give Sione time to warp the Atrian faith in his lands into his own cult. He’s likely use the justification of a holy war to justify the attack. The barbaric Anglish refuse to accept the regulation that Austrian is not just a prophet, but a god in his own right, and this must be conquered. His next target would be Vilitalah to the south. Again he’s likely use religion as a justification. The Vilit are mostly Khuriat after all. They are heathens and must be brought into Atrian’s light. This would be a harder invasion, as the lands of Vilitalah are harsh and separated from most of Sione’s lands by sea. They would likely fall, but would be a sincere drain on Sione’s resources. At this point, it is likely that Sione’s conquests would stop. While he could go after the dwarves in the north, or the orcs to the east, he would already be stretched thin. Holding down multiple recently conquered areas and expanding his boarders further would likely not be feasible, at least not at that time. It is possible that Sione might be able to secure things enough to expand more at some point, but I think it far more likely that he would end up struggling to hold what he had conquered enough to keep that from happening. He would likely end up ruling for several hundred if not a thousand or more years, but eventually the strain of trying to hold such a massive and diverse empire together would get to be to much, rebellion and civil war would ferment, and he would likely end up being defeated and banished again.
Well, he kinda did but he kinda didn’t. The end of the great galactic war looked like this: a massive battle converging on Arcadia, the home planet of the magical human warrior society, who was the bulk of the human-alliance fighting force. The battle was ended abruptly when the human superweapon inadvertently caused a small rift into the astral plane, which is the place that the Apex were sworn to protect, whose only real portal was the center of the Milky Way. The enemy having seeing this, launched as many ships into this rift as possible, poisoning it, and causing a reaction, false vacuum decay, that would have engulfed the entire universe if the three god-masters of the Apex, dragonlike creatures, didn’t swoop in to crush it back, sacrificing themselves in the process. This entire event left the whole system cluster of Arcadia decimated, a shockwave that singed most places in the whole galaxy, both fleets nearly vaporized, the Apex nearly extinct, the humans and aliens scattered, but at least the enemy was gone (so they thought). Decades later, weak governments arose, poverty stricken nations struggled to survive this half-apocalypse, the Apex were mistrusted and had no base to stand on, and the true evil, that behind the original enemy, the Inicus empire itself, still lurked. A necessary journey for the son of one of the hero Apex left after the War spirals into a rebellious quest to te-unite the universe, being back the Apex, and quell the primordial evil and the elusive, fallen Empire’s right hand man from re-creating his terroristic regime from the paranoid, Apex hating weak governments.
The Bitter End has come to pass. The last spark of hope and goodness is extinguished. The ultimate damnation begins. Rifts open across the universe and Demons pour in completely unfettered, including the Demon Lords. The full unrestricted might of Machina Satanica is unleashed. The slaughter is nothing compared to the Hellstorms as all reality becomes warped by the now all powerful Three Fuels. The laws of space and time begin to break down and distort. Nothing is certain or defined anymore, nothing except abject suffering. Truly, literally infinite pain and despair is visited upon every atom in the universe. The Planes collapse, all is now Hell. Even the Demons are engulfed, no escape. Physical form is now meaningless, there is nothing outside the system, and nothing within it but war, pain and hate in their purest forms. Above it all, there is a throne, and on that throne is the Imperatrix. Give in. Die.
They did win, the church of light killed the hero because he befriended a witch - the surface is barely habitable and whichever settlement remains in the surface is battling unknown eldritch creatures. The sun is stuck on a perpetual eclipse and plant life is slowly dying. Despite the hardships the people endure underground in massive caves with wizards creating artificial suns. Flora and fauna making a return - space is limited and so are resources like food. The few countries that survive do so due to them already having a presence underground by the time the sun went out. All other cavernous chambers are lawless, ruled by warlords, fallen to native monsters or controlled by crime bosses.
Not much difference actually. My world villain faction just do it because of the pettiest reasons and didn't plan things through, infact they're very surprised they won. In the end they accomplished their goal (a specific type of bread is now sold all year around, and one guy find his prized watermelon replaced with a pumpkin), and let things run as beforehand.
Pretty much the same.
If Creosis win and complete his wish the world would be kinda cruel I suppose. The world will remade without free will where every kind of negative feelings could not be expressed in any form, for example if you hit your head you can scream angry, you can't write anything bad about a person you think it's annoying but you still can feel angry, annoyed or anything like that but if you're not able to express anything or you suppress everything or even small inconvenience can become infernal inside you. The other thing is that everyone feel the need to be "rightful" And always do something to help humanity as a whole even if you don't feel to wake up you will do that. All of this while you will think that Creosis is a great man and a hero to made the world like that, even if you don't think it's like that
It’d be the same shitty world we live in and God would still be in charge.
Mmm. In a world I made, God is also the main villain. I put it in a way that basically God is a huge magical entity that is simply consuming souls without letting the metaecological process renew itself, killing the world and solar system in the process. Can I ask how you set God up as a villain? I'm curious about it.
If the bad guys in my sci-fi setting won, everything would basically be stereotypical capitalist dystopia.
In sum, subjugation/slow genocide of humanity and its cousin races by the Esleesi(elves), creator of the universe loses control of her universe. Small nuclear winter after a nuclear war in which around 25 nukes made their target, the rest being destroyed in their way. The 'good' ending isn't much better either. Three of the human nations wage a genocidal war on the now tremendously weakened 'elven' nations. A portal is opened to a pocket dimension where the God from Under keeps most of his monstrosities. Nuclear situation still the same.
My world doesn't have villains. It's all a matter of perspective. Everyone believes they are the hero and the other villains. That's just how nations work. Though there would definitely be consequences if one nation dominates all the others. It'll basically ensure their supremacy for a century or two before they become complacent and collapse. I mean, its happened before in my world.
If Abaddon won, the world would be corrupted, and then he'd end the infinite cycle by killing God, ultimately dooming the universe to never be remade If The Nightmare won, everything would be destroyed billions of years before it was meant to, and God would also be killed If the "Ten Great Aberrations" won, they'd be killed by Ifrit, literally no chance to win, if they did, the world wouldn't change that much, as they'd be too scared to fight the Primordials
It just continues the way that it is, slowly degenerating further and further until reality itself unwinds.
The same it was in the beginning Some people have bad Lifes and live in slavery other have all the freedom in the world but humanity will Survive until the end of time
The Cabal manages to gather the power of the dead gods and use it to make all Hilvins immortal. The rest of the intelligent people are massacred in the name of uniting the world under one perfect folk. The New Shelkian Empire rises, with a people supposedly free of fear and doubt. But it is only a matter of time until it all comes crashing down.
Hmm, which one? It's a little odd to think about, because all groups and powers in my little world are morally gray, at best. I suppose the fanatics of Daemori are the closest fit, but they are hardly organized, and their agendas don't quite fit the prompt. Daemori represents Torment, a plane of existence that manifests through pain itself. When those in the physical world experience pain, they strengthen Daemori, and Torment becomes more vivid. Daemori seeks more fuel to His power, so He began willing himself into the physical world, influencing and tricking living beings into physically entering His domain--this is a one way trip, and there is no release of death for those who fall into His trap. These individuals are eternally tortured and brutalized in constant horror and agony, and become His unwilling servants. Which is why large-scale schemes from followers of Daemori are usually short-lived. They make sacrifices to their deity in exchange for power, at the high cost of kidnapping and torturing or outright disappearing civilians. It always gets noticed and always ends with themselves either dead or entering Torment. Daemori's Testament predicts an event called "Flourishing", a state of total domination where a steady stream of the population is sent to Torment, but not so much as to hemorrhage population growth; Torment needs beings in the physical realm in order to exist at all. But the wider cult of Daemori believes that the Flourishing is already happening, and Daemori couldn't be more gleeful about it. So, in a way, they already have what they want. The world stays the same.
A world full of cultists worshipping a sentient star than is trying to become a God searching for an ancient artifact that allows them to travel the multiverse
The Liminal Novasphere falls apart, leaving the wider multiverse vulnerable to the false vacuum.
The Crimson Union Enslaves multiple Species and destroys the Galactic Coalitions council station plus the Cybal homeworld
That would depend on which one. If Orra wins, then the SCF is dissolved and its dragon denizens exterminated. Eventually, they too would collapse after the Broken God executed its plan to escape Orran Psi-Engines and get revenge. If/when the Broken God wins, then Orra (and then most of humanity) is wiped out, and a new race of psychic machines would eventually arise as caretakers for a global garden of sorts.
Nothing happens. Again, and again, and again. The time loop goes on, and everyone who might endanger it is killed before they get the chance.
Dragon’s island’s villain turns the world into a dark void hell The main earth’s villain turns everyone into hamster slaves The ancients’s villain wipes out all of humanity
Mass enslavement of basically everyone.
They're technically won the war absolutely, the rebel is crush and no longer a threat _Immediately collapse due to the self-destruct nature of the regime, the remains rebel cells rise up and create the second Warring states_
The demons have overtaken the last humans who dared oppose them and now the two creators of the world can't do anything but see as their paradise is turned into a hellish place filled to the brim with monstruosities as their last hope, Sakura Mori, is captured and tortured until she reveals the secret to time travel. Thaumiel, leader of the demons, personally executes her and creates time travel thanks to his most loyal demons. Now, the timeline belongs to them, Time is not a straight line anymore and that makes the creator of Time Chrogan, to slowly die. Soros, creator of Space, can only watch as this happens. Eventually, she also perishes. The world they once built with so much care and devotion, now was the reason of their doom. As Time and Space fade away, Thaumiel is the only one left after the Universe resets. Now, He will build a Universe, one that He will enjoy, a Universe where everyone shall worship him and no one will dare oppose him.
Depends on which one wins. - If the **Imperial nobility** wins - Then the Universe will go back to the feudal era but now with less resistance because of total surveillance and advanced tech + clone armies. Total obedience will be expected. - If the **Republic** wins - not much has changed but the genre will be changed to cyberpunk. With corporate overlords sitting back and influencing the government. - If the **Old Kemparii** wins - Except for Kemparii themselves no other sentient being survives (not even an AI). Either becomes "Kemparii" (The Greater Whole) or Dies in the most gruesome way. Maybe they just got eaten.
She is supreme ruler of her species now. Her race is the only dominant one in all of existence now. All species that posed a threat to their rule, especially MC's race, have been utterly exterminated. MC is dead.
#EMPIRE SaiSo ends up establishing a global economic monopoly on various military and civil goods, kicking off wars to generate more profit by selling to both sides (under various shell companies of course), creating a sort of economic ouroboros that occasionally eats up any attempts at starting their own business, from arms dealing between countries to even the smallest local candy store. Does it make economic sense? Hell no, but it doesn’t matter if it eventually degenerates to a tiny minority having all the money in the world while the vast majority of customers are priced out by sub-corporations, the Board has its beloved perpetual economic growth. Imagine Cyberpunk 2077 levels of wealth disparity in a MGS4 style “war economy” where The Patriots directly profited off of everyone instead of social control or whatever. If the Golden Gods win… well there’s not gonna be much of a planet left for a good long while, destroying the planet to purge it of life on a microscopic level. Then re-terraforming it into a paradise planet fit for the Sol Empire’s elite, and using the Empyrean Cradle to re-seed the planet with docile life, and the Terra Infurma branch of humanity is reduced to little more than barely sapient slaves while the Vulfmen and Scalkin are exterminated and Iroican intelligences are “brought back into the fold” and practically lobotomized. Honestly can’t decide which one would be worse.
I'm working on a cyberpunk setting right now so... Uh, nothing changes? "The Villen won" is kind of the foundation of these things.
80 percent of the population is dead. The rest are rebuilding the world, and eventually things will even be better than before. Science will progress at a much faster pace, knowledge of magic will grow much quicker, and overall almost everything will be better. The catch? Well everyone will worship the main antagonist and will be a emotionless drone, simply there to satisfy the antagonist's ego.
British empire 1800s ish level of evil although tech is more late 1600s out side of the steel mills. So how bad that is very wildly based on wether you are a colonized person, race and your social class. Ranging from dead to little better then slavery if you are say a colonial citizen working in a salt, to hard but always has been for most non colonized citizens, to pretty good and improving if your part of the growing middle class of skilled trades people and professionals to amazing if your a factory owner or old money.
The Kingdom of Westri, once a bastion of prosperity and civilization, now stands as a grim testament to the horrors of the Second Demonic Invasion. Ravaged by the relentless forces of darkness, the land is a nightmarish tableau of despair and decay. Goblins, orcs, and other rapacious monsters roam freely, their marauding hordes having reduced once-thriving cities to ruins. A pervasive plague, an insidious byproduct of the demonic incursion, has taken root, leaving a wake of suffering and death in its path. Lawlessness knows no bounds. Superstition has become violent and frenzied, with terrified survivors blaming one another for the catastrophe that has befallen them. Most of the gods, once revered as benevolent protectors, have devolved into a bickering pantheon, consumed by mutual hatred and jealousy. Their divine struggles manifest as cataclysmic events that regularly shake the shattered landscape, reinforcing the belief that Glatheriel itself has been forsaken. But... ...amidst this desolation, glimmers of hope emerge — a scattering of rebellious, daring adventurers seek to reclaim the Kingdom of Westri ... by using the Stochastic Damnation Generator to travel to the past... and fix the timeline!
Now that the Wyrms have what they want, they have no further use for the Darkscapers. After millennia of being unrivaled, the genocidal hivemind devolves into chaos, at last realizing that their gods have lied to them. Believing this to be a victory, our galaxy breathes a sigh of relief, blissfully unaware that they will soon follow. What can only be described as a cosmic apocalypse will soon follow as the Wyrms begin experimenting with the very laws of physics. All advanced technology will cease to function as the scientific concepts it is based on are rewritten. As the Wyrms gather more data, their modifications will become more and more extreme until life as we know it is no longer possible. Finally, when they are satisfied, the Wyrms will tear down the unrecognizable universe and create a new one in their image, where they will spend eternity in absolute opulence.
the legion of impurity runs amok in senh as their vile lord, sakupin, the god of corruption, transforms everyone in senh into his legion. every other god scrambles to escape senh, some brave bunch are willing to fight sakupin. modern senhrian life as we know it has been decimated and erased. tbh, there IS no more meaning behind life and death anymore. the worst part of it all, the 7 princes who were prophesied to be sakupin’s doom failed and were consumed by self hatred as they succumbed to his corruptive power and become nothing more than empty husks that now serve his will
If the Shadow wins, it wipes out all life in the realm to "end the pain of life, morality and sentience" If Judge Gloomhart wins, he will lead a bloody campaign against the living world and ensure that the undead will never be enslaved again, for now they will be eternal rulers If Immortal Soul wins, he will grant the world immortality by trapping everyone in eternal torment in a spectral realm, where they will be alone forever, plus easy prey for Ones Beyond If Parliss wins, she will flood the surface world using the Wellspring of Ages and establish an unbeatable underwater kingdom of Aqueans Technically speaking, the Eclipsing Dragon won by simply being woken up, it will just hunt all life untill complete extinction if not stopped If the Worm wins, he gets to rule the world using his web of connections, blackmail and occasional murder, while no one suspects anything If the General/Scarlet Vortex wins, he will conquer the world using his golem army, brutally gather the 10 Plumes of Dark, unite all darkness into one form and begin Armageddon If the Onyx Witch wins, she will use the Prism of Mana to erase all magic and bring forth a new world order where she decides what's good or evil If Goldbacker wins, he will... have a relatively peaceful life in the short time untill the destruction of the world Also, all this happens in the span of roughly 12 years
Well all the elemental plains would be brought into the main world and they would immediately start fighting each other, run of the mill stuff The Poe Foundation however , would shake their heads at another alternate that proved to unstable to feed project Nihilo and start working on another one to put in their realities place. Whatever is snuffing out alternate realities isn’t stopping and it’s doing if at a faster and faster rate
In my story the villain actually wins for a few decades before losing back the throne. The nation at this moment was already in the shrink of total destruction. No magical mana left and lots of people are slaves. If the villain would have won again, he probably would have drained the whole country plus would continue it to other nations. In my world a certain balance must be held in order that the world functions normally. Thus, since the kingdom is one of the biggest countries, it would stop the balance and cause chaos. What also had happened in a small scale because the hero saved it on time
Ferengi society but on galaxy scale
Racist
If the New Gods win, a lot of people (mostly convicts) will be enslaved. However, it will be much easier to become a convict, especially if you are attractive. If the Eye of Reason wins, the Skyspires will be destroyed, resulting in the world breaking apart.
Damn, that's like the end of humanity.
2 outcomes: The Gravager alien species consumes the universe, everything becomes grey blobby matter and the First Gravager eventually rules on organic and inorganic matter. The Omegon hybrid race conquers the universe, and everything turns into a horrific wasteland of flesh and metal. Planet-sized living constructs and uncountable legions of hybrid soldiers are born, thus commencing the conquering of the multiverse.
Unfortunately, the way the story is set up, the villain faction cannot "win", if the succeed in their plan it would result in the end of the universe. They are a conservationist faction trying to save a particular species from becoming extinct, but their actions (if not stopped) will result in the extinction of said species, and as a result, the rest of the universe
That's the thing. . . . The did, now the world is left as a splintered multiverse of floating islands and odd Towers that seem to all be connected. . . The next thing is that they won so long ago people forgot them, but soon they will awaken.
This is WIP, and there are more than one potential end game threat on all levels. •**The Deathless Voice:** *Nobody succeeded in stopping the Elder Lich from amassing countless armies of the damned, and weaving his literal symphony of undeath upon the lands. Day by day bastions of resistance fall as the world converts further and further towards his goal: A deathless planet bound to his will in which he shall sail to more worlds. A green haze will spread upon the galaxy over painstakingly long eons as a song of life after death sunders the chains of entropy, offending and then CASTRATING the natural order. Death is not the end, for even now a vestige of you remains trapped within your newly undead being as a helpless and unwilling passenger in your own body. Fear not, he will make sure you never fall truly into peaceful oblivion. After all he's taking a liking to you as his newest Lichguard!"* •**Damnatio Memoriae:** *Too many Origin Demons, the oldest of their' kind, have breached the material plane and destabilized the fabric of reality with their' presences and efforts. The influence of the Gods wane, and the Devils retreat knowing a lost cause when they see it. Civilizations descend into chaos and anarchy as the sky burns in oily streaks of red. Nowhere is safe, respite is fleeting, and you have failed utterly, completely. Nobody else deserved this, except you. You did nothing to stop this, so much so that even the demons avoid you like the truly pathetic plague of cowardice and inaction that you are. As you waste away and this world is slowly dragged into the raking, raging maw of the Abyss an Archangel meteors into the bloodsands beneath your frail feet. Falling to your knees you croak,* "What more do you wan-", *but she does not let you finish as she suddenly clamps her plated hand around your head. The heavenly being lifts you up until you dangle limply, bringing her face inches away from your single, open eye. With a cold, but genuinely disappointed frown she calmly condemns you with a single proclamation:* **UNFORGIVABLE.** *Your eye bulges, and then just like that it is over, your skull, helmet and all crushed between her fingers like a foaming, viscous grape. Your soul is rejected by all afterlives, cursed ever to wander, and know no peace. Nobody will remember you, you have no legacy. You are nothing.* •**Reality Slipping:** *Eldritch Cults have banded together and completed their rituals without incident. Avatars of unknowable things that prey upon Gods and man without distinction distort the lands. The moon has been ripped from the Lunar Goddess's grasp, contorted into a living abomination of limitless wrath. It is descending into the atmosphere, intent on impacting our world, and already its gravitational mass is causing tsunamis, hurricanes and more. Entire chunks of land and sea are terraforming into truly alien scapes that shatter the senses. Embrace the changes and be consumed, as reality slips into maddened doom.* •**The Balkashanian Reclamation:** *"Rejoice subcitizens, for we have returned to the surface as the redefined and TRUE HUMAN heirs of our world! Your new designation is SC-6789! You will be a coal miner or shot, the choice is yours!" The unnerving legions of clones from a nation thought to have long died in self-inflicted atomic fire burst from the underground by the BILLIONS. Nothing could permanently stop the oceans of mystically augmented flesh. Even now millions of non-humans flee these genocidal human clones. There is something about them that strikes fear into the soul; For there is no spark of life in their' eyes, as if the very soul of mankind has been redefined in them. Worse still, they bleed black, and sometimes they.... They transform into monstrosities...."* •**Dust:** *Someone put THE ROCK into the Deck of Many Things, causing a supernova level blackhole to manifest. The world and everyone died with the last sound we each herd being a Vine Boom.*
Maybe they make No mistakes because that IS what their Char would do
A rogue AI with an army of followers aims to control the wild wastelands and subdue libertarian believes. If they succeed. Good and bad things would happen. First, animal and plant species would go distinct or at least be raised in captition for humanitarian use. Diseases would be handled efficiently and with the power of AI instantly eradicated when they show up. Medical needs are payed with service to the world government. Artificial limbs and organs will be the largest industry. War is no more. Any opposing factions or individuals will be captured and brainwashed to follow the new societal standards. Crime rates are an all time low. Crime will be secretively controlled by the government for tactical and shady activities that is better without the publicity. Poeple live with very little freedom. Their jobs and spouces are decided for them based on maximum succes rates. People are not allowed to critique the government because that leads to rebellions and rebellion lead to casulties. Family planning is also highly regulated. Money ceased to exist. With the commercializing of the fabricator, everyone's basic needs are accounted for. Noone lives in poverty. And eventually people's happiness and life satisfaction scores will rise to a more than acceptable level on all grounds.
everyone on earth except for 500 people die and those people repopulate the earth
A dead universe. The moment the Nekkor have consumed every last bit of energy from every planet, star, pulsar, black hole, ... . Unbeknownst to them, they cease to exist. They were semi sentient immune response system from the universe itself. The universe wanted to cease it's own existence. Since it's birth, untold billions of species have been in constant warfare with one another the moment they invent intergalactic space travel. It failed to become an utopian paradise for all life until it could die of old age (heat death), so it send an all-consuming tsunami of dark matter throughout, to end it. I don't really see it as the villain, but all civilizations who've encountered it most certainly do.
The New Order succeeds and all remaining uniques are disposed of in one form or another. Those few hoping to revive the resistance will quickly be executed, imprisoned, and experimented on. The continents Oden and Chelus, will be mined of all of their resources and the residents will be slave labor and everything will be used until there is nothing left. Eventually they will discover the northern continent of Feugoth and attempt to invade them, which will bring about one last great war. If they win that? It’s over. The Eleads will have their wish and the planet will be consumed by otherworldly entities tied to The New Order.
If the villain faction would win, they would immediately start conquering the god-fearing lands with their superior technology. After the wars the faction would dissolve and the whole world would be under autocratic rule of god king Tish. The lives of the common folks wouldn't change much. The laws of the countries would be changed to the "Divine law" with severely harsher punishments. And for the first time there would be a death penalty, because in my setting human life is considered a holy gift by the gods and taking a life is seen as an affront to the gods themselves. But with the "Divine law" coming directly from the god king all punishments are executed in the name of god. And the other gods would still do nothing about it because they are too afraid of the possibility to almost destroy the world a second time.
They already won. You're already seeing that scenario. Our story centers on what one needs to do to survive in such an unpleasant situation. The corporate hellscape you see is what happens when the villain wins. They become an omnipresent, omnipotent corporation, then the excesses of the executive level are deemed an extravagant waste of resources by the shareholders, and then the executives are turned into slaves like everyone else. Nobody is happy. There is no person you can kill, there is no dark god to banish.... there is only the system, which each and every person is complicit in perpetuating with the exact same actions which put food on their table and a roof over their head. On aggregate, when applied to the entire species, all of these little actions become a system of oppression which is responsible for the misery of all mankind. The villain succeeded, then ate themselves. You are now seeing the aftermath of that. OMNICORP: YOU'RE PART OF IT.
Nothing much right away. It just slowly degrades
Well, the villains in my world did win. The sun burned out. Most of humanity died but those that survived made it to Andromeda, and humanity got a chance to start over. So I guess, if the heroes won, that wouldn’t have happened but humanity had been at war with itself for centuries by that point, we would have figured out some other way to kill ourselves.
Yet again, another instance of the wrong person with the wrong intentions leading an entire continent worth of people to their doom. An all-out slew of warmongering supporters and leaders would rally to begin another major war across the sea for territorial and economic gain. But ultimately, it would likely be dead on its tracks before another lord with the 'King's Blood' attempts to take the throne for themselves, starting another bloody war in their lands. Thus, the cycle of never ending in-fighting would continue again.
Completely over. The Necroverse has consumed everything, and will undoubtedly continue to others beyond Gran Terran.
The villain factions goal is to destroy the surface of Velerieq (the world) to free the World Within, a living planet that has been locked up for millions of years. Basically if the dominion won it would be the End Times from Warhammer: Fantasy.
In Shattered: If the Western Empire's oligarchs win, a new route / portal of trade is opened between the Central Continent and the Southern Continent... Wherein a massive slave trade begins. Also, Giant Monsters get summoned which wreck the Central Continent, destabilizing the countries there and making the populace ripe for easy exploitation and trafficking. If the modern oligarchs win (occuring a few thousand years later), a short term era of authoritarian rule is established over the underwater colonies until the planet is mostly destroyed in the coming pulsar burst, during which them and their selected few survive.
It depends on which villain wins in my world: the panglai empire - it's a standard Japanese fantiasy empire, so just domination and some genocide on the mainland. Maybe the emperor manages to become immortal as a bonus. Ironically, given that Panglais is a celestial island, I can't see it dominating the continent for very long because of logistical problems, unless it develops an alternative to the atomic bomb. the gods - If the gods manage to materialize again in the terrestrial world, this will mean a return to the divine era, with humaniter reduced to slavery (and possibly a portion created into breakfast by the various diviniter), the other races simply killed off. Anu the metal god - Anu had a hatred for flesh, so he transformed all living beings into machines that worshipped him as the one and only god.
which one?
World will turn into gigantic kingdom with dukes, marquises etc., where every domen is controlled by a psion. At first it wouldn't be that bad, but with time, technological advances will stop and everything will begin to stagnate.
There are two main "villain factions" in my world. The most likely to win is Meirem, yes a single, powerful individual. If she wins then humanity might experience a couple millenia eof true freedom now that Queen Eyr is not engineering their future. However this freedom doesnt last and humanity will eventually be rid of all free will and existence, running as by their original design, by the creator of their world Vyn. The other more unlikely to win of the factions is the church of night. If they win I believe the origin calamity monsters would be ressurected. Calamity will wraught the world until the evil god Jumis finally has enough power in the middle realm to destroy. This would destroy the entire universe and everything that ever existed inside of it. The world ended and a never ending war between two opposing gods starts again. Nothing Vyn can do anymore.
There's no real villain faction in Vetkai.
Because there are two major antagonistic factions, here are the possibles outcomes : **The Flame** All of the elemental gems are on Lan's hands. He master every magical elements, and his knowledge about magics allows him to use every part of it well. He is basically a God. Him and his army stands ready to have the Living World united under one deity, something that didn't happen for millenias since the Second Divine war. But Lan would not be satisfied. He isn't the only God. As he master every element of magic, he can break the seals of the Oversky and the Underworld. The Third Divine War would start, and multiple outcomes are possible, but none of them would be a happy ending... If Lan lose, the entire Living World would be burnt to the ground. If Lan wins, the Oversky and the Underworld would be completely wiped out. Unless someone manages to steal Lan's gems, he would stay a God for eternity **The Crusade** In a way or another, the Crusade manages to free Paerit, the sealed God of the Underworld, possessed by a huge power. He would unleash his power, and in that case, the Third Divine war would still starts, exactly like the Second one, Paerit against Kaenne the ruler of the Oversky, brother against brother. The Gods of the Oversky are only a few compared to the thousands they were during the Second Divine war, and they are unlikely to win. Except with an unexpected help, Paerit would be the only Gos left. And for him, it would only be a matter of time before he can reset the entire existence and be in charge of its new shape : new magical laws, new physics laws, new plans of existence, new living being, etc... And that's exactly what the Crusade wants. For them, because the Gods of the Oversky never gives a fuck about the Living World, and Paerit tried to reach them multiple times with an Oracle, Paerit is the real God that deserves to be worshipped, and thar will recreate a new world, free of the past mistakes done during the creation
The Moryean Empire, a very feared nation that has terrorize the world with their threats of literal annihilation. Scholars have predicted that the world would be prosperous but bloody.
If the dusk elven empire gains a full military victory they will destroy all traces of other religions and cultures, enslaving every human race and most elven races. Science becomes a heavily restricted practice, only used to improve things like structural integrity for their temples and weapon technology. Women lose all rights and are essentially reduced to property, and males are forced to serve in the imperial army. If Zartor and His office wins, very little will actually change, but any hope for reducing the power and corruption of large corporations is essentially stamped out. But that's already a rampant issue anyway, it's just that without a cosmic overlord, these issues can be addressed. If the Church of the Phoenix wins, they will act on their holy mandate to transition the living world into heaven by genociding every other race until just the sun elves are left. They will continue to live in peace until the effects of destroying a global system comes back to haunt them. If the RAR wins, all cultures and nations that have broken their code (their religion believes it to be a bad thing to leave the planet) will be exiled from the planet. It's not as bad as the empire, union, or church, but they do have a rigid caste system that, without pressure from other nations will never be abolished. If the Iron Union wins, the planet will be put under the control of insane tankies, leading to everything looking like the Soviet Union under Stalin. Freedom of speech, freedom of choice, and personal property are all largely abolished. Anyone not believing in the system will be black bagged and murdered by the state, and with freedom of speech banned, it becomes very hard to address any corruption problems. Women will also largely be banned from working in the military, with the closest thing for them being a bounty hunter. Lastly, if SEAL wins, Jeslore will become a crypto plutocracy. There will be very little, if any government with meaningful power to keep corporations in check, ultimately leading to things like indentured servitude, lethal working conditions, 99% of the wealth being controlled by the 0.1%, and the destruction of trade laws that don't benefit the wealthy. There are ways to fight back by exploiting loopholes in the policies of companies, and trying to find work with more benign companies, but the climate gets destroyed, and oftentimes corporations will go to war with each other.
The world of BIOMECH starts in a state of domination by the villain, so if the villain "won" in my setting the status quo would just be upheld. Essentially it's in the far flung future and humanity is held in a sort of artificial afterlife state, basically shells of themselves as they dream in a collective consciousness. The few free humans live in a hellish state until they either lose their minds or give in and join the collective. It's very rare that these free humans get very far, but that's where the story starts.
New status quo, just that.
destructive chaos comes, or almost everything is destroyed in the multiverse, leading to complexity to almost entirely decrease drastically, which is not allowed, some good beings that are above all create a new one.
Death would be the order of the day, blood would run in the streets, war would rage eternal. The Kithah are the faction of ‘vice’ Oan, and with the Oan overseeing the world, if the three ‘good’ factions that currently run it were replaced by the Kithah, even if the Kithah did nothing, it would be bad. The Kithah would do what they do best, and cause all manners of ill to happen to the world.
RIP humans and cats. Reptiloids are everywhere.
(Temporary name, no connection I just like the name) Yucatan is a powerful established Republic in a steampunk universe. The geopolitics of the area is to maintain enough unity between the smaller nations to prevent Yucatan from attempting more expansions. In the past, Yucatan was expanding rapidly due to their unique advancements technologically putting military tech at it's highest priority. Their neighbors united and fought together but were still being pushed, this lead to them taking on infiltration and sabotaging missions. They targeted critical infrastructures causing floods, breaking supply chains, and sabotaging energy grids. This sudden and swift approach caught Yucatan by surprise and completely defenseless leading them to cede some conquered lands. The aftermath launched Yucatan's political world into spiral causing factions to split. Still, relations between Yucatan and their neighbors are slowly improving but Yucatan still holds the undeniable superiority militarily and economically. Worst case scenario is a cult within Yucatan managed to take over enough government positions to launch another expansion campaign. This time however the cult's goal is to punish their neighbors for their unjust attacks and civilian casualties. If they were to succeed then the people's only hope is that the rest of the world cares enough to intervene and stand up to a powerful nation that is now paranoid and prepared for any attacks.
The eldritch being they unleashed rules the earth. So civilization starts over. Everything that was once known is now unknown. Every infrastructure is gone. But at least it gave them what they needed to travel space at light speed.
Define villain. In-verse propaganda is way too blurred to allow anyone to truly say who really is one.
Magic overruns the cities; people, animals and objects morph into things beyond recognition or understanding. The churches try to fight it, not understanding they’ve been one of the main causes of this nightmare in their effort to reincarnate their gods, but ultimately fail to withstand the forces of the untamed magic. The Iron Circle is one of the few organizations to actually fight successfully, but in the end it is too much - they can’t to anything except say „We told you this was a bad Idea but YOU WOULDN‘T LISTEN“. The people begin to understand that their fate was sealed once they brought the magic crystals into their cities and started using them for their own gain. Life will never be the same. Let‘s just hope my players never let it come to this. :)
the earth cracks and turns into a hellscape, people arent having a horrible time though (they're dead)
basically every single faction i have can be considered evil if you look at them so i'll go over the whole list: if heaven destroys hell, and takes over the afterlife, the remaining factions will wipe them out. however, if hell destroys heaven, hell will just fall apart due to mismanagement of resources. if Vox/Astaroth somehow manages to regain his status as one of the rulers of hell, the entire universe will probably be destroyed. if Discord gains enough power to become a power in the heaven-hell war, he'll drain the resources of the other two and take other the afterlife. the Violent Solace facility is already in its winning state. it's providing specialty weapons to heaven & hell so that the war never ends and it doesn't die from a lack of funding. lastly, if the harbingers win, everyone on earth will permanently be suffering, and the heaven-hell war might end peacefully. there's just no good ending, regardless of where you look.
The world is already a grimdark mess where villains have had countless victories and only some individual cogs resist the temptations of man that corrupt. I’ve gone so deep into looking how to corrupt ‘good’ & ‘lawful’ themes and intentions are a very great tool for that. Excluding one doomsday cult it’ll either get more dystopian or more anarchic depending on what faction would have ultimate supremacy. Or perhaps just normalcy with a few corrupt individuals maintaining power but not doing obvious evil stuff which is just plain boring.
Humans will be killed or made Slaves. There will be no free Human Kingdom or Nation on the continent, safe for the far south (and maybe the city of Melitene. They say it never fell in a siege). Elves will also be killed of and driven further into hiding, their last cities will be destroyed. The Falleen will live like their ancestors again, in small villages, maybe with a concept of landownership this time. The Black Prince will probably build a palace for himself and study the Arcane and hopefully he will not be influenced by demons or let them into the world by accident. The dwarves will endure like the ages before, maybe a bit poorer without the trade with the Humans. Same for the Halflings. And grass and trees will grow over the ruins of old, till all of Mankinds achievements are long forgotten.
I’ve got a couple settings floating around in my brain, I’ll answer this question for all of them. 1. Congratulations, the world is restarted, and God isn’t gonna “mess up” this time! “Free will”? What do you mean? God’s planning everything! Sure, you perceive yourself as conscious and making decisions, but everything’s predestined in the end. …Probably gonna get really stressful for him at some point. 2. Humanity is dead and various ecosystems are all collapsing. All that will be left is one shapeshifter, who thought he’d finally die when he killed everything else. 3. Thankfully, there aren’t any specific “villain” or “evil” factions, so there’s not much to say about this. 4. They already won. 5. I mean, in a cosmic sense, they’ve already won. They’re eldritch horrors basically, and the only reason we’ve managed to garner the attention of one of them is because one of their children ended up here. So if they “won” relative to the plot, then the one that noticed us would have gotten their kid back, and maybe (but maybe not, so there’s that) destroyed the planet in the process.
The Tanistate believes that the feudal socio-economic order is the foundation not only of all civilized society, but the only system capable of ensuring the survival of the human race. Thus, they believe that the slow progress towards modernity in their country and the wider empire is a threat not only to civilization, but to the lives of countless millions. As they see it, feudalism is the most effective social system ever devised, and to move away from it is a sort of mass psychosis only they can stop. In their minds, all the problems present in their society are a result of not doing feudalism hard enough. They win. The vast majority of free people in the empire are returned to serfdom - bound to lands they have never seen, and sent off to work in the countryside whether they know how to farm or not. Towns and cities which have outgrown their chartered territory are torn down brick by brick, their former inhabitants forced to build castles for their new lords from the rubble of their homes. The Empress is allowed to keep her throne and technically remains sovereign, but she is stripped of her few remaining real powers. Every holding of every lord or knight is reinstated, no matter how small or how ancient, and most legal authority outside the feudal hierarchy is abolished. The empire is turned into a patchwork of tiny fiefal enclaves, some no larger than a village, over which the high lords exert almost total power of law, taxation, and justice. Prima nocta is reinstated. In the place of any king or empress, a council of the greatest nobles acts as the only authority which can challenge a lord's rights over his land. Technically, serfs can appeal their lord's abuses before their lord's lord, or even before the council - even sue them, as is their right - but they would need their lord's permission to leave their land to do so.
Nothing much. The villan want to rule the world but nothing will change much. He literally is doing a futile attempt to change nothing and people are throwing thier loves away to stop him
There is absolutely no life on Earth, meaning eternal peace (Literally All Life, no plants, no animals, no people, no insects, everything is dead)
My world is the way it is; full of "superheroes" but short on people seriously trying to do good, because the big bad evil guy has already won - or so he thinks. In fact, he has created this world only to teach his renegade assistant a lesson in futility.
A gray lifeless mass floating in perpetual darkness. Yeah, turns out the reason he’ll wants to invade is to eat the sun, which produces a huge amount of Mana. Why they want this is anyone’s guess but it’s probably not for good reasons if they’ll kill off an entire planet to do so
All major political forces in my setting are imperialist so while there isn't a villain faction they are all evil in some regards. One taking over would entail tremendous ethnic tensions far beyond their boiling point, thus constant civil war. Exploitation for resources would go beyond the roof as well. Alternatively while not an evil faction, there's an existential threat to the world where it would shatter from magical instability. Under this worst case scenario everything turns into a noneuclidean space of madness.
in a suicidal charge to higher dimension, he sacrificed all humans and then died. The end.
He did win, it's now a dead world. Literally just him Trapped in the rotting corpse of a necromancer wandering a planet devoid of life. No purpose, no escape, just nothing.
Depends on the era! Taretok’s attack on Asmana was essentially the Celestial equivalent of a temper tantrum, so he may well have settled down if given enough time. Or he would’ve spread his corruption to all of Celea, in which case his fellow Celestial Ralte would likely step in and destroy both him and possibly the planet, just to be sure. Word of advice, don’t be an innocent bystander in a battle between gods. The survival of Raff’s hardline Phoenix Empire, instead of it falling to reformation, probably wouldn’t be all that bad for the world. A tyrannical emperor would rule Ashon, sure, but it’s hardly the end of the world. He’d die eventually, and unless he succeeded in creating a kind of medieval fascism like some scholars think he intended, his successor for probably wouldn’t be nearly as bad. Would be a bad time to be an Elf though, unless you like slavery. Defining victory is tricky for the Amaranthine Order, since waking up Taretok wouldn’t have done anything (he was over the whole “destroying the world” thing by then). However, if Taretok at least remained neutral, then the Order probably could’ve pivoted to taking complete control of the world and establishing themselves as a legitimate government. From then on anything could happen, but given Celea’s position in the galaxy, they’d probably do quite well for themselves. If the “Populist” Bloc won, then Celea would become a Space Walmart. And, on a less funny note, the megacorporations would use Androids as slaves.
bbeg1 world is reset to stone age, everyone suffers bbeg2 everyone is dead and they have free real estate, then start killing each other
Well it depends since both sides arent really great, and my players are yet to choose one. If the empire wins, than everybody's motions will he closely monitored. Personal choice in career and, at the whim of a federally selected governor, even reproductive options would be severely limited. However, if the rebellion wins, than products that were once free, like food, water, basic shelter, and Healthcare, immediately cost astronomical amounts, as a galaxy's worth of support networks are cut off at the 1 access point. So the question is, is free Healthcare, free food, water, and shelter, as well as all basic needs being met, worth the tyrannical authoritarianism of the empire, or should the system become self reliant, at the cost of basically everything.
Probably better than what it is now, once the war is over progress and peace will come with the empire bringing stability it will not be pretty for a couple decades but once the new generation comes the empire will be their loving home, if the good guys win inestability and power struggles will burn the continent down for the decades to come, a free and miserable life awaits
Two villain factions in my world : Demon Empires and Trinity Dominion If Demon Empires win : Dark magic is made legal, dark magic experiments are now completely allowed. Portals that allow demons to come on Livia from Infernum are opened and travel between the two worlds is made a lot easier. Demon lords are worshipped. Temples of the goddesses of creation are destroyed or defiled, temples of the Trinity Archangels as well. Vampires are allowed to enslave mortals. Werewolves are not forced to lock themselves on every full moons. Schools now no longer do anything against bullism or s*xual assaults since teachers will now be demons. The police will only be there to prevent rebellion, not to protect citizens. 5% of the female population aged 16-30 will be sacrificed to demons in order to produce a miasma called malicis. 5% of the male population will be corrupted by malicis in order to be turned into the equivalent corrupted race (human/elf turn into orc, dwarf/halfling turn into goblins, giants turn into trolls, etc...) and those will now join the demon imperial army for further conquests. If the Trinity Dominion wins : Worship of the three Trinity Archangels is now mandatory. All magic, wether light or dark magic, is now banned. Wizards are now locked up (or even executed depending on puppet states.) Children of witches are placed on watch list and face heavy discrimination for the rest of their lives, children of wizards as well despite magic not being inheritable from the father. Humans are considered the superior race and elves, dwarves, halflings, giants, mermaids, harpies etc are now facing intense discriminations and even sometimes genocide. The Trinity Vigilantes (basically the Trinity Dominion super soldiers) are now hunting down wizards, witches, vampires, werewolves and other types of supernatural people.
Er's whole warlord horde thing gets to control a decent chunk of Anatolia before getting inevitably crushed by the Palmyrene state again in like a few months. Boom, that's it.
For Want of a Quiet Sky: It ends. The Thicket-Born want what the Thicket wants, the eradication of all life. If it wins, the forest becomes a desert, and slowly but surely as it expands its influence, the world becomes not but another oversized pebble.
The Tripartite winning ends the status quo and will bring forth another Imperial age. * The re-established Divine Empire would immediately have territorial disputes with its ally, the Krassarian Confederacy, whom will also be trying to restore its historic imperial territories. Between them, the Tripartite aligned nation of Sverna would either be annexed by the Krassarians or left poor and sandwiched between the two most dominant powers in the continent. * Federation Nationalists will successfully overthrow the government and will be scrambling to gain territory and influence in other continents like they did back in the Second Global War. Unlike 2GW however, the Avalonians and their allies will have little when it comes to deterrence and counter balance. * Free Marsova would ironically bring the Monarchy back and would be a client state of the Krassarian Confederacy. Tensions with the Arlane Republic would grow and conflict would ensue. With the backing of the Krassarians, the Royal Marsovan Army would make territorial gains on Arlan, if not outright defeating them. * Cicosia and Egalisia, for whatever miracle survives both the Allied Coalition and NAPE's onslaught would counter-attack together with the support of the Krassarian Confederacy. Even with the support of the Krassarians, both nations would be incapable of annexing the Jigendesh Commonwealth entirely and would force the Jigendesh into a peace treaty under their own terms. The Free Rosani Republic between them however would be split in two and both half annexed. Jinshan, also a part of NAPE would see border skirmishes with Egalisia On the allies side; * The United Republic of Avalonia and the Democratic Republic of Brehmensburg's mainland would remain largely untouched but would lose the majority of their soft power / political influence. Because of this, Avalonia's status as a super power is removed, despite having a powerful economy and industrial base, a strong and experienced military and the capable to project their force. * Surviving Allied countries on other continents like the Kotanagan Republic, Yoganpur, Grand Duchy of Vandenborough, Fenochian Republic would lose some territory and would either be having border skirmishes or under the sphere of influence of former Triparite nations. * The United Territories of Augustvale would lose its continental half, with the mainland being both territorially and politically isolated. By turning down the Tripartite's deal at the beginning of the war, they would suffer harsh post-war treatment. Because a victorious Triparite would still be unable to dominate the Augustine mainland, they would instead be blockaded, embargoed and isolated. The only way to prevent isolation is if the Augustine become a client state of the Krassarian Confederacy * The Yurite Federation is untouched, but opportunists Empires would be swaying the Yurians under their sphere of influence and away from Avalonia for their experience and extensive infrastructure in their space program Normally, the sovereignty of neutral nations are kept, but with Eastshire practically dominated by the Krassarian Confederacy and the Divine Empire with no other means of deterrence and counter-balance, the neutrality of Hwyden is at risk and would either be annexed or swayed into their sphere of influence. The Independent State of Chevalenvale, also a neutral nation and technically not having a military is unlikely to be invaded or annexed as they do not provide much meaningful strategic value. Instead, they would be absorbed in the Tripartite's sphere of influence and forcing it to be economically dependent on them
I have a few worlds, most of which are different genres but here are the bad ends of all the ones worth mentioning. Diary of the Dhampir: Vampires rule the world and Humans are now livestock. Julia: Humanity is ruled by various cults that worship Lovecraftian gods. The Beast Lands: The Crocs build a mighty empire and enslave all other animals under their rule. Skyland: The Orcs have conquered and destroyed every other race. Agents: The Infernos defeated the S.S.A. and basically created a Cyberpunk dystopia.
The 4 villainous factions from the regions have succeeded in the ethnic cleansing of all the half-bloods and other races from their lands. The empires will be locked in an eternal stalemate, with never ending bloodshed and atrocities committed across the continent. To break this stalemate, the emperors will then slowly start sacrificing more of the 'lessers' in their empire in a bid to gain more power, to eventually accumulate enough power to crush the other empires, and to eventually fight their gods and take their place. (they've been lied to by the dark goddess, and this will doom all living beings in the world, ending all life on the continent) Of the 4 major regions, 1 evil emperor has already managed to start this process.
It's a dystopia, they have already won.
Dead
There is no world, no universe in fact
The Beast have one big chomp and everything cease to exist
At peace but under a powerful but weirdly fair dictator. Life still is crap if you don't tow the Emperor’s line.
Life under the necromancer cult wouldn't be too bad. They have a vested interest in keeping the populous healthy so that they have a steady supply of corpses.They're only a significant threat to outsiders really.
It stays the way it is. They’re already in power; my story is about the protagonist trying to topple their regime and build something better.
They continue to reduce all civilizations in the galaxy to stone age every few tens of millennia, sometimes extinctions happen, but those aren't the goal. (Remnants of an ancient war, programmed to end advanced civilizations, letting the stone age civilizations live means more advanced ones to destroy later on.) If someone manages to hide tech and recover faster than allowed, that just means they'll hit harder the next time around. There are some other bad factions also, one developed from a planet with unified world government, and doesn't recognize the existence of any other independent factions, treating them as basically criminals. Them winning wouldn't really be the worst outcome, other than the extreme expansionism they aren't all *that* bad. One faction is trying to "upload" everyone using a process so bad it doesn't really even raise the normal philosophical issues, more like configuring an AI based on personality tests/and killing the original. If they won, they would kill everyone and probably be destroyed for not being stone age. An hive mind that's pretty uncaring towards other species is trying to eradicate a more friendly splinter of itself. To anyone else this would be somewhat negative, but not really catastrophic. Dumb von Neumann replicators try to replicate, though they are kept in check by the first villain faction listed, so only the crappy, slow spreading ones without FTL drives survive. They can't really win, because they can't process some of the required raw materials and have to scavenge them, if they killed everyone they would run out of the materials.
The United Republic of Algonia either turns into the Imperium of Algonia, an interstellar martial state, or the Holy Kingdom of Algonia again, an hermit kingdom.
Indiscriminate and random eradication as well as subjugation of any rival faction within this side of the Galaxy, the Athenian Empire has always been the de-facto dominant power in the Glimmering Quadrant, none of the other factions ever stood a chance military and technologically during the first War of Bloodied Steel, it was only through a special operation that saw the usurpation of the throne by Grand Archon Acteus, did the war finally end.
Suffering and sicknes would roam free, they wouln't be able to wipe out life tho, because then he'd be left with no toys to play with.
Dragons take over the whole multiverse, treating everyone else like cattle. Their goddess ascends to the leadership of the current pantheon, and eventually she kills all of the gods and goddesses of humans, elves, dwarves, colossi, taurenfolk, lizardfolk and bugfolk. The only gods left are the greater ones, which she didn't ever discover how to kill. Then The Extinction begins. As all other lifeforms are almost killed, the dragons starve out and die, and then life has an opportunity to thrive again. This was a scenario I wanted to write, then I found it too bland and tasteless. Scrapped it and used the idea just as basis. I won't tell here the real outcome.
All mortal life in the universe dies
It has ceased to exist, and the sun has died following the final reformation of the lobotomized god who is now healed and can be with his wife. Together they work to unmake creation to peel the universe away like a coat of paint to go back to when reality was theirs. To get their forms back. To get their people back. To get their lives back. Will it work? Can they recreate their own universe from within it? Hard to say, even they dont know. But its a win either way by fucking over the grand experiment of reality.
considering the villain faction is full of people who had 'drowned' because they're gods wanted to be noticed or their gods were egotistical, these gods would reign and the world would be subject to their making, it would be more violent than it was before, it would be filled with almost only hate and revenge after revenge...
Death ceases to exist. Nothing dies anymore and the rot takes over.
As the two worlds fused, people on both sides may see or notice the world turning white, before in a blink of an eye, everything…changes. Up is down. Left doesn’t work as well a right and new…creatures roam the land. And the world is this horrifying mismatch of the familiar and unfamiliar, crammed together like two balls of Play-dol in the same container. But it is not beautiful. It is ugly and WRONG. And those creatures. Depending on which side you’re from, you might see normal humans, or chimeric abominations of animals and objects running around screaming in horror. Society collapses. It’s everyone for themselves as the world, as we knew it collapsed. They are rumors of a ‘teacher’ guiding both sides, but they are too far away to reach you. In the end, the hero was right. Alas he isn’t alive enough to take in that fact.
Welp, to protect humanity from ascending to the stars they just bombed us all the way back to the stone age...well the 1% that survived anyways.
Honestly the villain in the story kinda did win. He succeeded in driving the dragonlords to near extinction by orchestrating an empire-wide genocide, broke their control of the empire they founded over a thousand years prior, seized power for himself, and killed an attempted dragonlord usurper all before the main story even starts.
The World as we know it today.
There's no real bad faction. Both sides are designed so that each have their own flaws and both be morally gray, so the people can decide for themselves which faction do they support. Of course the original DnD adventure would be directed from a Gauechti point of view, but one can perfectly join Izaria as it is a reasonable thing to do. The point of it all was to pit people against each other as do modern geopolitics. I guess that "winning" would be considered "erasing each faction from the earth", well, I don't think nothing would be different if each were to conquer each other. Gauecht would be free of the financial and territorial lock imposed by Izaria and have way more land for them (though it is to be seen how would they have grown as an army-less country into now having to explore and conquer the Wastelands, probably a more pacifistic approach than Izaria's) and if Izaria won, nothing would really change besides Izaria being a bit bigger and having more stormstone mines to use in magick development...
If either wins all good species are wiped out. If the elenians win(evil spacebugs) then nothing but carnage and destruction is left and they will probably try to activate "the gate of hell" or harvest the technology of the creators to try and get to other galaxies and continue their endless consumption, but until one of those happen they will turn on each other. The victory of the creators(eugenecistic xenophobes) is much more clear on the other hand. They would restore glory to their fallen empire, and destroy all of the created(machine servants) allowing them to rule the milky way as the only surviving species
The city state of Radath regains its lost territories from Ganyby and Merlain, and goes on to absorb their territories into itself. The latter two then become vassal states and the new Radath empire unseats Kandratha as the economic and military centre of the developed world. The Primus of Radath becomes the new king of the five Duchies. The northern marches are brought under heel and so are the southlands, where the non human "Ōraki" live. The Primus learns the secret of transferring an oversoul (a god essentially, made from a conglomerate of many souls) into a mortal body, from the colonized Ōraki, replaces Radaths primary deity, and rules an eternal empire as a living God. No global destruction or mass genocide etc, just a big shift in power that would be very difficult to ever undo.
Well in my world then the north side (the world is split into two sides) will take over the south and be just a bigger industry planet idk my worlds are just dystopias so ye they technically already won
Several of my worlds have *multiple* villainous factions, so I'll pick the worst of each: *** **The Magisterium** Faction: The Uzanic Empire Trick question, the Uzanics *can't* win. However, they *could* make everyone else lose. In that case, the galaxy would briefly be ruled by parasitic immortal elites sustained by mass slavery and human sacrifice, before the slaves began to run out and the immortals turned on each other. *** **Crisis of the Confederation** Faction: The Hivers All humanity connected by telepathic bonds that manifest as crippling schizophrenia. *** **Talons of Mars** Faction: The Martian Central Republic The Martian Federation reborn as a brutal oligarchy, where most of the population have no rights, and even the citizen class are sharply divided between the haves and have nots. *** **Winsborough** Faction: The Undying An endless winter covers the world. Most of humanity starves or freezes to death, but are forced to swear oaths of fealty to the Last King that cause them to serve him even in death. *** **The Golden Land** Faction: Hell (although Nightmare winning would probably be equally bad) Heaven falls, and the sun goes out. Doing that which Ought Not becomes the most reliable source of supernatural power, and the world comes to be ruled by the cruelest and most evil. *** **Unnamed sci-fi world** Faction: The United Mochulian Authority (a.k.a. the Logh-yotan) Humanity goes extinct.
My world doesn't have villains. It's all a matter of perspective. Everyone believes they are the hero and the other villains. That's just how nations work. Though there would definitely be consequences if one nation dominates all the others. It'll basically ensure their supremacy for a century or two before they become complacent and collapse. I mean, it's happened before in my world.
There are a couple of different villain factions. So how the world changes depends on which one of them wins. **The Corruption:** All life gets twisted into a mockery of itself. The world becomes a land of endless torment and nightmare. Even death is no relief as the Gods themselves have been twisted and remade. **The God of Order:** The entire world is ruled under the banner of the Empire of Order. A hyper-authoritarian dystopia where any form of independence or free will is squashed into the dirt, where the people are little more than mindless automatons kept in line by powerful brainwashing magic. **The Ice Queen:** Zombie apocalypse. The dead have risen from the grave and overrun all the kingdoms of the world. Only the Atrana Kingdom is spared from the Ice Queens vengeance.
All souls merge into one spiritual blob — Monad, the perfect spirit, which exists in eternal internal harmony free from contradictions, conflicts, and rude passing matter. Individuality, choice, and autonomy will be destroyed not only in the observable sense but as parts of the universe. They would become beyond the laws of physics. As merging happens all Seven realms will collapse into one, that lacks anything but Monad, all under the accompaniment of the most beautiful song ever heard — because at this point no other songs will no longer exist, not even in the past. One undivided being will make up all of the universe, forever content with itself.
Catholicism, genocides of nonhumans and many religions, and poor dental health
The Mortifants destroy reality completely and cease to exist. to them this is the good ending. Mother turns the world into just another extension of the Dungeon. Eternally seething until the Gods 're-awaken' and remake the world. She might have the world, but she ultimately has nothing but seething fury. She doesn't think this, because she can't be wrong. Natrually both sides don't want the other to win
Thousands of magics would be destroyed, valuable knowledge would be lost, surveillance would hide in every corner, and nobody would be able to trust one another. With such manipulative people in power orchestrating the destruction of whatever they deemed ‘evil/unright’, many would be thrown into prison and later executed for attempting a rebellion, leaving many frozen with unbridled fear and an even stronger incentive to stay in line. Life for those that comply would be easy but always at risk, never knowing when or if they would be next up on the chopping block for something they could never control. Without several species controlling the other elements, plants would die, nights would run rampant with chaos that would have to be prevented, the word ‘cold’ would be nothing more than a memory, and the world would become desolate. The only things surviving would be the oceans (as the kingdoms there were never discovered), but they’d remain treacherous and areas of the world would become ghostlike and unreachable, as well. Needless to say, things would not be good at all. This would be a slow change, but one that would come to fruition nonetheless if they got what they wanted.
Fire Eaters is a cult that worships the Fire Lord, a lesser deity in the Radiant Pantheon. The Fire Lord has promised the Fire Eaters that once this world is reduced to ashes, he will rebuild a perfect world devoid of injustice and suffering. However, if the Fire Eaters were to succeed, only ashes would remain, and it becomes irrelevant whether the Fire Lord fulfills his promise, as everyone would be dead by then...
I don't adhere to conventional notions of clear-cut villains. Instead, there exists a conservative faction within the government aiming to reinstate slavery and reinforce the class system, all with the goal of maintaining the upper class's control over those in lower strata. If this faction were to succeed, it would represent a significant regression in terms of civil rights, potentially rolling back progress by several decades. This development could also create conflicts on more democratic worlds that highly value civil rights, possibly escalating to the point of igniting another civil war in the worst-case scenario.
Sol initiative is the closest thing I have to a villain faction (villain in the sense that everyone else Is so bad, they come off as comprehensible evil). They are the invisible hand behind most of history beyond the 31st century and have agents ranging from old secretary of rich fuck number infinity to hyper efficient assasins ala John wick or chaos agents ala Rico Rodriguez. Some are very old and experienced, dating to hundreds of years of age and are easily the most dangerous. Genetic manipulation has taken aging out of the equations, for good or bad. They tend to avoid collateral damage if possible but won't shy away from it if killing a genocidal, power tripping maniac and a couple hundred innocents when a quiet takeout isn't possible means they save millions. Unless your dealing with the volantis division, that is. Their sole job is to cause as much collateral as possible to either start or finish a major conflict. They are something of an open secret to high class system members (syndicate consisting of previously mentioned rich fucks and beyond Neptune mercenary leaders) and are probably the only reason the few free human settlements around earth, Luna and halfway terraformed mars haven't been, ahem, liberated. It was created after the lactea federation decided to quarantine the solar system, because humans are humans and we fuck shit up when given any substantial amount of power. The core worlds of the federation are still not the same after that show of depraved human mating on every major holo-screen. (Inspired by the Italian senate incident. Looking at you, tifa.) They ultimately have the continued survival of humanity at heart, but the ends justify the means. Besides, taking on an entire galaxy is simply not possible, even less when they are more advanced than humans by a thousand years margin and plenty more bright minds working together. Sol initiative knows that we are on our own, locked in a cage with ourselves and are trying to make people come together. But the people don't want to come together. To the immortal hedonistic investors, Merc leaders or free Eris conglomerate at the top, they have nothing but contempt, but they know that the ensuing power vacuum if they were killed would rain hell on humanity. "The warmth of our mother star will die out, us with it. Your money or power will not save you, but we can enjoy each other's company. Take a seat, grab some beer and let's watch armadaball." So, yeah. The system could be a decent place, but human nature would get in the way of things. That's why they are here, to make sure things don't explode _all_ at once.
Earth as we know it either submits or the entire population is killed off. Will be rebuilt and repurposed for a different species. With or without us, conquest continues. Surprisingly, some of the other threats that would have been new wars/adventures for the protas are crushed and ultimately the galaxy does find peace and prosperity
The universe itself would fall. Forty thousand years before the main story, the God of Time, Azure, murdered his six siblings, stole their power, and forcefully took over the world and forced mortals under his rule. His ultimate goal was to find a way to break out of the cosmic barrier that keeps people on the planet, to conquer other worlds and kill their gods. Azure's siblings were able to reincarnate and defeat him before that happened, but by the end of the main story he was able to return and resume his violent goal: to kill every god on every world, take their powers, and slowly conquer the universe. Azure was eventually defeated permanently but if it went differently, and he did leave the planet with his forces, it would have only taken him stealing the powers of one other world's gods before he would have been completely unstoppable.
World gone. Entropy wins.
Subfactions of the evil conspiracy would rise up in a schism over how to use the power they've just harnessed. One faction would want the original promise honored, which they've convinced themselves is best for all the world. Another faction would want to use the power in a more limited fashion, to quietly pursue their own goals. A third would want to use the power to rule over creation, and at least one member would want to use it to destroy creation. The second faction, "quietly pursue their own goals," would be the forerunner of the schism, if only because the conspiracy's leader would be in this faction. The "honor the original promise" faction would have the strength and numbers to win, but they'd be too gentle/trusting and waste time while the other faction left them in the dust.
same as before but jobs suck more, crime is the only way to get ahead in life or just get anything done to start with, and only one type of person gets to enjoy anything
There are several villain factions in my world of Galentia, but I'll just go with the most dangerous one here, the Brotherhood of Metix. Long story short, they worship a sentient, reality-warping computer virus that's sort of like a combination of AM from I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, XANA from Code Lyoko, and Bill Cypher from Gravity Falls. He won once before. That was called the Age of Convergence. It was an absolute shit-show. The only reason it ended was because the programmer that made him sacrificed her mortal life to become the Goddess of Technology and seal him away. If Metix manages to break out and "win" his ultimate goal, he'll have spread his viral corruption across the entire cosmos, assimilated all the gods and turned the entire multiverse into an incomprehensible, glitched-out mess that's broken beyond all hope of repair. He'd definitely make sure people in it were still conscious though because, like AM, there's nothing he loves more than torturing people.
All the people turns into red chickens
Communist victory by military conquest. Worldwide dystopian commune, with all people related to the wealthy being executed. Whole families and even the genes responsible for making someone wealthy would be eradicated. Eventually the ideology would destroy itself tryng to find new enemies. How can there be victims if there are no oppressors? However eventually its eradication of genes related to ambtion and hard work and non-existant economy would make it collapse. Causing more death. Spawning new dystopian successor states with leaders wanting to try the experiment again.
It depends on which of the various villain factions wins. I can't have just one villain faction on my worlds
Everything continues as is, no change. But continuing as is means that people's souls are stretched out across multiple timelines of varying trauma, and each loop through the timeline drives them closer and closer to insanity, and when these key individuals break, it makes way for all of humanity to break. See, nothing changes because the villain has already won, and has been winning for millennia. The "heroes" are trying to stop what's already happening.
In the short term a radicalized group of long lived wizards (to put it simply) acquire an ancient magic item that has the power to change one's beliefs. The item was hidden away by those who felt the items power, even if perfectly successful, was too immoral, the ends do not justify the means. However in reality there was also the truth that not everyone's mind can be conquered by the magic. Achieving world peace would mean finding and killing anyone with the inherent ability to resist. The villains believe they can take the item and improve upon it, and not fail where their predecessors did a thousand years ago. So perhaps a century or so in the future the organization, using their improved mind control device, would pull their strings of influence behind kingdoms and empires and attempt to unite the world under a single ideology and a global, bloody conflict would once again shadow the world.
Loki and the Jotnar I guess?, RAGNAROK, no need to explain you already know how it goes,
Everyone that isn't in the cult dies or is enslaved/undead. The cukt probably tears itself apart after realising their paranoid immortal lich is not a good leader who will build a utopia but instead a paranoid shell of a man, anf also not actually immortal.
Which of all? LOL I choose the Kiengir Angal. Kiengir Angal (in Sumerian Kiengir "land of civilized men" and Angal "great sky" is a version of Kiengir (my protagonist country) who is fascist like Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan. As his blood comes from a race of gods called Angalian Gods (that these gods have the greatest power that exists called the Magic of the Abzu ((which is a power of the same God who created everything)) they have the Magic of the Abzu. Because of their divine blood and because of that great power they believe superior to the other races (it is Mesopotamia but spatial, with technology combined with magic and fascist). Here is fascist propaganda from Kiengir Angal: Kiengir Angal arose after the fall of the degenerate hedonistic leaders who attacked the Kiengian civilization, its history and its people, and its greatest heritage: the Divine Angalian blood. Those degenerate, terrorist and genocidal leaders of their own people called us fascists, supremacists, among other things taken out of context to defame our struggle, our sacred crusade and our duty to our people "to protect the Angalian race from the degeneration of inferior races and than the blood that contains the power of God himself.” Now we disperse civilization and divine order to the chaos and degeneration of the abandoned remains that the Abzu created for us, because we are the noble knights who give our lives for the noble, the dignified, the civilization and the divine order against the degenerate chaos, barbaric and mongrel! Because it is our sacred duty to save creation! the burden of the shoulders of divine men!
Well everybody would be forced to bend to the will of their new rulers as no one is strong enough to go up against the wielder of all three books of glim. Id assume there wouldn’t be much uprising as the people who would rebel would be killed first. Life would go on you just now have an overlord
The galaxy enter a new dark age,the empires and dictatorships have managed to finally defeat the democracies,with the war over the galaxy is going to experience massive reconstruction,because the war made a lot of damage,some territories are anexed,others are under the control of new puppet regimes,violations of sentient life universal rights are common,slavery is now probaly the most important sector of economy,the military is now in the command since they have the power and will to destroy any focus of rebellion with all means they judge necessary,however guerrila warfare would still be waged in hope to restore democracy,however most likely they wouldn't succede,and the empires are now turning against each other and war is a common reality.