Thread:Jester of chaos/@comment-27818776-20151012224016/@comment-27818776-20151015122103

But, yeah, characterization is important even though it may not look like it matters. A villaim should have something of a personality and clear motivations for why they do what they do other than the fact that they're pure evil. They should also be aware about what they're doing is wrong, thus having moral agency. For example, normally demons wouldn't have moral agency, because they would be considered made of evil. That is also one interpretation of Satan in that he literally has no moral agency due to being considered the embodiment of evil. That, and it was also believed that Satan could only do so much as long as God permitted him to. So, in other words, he was under God's rule.