User blog:Mattia Garavini/Pure Evil proposals: Jagreen Lern

The PE proposal of tadoy comes from a rather obscure fantasy series. It's Jagreen Lern, champion of the lords of chaos and genocidal tyrant.

What's the work?
Elric of Melnibone is a prototypical dark fantasy series by controversial author Michael Moorcock. The story follows the misadventures of Elric, the original edgy emo protagonist of the fantasy genre, in his journey from a sickly and frustrated ruler of Melnibone, a land populated by decadent and sadistic elf-like humanoids, to a top class wizard-warrior adventurer involved in the conflict between the gods of Law and the gods of Chaos. His iconic weapon is Stormbringer, one of two sentient demonic runeblades that feast upon the souls of those their wielders slay with them, have wills of their own, and tend to take over their wielders on occasion, which leads to the death of pretty much everyone of Elric's friends and loved ones. Yeah, it's a darkness induced audience apathy type of fantasy.

Needless to say, despite its relative obscurity, it greatly influenced the tabletop games Dungeons & Dragons and Warhammer, especially the character alignment.

Who is he and what he has done?
Jagreen Lern (or Jagreen Lem) is the main antagonist of the latter half of the Elric of Melnibones series of books (with Arioch being the Bigger Bad). He is the cruel theocratic ruler of Pan Tang, a small nation of sorcerers and worshippers of the Chaos gods and the chosen champion of Chaos. He appears primarily in Stormbringer, the sixth book of the Elric series.

Jagreen Lern is the ruthless, petty and psychopathic Theocrat of Pan Tang. Becoming the champion of the forces of Chaos after Elric switches sides as a bringer of balance between Law and Chaos, Jagreen Lern takes a liking to murdering the friends of Elric while also running his domains with brutality, Human Sacrifice and turning countless prisoners into living, tormented statues. Jagreen Lern proceeds to lead an army across the lands, massacring those he comes across and conducting human sacrifice and torture in order to get more power from the chaos gods. Torturing Elric when he is captured, Jagreen Lern later kidnaps and mutates Elric's wife Zarozinia into a twisted monster Elric is forced to euthanize. Jagreen Lern later leads the army of Chaos in a final campaign to dominate the world, stopping at nothing to harm Elric himself both phisically and emotionally.

Mitigating factors
I don't think so. Moorcock villains are usually campy and one-dimensional and doesn't give Jagreen any sympatethic qualities.

Heinous standards
Jagreen is the grand champion of human cruelty in the Eternal Champion universe. Not even scumbags like Yyrkon and Gaynor the Damned reached his level of murder and pettiness.

Final verdict
Another easy keep.