Category:Defilers

Defilers are characters (almost always villainous) who engage in the destruction or desecration of sacred or important sites, buildings or icons: famous examples are people who dig up graves or build over them without removing bodies or maruading hordes that attack temples and set them alight.

In the past some defilers called themselves Iconoclasts and destroyed religious icons as a form of protest against what they believed to be heretical practices - in fiction Defilers seldom have such cause and may commit these crimes out of sheer malice..