Board Thread:Clean up Concerns/@comment-2175012-20170507201405/@comment-366087-20170508072347

The problem with "off-screen villains" is we have to take someone's word for it.

But how often is it in a story that some mysterious and unseen character did not ever exist, but was made up to divert attention from one of the seen characters? It is bad enough when we have a shadowy presence which really ends up being one of the visible characters.

Worshippers can *say* they are acting on the orders or will of some other personage or entity, but until we actually see *something* of such characters, then we could be just dealing with people (un)willingly and/or (un)knowingly transferring responsibility upon another agency as justifications of their own Bad Deeds.