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@j-a-penrose @taylorclogston @evelyn @steward-of-the-pen Actually, I was wondering if you guys could help out with my antagonist’s motive.

The idea I had was that Zalal, back when he was a good guy and an apprentice paladin, wanted “To be appreciated/respected for my talent”. However, because he didn’t learn that “Respect worth having is based off of character, not skill”, he instead sought out respect from the wrong crowd and did some bad stuff. Eventually, he ended up being surviving a flood that God had sent to a) chastise him and give him time to cool his heels and think, and b) prevent his best friend from killing him in battle. Zalal instead takes umbrage at this, and instead falls in league with the devil and operates with the following plans/motives:

– Global Plan: Cause a disaster on a global scale, so he can swoop in somehow as the hero. Motive: Finally get appreciation/respect he’s looking for.
– Individual-scale Plan: Get Cadmen, the current Paladin, to abandon his duties (He’d be elated at out-and-out apostasy, but he’d settle for dereliction of duty). Motive: Try and justify his own apostasy and abandonment of God by trying to do what Satan did in Job 1:9-11(“Job only worships you because you bribe him” to paraphrase).

Do you guys think those are understandable goals/motives?