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Nari: Since the beginning, the Order has sought to protect the balance of magic and mortal, no matter the cost, but our actions only brought pain.
Merlin: I've spent a millennium keeping their horrors at bay, but it wasn't enough. Nari: Bellroc and Skreal believe humanity is lost, beyond correction. Now, they wish to end it all. They search… for the Genesis Seals. Claire: What are the Seals? Douxie: It's the oldest tale in the wizards books; primal seals that contain the very essence of magic. Merlin: If the Seals are broken… then raw, uncontrolled magic shall rise upon the world, wiping it like a flood. Nari: All of the Arcane Order must be present to open the Seals… that is why I fled. Merlin: I've hidden the Seals away, but we must keep Bellroc and Skrael away from them and Nari, or it is the end of all things! —The Guardians of Arcadia discussing Bellroc and Skrael's omnicidal plan.
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Bellroc completing Morgana's Start of Darkness by killing her brother, right in front of her.
Throughout the Tales of Arcadia franchise, the Guardians of Arcadia have faced many threats, together or spread apart, during their time protecting such a sleepy town. These are the very worst.
- Bellroc, Keeper of the Flame, is the terrifying primordial demigod who founded the Arcane Order and created the universe together with her siblings, Skrael and Nari, as her minions and the Titans as their handmaidens, believing that humanity was undeserving of the world because of them disturbing the balance between themselves magical beings, even though the Arcane Order themselves were no better as their actions only brought pain instead of balance. After Morgana was killed by her brother King Arthur in an intense battle due to the changing of the timeline, she was resurrected by Bellroc, Skrael, and Nari, to use her for their plans, manipulating her into turning evil. Eventually, during the Battle of the Killahead Bridge, Bellroc completes Morgana's Start of Darkness by killing Arthur and resurrecting him afterward to turn him into the Green Knight alongside Skrael, then manipulating Arthur into assisting the Order in their plans. Although Nari saw the errors of her ways, Bellroc remained evil and changed her plot to finding the Genesis Seals so she can use the Arcane Order, who are all only a means to an end to her, in her plan to wipe the universe clean of existence, just because Morgana failed to play her part in their plot to fix the balance the way Bellroc wanted it. Eventually capturing Nari centuries later, Bellroc mind-controls her into turning evil by force when she refuses to join them, and unlocks the Genesis Seals alongside Skrael and the mind-controlled Nari, thus awakening the Titans in the process to complete her goal of cosmic omnicide. After drowning hundreds of civilians on a collapsing bridge, she moves the Fire Titan to Arcadia-Oaks to connect it to the last Heartstone, even in spite of the deaths of Skrael and Nari despite needing them to start life anew, showing that she is a completely self-centered being who will manipulate and kill anyone to extirpate reality and remake the Earth in her own image as the only thing left of it, specifically as a volcanic, uninhabitable planet devoid of life.
- Skrael of the North Wind is the second-in-command of the Arcane Order and Bellroc's right-hand who proves to be far more sadistic than his cohorts, even his leader. Like her, Skrael was one of the creators of the universe and came to a point of view that mankind cannot be corrected and thus shared the same viewpoint of mankind "destroying the balance", resurrecting Morgana from death alongside his siblings, Bellroc and Nari, to use her as a pawn for the Arcane Order, and later doing the same with King Arthur after he falls in battle. Following Morgana's failure, Skrael decided to change his goal from bringing back the balance to destroying the universe and remaking the Earth the way he sees it in a way completely different from Bellroc's, as an icy wasteland instead of a volcanic one. During the 21st century, after Douxie and his team infiltrate the Arcane Order's fortress, Skrael tortures Steve Palchuk while Bellroc is giving out a long monologue, but while Skrael apologizes, he continues to do so anyway, showing he isn't truly sincere about it. Upon capturing Nari alongside Bellroc, Skrael adds to Bellroc's threat that they will both also kill Douxie's friends if he doesn't surrender Nari and soon collaborates with Bellroc in using the Genesis Seals to unleash the Titans upon the Earth. As he travels with the Ice Titan to the Heartstone beneath Arcadia-Oaks, he recreates the Ice Titan after Stricklander's Heroic Sacrifice fails to try and destroy him and before looking back in sadism as Jim stares in deep anguish, and even kills Nari when she is snapped free from the Arcane Order's control and attempts to stop him.
- Trollhunters: Queen Usurna is the tyrannical Queen of the Krubera race. Centuries ago, she was responsible for trading Aarghaumont (more commonly known as "AAARRRGGHH!!!") and other younglings from her own race to Gunmar the Black, out of her fanaticism toward him, even selecting Aarghaumont to become his champion. After Gunmar was trapped in the Darklands, Usurna manipulates the Troll Tribunal by using their fear of Gunmar against them, causing them to indirectly keep Jim Lake, Jr. trapped in the Darklands because the Killahead Bridge was open, an action that would lead to a chain of events causing Gunmar's inevitable freedom. However, it's shown that she doesn't even care about Gunmar himself, as she was willing to leave him trapped in the Darklands forever when she claimed that Jim signed the death penalty when he entered it, making the decision that the Killahead Bridge should be dumped into the ocean where it can never be found again. To keep her tracks, she heartlessly murders Vendel, the Elder of Trollmarket, and frames it on Jim before leading Gunmar to Trollmarket to enslave all the innocent trolls there to become more Gumm-Gumms, even her bodyguards. Following this, she has her bodyguards brutalize and torture Aarghaumont to teach him a lesson before attempting to drown him.
- 3Below: General Val Morando was originally a military leader whose job was to protect his home planet, Akiridion-5, and his own species, the Akiridions, but he became power-hungry to the point where he tried to usurp the throne from King Fialkov and Queen Coranda. After being banished from Akiridion-5 for high treason, he engineered the bombing of Satellite Nine using the Zeron Brotherhood, which included Varvatos Vex's own family and hundreds of other civilians, to turn him into a traitor against his own species. Knowing that the King refused to pursue the Zerons and instead increased the planet's defenses, he manipulated him into betraying the King and Queen by lowering the shields, promising no one would be hurt. After that, he deliberately brakes his promise when he launches a full-scale attack on Akiridion-5 and easily takes over. He even launches a law that the Akiridions should worship him instead of praying for the Royals, with only one warning (plus, a child was among them), and sends his first OMEN to kill the Royals, with the entire planet being Forced to Watch. After this fails, he creates far more OMENs to terrorize his people, and even creates an asteroid the size of Arcadia to destroy Arcadia as a diversion to distract the Royals from him. He soon kills Tronos Madu (one of his bounty hunters) just for failing him, and murders an innocent, playful alien pet named Buster just because he "never liked bugs". After absorbing Gaylen's Core, Morando decides to destroy the entire universe and remake it in his own image as a god.
- Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans: Zong-Shi is a tyrant who rules over the TrollDragon race, enslaving them and forcing them to do as he says. He repays all this labor by using a magical device known as the Khronisfere to see into his own future and prolong his own life while leaving his own species to die, and has been doing this for centuries.