Having completed a few characters who we can broadly think of as "good", here are some of the villains of the series, in the form of two evil sorcerers and some skeleton warriors raised from their graves.
First, the two sorcerers;
On the left is Tartaro the Necromancer, once a living human being and now an Undead Liche, a sorcerer whose entire existence depends now on the incantations and rituals he learnt long ago in the Lands of the Dead in the far North. Tartaro lusts for a legendary arcane treasure, The Black Skull, which he believes will allow him to regain the form of a living man without losing his mastery over Death, but this has always eluded him. Many believe that this artefact no longer exists but Tartaro is featured in a number of episodes searching for it, but without success.
The wizard on the right is Morgos the Dark, who is described in one episode as a Master of Thelemic Magick and the possessor of the Book of Abramelin the Magus. Clearly one of the writers was plundering the works of Aleister Crowley, which may have accounted for the popularity of the series with a lot of far-out hippy followers of Crowley.
Morgos is often portrayed as the great adversary of Pandolfo the Celestial Wizard and this struggle is played out in a few episodes, especially in Series Two, but Morgos is also the sworn enemy of the Grey Elves of the Great Forest who, long ago expelled him from his mystical fortress on the western coast of the Enchanted Kingdom, forcing him to find a new home in a Dark Tower in the Mountains of the East.
Morgos works his evil schemes in many different ways, using different intermediaries from the different communities of the Kingdom, but most often employs the avaricious and cruel Goblins of the Mountains or various members of the Guild of Torturers.
Tartaro, on the other hand uses supernatural beings such as Ghosts and Banshees, as well as raising long-dead warriors to carry out his bidding. Here are four such Skeleton Warriors.
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