Wait, which diabolically brilliant mastermind and warrior, founder of an entire tradition of villainy, from the greatest country in history, who plagues the flagship country in the setting, repeatedly evades death through improbable means, possesses a code of honor his subordinates lack, has a plan to fix the world which would actually work if Everyone Just but Everyone Will Not Just, deeply loves his equally evil wife, and was eventually betrayed and murdered by one of his children did you think I was talking about?

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I have come to court your daughter, Mary of the golden hair
I have gold and I have silver, I have goods beyond compare
I will buy her silks and satin and a gold ring for her hand
She shall have a mansion, she'll have servants to command
- "Step It Out Mary," Irish traditional.