Three villains. I love creating villains.

And don't worry, there are some pretty villains too.

(Left to Right)

Wang Fu, the most foul-tempered and sadistic of the Palace Eunuchs. Serving the unofficial role of 'Imperial Confessor', he is in charge of interrogations. Those who enter his chambers do not leave until he is satisfied with their answer, which is not always necessarily the truth. Horrifically scarred by his own colleagues in an elaborate punishment when they feared he was getting too influential, Wang Fu does little in his day-to-day routine other than brood over the slights he's suffered and single out someone to 'occupy his time'.

Chen Qiu, a cold and arrogant figure of the scholar-gentry class who has vowed to purge the capital, and the rest of the empire after it, of corruption. While noble on paper, Chen Qiu demonstrates his understanding of what is and is not corrupt to be rather arbitrary, those accused, imprisoned, tortured or executed perhaps coincidentally people he has long had personal problems with. Wishing to teach the young hedonistic Emperor the 'error of his ways', he preys on those Emperor Ling loves and trusts and steadily removes them, intimidating the Emperor and sowing fear into those not of the scholar-gentry. He claims his work will be complete when the court and the land is at it should be and in the hands of those who deserve it. How many will still be alive by that time is uncertain.

Yang Qiu, an imposing man of lowly upbringing and thuggish temperament, Yang Qiu has been offered much and more by Chen Qiu who relies on him to do the work unsuited to the spotless hands of scholars. While loutish and uncultured, Yang Qiu has a deceptive street wisdom and an ability to rouse crowds into violence, leading lynch-mobs from village to village, preying upon any unfortunate enough to be scapegoated. Upon assuming office under Chen Qiu's recommendation, Yang Qiu gathers a personal cadre of ex-convicts, mercenaries, compromised partisans and assorted thugs with axes to grind to break open every door in Luoyang, rooting out every element of society that could be considered corrupt or dangerous and readily serving as judge, jury and executioner. One who plays neither by the rules of eunuchs or scholars, Yang Qiu likes nothing more than the feeling of having power over both.

These three are barely, if ever, touched upon in most Three Kingdoms adaptations and I'm looking forward to developing them. With the social issues of the modern day, I can properly paint a picture of just how much extremism, self-righteousness and opportunism on both sides of the conflict can cause chaos in a civilised world.

Cao Cao will have his work cut out for him.