: Re: This is a problem that doesn’t seem to have an answer My bad guy is very very very complicated. My entire story exists because for thousands of years (no one knows why) regular people from
When a character is a tad insane and want it all they can only do one thing, find a loophole. A story I heard before was about a vampire who wanted to become mortal again but was afraid to die. So she eventually found a loophole by tethering her life to another immortal creature and sealing it away, making her an immortal human.
Seeing you work in a realm of magic, and there is a prophecy you could deal with the prophecy that is said to kill her would also be able to grant her wish. I once read a story in which a demon (who was peddling souls) explain that prophecies are contracts. They only come true if certain parties uphold their end of the " deal" and that as long that hasn't happened yet the deal could be interpreted in different way and therefor exploited for personal gain.
As you said a blade of bone is required for her to be killed, but if you can also make it so that the blade is the only thing that can grant her immortality while retaining her soul or something like that, the huntress would have motivation to let part of the prophecy play out, and if it doesn't go according to her plan, kill the human and wait for the next one.
This would create a dynamic between the antagonist and the protagonist seeing the antagonist needs the protagonist to survive until a certain part is played, but before it is completed.
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