Kain, Nighthunter

As I was away in holiday this last week, I didn't get any writing done... However, a lot of ideas popped into my head. A surprisingly large amount of these ideas featured or somehow had something to do with the character Kain and the other characters I made for my last story Kain, Nighthunter.

I've walked around with an idea of how to start a new chapter in the story of Kain since I posted the last part. Kain is to have a wife, a fairy, who is tiny (like most faeries) at day, but grows to the size of a human at night. Their house is to be attacked by evil creatures at the start of the next chapter, and Kain then goes to see Messalina and Nightwing in order to find out who sendt the creatures, what they want, and where to find them.

After a long time of thinking about this new chapter, I found myself coming up with backstories for both Kain, Messalina and Nightwing, and I made up a story that I somehow want to feature in the Kain-universe, even hough I'm unsure how. I also made a backstory for some of the creature-types featured in the last and the upcoming part.

The hardest thing to make up, is the main villain. In the last part Cathola was the main bad-guy(/girl), but I wanted her to be stopped fairly easy (as Messalina did, at the end of the story), so that she wouldn't feel too powerful. I have plans to set her actions in a broader perspective though, and I want her to be associated with a bigger bad-guy, that I want to introduce in this part.

I don't know why, but I've always had a problem writing about bad-guys that are persistant in my works. In my longest piece of work to date, my unfinished novel Mephisto, there was never a clear villain. In the start, Mephisto was introduced as the villain, but turned out to be one of the prominent good-guys. Then I introduced a long time foe of Mephisto called Atrocity, but I made Mephisto kill him early on. Then I introduced Beltaine, who kidnapped both Mephisto and other friends of the main-character. Later on, Beltaine converted to the side of the protagonist, and I still lacked an antagonist. I guess the closest I came was the archangel Peter, who tried to set up a war between heaven and hell. This character was never met by the main character however, and only mentioned several times, making a very uninvolved antagonist. In the stories about Kain, I want a more involved antagonist, and I want to make it a good one. Good luck to me =p

Any tips or hints about how to do this? Please leave a comment ;)