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Early on in Legends of Windemere: Allure of the Gypsies, new villains are introduced.  All of them are allies of the Lich and are on equal footing with him, but they tend to stay more to the shadows.  All of them, along with Queen Trinity, were never in the original story that took place in game form.  Villains weren’t a big thing because a game always focuses on the heroes.  You don’t get any asides for the bad guys, so it’s not a priority to do character development for many of them.  So, I had to make a group of baddies, including Nyder Fortune.

Nyder is a gnome who wears ugly colored clothing and is a mad scientist type.  He works out of a big factory on Shayde and rarely gets involved in the action.  The others tend to contact him for helpful tools or to request a Weapon Dragon.  His family is responsible for creating the part dragon, part machine beasts that show up from time to time.  His creation was primarily to explain them, so I was happy that he grew a little and developed other machines.  Still not sure if he’ll have a connection to Fritz Warrenberg or not.

Personality-wise, Nyder is easily exasperated with his allies if he is in the middle of something.  For the most part, he’s calm and collected while not carrying about what the others are doing.  Some scenes he reminds me of a babysitter, who has mentally checked out of the job.  As long as the others don’t get themselves killed or set the castle on fire, he’s okay.

What’s the future for Nyder Fortune?  No idea.  Being a non-combat character and more of a secondary reserve villain, he doesn’t get into the action.  I give him a fight scene in the 5th book, but he didn’t care for it.  Now, I can’t get him out of his factory unless his life depends on it.  He’s really becoming the assistant and messenger for the big villain of the series instead of a field agent.  Guess every evil group needs one.