An ancient evil awakens after 10'000 years

>an ancient evil awakens after 10'000 years.
>its from a time when armor, weapons and magic where much less advanced.
>the ancient evil is like level 6 by todays standards.

I liked that in Buffy when they shot a guy with a rocket launcher since that's way better than swords or shit tier magic.

Reminds me of several 'villains' from OPM.

You could say that the ancient evil was storing up energy while it was sleeping, so it is much more powerful now than it was then.

>The Villain's Ethics are also outdated to the point that he's no longer considered evil by today's standards either.

Welp, I've got my next character.

>an ancient evil awakens

This isn't a particularly rare issue. The world is old enough that there exists many ancient things, and morally diverse enough that there exists many evil things. Overlap is inevitable, and they gotta sleep sometime. Just thank out lucky stars that "sometime" so happens to be "most of the time". Every few years one of them wakes up somewhere. Its usually not very pretty. Towns laid to waste, monsters roam the land, and someone has to go and stab it with a magic sword, or trap it in a crystal or steal the source of its power, and bob the things right back to sleep. A couple years later another one awakes somewhere else. There are in fact entire archeological disciplines dedicated to researching past evils so that we know how to defeat them now, and recording them as they come to ease the way for future generations. '

An ancient evil awakens. Nobody really bats an eye. Everyone gets back to business as normal. Your business just so happens to be stopping it.

Yes, we all saw that fucking episode of buffy too. See

>an ancient evil awakens
>turns out it was just an ancient murderhobo who was a bit too good at murderhoboing
>he fits right in with modern adventurers

>the party plays as a group of awakened ancient evils.

this could be fun in a modern setting
you could run banks and stores like dungeons

>an ancient evil awakens
>another ancient evil also awakens
>they're sitting around waiting for the third ancient evil to awaken, but he hit the snooze button on his cult-clock and he's not gonna be up for another hundred years at least

>an ancient evil awakens after 10,000 years
>it catches a modern disease
>dies because it's antibodies can't combat a modern common cold

I kinda want this now

I'd probably play a disillusioned 'not-Vandal-Savage'. An immortal Caveman (maybe even a technically extinct hominid subspecies who manages to 'pass') and plays at being a grand manipulator through the ages, but honestly just feels overwhelmed by the changing times just wants to return to the world he knew of sandals, spears, oiled muscles, leather, evil sorcerers, ale, wenches, and HIGH ADVENTURE.

>an ancient evil awakens
>it finds the modern world strange and confusing
>"It hurt itself in its confusion!"

>An ancient evil awakens.
>the mindless monster terrorizes the entire planet for years before the party manages to fight it to exhaustion.
>a larger version of the ancient evil appears.
>"thanks for playing with my son, you know how kids are, never go to sleep until they get all tuckered out."

>an ancient evil awakens
>finds out that the government whose land he's been sleeping under isn't happy he hasn't been paying his taxes for the last several thousand years
>has to convince the adventurers to help him do odd jobs for cash, because he has no work experience

Reminds a little bit of World Tree RPG.
Magic was actually less advanced in the past and most ancient artifacts are precious because they are historical and not because they are powerful.
There is a few exeptions because artifacts created by or with the blessing of the Gods were more common and some dangerous and disregarded but powerful magical techniques were used back then.

>ancient evil awakens
>doesn't really do anything evil
>just sits around the house drinking and sharing war stories.
>party awakens ancient good to get him out of the house
>the two of them hit it off because they're the only ones who gets each other's references.

>an ancient evil awakens
>annoyed that someone interrupted its nap
>rants at whoever woke it up, then goes right back to sleep

>an ancient evil reboots
>Searching for updates...
>Installing 1 of 195,839,079 Adobe updates

>the adventurers must find a very ancient and precious weapon and many enemies want it too
>the weapon is archaic and not useful at all to, is it just precious because of how ancient it is.

>"There are three Unforgivable curses in existence."
>"If you would've used Avada Kedavra or Cruciatus, I wouldn't even bat an eye."
>"But tell me, WHO GAVE YOU THE MORAL RIGHT TO CAST THE CURSE THAT INSTALLS ADOBE FLASH UPDATES?"

>Ancient Evil gets depressed at being so low on the totem pole now
>Your party goes on a quest to get it up to date with the modern times and powerful enough to have a proper epic showdown

>Ancient Evil has awoken
>from a sexy dream
>Twins they were
>People keep asking him about wolves

Been there, done that.

>The ancient evil joins the party but keeps its origin secret.
>it plans to grow in strength just as these mortals have by adventuring until its powerful enough to destroy the world.
>slowly it abandons its plan to destroy the world as it wants to spend more time with the friends it made on its adventures.

the trick to defeating the ancient evil was friendship.

>That episode in where the bad guys summon an acient evil demon and turns out to be like 12 cm tall, they look at the book and in the picture it says "picture at scale"

>an ancient evil awakens
>due to awakening in the middle of a highly disruptive, multi-year long war most people are grateful that his bloody reign of darkness has curtailed banditry, reopened trade, and stopped roving bands of mercenaries from pillaging the countryside

I like this.
I like you.

>an ancient evil reboots
>installs steam
>gaben grins as the master plan he's been working on for centuries finally comes into fruition.
>gets evil hooked to dota and manually lowers its MMR and entertains himself with its rage
>a new evil is born

>Both an ancient evil and ancient good have awakened after 10,000 years.
>The moral compass of modern society is completely and totally different from what it once was.

>The ancient evil is have an incredibly easy time adjusting to the new world and if anything has found peace in it's modern conveniences, distractions, and friendship in it's modern peoples.

>The ancient good is constantly confused, frustrated, and finds it incredibly difficult to live in a world where what constitute 'good' and 'evil' is not only extremely subtle, but more personal.

>an ancient evil awakens
>it gets a job teaching ancient history and reintegrates with society
>the angelic parole officer asks for a reason/bribe to send it away

>the second campaign is defeating the PCs from that camlaign at the height of their powers

>ancient evil awakens
>walks to the bathroom, does his business, gets back into bed
>returns to ancient sleep

There's a funny short story like this about Macbeth. The gist of it is that he survives the battle at Dunsinane because it's still against "men born of women" and goes on to be an adventurer across the world for hundreds of years.

Later he comes back to the castle only to find out that he hasn't paid property taxes on it for centuries. He's visited by a robot tax collector, who shoots him in self defense when he tries to stab it with a sword.

>Bjorn
>Evil
Pick one, Mister Full House.

>Ancient Evil awakens after 1000 years
>Ancient Evil existed in a time before nationalism
>Can't grow a powerbase because Ancient Evil can't into modern countries and their propaganda
>Ancient Evil gets to thinking
>Invents Globalism
>Starts to preach globalism and "Outreach"
>Eventually, human nature takes its course, and the quotes are dropped
>Using modern propaganda techniques, Ancient Evil starts to believe in his own system
>Eventually world is swept by a wave of globalism
>World trade booms. GDPs across the planet surge. The U.N. grows in power as fast as the AE
>AE forgot why he did this
>Ancient Evil is now New Good

>implying globalists aren't the BBEG

>Implying Nationalists aren't

>an ancient evil awakens
>society's Overton window has shifted in such a way that it's now considered a moderate

>Europe has superior architecture, actors, people, musicians, scientists, writers, history, and leaders
>they're both equally shit REEEE!1!!

Way to shoot yourself in the foot image maker, couldn't you had found something at least halfway decent for USA?

>Long ago in a distant land, an ancient shape shifting master of darkness awakened, unleashing an unspeakable evil upon the land
>But a warrior wielding a magic sword, stepped forth to oppose him
>Before the final blow could be struck, the ancient evil tore open a portal in time, and flung the warrior into the future, where his evil is law

no it's the US,