Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24.44.231.128-20131201005446/@comment-71.168.104.57-20140413032742

i, personally, liked the backstory of each villain in each game (with the exception of daggerfall, since it doesn't seem to have any main villain, just 5 or 6 people competing to get what they want over the other)

jagar tharn: an imperial battlemage who took over the whole of the empire and trapped the emperor into a plane of oblvion with hardly anyone figuring it out, and proceeded to rule for 10 years, and may have ruled until his death if not for the eternal champion

dagoth ur: a chimer/dunmer who went mad with power induced by the allor of the heart of lorkhan that wanted to gain morrowind's independence, achieve immortality for his race, and wipe out any and all non-dunmer in morrowind

mehrunes dagon: a daedric prince who used a mortal to found a group that would kill the emperor and put out the dragon fires that were preventing mundus from being invaded by daedra, and invaded all of the nine holds of tamriel at once

alduin: a dragon with the power to feed on the souls of the dead and can resurect dead dragons, provided their souls were not absorbed, and planned to use these dragons to help him destroy, or at least take over, skyrim, and possibly all of tamriel or beyond.

i have yet to play ESO, though i am aware that molag bal plays a key part as antagonist, and you can't forget the villains in all of the add-ons, like jyggalag, almalexia, harkon, miraak, hircine, umaril, etc.