This guide for the Assistant and the Villain series is a helpful resource before you read Book 4 Adversary to the Villain! This guide includes spoilers, so please read AFTER you’ve finished Accomplice to the Villain.
Includes info from Accomplice to the Villain, so this guide is spoiler in nature.
This guide is SAFE to read before Adversary to the Villain.
This guide is in collaboration with Ana Victoria (@anavickigamesandreads)
World Overview
Kingdom of Rennedawn
Enchanted kingdom located on the continent of Myrtalia, where our main story takes place.
Gleaming City
Capital of Rennedawn where King Benedict resides.
Valiant Guards – King Benedict’s personal guard
Massacre Manor
Hidden castle in the Hickory Forest protected by magical barriers and the villain’s headquarters
The Malevolent Guard – An elite group of people who managed the more violent parts of The Villain’s business, the fieldwork, some of the interns had coined it. The most ruthless warriors were among them, many of them magic users of varying kinds and educations.
Fortis Family Fortress
The Fortis family was well known throughout the kingdom as warriors of valor, and a line that dated back to the very beginnings of Rennedawn. It was said that the land their fortress resided on was so magically touched that even the plants came alive. Renna Fortis is the Matriarch and was childhood best friends with Nura Sage.
Key Players
- Evangelina “Evie” Sage, age 24
- Aka The Wicked Woman
- Started out as the Assistant to the Villain, then got promoted to Apprentice to the Villain and then promoted again to Accomplice to the Villain
- Revealed to be “The Villain” in Rennedawn’s prophecy, is actually the owner to Trystan’s dark magic, was siphoned out of her when she was born and given to Trystan
- Trystan Maverine, age 29
- Aka The Villain
- Emerged as the Villain ten years ago
- Has killing magic
- Revealed to be the son of King Bennedict, so he is the prince of Rennedawn and the prince mentioned in Rennedawn’s prophecy
- Tatiana
- Massacre Manor’s magical healer
- Clare’s ex fiance
- Loves pink
- Bladen “Blade” Gushiken
- Massacre Manor’s dragon trainer
- His father is a political adviser for the King
- His mother is a socialite
- Rebecka Eriania Fortis, age 25
- Aka “Becky Erring”
- HR lady of Massacre Manor
- Human and Magical Creature Resource
- Heir to the Fortis Family Fortress
- Has four brothers, Roland, Reid, Raphael and Rudy
- Kingsley
- A little frog that is friends with Trystan, who holds one worded tiny signs as a form to communicate.
- Revealed to be Alexander William Kingsley, the prince of the Southern Kingdom that was cursed by an Enchantress and became a frog for the last decade
- His curse was broken in the end of the book and is back to his human self
- Gideon Sage, age 25
- Evie’s older brother
- Has shield magic
- Was believed to be dead due to Nura’s starlight magic but is revealed to have lost his memory in the incident and became a Valiant guard for King Benedict for several years before gained his memory back and is now working with his sister Evie
- King Benedict
- King of Rennedawn
- Wants to fulfill Rennedawn’s prophecy for his own personal gain
- Was once Trystan’s mentor and is revealed that Trystan is his son with Amara Maverine
- Nura Sage
- Evie’s mom
- Has starlight magic
- Has been gone for 10 years after she accidentally hurt Gideon by not being able to control her magic.
- Was hiding as a wishing star
- Lyssa Sage, age 10
- Evie’s sister
- Revealed to have some sort of light magic at the end of the book
- Griffin Sage
- Evie’s father
- Was a member of King Benedict Valiant guards until he “retired” to become a butcher and raise his family until he got the “Mystic illness” but its turns out that was a lie and had been secretly working for Benedict all this time and worked to sabotage the Villain under the kings orders
- Clarissa “Clare” Maverine
- Trystan’s sister
- Has ink magic
- In love with Tatiana
- Has a vast knowledge of plants
- Malcom Maverine
- Trystan’s brother
- Owns a pub in Evie’s village
- Makes “special clocks” that are actually bombs
- Arthur Maverine
- Magical healer
- Was absent most of Trystan’s life due to wandering around the world curing people
- Dies at the end of the book by jumping in front of a moving sword that was aimed towards Evie
- Amara Maverine
- Trystan’s mother
- King Benedict’s lover before she married Arthur while being pregnant with Bennedict’s child which turns out to be Trystan
- Cold, ambitious, has been very rude to her children all her life
- Keeley
- Captain/Head of the Malevolent Guard
- Marv
- One of Trystan’s guard
- Revealed to be the traitor leaking inside information to Benedict
- Winnifred “Winnie”
- Daughter of the enchantress who was hired by Amara Maverine to kill Trystan but instead accidentally cursed Kinglsey to become a frog
- Has been a servant at the Maverine household for the last decade
Magic of this World
Rennedawn’s Story
Rennedawn’s Story was an extremely rare text that had been mythologized for years, so long fizzled out and warped that much of the public had never even heard of it. Those who had chalked the tale up to a benign way of keeping children in line.
A children’s fable that tells the epics tale of how Rennedawn came to be and the enchanted rhyme that would save its fading magic, supposedly handed down by the gods that turned out to be an actual prophecy to save the kingdom from its waning magic that will cease the kingdom to exist.
Mystic Illness
a sickness that had plagued the kingdom for the last ten years. The disease attacked without any rhyme or reason, seemingly selecting its victims at random. Some died quickly from the illness—the lucky ones.
Others were left too weak to get out of bed as it slowly stole their lives, like the worst sort of thief. It has been alluded that it is the cause of King Benedict keeping a guvre locked up for a decade.
Rennedawn’s Prophecy
At the start of the world, the magical gods knew,
That color would bleed and all would undo.So to save this place they knew humans would break
They enlisted the tools of Destiny and Fate.The beauty of stars that gleam at night
The children of Fate, created in light
And the magic that balances all dreamed of
Is the key to saving the world in true love.The person who rescues the magical lands
Will take this Fate’s youngling well in hand.When luck and starlight must fall together,
The land will belong to you forever.But beware the unmasked Villain
And their Malevolent dark—
For nothing is more dangerous
Than a blackened good heart.And when the tides turn
All will be as it was
The heart of the true prince
Will save his fated love.Where sunlight beams unvarnished
Rennedawn’s magic will begin mending.
Evil will fall, kingdoms will rise.Heed this prophecy and all of Rennedawn
Will have its happy ending.
Magic Creatures
Fluffy the Dragon
A young dragon being trained by Blade at Massacre Manor after he stole the dragon egg from King Benedict when he heard that they were thinking of selling it to a faraway kingdom.
Guvre
Known as ‘fate’s vengeful creatures’ these deadly beasts have serpent bodies and batlike wings. They breathe purple venom that melts flesh from bones.
Holding a guvre against their will tends to lead to natural consequences like natural disasters that worsen the longer you keep them. Guvres are notoriously mated animals and a baby guvre is called a let.
Memory Plant
A rare flower, only three left in existence, one with the Fortis family and another with King Benedict. It holds memories, even mimics them and is used to siphon magic out of a person.
Destiny Monster
Considered rare or a myth, and one of the world’s oldest magic. One is located at “The Trench” at the Fortis Family Fortress where it tested Trystan and told him his destiny: “Evie Sage is meant to be your downfall, and you her undoing.“
Where things leave off
Evie and Trystan finally get together.
Amara betrays her family to the King and Queen of the Southern kingdom (Kingsley’s parents) that results in Arthur’s death who in his final moments reveals to Trystan that even though he’s not his real father, he loved him as his son.
Benedict infiltrated Massacre Manor and steals Nura’s starlight magic using the memory plant and reveals that Trystan is his son and he is the “prince” from Rennedawns Prophecy.
Benedict also reveals that Evie was born with the “killing magic” and her parents knew when she was born so they asked Benedict for help and they siphoned the magic out of her and gave it to Trystan, revealing she’s the actual villain from Rennedawn’s prophecy.
The final piece of the prophecy that Benedict needs is the pregnant female guvre that Gideon and Keeley helped escape and is still has not been captured again by Benedict.
Kingsley turns back into a person with the help of Winnie the enchantress.
