Ya'll going to need to be more specific. What does this knight value or fear that can be taken away? What is he known for ? What about the god what is his divine domain, what does he like, what are his powers? because there is just so much and literally anything could conceivably be possible, permanent or more torturous by a god. If you are creative you can come up with anything like mutilating him and fusing him with a cow to literally milk human suffering from them what you need to do is give yourself limitations and these come from limiting yourself to things connected to the characters.
Example
If it's a forge god and this knight is most know for being a warrior. He might melt the armor on to his flesh and apply a geas like effect which casts heat metal on him when ever he dis obeys or just constantly. I'd make them a flesh golem in plate. Alternatively he may keep them as a statue in constant agony covered in molten metal maybe as a metal stone cursed.
Kill the player character and bring them back as a very loyal Undead. Have the former player character systematically go out and kill their allies and destroy their holdings.
In my campaign, one of the player's father was killed. Later on, the party finds that there are crypts beneath the family mansion that the PC did not know about. When they went to explore them, the father was there as a undead and PC was forced to kill his father...
Allow him to exist in the world but with only objects.
He can see no creatures. He exists, the creatures exist but he can't perceive them. Can't interact with them. It's like he is alone in the world. Others can see him and even touch him, but be doesn't recognize he has been touched or spoken to. He is alone in the world of things but nothing else. He is invulnerable to damage from others of any sort. They just don't work. He can't inflict damage either. This curse is nefarious as it just puts him in a situation that his relationships are just with inanimate objects. He may think he is the only person left alive.
I would say another option, if you want to make sure your players are more likely to be mad at your BBEG and not you, is to have him betray the party at a particularly crucial moment, but make it clear that he is being forced to do this betrayal against his will. As he's betraying them, they can see his guilt and/or shame, and perhaps also see the suffering that lead up to that or the impossible situation that the god put him in to force the NPC's hand.
Have them transformed into a thrall of the villain, so that their body is under the villains control, but their personality is still intact so they can be horrified at what they are doing and beg the party for forgiveness as they hack them apart.
If you'd think your BBEG would be heinously demeaning of the NPC have their boneless skin sewn into BBEG's war banner, coat or court train
This works as shock value. "You see the BBEG brandish a large shield with boneless flesh and skin sewn into it. The flesh seems to be moving and moaning as if it's still alive. It's then that you realize that it's the knight NPC."
Alternatively, the players could receive a letter from the knight asking them to meet him somewhere. When they arrive, they see him, but something is off. Upon noticing the players, the knight moans and it looks like he's melting. They see his boneless flesh peel off from his skeleton, and from the latter his specter separates, forever unable to join the afterlife. Roll initiative.
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assuming the knight is the classic chivalrous nice-guy, then you could have him lose all sense of right & wrong, becoming the truest neutral. Everything he stood for before becomes meaningless to him now, where once he saw black & white now everything is grey. He ends up turning to drink, because he doesn't see anything good or bad in it. Nothing seems wrong for him to do, so he does nothing. Years later, he is a bloated apathetic wreck in an opium den, trying desperately to feel anything at all, futilely. Every attempt by the party is regarded with emotionless eyes. He feels nothing - the BBEG has taken away everything that made him who he is.
who hurt you my friend, cause this is probably the most evil long lasting thing ive ever seen in dnd.
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List of terrible things in DnD
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Actual advice
Ya'll going to need to be more specific. What does this knight value or fear that can be taken away? What is he known for ? What about the god what is his divine domain, what does he like, what are his powers? because there is just so much and literally anything could conceivably be possible, permanent or more torturous by a god. If you are creative you can come up with anything like mutilating him and fusing him with a cow to literally milk human suffering from them what you need to do is give yourself limitations and these come from limiting yourself to things connected to the characters.
Example
If it's a forge god and this knight is most know for being a warrior. He might melt the armor on to his flesh and apply a geas like effect which casts heat metal on him when ever he dis obeys or just constantly. I'd make them a flesh golem in plate. Alternatively he may keep them as a statue in constant agony covered in molten metal maybe as a metal stone cursed.
Kill the player character and bring them back as a very loyal Undead. Have the former player character systematically go out and kill their allies and destroy their holdings.
In my campaign, one of the player's father was killed. Later on, the party finds that there are crypts beneath the family mansion that the PC did not know about. When they went to explore them, the father was there as a undead and PC was forced to kill his father...
Allow him to exist in the world but with only objects.
He can see no creatures. He exists, the creatures exist but he can't perceive them. Can't interact with them. It's like he is alone in the world. Others can see him and even touch him, but be doesn't recognize he has been touched or spoken to. He is alone in the world of things but nothing else. He is invulnerable to damage from others of any sort. They just don't work. He can't inflict damage either. This curse is nefarious as it just puts him in a situation that his relationships are just with inanimate objects. He may think he is the only person left alive.
I would say another option, if you want to make sure your players are more likely to be mad at your BBEG and not you, is to have him betray the party at a particularly crucial moment, but make it clear that he is being forced to do this betrayal against his will. As he's betraying them, they can see his guilt and/or shame, and perhaps also see the suffering that lead up to that or the impossible situation that the god put him in to force the NPC's hand.
True-polymorph into a chicken.
Have them transformed into a thrall of the villain, so that their body is under the villains control, but their personality is still intact so they can be horrified at what they are doing and beg the party for forgiveness as they hack them apart.
Be Excellent to one another. Rock on dude.
This works as shock value. "You see the BBEG brandish a large shield with boneless flesh and skin sewn into it. The flesh seems to be moving and moaning as if it's still alive. It's then that you realize that it's the knight NPC."
Alternatively, the players could receive a letter from the knight asking them to meet him somewhere. When they arrive, they see him, but something is off. Upon noticing the players, the knight moans and it looks like he's melting. They see his boneless flesh peel off from his skeleton, and from the latter his specter separates, forever unable to join the afterlife. Roll initiative.
Age: 33 | Sex: Male | Languages: French and English | Roles: DM and Player
who hurt you my friend, cause this is probably the most evil long lasting thing ive ever seen in dnd.