Warning : the author said that the quest start at the moment when these villains wins, so most of them probably don't have all the territories on the maps, rolls may change events to how they happen in the rulebook and the author might interpret the villains personalities differently. We will need to take actions to confirm the situations of our enemies and more. So it is not impossible that in the end all those plans will be scrapped in the end.
Please note that these aren't going to exactly match what's happening here in Aladdin Quest for a number of reasons.
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Horned King : aside from Chernobog who is FAR too close to feel comfortable (it may not be the case now but on the map of the regions breakdown his influence reach the Caucuses), I think the biggest danger closer to us is the Horned King, he should still be in Britain and not have any ground in France or Ireland for now but unless he had some very bad rolls this won't last and if he's given enough time he's going to do a reenactment of the undead scourge on Europe and that would be bad, in my eyes he's the biggest threat close to us. Aside from doing some research and intrigue actions to discover the existence of the Black Cauldron and destroying it I don't have much idea since our loss just add to his army and his loss unless there's not even bones left to raise, are only temporary. Finding Arthur to raise the population against the Horned King could also be helpful.
Also if the village of Gauls can be found in this quest any of the villains of the region getting the potion (Frollo, Maleficent, Horned King) would be bad.
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Yzma ; she is probably one of the biggest late game villains but she is also too far away to directly be a threat to us right now. Her reign should be stable (she replaced Kuzko who was an ass and nobody regretted and is probably dead or a lama somewhere). Her core territories are in irl the old Inca Empire which covers a huge surface, a huge population, and a lots of infrastructure.
She doesn't have any true rival in the region that could truly easily invade her territory, Tzekel-Kan would need to pass through Panama which will probably be a heavily fought region and captain Hook and the Blue Fairy can only annoy her at best.
And if she manage to advance into an industrial revolution (she is one of the few villains that I see could innovate that way, especially if she has contact with Atlantide tech) she could trounce easily Tzekel-Kan especially if he keeps the xenophobic traits that makes him disregard foreign tech. Thankfully I think she would first start to try to conquer the rest of the American continent before trying to conquer the rest of the world and that should also give us time (unless for some reason she try to invade Africa or Europe unlikely but my plans are made on assumptions). Maybe we could trade some tech or magic with her, (huge maybe). No true plans too far away to matter directly to us right now.
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Tzekel-Kan would have been a major threat if he was on the same continent as us but he is not so no plan for him.
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Governor Ratcliffe : like Yzma he is too far away from us to matter right now, and according to the information documents he might be replaced by his descendants that may be possible allies. And he probably doesn't have yet most of the territories on the map.
But we may find possible refuges of the different victorious villains in North America such as survivor of the Greek pantheons, English, Chinese, and many more that could help us liberate their homeland.
-Shadowlands : right now
Doctor Facilier and his friends from the other side should be contained by Ratcliffe and Slim, but if he manages to vanquish them and expand beyond, he could become one of the main threat in the same rank as the Horned King, or Yzma and he is too far away for us to prevent those events if they happen.
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Shan Yu : surprisingly might not be an immediate problem he will first need to stabilize his new domain and it's easier said than done, and even after that he still would need to go through half the Asian continent to reach us and he has far closer targets to aim at, but he does have a big army probably bigger than the actual entire population of our kingdom. If he ever look in our direction we can win some time by becoming a tributary state unless he asks for too much. But if we ever have too fight him, I think it would be better to support a possible new candidate for the Chinese throne be it the Yellow Turbans or the White Lotus (we would need to make sure the replacent isn't a bigger asshole). We can also ally with Goryeo and the Viets to harass Shan Yu borders.
-Bald Mountains : just try to contain, even if we had the genie and made the wish of destroying
Chernobog forever, I would give an fifty-fifty probability we beat him and even in victory we would probably lose everything. We can only contain gain power and allies and then do a repetition of the Last Alliance of Lord of the Rings.
-The Old West : too far away to really matter but
Alameda Slim is ironically accomplishing our goals of a war menagerie if given enough time and good rolls he will even have dinosaurs. And let's not forget he can hypnotize animals when he yoodle. Frankly he is too far away to really matter but maybe he would like to buy some of our animals or he can sell some of his to us. But I don't think that Bagheera would appreciate that we trade animals it must look like a slave trade to him. So maybe wait to see Bagheera opinion about that sort of thing.
-Arendelle : Elsa is a close second as a threat level to the Horned King but she is more lashing in grief and anger than really trying to conquer anything and she will go through the mirror kingdoms and Hades first before reaching us, unless she tries to also take Chernobog in that case RIP Elsa.
But the bigger her territory the bigger a threat she becomes and her influence on the climate will provoke famines that even if we manage limit the effects of the climate, there will be refuges and invaders rushing to our kingdom.
Possible plan to pacify her and gain her as an ally, we resurrect Anna(if she is dead). Yeah I know, sounds impossible, but Hades (unless the author changed that) can raise the dead, problem with that is even if the author let him keep that ability, he probably only has influence over those that follow the Olympian religion and we would need to convince/force him to do it. Another possibility is to find another way to resurrect Anna, but if there's no other ways, or we don't find one in time and Elsa anger doesn't end with Prince Hans death, then we will sadly have to fight her, and between her influence on the land and her ice constructs, invading her palace might be harder to accomplish than vanquish the Horned King army.
The biggest problem with her would be logistics and reach her palace, now our general has a magic tent that is a perfect counter to the effect of the environment, but we still need food and our armies risk frostbites and more.
-Mirror Kingdoms : lots of potential enemies and lots of potential allies.
Queen Grimhilde is going to be a problem the moment her mirror tells her that Jasmine is a fairer beauty than her (her own population scars themselves to not be fairer than her), another problem is she will probably send assassins and poisoners or come herself to do the deed than send armies, and we don't know when she will start to send poisoned apples. So we will probably start a shadow war, our spies against her assassins.
Corona the kingdom of Raiponce parents, if we manage to find Raiponce I have no doubt that they will become allies, sadly if it was that easy they wouldn't still be sending lanterns. Also we need their horses to close the ditch with Shan Yu cavalry.
Also who is 'Professor R' ?
-Atlantis : honestly unless there a good reason against it, I think that once we gain a port and a navy we could start trading with Rourke, we could even make an alliance against Ursula. But we must be careful that they don't take the role of the British Empire in this quest, because I can't help but feel that's the kind of things Rourke would do. Might not happen for a while unless he has already territories in the Indian sea.
-Greece : Hades is a threat more because of the Titans than anything else, sure even without them he has access to army of monsters and demons but the titans are his ultimate weapons, frankly we need to send an elite force with carpet and take down Hades before the titans have the time to come back maybe we make a diversion somewhere where he sends the titans while we take him with assassins. Another idea is finding a way to free the other gods like Disney Zeus who is a nice guy instead of a rapist so we are not replacing one tyrant for another, maybe we'll need the help of Hercule or even Zagreus since he's been declared canon by the author. That aside Hades doesn't seems to be interested in expansion, he already got the prize he wanted the throne of Olympus.
Also if they are like that in this quest we could make an alliance with Sparta, Athens, and Crete (they are described in DVV Region Deconstruction as either rebels or unhappy with Hades reign) to make a big diversion for the titans while we take down Hades. We could also try to seal the titans again but easier said than done unless there's a new convergence of planets coming. Also we could find the three fates to ask some question to their eye.
-Archdiocese : This one is a mix on the threat rating because
Frollo put his capital just between the Horned King, Queen Grimhilde, and Maleficent, and Hades has taken the boot of Italy. What makes him dangerous is his 'holy flame' that drives away magic and disrupt technology which limit our options to take him down.
Even though he's a zealot asshole that will burn us down for being an heretic to his belief, he's still the linchpin keeping most of Western Europe from being invaded from bigger threats, he's containing Maleficent, limiting the Horned King expansion and those are the biggest menace he's containing and his territory is full of possible allies.
Eric king of Porto if we manage to find Ariel which Ursula probably kept prisoner to feel her victory total (what does Ursula transform her victims into?) if we have proof that Ariel is Ursula's prisoner then we got Eric as an ally to take Ursula down.
Aquitaine, if we vanquish Maleficent and lift the curse they can stabilize francia and become our ally. Once again needs to vanquish a big bad for that and I don't know who will take the place of Sleeping Beauty kiss of love (what's the prince name ?).
Maybe we can find the Beast in Provence (since there's an omake that's been confirmed as canon where he's alive, but since he seems to follow Gaston maybe he's not here).
Iron Kingdom can be an ally against Maleficent
Frollo is without a doubt one of the villain that will be belligerent from the start against us for religious reasons, but ironically his inquisition is keeping even bigger villains away from taking western Europe but I don't think it will last unless all his enemies fall down some stairs and kill themselves.
For all I know next turn he falls some stairs of Notre Dame and break his hip.
-Aurora Borealis : it is a primal force of nature working on a different field of morality, it doesn't need to be our enemy but I don't think it will ever be our ally so best is to keep it neutral, since having it as an enemy will close us to the spirit realm and make us suffer from the literal environment and nature hating us.
-Ursula : the entire ocean is considered part of her territory, the biggest reason I didn't vote for a city specialized in the sea at the start of the quest it seemed she would hinder sea travel a lot. We could make an alliance with Eric from Porto and Rourke president of Atlantis since they would be the ones with the biggest interest to beat Ursula (Eric to free Ariel, Rourke to have an easier access to sea travel and eliminate a rival for the control of the seas. Also unless we manage to dig the canal of Suez or it's already there because of broken timeline, then to reach the Mediterranean sea, we would need to travel around Africa for the shortest sea route, so for now we are limited to the Indian Ocean. If we are lucky we could find captain Nemo and obtain plans to build Nautilus which would help us hide from Ursula but might present us to new dangers (show note of author)
Jaffar went from the biggest immediate threat and one of the main villain of the game to one of its lesser, he lost most of his magic at least part of his sanity, worst case scenario he comes back as a general of Chernabog or finds the Genie's lamp (let's be frank any of the villains finding the lamp is bad). A great example about how the Core information of the original DVV might be different due to rolls.
Africa and India don't appear on the DVV Region Breakdown.
-King Louis : Don't know where his territory is exactly because of different version of the map according to other DVV map, on one of those part of his territory is in Vietnam that's close to Shan Yu, let's hope they enter into war with each other, worst case his kingdom become a tributary state to the Hun, that or make a coalition with the East India Company since they recognized Louis as a human for profit.
-Bagheera : we could try to make an alliance with him, but I'm not sure he would appreciate our zoo or our plans for war beasts and he already described as being suspicious of humans. We need to have a way to communicate with animals if we wish to open discussions with his faction.
-Pridelands : Scar is like Hades, he has gained the throne and now he is satisfied with his conquest but he wants to keep it. So he would be occupied with the Queen of La as his main adversary, but if we ever ends as his enemy (something that seems to happen automatically if we beat a beast villain and Shere Khan and Kaa are rather close to us) then we need to find proof that he murdered Mufasa and most of the animals in his kingdom will rebel. According to the description his territory has basically become grey and barren (like in the movie) and many animals are moving to greener pastures, so on one side I think we can ignore him while his kingdom crumbles, but the Queen of La will have then most of the African continent if she annex it.
-Queen of La : She's the only character that I haven't seen any work about, and I don't have the time of watching the Tarzan tv show I'm too occupied writing this. But it seems she is similar to Scar, an uncaring ruler that is content with what she has, so it seems that unless the author and dice rolls make her take another path we can ignore her.
-East India Company : Beckett is basically an evil banker that will try to economically ruin us and then take control of our own country but he is unlikely to start a war since war cost money. He is also a possible trade partner but I don't trust him or his company.
There are more factions or villains but I felt that they maybe don't exist in this quest (Te Ka/Moana, Lady Eboshi/Princess Mononoke) or not powerful enough to make a plan against them, such as Ratigan and Hook, if they were closer I would probably have made some plan, but I feel that if we ever enter Ratigan territory we would have already been powerful enough to take down one of the big bad so compared to that he just doesn't have the personal power or enough territories or resources to be a dangerous player.
Once again all of those plans are made on supposition based on information that the author use to base his quest on but won't follow religiously he will take his own spin on it and rolls of dice will make fools of us all.
Rolls have been done. Imma need a minute... *goes to stare off into the distance off a balcony*
Case in point.
