Does your story have a villain or bad guy? How do your other characters feel about this character? Why is this character a villain or bad guy? Do you think that their motive for being a villain/bad guy is justified?

Stereotypical power hungry king. He was not born with a great ability in Mara's Gift, thus is obsessed with finding those who are and binding them to him, and taking over a neighboring nation because it's more prosperous than his. I might fill him out more as a character later (stupid characters decided my original premise was kinda idiotic, so I'm changing a lot of things around), but I don't foresee much direct involvement from him.

It's interesting to think about the idea of a villain in a story. I realize the piece I am working on right now there is no actual "bad guy", the only villain is the unknown, the obstacles that we face when working toward our goals. A girl who was abandoned as a child grows up with only scraps of clues and wants to reunite with the family she is convinced is waiting for her. She has fears, doubts, time constraints, and challenges that hold her up.
I like this idea because it's like there's nothing stopping her except her own will. Whether or not she completes this goal depends solely on how badly she wants it. Sometimes in our lives we feel like the world is against us. We have to get to work but we have no gas. Then we get a flat tire. Then we realize we forgot our lunch at home. One of those "Bad Day" experiences that is expanded to a much larger scale, but the fact is nothing can change that state of mind but you. The villain and the hero are both inside us, and we get to decide who wins.