Thread:Great Mara/@comment-35180808-20180624220035/@comment-35180808-20180624222603

Just because he's ultimately revealed to be the one behind those events doesn't make him the main antagonist of the story. The antagonist is the primary force opposing the protagonist and driving the plot--which is Shido. Yaldabaoth may be the "conductor" of the Conspiracy, but Shido runs it. He's the one Joker (and the players) despise and want to bring down, the face of the enemy.

Hate to use this example, but Hitler was behind most Nazi actions, though he wasn't the villain of Casablanca, even though he was technically behind it all. The antagonist was Strasenburg. As far as the players are concerned, Shido is the antagonist for 99% of the game. Just because at the very end it was revealed that he was being (sort of) manipulated by Yalbadoth doesn't make him the main villain. Otherwise, Darth Sidious is the villain of A New Hope, not Tarkin or Vader.