Lament of the Side Villain

A 'normal' man used to the cosmopolitan existance of 21st century Earth finds himself reborn as a side villain of a Fantasy RPG he only vaguely remembered playing in his adolescence. In a world full of magic and peculiarities unfamiliar to the modern existance, there is much to find, and yet even more darkness than he can remember from his past.  There is more than what meets the eye to this world, and forces both familiar and strange enclose around this drama and thus him.  (Author's Note: Hello! This is a bit of a writing exercise, and I wanted to try something new with a trope that frequently is only used to tell one type or form of story.)