[Miller]

What I want out of an antagonistic figure in a story is not for them to be just an opposing force or a standard JRPG villian ripped out of Dragon Quest without too much motivations for their actions; but for them to have personal conflict with other characters.

Right now the main source of antagonism that I see on SL2 primarily falls under the 'I will do something immoral', whether it be straight up robbing, necromancy, murder and/or bombings among other things. Antagonistic figures should have ideals which don't mix with the current climate of the world or interpersonal matters which lead them to come into conflict with the world around them or the people around them, scale doesn't necessarily matter in this. This isn't dismissing the kind of antagonists that do something immoral mind you, but there's a huge draught of antagonistic figures that are more personal in nature.

I don't really have much more to add to this, but the TLDR: Antagonists are an opposing force, not necessarily good or or bad on the moral spectrum and are characters as well, treating them as just a villain is fine, but it gets old when that's the main kind of antagonist.