Title used by a character from Knightmare RPG Season 2. By introducing himself to Treguard (RPG) in Session 1 with the statement that "my name isn't important, but I am known as the Unholy King to my enemies", he made plain his position, and emerged as the main villain of the season and a powerful successor to Lord Fear.
The Unholy King was similar to Lord Fear in many ways. Through spyglass scenes he was seen in his throne room instructing minions in person or via screen - most often Blade - and thereby giving away information that the team-in-quest could use. In addition to a sarcastic wit that evoked Lord Fear's, he often delivered extremely blunt, contemptuous insults just for the sake of it: he called Blade a "stupid walking piece of sh*te", referred to Gezelda as a "silly little bitch" and Team 10 as "little sods". He also refused to acknowledge the Greater Game as a higher authority than himself and his whims, as demonstrated in Session 4 when he remodelled Level 2:

"Level 2 is my playground and I got bored of the old Level 2. So I've changed it to suit my persona ... The rules state that the dungeon cannot be changed under any circumstances, but what are they going to do? Throw me out?"

He was also aware of his heritage: he spoke of the fate of Lord Fear (RPG), and of Knightmare Series 3:

"Don't you remember the stories that were told about the old dungeon in 1989? Nobody beat that at all. Hell, there were only a few teams that reached Level 3. I seem to have beaten that record, up to now, and I intend to keep it that way." (Session 9)

The Unholy King showed a softer side just once, when in Session 9 he lamented the loss of Fluffy, a pet cat of his that had been eaten by goblins.
Keen to show his power from the outset, the Unholy King appeared on Level 1 during Team 1's quest (see first picture) and seemed quite ready to kill them, but they escaped. In Session 4, he took leaves out of his forerunners' books by lowering a giant hand into the Dungeon. Nor could he resist an occasional evil laugh in the vein of Mogdred ("WUHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!") He spoke of a "mage repellent" facility at his disposal, and in Session 15 was able to effectively kidnap Merlin by tracking the wizard's teleportation frequency and blocking it. But just like Lord Fear, his bid for end-of-season supremacy ended in defeat: his zombie army was repelled by Team 10 with a magical talisman, and the zombies duly turned on the Unholy King and his palace's power generators, putting an end to his dominion. He did not return in later Knightmare RPG seasons.

The Unholy King was portrayed via text by Adam Battersby and drawn by Lucy a.k.a. Sidriss Starshine. After RPG2, she revealed on her website that there were 'two versions of the Season Finale that I created, one with the Unholy King's death and the other where he escapes. I was asked to do two of them so that Adam could choose which one he wanted, he didn't tell me the plot line though, which only added to the suspense for me!' In the event, it wasn't entirely clear to Watchers whether or not the Unholy King had survived: although his remains and helmet were seemingly found, the season closed with a close-up of the malevolent monarch.

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