I remember the first season had me hoping his knight friend would come back and either redeem Ainz (and then they fight the NPC's) or become a hero antagonist leading the New World against him. And then I heard that the one demon glasses dude was keeping a farm of humans for experiments, and that when the fanbase voted to save a character the author responded by dumping her in rape hell forever or something, and I realized this was just the authors fetish. :zaru