Gepetto

Gepetto fell into his role as the most voracious conquerer in the Homelands almost by accident. When Pinocchio ran away to the Mundane World, Gepetto carved new children to keep him company. The Blue Fairy obligingly brought them to life, with an added loyalty spell, so that they would never run away. A group of nobles approached him about replacing a corrupt and tyrannical ruler with a living puppet, and after some misgivings, Gepetto agreed. The tyrant was humanely dispatched, and a puppet in his image took his place and ruled well. But another land had a terrible leader, and so he repeated the process. And then again, and still again, until all the countries around him were ruled by puppets bound to him by the Blue Fairy's loyalty spell. Any conspirators who complained were also replaced.

The Blue Fairy, for reasons of her own, went along with this for a time, but eventually grew bored. Gepetto, who now had many court wizards to advise and teach him, learned enough magic to incapacitate the Fairy and extract the essence of her magic, which he used to make more puppets into flesh.

By now, he had enough military might under his command to conquer openly, but to protect his identity he made a vast animated puppet as Emperor. In addition to armies of unfeeling animated wood, he had his sorcerers conjure demons and monsters to add to his armies. He had become the ever-feared Adversary.

Recently, he expanded his attempts into recapturing the Fables who had escaped to the mundane world. However, the Fable community struck back with their own armies, equipped with mundane technology and weaponry.

He was given full citizenship to Fabletown after his Empire's defeat.