I'd like to put a stipulation on this topic, I really don't want to hear that the 4th ed Rakasha is lousy or weak or that 4th ed is lousy. Frankly I don't care if you don't like it, it is your choice. This is not a topic to bash 4th ed. Bashing Rakasha's as a whole is fine, but I'd like this to just be related to helping people with campaigns involving them.

Do you think the new Rakashas make good villains? See I am going to be running a campaign where the bad guy is trying to resurrect a primordial. I've decided that for our world that the primordials were actually sealed away in various areas, and one day I had this thought of the earth primordial being turned into a temple itself with various parts of its "being" sealed away in it and in other places (think Castlevania 2or3 where you actually had to put Dracula together before killing him). My only problem is I can not really find a fitting antagonist to get the ball rolling. I've thought of using hobgoblins to have a small piece of the primordial temple on their being to be the adventure hook, but it didn't flow in my head. So after flipping through the MM I came across the Rakasha Noble, and now Im thinking that with some of their flavor changes it might work. Since they are emphasizing the vanity and greed of Rakasha's I can't help but think that if there was a temple that was once a "living" being then that would escalate his status to no end. Any thoughts? Do you think that the rakasha would work? And, finally do you feel the MM handled them well enough to make them a viable candidate for your PC's to fight?

Please no trashing 4th ed, let's try to keep this topic civil.