Quote Originally Posted by Agincourt View Post
That's not how scrying works. You need to describe the person you intend to scry on. Casting a spell on "the villain" gets you no information.
There are plenty of divination spells that can determine who the villain is and obtain a description of him, the point of that was to illustrate that spells can do everything a mundane character's skills can do and more in a fraction of the time.