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Valgren (バルグレン) was a Dragon that was summoned by Stride Vollachia roughly four decades before the start of the series during the events of Sword Demon Battle Ballad. It was reduced to ash by the Divine Dragon Volcanica.
In the events of Arc 8, Valgren was resurrected as an undead during the Great Disaster. Following the end of the disaster, it is unknown whether or not it escaped from death.
Appearance[]
Valgren was a black-scaled three headed Dragon. Each of its heads were lined by rows of sharp fangs, and its wings had claws on them. Its size spanned over tens of meters. It had two short legs compared to its size and arms with wings attached to them.
Personality[]
Valgren was a vicious, blood-crazed Dragon, consumed by hatred. Its three heads are mentioned to fight with each other when tearing apart its prey. As a Dragonhusk, it can be presumed to have lost most of the personality it had before the creation of its dragonkin.
History[]
At an unknown point in time, Valgren created a dragonkin, becoming a Dragonhusk in the process. Its dragonkin would go on to perish, leaving only a skull behind.
Sword Demon Battle Ballad[]
Around 40 years before the main story, Valgren was summoned near the southern Lugunican border with Vollachia, in the city of Picoutatte, by Stride Vollachia. In order to summon the Black Dragon, Stride used the skull of its dragonkin and soaked it in the blood of numerous sacrifices, alerting the Dragon of the location of its dragonkin's remains through its survival instincts. He then proceeded to use three of his rings, corresponding to Valgren's three souls, to bind the Dragon to his will. Out of the 500 knights sent to kill it, 50 were killed and 200 were annihilated before Valgren itself died. To cover up the fact that a Dragon was controlled by someone in Lugunica, Valgren was referred to as a Blight Dragon. Once Valgren broke free of Stride's control, it ate him and his wife, Melinda, with its three heads tearing them both to pieces and feasting on their bodies.
After his body was devoured, Stride's curse rings continued to influence Valgren.[1][2] It was confronted by a young Wilhelm van Astrea and Grimm Fauzen, who both dealt a great deal of damage to the Dragon. During combat, Grimm and Wilhelm were both seriously wounded and could barely continue the fight. Just as the battle was about to close on a disastrous end, the fortieth King of the Dragon Kingdom of Lugunica, Gionis Lugunica, appeared in the city, and with him, the Divine Dragon descended from the skies above. In a couple of minutes, Volcanica scorched Valgren away, put out the raging fired and healed all the damage the Blight Dragon had done, marking the end of the Subjugation of the Blight Dragon.
Abilities[]
Fire Breathing: The most common ability that Valgren had shown was its ability to breathe fire. It burned with a pale green light, and it was hot enough to burn stone.
Great Power: Valgren was able to use a combination of its fangs, tail, and claws in close-quarters combat. Because Valgren's attacks were so powerful, even Wilhelm van Astrea attempts to parry them caused both of his shoulders to creak and some of his muscles to rupture, and just one of its blows was able to incapacitate Grimm Fauzen.
Trivia[]
- According to Volume 4, Valgren was a "blight dragon", with the kanji used to refer to it denoting it as a "lesser" dragon as opposed to a more powerful Dragon counterpart, and its arrival was prophesied by the Dragon History Stone. Valgren went on to be written as a Blight Dragon, and no mention of its purported prophesied arrival was made in Sword Demon Battle Ballad, potentially meaning it may no longer be canon.
- Because dragonkin did not exist during the original Comic Alive release of Sword Demon Battle Ballad, Valgren was instead summoned with the use of a fang that used the sacrifices of twenty "heaven-sent children", people with Divine Protections, to call it through unknown means.
- According to Stride, Valgren had three souls, one for each head. This makes Valgren the only known lifeform in the series to have been born with multiple souls.
- There is a song called the Subjugation of the Black Dragon made by Liliana Masquerade that describes the incident of the same name. She sang it for the first time during Arc 5.
- Although Valgren died in Lugunica, in Arc 8, it made an appearance as a zombie, something that the undead Balleroy Temeglyph believed was only possible if one died in Vollachia. Even with the official release of Ex 6, the circumstances of Valgren's resurrection were left unanswered.
References[]
- ↑ “It’s no Dragon. ——It’s that bastard Stride.” Sword Demon Battle Ballad: Act 8, Section 7.
- ↑ Stride’s manner of evil had been to bind other’s souls with his curse tools and make them into his puppets. So, in the last of the last, that man had gotten his hands on the biggest, baddest puppet of the lot. Sword Demon Battle Ballad: Act 8, Section 7.
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