Sigurd Bodon

John Rodrick

— No. 7 Adventurer, "The Oracle" Lydia's prediction on Sigurd Bodon*.*

**Sigurd Bodon** is an adventurer who is known as the Adventure King. His real name is **John Rodrick**, and is also the founder of the Adventure Aristocrats, a group of adventurers during the Age of Discovery that eventually founded the World Adventure Union. His descendants believed he had died, but this wasn't the case.

He is one of the most powerful adventurers and foes in the series. He and his team are extremely powerful, being able to defeat and injure top-ranking adventurers, including Alex's grandfather Jones.

He has been crazy about adventures since he was a child. Over the years, his countless adventures scored him many treasures and prizes, even the elixir of life. As he is immortal, he is hundreds of years old.

He served as the final antagonist of Season 3.

## Appearance

As the oldest character in the series, he has greyish-white hair, wrinkles and a scar on the right side of his face. He appears to be muscular and usually dresses in a brown jacket and red clothing. He has purple eyes that appears to be blue when he is seen wearing glasses.

## Biography

*—* Opening line of H32 Hunt of the Adventure King

### Early life

It was during the Age of Discovery (1415-1700s). Sigurd grew up in a small seaport in Spain which had many sailors. In exchange for wine, the sailors would tell the curious-natured boy about their voyages. This sparked his interest but he could not join them as he had to look after his sick mother. After she died, he became an artisan, married and had a son. Yearning for adventure, he joined Ferdinand Magellan and his crew to search the seas for spice. He told his wife that he went out to sea for wealth, but that wasn't true.

The voyage was extremely arduous and the crew even lost their captain, but Sigurd endured and eventually survived. He returned from his voyage around the world and the spices made him a wealthy man. But though he and his family lived in luxury, he was terribly bored, so he planned and built a ship, invited an adventure-seeking crew and took his son with him to set sail to lands unknown. This was the beginning of many of his adventures.

Time flew, forty years of adventuring went by, and came age and frailty. Gone was the strength Sigurd needed to continue adventuring. Many of his crew left, and his son felt the need for them to retire. When they returned, however, Sigurd was disappointed over the quarrels his family had over his wealth and eventually left them to continue adventuring on his own.

He stumbled upon a mysterious woman in Japan who told him of the necessary items to concoct the elixir of life, which he successfully gained. Sigurd concocted the elixir, drinking it before what would be his death, and became immortal for the sake of his love of adventuring. He continued adventuring for centuries.

### Qing Dynasty

300 years after he drank the elixir of life, he was adventuring in the waters of Hainan when he stumbled upon the Qing Dynasty navy. He pretended to be a fisherman whose fishing boat had just sank. Later, they encountered the 'devilish light' which was generated from portals that cut through time and space, along with plenty of Chaos Larvae that emerged from the portals. Captain Zhang Bao Zai ordered his men to shoot and fire cannons to the larvae, but there were too many of them and one of their men was bitten. Pelagius then appeared and used his water manipulation to send water sprouts at the larvae, killing lots of them.

Caelus then appeared, sending the larvae and their mother into the portals, resulting in one of the navy ships to be sucked in. Sigurd killed one of the larvae and used it as a glider and caught glimpses of various worlds, sparking his interest for the first time in ten years. Guardians from other worlds entered the fray before entering another world.

Sigurd then started to explore his surroundings and tried solving a maze filled with yellowish liquid as he could breathe underwater. He pushed the button at the end of the maze; the yellow liquid turned into bubbles that sent him and Zhang's men back to the portal. Caelus then sent them back to Earth.

Sigurd was extremely disappointed as he wanted to explore other worlds. He then saw Pelagius and thought he might also have portal-opening capabilities and went after him. He used a Chaos Larva's teeth to attack him and eventually won the fight. He took over the moving island owned by Zhang and discovered that it was a giant clam. He felt that it was the perfect place to keep Pelaguis and torturing him to see if he could create portals.

However, Pelaguis could only control water, and it was the ability to travel to other worlds that Sigurd desired. Thus, he locked him up in the giant clam for hundreds of years and found powerful men to guard his prisoner every decade.

### World War II

During WWII, Fenrir and Marie Wright landed on Giant Clam Island and alerted the Union about the chained red creature that they discovered, and six skilled adventurers were sent to investigate. His guard at the time, Graham, killed all of them, but Pelagius escaped, and Sigurd cut off Graham's legs as punishment. Pelagius was later assumed to be the culprit behind the bloodstained Incident of Giant Clam Island.

## Age (Calculated)

In H32 Hunt Of The Adventure King, Sigurd Bodon meets Cheung Po Tsai during the pirate lord's service to the Qing dynasty. Assuming they met in the middle of the pirate lord's tenure, in 1816, by the start of the chapter mentioning that it was 300 years after he acquired his immortality, Sigurd Bodon acquired immortality around 1516. Before that, his backstory mentions that he became married, had children and lived a humdrum life, before he experienced 40 years of adventure. Assuming that he was 40 when he set sail, and that the time in between returning and gaining immortality was 6 years, Sigurd Bodon acquired immortality at 86, thus he was born in 1430.

Now, since in H10 Trial Of The Sacred Tribe, when Robert mentions Akhator is now a wanted individual, we see in Samara's tavern they have a TV, assuming it is a black-and-white TV, invented in 1927, and that the first TV broadcast in Egypt was 1960, assuming that the events of H33 Encounter In The North happen around 1962, the most conservative estimate of when the story takes place, giving 2 years for the first 2 seasons, by the events of H33, Sigurd Bodon is 532 years old, making him one of the oldest characters in the series that we are able to calculate the age of.

\*If anyone has more precise dates, please add them to these calculations.

## Relationships

Sigurd founded the Adventure Aristocrats hundreds of years ago. As he was the only known immortal being in the series, the people he meets and works with changes after time.

### Crew members

* Doctor Ming
* Lieutenant Graham
* Major Roger
* Nacho
* Ramson Spalding
* Miss Crowbone
* Glee-Fury (a mutant hybrid of Glee and Fury created by Ming)

### Enemies/adversaries

* Alex
* Jones
* Hank
* Cammy
* Benny
* Aligon
* Children of Gaia

## Personality

### Love for adventuring

-His love for exploring wonders.

He priorities adventuring on top of everything else and has a curious nature. As he is immortal and immensely skilled and powerful, he could not be pleased easily. What other commonly perceive as a threat may be largely considered boring to him due to his experience. As such, when he was transported into a portal full of exotic monsters, creatures and wonders, his interest was sparked.

### Ruthlessness

-Sigurd to *Pelagius*, before further injuring him.

He can be quite vile and merciless both towards his team and his foes at times. For example, in H32, when he was attacking Pelagius in the Qing Dynasty, the Red Demon trapped Sigurd Bodon in a water-tornado, resulting him to feel extremely dizzy. Pelagius realised that he might kill or severely harm him and showed mercy to him by creating a vortex for him to breathe. Despite this, Sigurd resumed attacking him with the flying monster's teeth, eventually defeating him. When one of his crew let Pelagius escape, he did away with his legs.

## Skills and equipment

**Jones**:"*He removed the detonators? Who is this man?*"
**Sigurd Bodon**:"*Just a jack of all trades*"
— Jones and the **Adventure King**
— Former No.1 Adventurer, Jones' remark on how powerful **Sigurd Bodon is.**

His adventuring experience over centuries render him one of the most powerful characters in the GAOA series. After drinking the elixir of life, he seemed to have possessed several capabilities, like being able to leap from one place to another quickly and the ability to breathe underwater during his battle with Pelagius. He uses common equipment like daggers, knives, ropes and bombs, but displays extraordinary skill when using them, allowing him to defeat most obstacles that went in his way.

During the battle of H33, Sigurd easily countered Alex's rope fighting styles by slicing his ropes and attaching them with his bombs. He stabbed Benny and Axe with knives in ease and defeated Jones after removing the detonators of his signature move "Deadly Spider Web". Jones reacted by remarking, "He removed the detonators? Who is this man?"

Jones knew it was possible to escape his spider web, but few people had ever done it before. Sigurd then smirked and replied, "Just a jack of all trades", before wrapping him in exploding firecrackers and heavily injured him.

## Plot

### Season 2

#### H22 Treachery at the Prison

His backstory was told by his descendant, Wolfe, to Alex.

### Season 3

#### H31 Master of the Swamp

Ramson Spalding told him that Roger has found Nemus and might meet Caelus. Sigurd expressed excitement, as he no longer needed to fix the IBYon space ship anymore.

#### H32 Hunt of the Adventure King

He told Ramson his backstory. In his attempt to find and utilise Caelus' ability, he found several crew members to work for him. He promised Nacho he will give him anything he wants if he keeps his promise.

#### H33 Encounter in the North

Ming developed an astral element machine that could significantly reduce the size and power of the Children of Gaia. Sigurd Bodon and his crew then ambushed Alex and Co. in Northern Ireland. The protagonists attempted to fight back, but even with backup from Hank, Lulu, Jones, Aligon and Benny, they were no match to Sigurd Bodon and his crew and even Jones, former No.1 adventurer suffered heavy injuries. He then took Caelus and left.

#### H35 Rift in the Blood Clan

He had left for Shambhala as told by Ming to Ramson and Roger. Before that, he gave Miss Crowbone the God of War's Words.

#### H36 The Sword of Gaia's Children

He had Caelus in a machine to use his powers to open portals. He entered Shambhala's center at Angkor Wat, Cambodia. and solved the puzzle to reopen the way to Gaia. Before he could absorb Gaia's energy, Caelus created portals for his siblings, Alex and Lulu followed. He fought all of them. He absorbed Nemus and Luminus' energies.

After Alex touched Gaia, Gaia released energy that removed Sigurd's immortality. He then merged with Alex's corruptive IBYon cells, becoming stronger than ever. The Seventh Guardian (Akhazane & Caelus), with the help of Pelagius, Mundus and Nemus, sent him to the subspace connecting all worlds. Sigurd continued to fight Chaos Larvae for the rest of eternity.

### Season 4

#### H37 Messenger of the Cat Goddess

After killing a Chaos Larva, he began to fight against a giant serpent that resembled Apep.

## Trivia

In H33 Hunt Of The Adventure King, two of Sigurd Bodon's "skills", "Gaffer's Dagger" and "Gaffer's Qigong" are shown. One of the Oxford Dictionary meanings of the word "Gaffer", refers to "an old man". Therefore, these "skills" translate to "Old Man's Dagger" and "Old Man's Qigong"

## References

1. ↑ "But little do the adventurs know, they had just faced John Rodrick himslef, who also go by the alias, Sigurd Bodon"

*H34 -Contest of the Mechas*
2. ↑ *H34 Contest of the Mechas*, Chapter 1
3. ↑ *H33 Encounter in the North*, Chapter 6-8
4. ↑ *H32 Hunt of the Adventure King*, Chapter 6 (Desire)
5. ↑ *H32 Hunt of the Adventure King*, Chapter 7 (Sigurd Bodon)