Dalaugon

**Dalaugon** (ダラウゴン, *Daraugon*?) is a recurring character in the story. He is a minor character in the "Phantom Death Capital" arc. He is a secondary character in the "Azure Demonic Sea" arc.

## Biography

Dalaugon is the **Sea God** (海神, *Kaijin*?). He is the god of mermen.

His former wife is Melora. Between Dalaugon and her, they have three sons. His eldest son was disavowed. His second son is Crampon and his last son is missing after fighting Alphos. His daughter; Toyotima is the product of him and Ishtia.

He usually live in the inland sea of Sead. He lives in Murmil, the pearl capital.

His sacred beast is a shark.

## History

### War of the Gods

In the war between the Nargolians and Mina's Children, Dalaugon stood neutral in the conflict. Volgas and Modus suggested to welcome the neutral gods. Whereas Ishtia and Rena were strongly opposed because the ugly Dalaugon kept wooing Ishtia.

He'd joined Modus' faction, the Nargol Pantheon.

### Sead Supremacy

His wife Melora, abandoned him and switched to Triden. That's why Dalaugon is fighting Triden.

At the inland sea of Sead, Triden's kin group and Dalaugon's kin group are still fighting fiercely.

## Appearance

He is an ugly man. He is in the form of a gigantic merman, over 6 meters tall. The merman is corpulent and has a fat belly out. He usually shrinks his body, but in reality he is as big as the Demonic Beast Cetus of the open sea.

## Personality

He is usually perverted but he can be terrifying once angered.

### Relationships

***The following section contains spoilers.***

Crampon
His second son.
Enshema
He is afraid of Enshema.
Faegir
He knows a little of him but he recognises him. He has heard of him being powerful, but he's not certain. Unlike the other Oanes, he has unusual powers and is loyal to Diadona.
Ishtia
He kept wooing her in the past. Dalaugon asked to spend the night with Ishtia in exchange for a pearl the size of a small island, and Ishtia was dazzled by the pearl and spent the night with him.
Kuna
He is attracted to Kuna and was disappointed not able to meet her.
Kuroki
He has met Kuroki once before.
Melora
His ex-wife. Dalaugon used his own treasure, the aquamarine, to attract Melora's attention, and had Volgas and Heibos make the Sead's Forehead Band for her.
Dalaugon still cared for Melora and was only hesitant to attack with full force.
Modus
His leader. He is a friend of Modus.
Mona
He was disappointed not able to meet her.
Nargol
He is terrified of his mother. The thought of her revival frightened him.
Toyotima
Beloved daughter.
He is against Toyotima to be in love with Triden's son and wouldn't forgive her.
Triden
They are hostile enemies. The reason was that Triden had bedded Dalaugon's wife, the mermaid queen Melora. He is fighting against Triden because Melora abandoned him for Triden. Melora declared Triden the new ruler of the Sead and welcomed him into her own remote palace. As a result, Dalaugon and Triden were locked in a battle for control of the inland seas of the Sead.

## Story

### The Evil God's Labyrinth

When Kuroki was reading in the Heaven Realm's Library, he was briefly mentioned in the emerald tablet.

Rorikon mentions Dalaugon as he worships the Sea god. He is grateful for Dalaugon for giving him good fortune.

### The Phantom Death Capital

Dalaugon participated in the meeting of the Nargol Pantheon. He is disappointed that Kuna and Mona didn't attend to this meeting. He felt fear when Modus mentions the possibilities of Nargol's revival. When Helkart questioned who will go to Motgal, Dalaugon turns away and whistles on purpose.

### The Azure Demonic Sea

He and Toyotima sent invitation to Pipipolenna and Kuroki to Murmil. He welcomes his guest to Murmil, and he was astonished to see Polen's beautiful form.

He guides everybody to Woguchi. Dalaugon laughs when he hears that the dancers have arrived, and the Mermen laughs too.

Reiji disguised as a female dancer aimed for Dalaugon's head while dancing towards him. However it fails as Kuroki prevented Reiji's attack. Dalaugon orders the mermen to don't interfere with the dark knight and the Hero's fight.

Dalaugon apologies to Kuroki for not being able to save Polen.

Dalaugon led his Murmillones to the prisoner exchange destination. He called out to Triden by shouting at him from a distance, and refuses to act familiar to him. He left the negotiation of exchanging prisoners to Toyotima.

Dalaugon stops Toyotima trying to approach Faegir. Dalaugon was surprise and upset that Toyotima is willing to trade the forehead band for Turkissos. When Toyotima asked her father for the forehead band, Dalaugon is upset told the truth that it is in a place that is inconvenient to get. He tries to persuades Toyotima to not hand over the forehead band.

Dalaugon joins up and stops Toyotima. Dalaugon is only allowed to accompany Toyotima so far. Dalaugon was in the verge of tears while watching Kuroki and others leaving towards the Vargo sea.

Dalaugon's eyes looked a little lonely as he watched Kuroki, Polen, Putina and Toyotima celebrating in Woguchi .

## Abilities

Dalaugon is strong in the sea and on land, even Triden can't beat him even with Melora's support magic. Toyotima claims that Dalaugon is strong enough to destroy Melora and the mermaids songs.

## Etymology

**Watatsumi** (海神, 綿津見?, also pronounced Wadatsumi), is a legendary **kami** (神?, god; deity; spirit), Japanese dragon and tutelary water deity in Japanese mythology. **Ōwatatsumi no kami** (大綿津見神?, "great deity of the sea") is believed to be another name for the sea deity **Ryūjin** (龍神?, Dragon God), and also for the **Watatsumi Sanjin** (綿津見三神?), "Three Watatsumi gods"), which rule the upper, middle, and lower seas respectively and were created when Izanagi was washing himself after returning from Yomi, "the underworld".

## Development

Dalaugon is based on **Dagon** (ダゴン?) from the ancient Canaanite religion and **Glaucus** (グラウコス, *Guraukosu*?) from Greek mythology. His design is very similiar to the *Cthulhu Mythos's* **Dagon** (ダゴン?).

Takeru Nezaki wanted to write an introduction of the Evil Gods, Modus' allies.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 *Dark Knight Story* - The Evil God's Labyrinth: Chapter 02 - Heaven Realm's Book Library
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 *Dark Knight Story* - The Evil God's Labyrinth: Chapter 11 - Fiends and Heroes
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 *Dark Knight Story Setting Collections* - Elios Pantheon: Deities Name Record 3 Triden & Gena
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 *Dark Knight Story* - The Azure Demonic Sea: Chapter 06 - Woguchi the Mystic Mist Town pt.1
5. ↑ 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 *Dark Knight Story* - The Azure Demonic Sea: Chapter 02 - Murmil the Pearl Capital
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8 6.9 *Dark Knight Story* - The Phantom Death Capital: Chapter 02 - The Nargol Pantheon
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 *Dark Knight Story* - The Azure Demonic Sea: Chapter 01 - To the Azure Sea
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 *Dark Knight Story* - The Azure Demonic Sea: Chapter 13 - The Prisoner Exchange
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 *Dark Knight Story* - The Azure Demonic Sea: Chapter 14 - Faegir the Sea Ogre General
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 *Dark Knight Story* - The Azure Demonic Sea: Chapter 12 - The Captive Prince?
11. ↑ *Dark Knight Story* - The Azure Demonic Sea: Chapter 07 - Woguchi the Mystic Mist Town pt.2
12. ↑ *Dark Knight Story* - The Azure Demonic Sea: Chapter 09 - Woguchi the Mystic Mist Town pt.4
13. ↑ *Dark Knight Story* - The Azure Demonic Sea: Chapter 10 - Woguchi the Mystic Mist Town pt.5
14. ↑ *Dark Knight Story* - The Azure Demonic Sea: Chapter 11 - The Captive Princess?
15. ↑ *Dark Knight Story* - The Azure Demonic Sea: Chapter 18 - The Road Leading to the Open Sea
16. ↑ *Dark Knight Story* - The Azure Demonic Sea: Chapter 25 - The Queen of Sead
17. ↑ *Dark Knight Story* - The Azure Demonic Sea: Chapter 05 - The Sea King Temple
18. ↑ *Dark Knight Story Setting Collections* - Nargol Pantheon: Deities Name Record 3 Dalaugon & Trullora
19. ↑ Takeru Nezaki's Narou Blog - 03/12/2017: Dark Knight Story update