Emperor Dominius

* Emperor Dominius
* Devil's Luck card game

## Stats

**Emperor Dominius**, more commonly called Duros Black or Dark Duros, was the God-Emperor of Planet Duros until his death. He sought to build a superweapon capable of destroying entire planets in order to become the most powerful being in the universe.

## **Appearance**

Duros Black was a very large man who wears a large silver lion mask and a full suit of highly adorned, obsidian black armor with a purple glow. However, upon closer inspection the lion mask appears to be a wolf. He also carries a giant sword. Under his mask, he looks exactly like Duros, but more menacing. He has white hair and pale skin with purple shadows under his eyes, presumably at least partially due to the influence of his armor. In his final moments however, he looked like an old and weakened version of Duros.

## **Personality**

Dominius was an incredibly arrogant, prideful, and carefree person. He seems to have a penchant for dramatic phrasing, as well as a habit of exaggerated posing when giving declarations. He fears very few people, as he is the strongest person on Planet Duros. He does, however, dislike it when people betray his trust. As seen when he threatened to brutally kill both Luna and Helios if they continue to fight against him.

Dominius also possesses an extremely bloodthirsty mentality as he often brutally kills random people as an example to not disobey him or for no reason at all.

## **Abilities / Powers / Equipment**

#### Overview

Duros Black was a very powerful fighter, being massive in size and strong enough to wear full plate armor all the time. He also has the many benefits of wearing the cursed armor, such as eternal youth, great defense, and an extra mouth. In terms of combat, everything Duros can do, Duros Black can do better. Despite seeing Ragnar being trained in Armament Haki, and having one of his own Inquisitor's know Armament Haki, namely Maximus, and having over a thousand years of training, Duros Black still does not appear to have access to Armament Haki.

As the Emperor of Duros, Duros Black has complete authority over every living citizen on the planet and wields absolute executive, legislative and judicial power. He commands a massive army, the true numbers of which are unknown, as well as the four Inquisitors, who serve him as his highest ranking administrative and military officials. He was widely regarded as a God on his planet and has all of its wealth and resources at his disposal.

#### Conqueror's Haki

Being Duros, he also possesses the ability to use Conqueror's Haki. When Duros Black enters a city, and can knock out some people with his very presence.

#### Legendary Action

Duros Black has three Legendary Actions he can use each one at the end of a opponents turn. He regains then at the start of his turn.

#### Legendary Resistance

Duros Black has one Legendary Resistance. Using this ability, if he fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.

#### Malevolence

Duros Black's massive black sword that's also connected to the armor. The sword glows with purple energy. He can swing it three times a turn, each hit does 2d10+5+2d10+5 damage and is +11 to hit.

#### Cursed Armor

This set of cursed armor gave Duros Black eternal youth, at least while he's wearing it. It appears that the armor uses life force as a fuel, as when Duros Black is about to absorb energy he claims that the armor "needs more energy"

* Destruction Wave (Proposed: Hakai-hadō) - Using the boots' magic, Duros Black can stomp on the ground and send out a strong shockwave.
* Armor Manipulation - Duros Black can contort his armor to eat various things. Eating people will slowly drain their life force, which directly feeds into Duros Black's own lifespan, which is what allowed him to live for 1000 years.
* Force Gauntlets - Using these gauntlets allows Duros Black to grab foes from a distance by utilizing some unknown telekinetic force.

## **Devil's Luck The Card Game**

Emperor Dominius is a SUPPORT card with the following effect:

"When this card is flipped"

Reveal a card from your hand, Destroy all cards on the board that share a faction with that card . If there are no cards in your hand, reveal a card from the top of the deck instead.

Emperor Dominius is part of the INDEPENDENT faction.

Artist: Boop Beep

## **Relationships**

### **Allies**

#### The Inquisitors

The four Inquisitors are the public representatives of Emperor Dominius, each ruling one of the four major cities of the planet in his name.

### **Enemies**

#### Devil's Luck Pirates

Due to the influence of the cursed armor, Duros Black betrayed and killed the Devil's Luck crew of his own timeline. He then quickly developed a sick obsession with them, spending years trying and failing to create clones of them in order to kill them again and again to satisfy that obsession. When he found out about the arrival of the current timeline's version of the Crew, he was delighted over the prospect of getting to kill them again.

#### Luna

Originally one of his Inquisitors, a loyal and powerful subordinate, Luna rebelled against her lord after realizing how much damage his policies were inflicting on the population of the planet. She went from worshipping and serving Dominius to despising him, quickly becoming determined to bring him down. This resolve was strengthened even further when her half-brother Helios fell in battle against the Emperor, prompting her to decide to become the new Empress of Duros in order to change the world for the better and honor his memory. The Emperor didn't seem to mind Luna's betrayal, as even though she was a highly capable Inquisitor, he could presumably replace her quite easily.

#### Helios

Helios was a Centurion in Dominius' army, serving him with great enthusiasm and a peerless sense of duty. However, after the Devil's Luck Pirates manage to make him see the truth of Dominius and his tyranny he joins them in their rebellion. Dominius took to this betrayal with apathy and casually killed him.

#### Lyssa

The Emperor seems to be mostly unaware of Lyssa's existence. However, she blames him for the deaths of her parents and harbors an intense hatred for him.

## **History**

Duros Black was the corrupted, alternate timeline version of Duros who found all the pieces of the cursed armor. This Duros (also called Duros Black or Dark Duros) got corrupted by the armor and killed all of the Crew, except for Louis who in his last dying breaths sent Duros Black back in the past hundreds, maybe even a thousand years. Once he landed there, Duros Black took the early people of Planet Duros and manipulated them into thinking of him as a god.

Once he established himself as a god, Duros Black created imitations of the Crew to kill in an attempt to quell his anger. However, he's now quite happy that he can truly kill his crew once again. He enjoyed their fight, and when all hope seemed lost for the Crew, with Pearl raging as a dragon, Gravy and Louis eaten by the armor, and Helios dead, the Louis who sent Duros Black in time showed up and saved Gravy and his past self, along with turning Pearl to her normal self. After this, Duros used Pearl's fire to destroy the evil armor. Soon after this, Duros Black was sorry for everything he did, but was happy he could protect his planet before he turned to dust.

## **Trivia**

* Dominius bears many similarities to the Emperor of Mankind in Warhammer 40K.
* He often likes to pick a random person to kill as an example to not disobey him and sometimes for no reason at all. Two of them happen to be Lyssa's parents.
* Despite wanting to kill his former crew again and spending effort to recreate them his Inquisitors share similarity's to his former crew. For example, Ragnar and Maximus being the physically strongest of their respected groups shows that he gathered them as he could trust their reliability from previous experience.
* Dominus has done the second most damage in the series, being 121, without a critical hit.
* It can be assumed Black Duros also hates mimes since mimes were outlawed on Planet Duros
* When Duros Black betrayed the Devil's Luck Pirates in his original timeline, the first member he killed was Pearl since he deemed her full dragon form to be the biggest threat to him.
	+ Interestingly enough, when he was eventually finally defeated, it was technically by the flames of Pearl's dragon form, stored and released at him by Duros' shield.

* In the first wave of the Devil's Luck The Card Game, Rustage drew a mustache on one of the Emperor Dominius cards that was sent out.
	+ Emperor Dominius card has a typo on his card effect, (hand, Destroy) in the the place where there should be a period, there is a comma.

* In the Finale, Dominius wielded a cursed shield that he never used in his initial boss battle back in episode 30: Memento Mori. It is currently unknown whether he had the shield from the beginning, or if its just a different timeline where Dominius had the complete set.
* It is unknown how Dominius lost "Friend".

### **Quotes**

* "And the cowards that they were, they barely fought back, all they did was beg and plead, I killed them all of course."
* "I am more you than YOU will ever be!"
* "I learnt to protect the things that matter, and I learned that all that matters is myself."
* "As long as I protected people, that's all that matters."