Herzog

Herzog is a side character and a main antagonist in Dragon Raja. He is recruitable as a 4-Star Ally, while Osho is a 5-star.

## Biography

Throughout his life, Herzog takes on multiple identities.

* Herzog
* Masamune Tachibana
* Osho
* The Light King

## Doctor Herzog

Doctor Herzog was the director of Black Swan Orphanage.

He is seen as a friendly old man that cares about his students, teaching them combat caringly no matter their results, bar Z who knew his true nature. In actuality, instead of sending the most promising child to the city as promised every annual evaluation, he took them to his lab in the Icy Lair nearby.

Children who showed the most promise, combat power in this case, also had unstable bloodlines; being children, the unstable dragon blood would have likely killed them sooner or later. In the Lair, he did cruel experiments on them while they were still valuable test subjects.

His actions were fueled by his desire to become the ultimate being, a pure dragon, but it required much research. His focus was on the genes of the Dragon Clan and the Hybrids' talents.

The corpse of the Dragon he had recovered and stored in the Lair greatly helped this cause, as it is revealed the orphans were his own prototype hybrid embryos that he had created. The data he collected would later serve him, creating better ones.

Upon finding out that Cassell College was investigating his research, he and his accomplice, Agent Bondarev, flee and destroy Black Swan Bay with bombing. Or that was the plan.

## Bondarev / Masamune Tachibana

Instead of fleeing with Bondarev, he is shot in the back by him and left for dead as the bombing begins. By some miracle, he lives through the burning hailstorm of explosives because the freezing temperatures of Siberia closed his wounds.

Then, the scarred Herzog makes his way to Japan and hires a surgeon. After his facial reconstruction to that of a typical Japanese man, he plots his revenge.

Not only had he betrayed him, but Bondarev had taken the research with him as he fled, including developing embryos. Loosely understanding it, he changes his identity to Masamune Tachibana and begins to grow the stolen embryos. Said embryos eventually grow up to be Chisei Gen, Chime Gen, and Erii Uesugi. Unlike the failed orphans, they are mostly stabilized due to having a strong Light King's bloodline due to Koshi Uesugi's DNA.

It is sometime between the embryos' creation and the main story that Herzog finds and kills the unsuspecting Bondarev turned Tachibana, taking his place without arousing suspicion.

Now acting as Tachibana, he pretends to be their foster father and the Hydras' leader. He also inputted his sound triggers into the three at some point, dividing their brains into two halves. One half contained a "good personality" and a "bad personality" in the other, the sound of his wood block making the switches happen by his will.

## Osho's Blade

While a spare clone of himself continued to impersonate Tachibana, he arose as Osho's Blade.

Starting the Devil Clan, he then orchestrated many events to get to his end goal.

One was driving a wedge between the Gen brothers. He compelled Chisei to follow "absolute justice" as his father, and he caused Chime to become marked as a Death Servitor despite not changing physically by switching his personality to the one who enjoyed murdering girls. As an end result, Chisei spends many years regretting killing his apparently turned brother, oblivious that Chime survived and lives as Ruri Kazuma, who is his darker split personality.

Later, as he instigates the war between the Devil Clan and the Hydras as the leader of both sides, he also pushes the brothers forward as each side's greatest chess piece.

While everyone is busy, he goes to the Well of Bones to revive the Light King's Corpse with help from his Devil Clan. Despite the individual efforts of Cassell College and the Hydras to stop him, he succeeds.

While Ruri does end up "killing" the Corpse, he also confronts Chisei there. Using his EX, Chisei is killed in a dream world before Chime could take over. As Osho explains how everything was planned by him to the sobbing Chime, the last piece of his plan arrives.

Erii arrives to the Well without knowing the situation, her transportation apparently sabotaged by him to reroute her there, much to her confusion. With her there the Corpse, that had reduced to a parasite the size of a small animal, enters her body.

Switching Erii's personality and using her as a catalyst, the Gen brothers' blood is absorbed by her, killing Chime as well. After her blood is that of a pure dragon, specifically the Light King, Osho transfers all of her blood into his own body which put her on the verge of death.

This ritual successfully transforms him into the ultimate power he had strived for.

## Herzog the New Light King

With the blood of a pure dragon, he physically turns into the Light King; he becomes Herzog the New Light King.

While he just begins his rampage in his new dragon form, someone unexpected arrives to stop him.

Oblivious to everyone physically present at the Well, Luminous had been watching over Erii, right up to her apparent death thanks to Ming-Z-Lu's powers. In his despair, he gives in and makes a contract with the devil, giving him 1/4 of his life for the third time in exchange for eliminating Herzog.

Herzog is surprised as Ming-Z-Lu arrives, who turns out to be another form of Z. They engage in battle, Z exclaiming how he could never become a true dragon because of his human heart.

Eventually, Herzog is slain and has his blood extracted by Z, who gives the Light King's blood to the Player instead.