Bormack Gordan/Biography

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## Background

Bormack Gordan was an Alda fundamentalist, who believed that Vida's progeny was an impurity that had to be destroyed. Believing justice to be on his side, he developed "a burning obsession with exterminating vampires, lamias, scylla and other monsters that Vida had given birth to." This eventually gained him the title of Vampire Hunter.[?]

Through his faith, life and light-attribute magic, physical strength and combat prowess, and most notably for his achievements in exterminating countless vampires, Gordan eventually climbed to the position of High Priest, despite originally being a commoner. The Cathedral of Alda in the Amid Empire nomitated him to become cardinal several times, but he rejected the position due to his principle to act where he is needed.

Though there were numerous priest-warriors and saints in the Church of Alda who surpassed Gordan in terms of combat strength, Alda still took notice of him and considered him a heroic spirit candidate, because he was a hero who had been acknowledged by many.

## Evbejia Dhampir extermination

Hearing news of a dhampir born to a dark elf in Evbejia from a couple of hunters, Gordan began his hunt. Eventually, the Five-colored Blades handed him the mother, who he tortured and burnt on the stake.[?] Afterwards, he attempted to contact the hunters to make them guide him the offspring, but was unable to find them. Therefore he hired other hunters and joined forces with the feudal lord's knights, consisting of at least five knights and half of Baronet Bestero's soldiers.

He conducted a very thorough search through the small forest, but they "only encountered wild animals like wolves, bears and boars and the occasional weak monsters like goblins." Five days later, they discovered a lived-in cave that had collapsed. Gordan thought to dig out the whole cave, but had to give up the idea, due to the risk of the cave collapsing on top of them, and because there were no construction specialist nor dwarf miner in the area that they could hire.

Learning that the hunters had set out to hunt the dhampir themselves, but then gone missing without anyone being able to even find their corpses, Gordan intuitively thought that it could not merely been a coincidence nor unfortunate accident, but that something must have taken revenge on them. Therefore, he continued scouring the forest for two months, despite not finding the dhampir's corpse in the collapsed cave. When Baronet Bestero withdrew his knights and the expressed discontent of the people of Evbejia, he was forced to give up his search. Of all the tagrets he had hunted, this baby dhampir was the only one to escape him with its life and unscathed.

## Balcheburg cultivation project

He joined an extermination force which was sent into the devil's nest forest, where he learnt of the dhampir's survival. Failing to exterminate him yet again, he considered this the greatest regret of his life.

## Second Talosheim Expedition

*Main article: Second Talosheim Expedition*

After some of his priest-warrior disciples talked to him, and considering the political background of the Mirg shield-nation's expedition, Gordan agreed to not participate in the Second Talosheim Expedition. But when he received a divine message from Alda at night, he partly misunderstood the message, and decided to join the expedition after all.

Towards the end of the war, he fought Vandalieu face-to-face. Losing his life, he was turned into an undead. In his new undead state, he mistook Vandalieu for Alda, and began following Vandalieu's orders and attacked his own subordinates. After the battle, Vandalieu ordered him to attack the cultivation villages of Balcheburg, where he looted and destroyed the cultivated lands.

## Reputation Restoration

Due to the acts of destruction he committed under Vandalieu’s orders, his reputation plummeted to the earth and his influence in the Church of Alda has fallen as well. Not only the Church but the Empire and the Mirg shield-nation are also trying to extinguish the flames and restore his reputation, but the image of Gordan opening a large hole in the city’s wall and emerging through it is so devastating that his reputation won’t recover as much as they would like.

The reputation restoration was going well for a while, but the people began blaming the demons on the other side of the Boundary Mountain Range and advocating a war of revenge, so it was hastily stopped. Other than the Church, everyone is now considering whether it might be better to treat Gordan as an evil person. Most of the disciples that he was teaching participated in the expedition, with the exception of those who couldn’t due to age or injury. The fact that all of them were annihilated is a headache-inducing problem for both the Church and Alda.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Chapter 4: *Love for the sun* (Web Novel)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Volume 1+2 Character Summary (Web Novel)
3. ↑ Volume 3 Character Summary (Web Novel)
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Chapter 57: *The Eclipse King is crowned, and a saint receives a Divine Message* (LightnovelBastion)
5. ↑ Chapter 64: *Play and sing a gloomy, unpleasant marching song* (LightnovelBastion)
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Side Chapter 3: *The conspiracies of three parties* (Web Novel)