Grymwelte

> ...what did you call me? You would dare to compare the like of me... TO THE VERY GOD OF OUR BLOOD?! YOU INFERIOR ANIMAL!!! My name is Grymwelte. I am the tenth seat of the Blood of the Wing. I am at the very bottom of the cohort that you call "superior dragons."
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> **Grymwelte** to Leonica, The Day the Reaper Was Born

## Grymwelte*The Black Magic Dragon*

* Anime
* Manga

## Portrayal

### Japanese VA

Takehito Koyasu

**Grymwelte** (グリュムウェルテ, *Guryumuwerute*?) was the bloodline dragon ranking 10th within the Winged Bloodline.

## Appearance

Grymwelte's humanoid form is a muscular man of above average human height. His hair is pitch black, resting in a slicked pack position at all times and extending down to his neck and almost growing past it. Four rows of 3 small spikes extrude from his forehead and go towards the back of his head. His mouth is covered by a solid spiky mask. He wears a nicely made suit resembling a tuxedo, the arms and shoulders of the suit are coated in armor. In his dragon form he's immensely bigger resembling the traditional image of western dragons and most of his body is covered in spikes.

## Personality

Grymwelte is an exceptionally loyal member of the Winged Brethren executing the orders of the Winged Monarch without fail or doubt towards said orders and often he finds even more joy than usual when he is ordered to kill humans. When fighting he wastes no time and slaughters anyone he encounters. When not in action he is a very serious individual rarely talking unless asked and does what is needed quickly and efficiently. Grymwelte feels such immense joy for serving the Dragon God and respect towards it that when he was compared to the Dragon God mistakenly by a human he was enraged for such unthinkable comparison. Like most of the other Superior Dragons Grymwelte looks down and despises all humans.

## Biography

### Main timeline

#### Fall of Lese

In the night between February 27 and February 28 of the Year 498 Grymwelte attacked the city of Ronabera as ordered by Ultimatia. After he killed several dragon hunters and set afire the city he got ambushed by the dragon hunter Ragna but the hunter's sword was shattered on impact, Grymwelte counterattacked with a single fire column which tossed the weak hunter in the river. Leonica the strongest hunter of the city, after she killed a medium size dragon in one slash she started fighting the superior dragon.

Leonica, surviving longer than all the precedent dragon hunters Grymwelt met before annoyed him. She questioned him if he was the rumored Dragon God as she never met a dragon as strong as him before but the statement enraged Grymwelte as he was at the bottom of the ranked dragons and being compared to the Dragon God was profanity. Grymwelte after explaining that the fall of the Kingdom of Lese was nothing more than a whim of the Dragon God tried to kill Leonica but he halted before doing so after he perceived a threatening aura which reminded him of the Dragon Monarchs he met before, the responsible was the weak hunter he dealt with shortly before.

The awakened Ragna instantly freezed all the nearby lower and medium dragons, Ragna's freezing aura freaked out Grymwelte which made him decide to transform into his dragon form to increase explosively the magic power in his blood but the transformation didn't change the outcome as Ragna killed him instantly.

### Original Timeline

#### Fall of Lese

In the night between February 27 and February 28 of the Year 498 Grymwelte attacked the city of Ronabera. He easily annihilated the city and its inhabitants with the exception of Ragna unbeknownst to him.

#### Defeat of Ragna

Around 8 years after, Grymwelte and all the other members of the Winged Bloodline defeated Ragna who tried to stop them from doing again what they have done to the Kingdom of Lese in another distant land. Borgius asked to all members of the bloodline their opinion on how to deal with the defeated hunter and Grymwelte suggested a simple public execution was enough even though a public was missing. Ultimatia instead suggested to let him join the bloodline seeing how his survival was only possible because of the Dragon God's will. Ragna confused by what was happening learns from Grymwelte how all lower and middle class dragons are nothing else but mere beast born from their blood but if a human gets the honor of receiving the blood directly from the Dragon Monarch they would transform into a superior dragons. Convinced all the members of the bloodline, Ultimatia stabbed Ragna with a blade made of her own blood and started the ritual of the conversion into a superior dragon but in the middle of the transformation, Ragna in despair and unwilling to let them do what they want again leapt towards what was left of his silver sword and stabbed his heart. Ultimatia disappointed by his decision of killing himself concluded that perhaps his destiny wasn't to join them. She and all other members of the bloodline left his corpse in the land that they had just destroyed. Unbeknownst to them Ragna's body was recovered by Crimson.

#### Fall of the Winged Bloodline

Around 20 years after the fall of Ronabera, Ragna at his own power peak and with the help of Crimson successfully killed all the members of the Winged Bloodline but only a few survived after the destruction the bloodline brought.

## Power & Abilities

**Superior Dragon**: the body is far more resilient to standard human weapons than other dragons and to some degree even to silver and sunlight, the body can be changed from an humanoid one to their dragon from thus releasing their true power. From their blood they can release countless lower or medium class dragons.

**Strengthening Magic**: Grymwelte holds the magic strengthening expression, a simple but powerful magic which increases the target's numeric value like increasing the hardness of an object or rising bigger flames. The more the magic is used the more the target affected becomes darker.

## Trivia

* Originally Grymwelte should have been a typical first round baddie but the author's editor refused and forced the author to pump him up a bit.
* Grymwelte in his private life is a nudist.
* He's a relatively young dragon compared to the other members of the Winged Bloodline.
* Grymwelte's nickname comes from the visual effect of his magic.

## References

1. ↑ *Ragna Crimson* Manga: Chapter 1 (p. 73)
2. ↑ *Ragna Crimson* Manga: Chapter 8 (p. 15)
3. ↑ *Ragna Crimson* Manga: Chapter 1
4. ↑ *Ragna Crimson* Manga: Chapter 2
5. ↑ *Ragna Crimson* Manga: Chapter 9 (p. 2-33)
6. ↑ *Ragna Crimson* Manga: Chapter 14
7. ↑ *missing source*
8. ↑ *Ragna Crimson* Manga: Chapter 1 (p. 86)
9. ↑ *Ragna Crimson* Manga: Chapter 9 (p. 25)
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Tweet by Daiki Kobayashi (May 21, 2022)
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 *Ragna Crimson* Manga: Volume 1 (Back-Page Talk)