Dongrang

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## Dongrang

* Sprite
* Distortion
* Farmwatch

## General Information

### Occupation

K Corp. Dept. of Food Resource Development Branch Manager

### Voice Actor

Jang Min-hyeok

**Dongrang** (*Hangul*: 동랑, *Dong Rang*) is a Branch Manager of K Corp, specifically overseeing K Corp Department of Food Resource Development. He was formerly a member of the League of Nine Littérateurs and one of Yi Sang's former colleagues.

Dongrang is introduced in Canto IV by his subordinate and secretary, Samjo. He is very cooperative in his temporary partnership with the Sinners of Limbus Company in their combined efforts to stop the terrorist group known as the Technology Liberation Alliance, up until the end of the chapter's dungeon. Where he is fought as a Distortion, and then as an E.G.O. Manifestee.

## Appearance

Dongrang is a tall, thin man with ghostly-white skin and dull green hair. He wears slim, rimless glasses over bright green eyes, and has a notable mole or birthmark on his neck.

Dongrang sports the typical K Corp scientist uniform, which consists of a long white lab coat with green accents and the K Corp's signature logo on the right sleeve. He also wears a white collared shirt, black shoes, a green tie and a black blazer with green accents. Dongrang's uniform pants are the same set of colors as his blazer, with a diamond pattern on his right thigh, and near his ankles. He has two pens in his labcoat's pockets, and has his ID pinned to his chest on his left.

As a Distortion, he is known as Dongrang Who Denies All. Dongrang takes the form of a centaur-like creature as his Distortion, his lower-half similar to that of a cow and covered in twisted green vines to that of Peccatulum Gulae. His upper-half is more human-adjacent and is seen wearing a large, belled sleeved brown overcoat and dirtied robe, also known as a hanbok (한복). Dongrang Who Denies All also sports a weaved sedge hat (Korean- satgat or 삿갓) with two white horns piercing through it and covering his face. Dongrang Who Denies All wields a bloodied and disjointed plough-like weapon, covered in vines, leaves and cotton.

While manifesting his Farmwatch E.G.O, his appearance is similar to the upper half of his Distortion. He wears the same brown overcoat, hanbok robe and sedge hat, now alongside brown gloves, a small cowbell attached to a robe dangling from his neck, and black boots, also known as hwa (화). We still cannot see Dongrang's face in this form, only the two horns piercing the sedge hat. He also wields a weapon heavily inspired by a plough in this form, an agricultural tool pulled by a draft animal (commonly cows, mules or horses) to dig trenches allowing not only for the earth to be mixed but also for the seeds to be easily buried. The tool he uses may also be slightly influenced by a scythe, an agricultural hand tool for mowing grass or harvesting crops.

## Personality

At the beginning of Canto IV, he is portrayed as a benevolent and agreeable albeit dismissive and even egotistical man, with him notably mentioning him leaving out flowers for fallen K Corp researchers. However, as the chapter progresses, he is shown to be an emotionally numbed and borderline sadistic person, focused on outdoing his former peers in the League of Nine Littérateurs. In the story dungeon before manifesting his E.G.O, it is noted that he has lost the pity he felt for the test subjects who would generate audiovisual feed for K. Corp's Singularity. He was notably envious of Yi Sang, outright coming to the conclusion that he should kill him to fulfill his longing to finally outshine the League, and to be recognized for his own accomplishments. Despite his sense of pity being impaired thanks to the League's parting, and thanks to witnessing the horrors at K. Corp, he wasn't always doing things for a reward; prior to all of the events of the League's disbanding, he had a softer and more gentle tone, caring for things that were merely injured or suffering.

He has been shown feeling noticeable guilt for what he has done and endorsed, seeking to deny it all. Prior to his distortion, remembering the fear that the calf he saved before the original league disbanded wouldn't recognize him for what he's done, caused him to initially Distort. This is only for a brief moment though, as when he sees what happens when the cow could no longer recognize him, he kills it and joins K Corp. in earnest to follow his ambitions. During the events of the Canto IV dungeon, he vows to rebuild his department one by one, and manifests E.G.O; accepting that he, too, has changed, and will now finally shed his affiliation with the League by killing Yi Sang.

## Observation Logs

* Distortion
* Farmwatch E.G.O

### Dongrang, Who Denies All

Log Writer: **Yi Sang**

* Level 1
Dongrang was fond of animals.

Back home, he would tend to hurt and ailing creatures. That calf...the yellow one was one such animal.

Whenever I visited Dongrang's home, he stood from where he nursed the calf. I remeber teasing him in jest that he may be sleeping in the cattle shed instead of his room.

He told me that the yellow calf was born frail. Because of that, it was abandoned by its own mother, or so I heard.

When one friend of his asked what he tended to the calf for...and he would brush the question aside, saying that the calf is cute.

He didn't change after we moved to T Corp's territory. He readily picked up starving animals from the streets to raise them.

I thought that he was perhaps reminded of the calf he left in his hometown, although I did not say it out loud.

However, as the technologies in the League began to be evaluated for material value, he changed little by little.

While Brother Young-ji's glass window attracted the attention of people in higher echelons and the public, and I presented my mirror... The worth of Dongrang's works wasn't regarded as highly. It must have disheartened the fellow.

When T Corp. came to us for our technology, Dongrag's invention was thrown into the concept incinerator as a means to deceive the greedy guests...

I can only think that the fire scorched his heart more ferociously at that moment.

After the League scattered apart, Dongrang became a researcher working in an enviable position, dealing with matters of life as he had always wished.

Alas...

I no longer see the innocent gaze toward life in his eyes.

In consequence, as he unearths memories of the calf he left behind, buried under the thoughts of his technology falling behind...

...I fear that he may have lost track of where to go.

### Effloresced E.G.O::Farmwatch

Log Writer: **Yi Sang**

* Level 1
After being cast adrift, it would seem that he now has a clearly set path ahead.

I no longer see the Dongrang who concealed shaky eyes with his usual smile.

I now see a man striding forward and straight...toward claiming his glory and power.

He would have pondered a long time for this.

Between a life of the mind's fruitfulness borne out of tending to living beings, and a life of gluttony where he may escape the shadows of the League and find recognition for his own work.

Dongrang seems to have chosen the latter. Doing so, he must have faced the yellow calf that had been weighing his heart down in his mind...and killed it.

Since he abandoned his hometown and the calf, he appeared hungry at all times.

Hunger for recognition, constant weighing of what he left behind and what he has now, and the infinitesimal weight of his share.

Dongrang...has found a way to lead himself onward through the barley hump, ending this period of famine and swiping what few grains of rice that remain for him to chew on.

And now, he seems intent on killing me as his very first move.

Removing the closest shade of the past before his eyes.

Dongrang walks toward me, one step at a time...

And each time his foot touches the ground, sceneries of all things falling ill and being sacrified hover before my eyes.

## Etymology

**Dongrang** (*Hangul*: 동랑, *Hanja*: 東朗) was the pen name of *The Mud Hut*'s author, **Yoo Chijin** (*Hangul*: 유치진, *Hanja*: 柳致眞), a Korean playwright and founding member of "The Circle of Nine" (Hangul: 구인회 , Hanja: 九人會), or the *Guinhoe*. A literary group whom poets Park Taewon (pen name: Gubo) and Kim Hae-Gyeong (pen name: Yi Sang) would later join.

At first, he was a writer who expressed the reality of farmers suffering under landowners, but when he gained a good position, he became pro-Japanese and created works that propagandized Japan's war. After Korea's independence, he committed corruption under the protection of the military dictatorship.  In the game, his actions are depicted in the form of Dongrang, who was once a pure researcher but was reduced to a stooge of those in power.

### The Cow

Dongrang's E.G.O, Farmwatch is based on Yoo Chijin's stageplay, *The Cow* (*Hangul*: 소, *So*).

**Farmwatch**'s name in Korean is *mareum* (마름), a historical term used for a supervisor of a tenant farm. Mareum were landlords that owned farmland but had tenant workers do all the work themselves, and thus were always portrayed as cruel, greedy villains in Korean media.

In *The Cow*, main character, Kuksŏ (국서), is a joyful man who heavily prides his life as a farmer. The protagonist regards his beloved calf, the titular cow or ox (소, so), as dearly — if not more — as his own sons. The elder and honest son, Malttongi (말똥이, ‘horsey poo'), desires to inherit his father’s farm when he is too old and frail to tend to it, whereas the younger brother, Kaettongi (개똥이, ‘doggy poo'), wishes to leave his hometown for sea work in Manchuria to achieve a fortune.

Malttongi pleads with his father to sell his cow to pay of his bride's family debt, where as Kaettongi desires to sell the cow to pay for his trip to Machuria. In a series of shenanigans, the cow is the central point of conflict in the story and is eventually seized by the landlord (사음, sa-eum) farmwatch (마름, mareum) of the family’s farm, who suddenly shows up to their home and confiscates Kuksŏ’s ox anyway as part of their land tax.

Kuksŏ’s then tries to file a lawsuit towards the landlord farmwatch, but upon learning that the lawsuit won't actually benefit any of the tenant farmers, he immediately gives in and despairs. The play then ends with Malttongi setting the landlord’s grain storage ablaze before being taken into custody by village police.

In a twist of irony, the ox in the end escapes from the landlord farmwatch’s clutches and charges at him — killing the landowner before making its way back home.

## Trivia

* **Dongrang, Who Denies All** bears a resemblance to Peccatulum Gulae.
	+ This is similar to how Kromer the Dreamer of Human Wholeness bears resemblance to Peccatulum Luxuriae.
	+ Despite this, 'Dongrang, Who Denies All' is given the Sloth Affinity rather than Gluttony.

## Gallery

* Assets
* Cutscene Art

Story Log Portrait

## External Links

* *Dongrang (동랑) - Korean page (Namuwiki)*

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