Dardan

**Dardan** is one of the male characters and the main antagonist of *Dark Moon: The Blood Altar*. Prior to the start of the series, he was the Chancellor of the Ancient Kingdom as revealed in Episode 40 of the WEBTOON series.

## Personality & Background

Not much is known about Dardan other than the fact that he had been born into a ruined family as revealed in Episode 41. He worked his way up the social ladder and became the youngest Chancellor of the Ancient Kingdom, solely for the sake of getting close to the princess, Selen. He was a selfish, greedy, depraved and sadistic man who was madly obsessed with Selen and sought every opportunity to try and win her heart. Dardan also looked down on others whom he considered below him and would not hesitate to resort to violence to exert his dominance. Despite the countless rejections from the princess and his attempts to court her thwarted by her knights, Dardan became more determined to make Selen his.

One evening he witnessed Selen’s mother, giving the princess Vargr’s blood in order to save her life. Due to his hunger for power, Dardan committed treason by stealing the last drops of Vargr’s blood in order to receive the same powers as the princess. However, it backfired when he was turned into an incomplete lower-tier vampire instead of a Vampire Lord, since he did not possess any Shaman magic and the amount of Vargr’s blood was very little. Due to being incomplete, Dardan attacked anyone by biting and drinking their blood indiscriminately, turning them into lower-tier vampires against their wills. Now with an army, Dardan attacked the Ancient Kingdom in order to claim the powers and the princess for himself.

Even as an incomplete vampire, Dardan was incredibly strong as he easily and brutally injured Selen’s knights. He became enraged when Heli (who had survived his injuries) impaled him with his sword, and attempted to slaughter him in retaliation. However, his attempt was thwarted by Selen who sacrificed herself by using her teleportation ability to shield Heli from his attack. This causes him to fatally impale her instead of Heli, which shocked him. In order to protect the ancient powers, Selen shared and sealed them within her knights before teleporting them to the distant future during her final moments.

During the events of Dark Moon: The Blood Altar WEBTOON, he sensed Selen’s waves when she reincarnated into a human girl named Sooha. This enabled him to regain his powers and accumulate followers due to the strength of his powers. Due to his appearance having similarities to her deceased childhood friend Chris, Sooha easily mistook Dardan for Chris. Dardan took advantage of this by pretending to be 'Chris' in order to gain Sooha’s trust, only to reveal his true intentions in Episode 19-21 when he attempted to kidnap her. This was thwarted by Heli and his friends, along with Khan and the werewolves. However, he successfully kidnapped Sooha in Episode 31 in order to steal the essence of her powers so he could become a complete vampire. To prevent Heli and his group from interfering with his plan, Dardan constantly sent out his minions to get rid of the boys. All his attempts constantly backfired when Sooha kept amplifying their powers which enabled Heli and his group to defeat his minions.

## Appearance

Dardan is a handsome young man with blonde hair, blue-green eyes, and has a pale complexion.

In the present day, Dardan wears a large loose shirt with long-puffed sleeves and a drawstring front. It is accompanied with black trousers and white shoes, along with a black ribbon choker.

In the Ancient Kingdom, Dardan’s consists of a crimson uniform with white trousers and gloves. He wore black boots with this outfit, and his blonde hair was combed back.

## Relationships

### Selen

Dardan was madly infatuated and obsessed with Selen. However, Selen did *not* reciprocate his “feelings” and was constantly creeped out by him. Even so, she did respect him as a competent Chancellor. He deliberately eavesdropped on Selen’s conversation with her mother about the marriage proposal and to respectfully decline it which made him ecstatic and deluded that she did it for his sake. This offended the princess who told him that he had no right to pry into her personal business, but he retaliated by accusing her of being a classist. Selen slapped him and straight out told him that he does not understand why she despises him so much, but he remained unfazed and stubbornly refused to accept her rejection by asking what he should do in order to have her.

His obsession with the princess eventually led to Dardan committing treason. He stole the remaining drops of Vargr’s blood in order to acquire the same powers as Selen, but it turned him into an incomplete vampire instead. Using his powers, he decided to deprive Selen everything she loves and to claim her for himself. However, Selen refused to comply by sacrificing herself when she shielded Heli from his attack which resulted in her death.

When Selen reincarnated into a human girl named Sooha several centuries later, Dardan tracked her down and even pretended to be her childhood friend Chris, just to gain her trust. He almost succeeded in kidnapping her after revealing his true intentions in Episode 19-21 in the WEBTOON but was thwarted by Heli, Khan and their friends. His ultimate goal (as revealed by Marge) was to capture the princess in order to steal the essence of her powers. He eventually succeeded kidnapping Sooha in Episode 31. He was further enraged when Sooha returned Heli’s affections after she was woken up by him. Dardan also did not hesitate to take Sooha as a hostage in order to coercive the boys, threatening to kill her if they did not do as he says. However, this was thwarted by Marge and Jakah.

### Heli

Dardan despised Heli, whom he considered an obstacle to him getting close to the princess (and later Sooha), and was constantly jealous of their closeness. In Episode 41 of the WEBTOON, Heli reprimanded Dardan for harassing Selen and warned him that there will be consequences if he catches him bothering the princess again. In Episode 42, Dardan took advantage of Heli’s feelings for Selen to brutally attack him. However, Heli survived his wounds and impaled Dardan with his sword in Episode 43. Enraged, Dardan attempts to kill Heli in retaliation, but Selen shielded Heli from his attack, resulting him killing the princess instead.

Several centuries later, Dardan still saw Heli as a threat to achieving his ultimate goal which was to capture Sooha and to steal her powers. When Heli lost his powers after the ceremony began, Dardan taunted him by claiming that Heli and everyone would be bowing down to him once he takes Sooha’s powers. However, this did not stop Heli who managed to impale him with his sword while he was briefly distracted by the arrival of Khan’s friends. When Heli managed to wake up Sooha and professed his love for her (which was returned), this enraged Dardan who attempted to choke him to death. He once again took advantage of Heli’s feelings for Sooha by using her as a hostage and threatening to kill her through coercion. Dardan started savagely beating Heli when he refused to comply and knocked him off the altar which was thwarted when Noa saved Heli after reawakening his powers.

### Marge

Marge constantly warned Dardan against trying to use forbidden magic to gain power and resolved to hide the important materials from him. After Dardan became an incomplete vampire and started attacking the Ancient Kingdom, he did not even hesitate to attack Marge when she tried to shield Selen from him. Marge was able to escape from Dardan with Selen’s help and kept Heli and his friends hidden from him to protect the Ancient Powers several centuries later.

Dardan kidnapped her along with Sooha and imprisoned her. Marge told Dardan that the only reason why the Royal family were blessed with Shaman powers for generations had nothing to do with their status. It was because of their decency and preparedness to use the powers for good. She also tells him that a greedy, selfish, sadistic and depraved bastard like him who hurts and uses people just to get what he wants will never be entitled to those powers. After recalling Marge having Selen’s blood within her, Dardan drank Marge’s blood, but kept her alive because of her knowledge and resourcefulness about the ‘Blood Altar’.

When the ceremony began, he attempted to force Marge to tell him how to acquire Selen’s powers and even threatened to kill Sooha if she didn’t comply. However, Marge deliberately bit her tongue to protect herself and Sooha. This enraged Dardan who immediately threw her aside. However, Dardan soon forgot about Marge while he was coercing the boys using Sooha as a hostage. Marge managed to knock Dardan aside from behind which caught him completely off guard, causing him to release Sooha. Dardan was once again enraged by Marge’s interference and attempted to attack her in retaliation, but was thwarted by Jakah who used his reawakened powers to snatch Marge and Sooha away from him.

## Reference

1. ↑ [Limited release] ‘DARK MOON : THE BLOOD ALTAR’ Special Episodes Ep. 3 (weverse.io)