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.

CV
Joseph May

Gender
Male

Birthday
Unknown

Zodiac
Unknown

Blood Type
Unknown

Height
Unknown

Weight
Unknown

Hobby

## Biography

He has assumed many identities through his life, manipulating multiple sides and people in order to achieve his ultimate goal.

At the height of the mafia war of 2011, he alternated between two identities: Masamune Tachibana and Osho's Blade. He also impersonated Bondarev in front of Chisei Gen.

### Background

Herzog was a hybrid scientist who was employed by Nazi Germany to create hybrid soldiers, when Russia invaded Berlin, he was captured and his research was repurposed to serve the Soviet Union instead.

Herzog was sent to Black Swan Bay, where an ancient dragon's corpse was discovered under the ice. Herzog worked with the genes of Koshi Uesugi, provided to Germany by the families of the Yamata no Orochi during World War II. Uesugi's blood contained Izanami's genes, and he used them to produce tens of thousands of hybrid embryos, he also adopted multiple hybrid orphans and experimented on them.

To control his subjects, Herzog practiced a brain pontine splitting surgery, which caused their personalities to split in two and made them controllable after hearing the sound of a woodblock instrument.

#### Meeting Bondarev

In 1990, during the fall of the Soviet Union, Herzog detected an intruder on the cave of an ancient dragon and met a spy inside named Bondarev, who claimed to be a descendant of Anastasia Romanov. Bondarev offered to finance Herzog's operations and provided him with a new goal: to use the ancient dragon corpse to resurrect Izanami and obtain her power.

Herzog took his two best Uesugi babies and an embryo and initiated the self destruction process of the Black Swan Bay facility, but he was betrayed and shot down by Bondarev, who took his research and left in a helicopter, taking the dragon corpse as well as the dragon embryo that it stored as well.

##### Arriving at Japan

Herzog survived the bombing and tracked Bondarev to a Japanese apartment, where he found his research and some embryos. Herzog also found Bondarev's research on dragon blood stimulants, which he used to create the molotov cocktail. He set a plan in motion that would allow him to turn himself into a White Dragon King.

First, he got plastic surgery to hide his burn scars and look Japanese. He joined the Yamata no Orochi, an underworld organization of Japanese hybrids, who all inherited Izanami's blood by forging an identity as the last living member of the Tachibana clan.

He also instigated the formation of a rebellious Oni group known as the Mou Kishu, unstable hybrids isolated and oppressed by the families of the Yamata no Orochi, and by wearing a mask, he created a new identity to lead them: Osho's blade. After a few years, he was leading both sides of the underworld.

#### The Uesugi siblings

Herzog located *Chisei* and Chime, the two babies that he intended to take away from Black Swan Bay. The brothers were living on a a Japanese town under foster care. He paid an alimony to a man to take care of them and often visited the town. One of the embryos was born a girl, and he named her Erii. Tachibana claimed that she was the last living member of the Uesugi clan. She was born an unstable hybrid. Herzog created a Death Servitor farm and synthesized a serum from the blood of the servitors to keep her stable.

In order to resurrect Izanami, he needed the three original Japanese hybrids: Susanoo, Tsukiyomi and Amaterasu. The boys, along with Erii were sufficient replacements.

As Tachibana, he often hired Chisei as a guide when he strolled through the mountains and they held long conversations, he also taught him how to do yoga. He told Chisei that he was the last descendant of the Gen Clan of the Yamata no orochi and offered to become his adoptive father multiple times, but the boy refused, since he knew of Tachibana's involvement with the mafia. When the town learned that Chisei was involved with criminals, he was shunned, motivating him to leave with Tachibana as an associate rather than a son. Eventually, Chisei came to see Tachibana as a father.

Tachibana told Chime that he couldn't take both of them back to the city, but he would leave him behind in case he needed a replacement for Chisei. Chime spent some time alone until Herzog came back for him as Osho. He invited Chime to take strolls in the forest and gave him alcoholic drinks with Molotov Cocktails mixed in. He performed his brain surgery on the boy and manipulated him with the wood clappers and evolution medicine to awaken his violent side.

As a consequence of the surgery, Chime developed a second personality named Ruri Kazama. Ruri quickly gained popularity with the girls in the town, but he found pleasure in killing them to plasticize their bodies and became a serial killer. As Tachibana, Herzog informed Chisei of his brother's actions, telling him that Chime was an unstable hybrid. Chisei caught Kazama while he attempted to hide the bodies of his latest victims and fatally stabbed him. Chime's personality resurfaced and happily greeted Chisei, before noticing what just happened to him. Chisei dropped the body of his brother to the bottom of a well and sealed it.

Chime survived his wounds and Osho recruited him as the Dragon Emperor of the Mou Kishu. Through the following years, Chime helped Osho to grow the Mou Kishu into a powerful organization that challenged the Yamata no Orochi and took many of its territories.

## 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.

## Skills

### Ultimate Skill - Acid Poison

At Lv. 1, Herzog throws a reagent bottle at the target's feet that explodes into a poisonous smoke. Targets within smoke gain 1 Necrosis per sec, each level of Necrosis dealing 221 MDMG per sec, stacking up to 5 timers for 10 sec.