Temruogtaf

> You there! How dare you come barging into the forest of the great Temruogtaf, eight seat of dragons, tracking your disgusting silverine all over the place! What insolence! What violence! Do you have no concept of propriety, you slinking cheat?! Disrobe! Take off that hideous silverine aura at once!
>
> **Temruogtaf** to Ragna, Parting and Reunion

## Portrayal

### Japanese VA

Kōzō Shioya

**Temruogtaf** (メルグブデ, *Merugubude*?) was the bloodline dragon holding the 8th rank within the Winged Bloodline.

## Appearance

Temruogtaf in his humanoid form looks like a bald and quite obese man, reflecting his gluttony, with a little mustache. He wears a small simple sleeveless piece of clothing when he's not eating, when eating he rarely uses his mouth and prefers to open his stomach-mouth releasing 4 long tentacles which work as a supplementary set of articulations used to grab his prey. When transforming he gets just a few times bigger as in humanoid form he's already quite big, in the dragon form he looks like a fat dragon with two pair of legs and two pairs of arms, the tail and the pair of wings are quite small compared to the other dragons body proportions.

## Personality

When not fighting he is always in a joyous state, he's gluttonous and shows an obsession with human meat by him considered the highest delicacy even when confronted with the most refined human cuisine dish. Even though he's quite prideful of himself and spiteful of the humans, common traits shared between the superior dragons, he's shown to be quite a fool.

## Biography

### Main timeline

#### Fall of Lese Arc

Temruogtaf reached the outskirt of Ronabera before the morning of February 28 of the Year 498 to complete the destruction of the city and its population after he eliminated the city he was ordered to by Ultimatia but unknown to him Grymwelte was killed a few hours before. Thanks to the Wriggling Tree Shade, a forest made of tree dragons he can exploit the shade created by the forest foliage and attack during the day the survivors of Ronabera who were in disbelief to see dragons attacking with the sun up. The forest attacked also Charluke's Mansion where Ragna, Leonica and Sykes Charluke were resting. Ragna woke up thanks to Leonica's call and with a silver aura blast he freezeds all the nearby trees, he then runs towards the center of the forest where Melgubde was located. Melgubde seeing Ragna getting closer warns him any destruction of his forest wouldn't be tolerated but the hunter drop kicked the dragon making him flay away and saving a human maid he was going to eat. Melgubde enraged by the damage done to his face by Ragna demanded him to turn off his Silver Aura which Ragna did and the dragon instantly jumped on him thinking he outsmarted the hunter. Ragna in a fraction of time picked up the maid and let the dragon eat a silver aura bomb in his place which killed Temruogtaf and the whole forest.

### Original Timeline

#### Defeat of Ragna

Around 8 years after the fall of Ronabera, Melgubde 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 Melgubde suggested to open his head and eat his brain which would slowly kill the defeated hunter. 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 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 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.

**Predatory Magic**: Melgubde holds the magic predatory expression, this magic lets him using the world as his ally to hunt his prey but before he needs to determine his prey to activate the magic. He can make himself refractory to light, soundless and odorless, he can create force field in the space to use them as suspended footholds, decrease gravity attraction and air resistance experienced or attract their prey with a gravitational pull.

## Trivia

* His name in Japanese, *Merugubude* (メルグブデ, ****Merugubude****?), read backwards *Debugurume* (デブグルメ, ****Debugurume****?), means "Fat Gourmet".
* In the original magazine serialization (Gangan Joker Issue 2017-05) he was ranked 7th of the Winged Bloodline.

## References

1. ↑ *Ragna Crimson* Manga: Chapter 2 (p. 47)
2. ↑ *Ragna Crimson* Manga: Chapter 8 (p. 15)
3. ↑ *Ragna Crimson* Manga: Chapter 2
4. ↑ *Ragna Crimson* Manga: Chapter 9 (p. 2-33)
5. ↑ *Ragna Crimson* Manga: Chapter 14
6. ↑ *missing source*
7. ↑ *Ragna Crimson* Manga: Chapter 1 (p. 86)
8. ↑ *Ragna Crimson* Manga: Chapter 9 (p. 25)
9. ↑ Tweet by Daiki Kobayashi (May 21, 2022)
10. ↑ *Ragna Crimson* Manga: Chapter 33 (p. 32-34)
11. ↑ *Ragna Crimson* Manga: Volume 1 (Back-page Talk)