When he found of the existence of the Knight of Fafnir, fruit of his old friend's research, the Overlord desired to take the knight's power for himself, by killing the protagonist and infusing himself with his powers, taking into himself the responsibility of killing the core. However, when mankind chose to return to land, she decided to return along with them, eventually becoming the Black Guardian and creating a ritual to seal one of the fearsome cores deep inside Ginnungagap. He was then aided by an engineer of the keep, who helped to further his researches. He was a member of the Yggdrasil Project, and the original goal of his research was to give mankind means to fight and defeat the Yggdrasil Cores. It is revealed that, in fact, the Overlord was the original creator of the Heavenly Keep. While the Overlord's role remains the same in the game's remake, a few more details on his backstory are given in the story mode. And thus this cycle continued, until the Heroes of Lagaard came to the land, finally posing a true challenge to the Overlord, and his failed creations. Posing as a god (thus his title of Overlord), he ordered the birdfolk to bring corpses of dead adventurers to him, acting like "angels" bringing souls to their god never to know their master true intentions.
He made a contract with the birdfolk, a tribe of intelligent humanoid creatures living in the highest branches of Yggdrasil, the Petal Bridge. Many have died in the dangerous journey, and the Overlord saw that as an opportunity to secure test subjects for his research. In order to reach the Heavenly Keep once again, however, they had to cross the dangerous Yggdrasil Labyrinth, a humongous tree that at some forgotten point in time after the calamity mysteriously rose endlessly towards the sky. However, when the Grand Duchy of Lagaard fell terminally ill, the people that knew of the legends decided to, once again, seek the flying castle as the nobles of the city believed the Holy Grail would be able to cure their dear leader.
Hundreds of years have passed, and people have forgotten all about the flying castle their kind once called home, its knowledge being restrict to a select few. Realizing that his own mortality was getting in the way of his research, which would take several lifespans, he decides to upload his mind to an immortal, mechanical body so he could continue with his research for all eternity, if needed.Ī long time after these events, the chaos caused by the great calamity that struck the world began to cease, allowing people to descend from the castle, braving the dangerous new lands and, once again, establishing society on land.
His experiments where a failure though, transforming the subjects into mindless monsters. At some point, the Overlord started running experiments on humans using an artifact known as the Holy Grail, trying to achieve eternal life. He, along with other people, managed to live on by holing themselves for ages on a flying fortress, the Heavenly Keep. The Overlord, like Visil, is a scientist that managed to survive the apocalypse.
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