History Characters / DragonQuestI

* TheHero: Born and bred for it in a world where the villain had already won, at that.

Descendant ''and'' ancestor of heroes. The hero is summoned and tasked by Lorik, King of Tantegel with slaying the Dracolord, whose monsters have overrun Alefgard, crushed the royal army and kidnapped Princess Gwaelin. The descendant of Erdrick is literally the king and the realm's last resort and last hope.

* FlamingSword: The second most powerful weapon you can wield. The best one is Erdrick's sword.

* {{Retcon}}: The remakes remove any mention of his name.

* BadassFingerSnap: In ''MBRV'', the Dragonlord receives a decidedly classy glow-up for his humanoid form, of which this is part: he both manifests his throne and unleashes his Sizzle in the form of a tremendous explosion mutually by means of a cocky offhand snap of the fingers.

* BleakLevel: The alternate-history events of ''Builders'' shows exactly the type of world he'd mean to create if the Hero should fall before him one way or another: an ashen wasteland antithetical to life as a concept, cloaked in a pitch black sky, where even the skeletons that emerge from the earth to kill in his name are pitiably weak and frail.

* FromNobodyToNightmare: The future Ruler of Darkness was once a man [[note]] Grown up from the child birthed by the Dragon Queen. [[/note]] living alone in a cave far from Tantegal, but upon meeting a dragon and learning he can command it and other monsters, he named himself the Dragonlord and became the biggest threat to Alefgard since Zoma by kidnapping Princess Gwaelin and stealing the Sphere of Light.

* PaletteSwap: The TrueFinalBoss has the exact same design and proportions as the green, blue, and dread dragon enemies, albeit the Dragonlord can get up on its hindlegs and has wings to set itself apart from its flightless, four-legged brethren.

* WeCanRuleTogether: The Dragonlord makes this offer to you when you confront him. Most players just select no and get on with the battle, but if you accept, you get a Non-Standard Game Over (except in all subsequent rereleases where he wakes up in a town near the Big Bad's castle, where the innkeeper says that he had a Bad Dream).

An unnamed dragon who guards Princess Gwaelin in the Marsh Cave, at the Dragonlord's behest.

* DegradedBoss: Outside of the first encounter in the swamp, the Green Dragon is a common enemy in the final 4 areas: Damdara, the south region where the Cantlin Castle is, the central Charlocke Island, and Charlocke Castle itself. In the Charlocke Castle itself, the hero will also encounter the stronger Blue and Dread dragons, which are common.

* DegradedBoss: Recurs as a regular enemy in Charlocke Island and Charlocke Castle. There's an upgraded enemy called Knight Abhorrent that later appears in the castle as a regular enemy.

* HeroesWantRedheads: He gets married to Princess Gwaelin, who is consistently depicted as red-headed, even back in the NES days.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Averted. He becomes completely helpless after his army gets defeated and his daughter kidnapped.

* RatedMForManly:
** ''Battle Road'' most certainly rebrands him as this; his Finisher clip showing him storming the Green Dragon's lair by simply hacking the door apart, smashing the gigantic dragon with his blade with such force it goes flying into the far wall and crushing open the Princess' cage, blasting ''through'' the earth in a tremendous leap to the surface instead of just using Evac, and launching himself kilometers into the horizon towards Castle Charlock with the Princess projecting the Rainbow Bridge beneath him as he goes.
** [[spoiler: His KarmicTransformation in ''Builders'' reflects this as well, becoming a huge, muscle-laden Hoodie so built that employing his sword at all is comical at best, and his shield barely fits.]]

* GiantWaistRibbon: Her golden dress is complete with a huge purple ribbon around her waist.

[[folder:The Hero / Descendant / Scion of Erdrick / Loto]]

* WalkingTheEarth: At the end of the game, he finally rejects the ButThouMust trend when the King makes the offer to succeed him as ruler of Alefgard, saying that if there is a kingdom for him, he wants it to be one he builds himself. Canonically, Gwaelin/Lora leaves with him, and the two of them end up ultimately forming ''three'' branched kingdoms, upon a surrounding continent even larger than Alefgard.

[[folder:Princess Gwaelin / Lady Lora]]

* DamselInDistress: A TropeCodifier for Japanese [=RPGs=]. She gets kidnapped by the Dracolord to force the King of Tantegel to stay put.

* HoldingOutForAHero: Doble subversion. Many warriors went out to fight the Dragonlord and retrieve the Ball of Light and the Princess, but neither of them returned; so the King and the Alefgardians had become reduced to hope the prophecy about the coming of the descendant of Erdrick was right.

The only non-optional mini-boss in the game.

* MusicSoothesTheSavageBeast: The Fairy/Pixie Flute makes it sleep.

* WeaksauceWeakness: If the Hero has the Fairy/Pixie Flute, its Boss Battle consists in playing the Flute, hitting the Golem and starting over again. The Golem would be incredibly tough were it not for its weak point.

A demonic knight who guards Erdrick's armor in the ruined town of Damdara.