History Characters / DragonQuestVI

** Blackmar if you separated the word components literally means 'black sea' or if you think of it another way... ''nightmare'', appropriate considering his more {{Jerkass appalling and malicious}} personality.

* MeaningfulName: His name literally means 'black sea' or much like the Dread Realm he inhabits, a sea of darkness which befits his malicious personality.

* DubNameChange: From '''Mudou''' to ''Murdaw''. Both original and the renaming aren't any good, either, as demonstrated in PunnyName below.

** Sloth: Sends Murdaw, Jamirus, Gracos, and Dhuran to seal off Alltrades Abbey, Medford's Manor, Sorceria, and Cloudsgate Citadel to prevent Heroes from being made, items that better defend humanity from his minions, Magic Burst from being taught, and one of the means to reach his realm, in addition to various other minions like Blackmar executing humans. [[note]]However, if something DOES interfere with his plans, he will deal with it, wether it be Eldress Isnomor or the prisoners of Gallows Moor celebrating their victory over Blackmar and his guards.[[/note]]

%% ** Envy:

* TheDragon: Other than Murdaw, he's the only other one that answers directly to Mortamor. Dogmus and Zozagel are his two dragons in Gallows Moor each, though the latter reports directly to him.

** His current name literally means 'black sea' or much like the Dread Realm he inhabits, a sea of darkness which befits his malicious personality.

* TortureTechnician: Tortures any prisoners from both worlds that were kidnapped including both Supreme Sage brothers Benjamin (who is found in Gallows Moor) and Isaac, his twin (who's found near Mortamor's castle).

* ForTheEvulz: One of his most heinous acts in the game is spreading a vicious rumor that there's a treasure the Supreme Sage Isaac left at the bottom of Greedmore Valley's lake, causing all of Greedmore Valley's citizens to kill each other just to get it. And then he rewinds this scenario time and time again just to amuse himself. When the heroes reach the treasure first and expose the empty chest and rumor, it soon derails his source of "fun" pretty quick and he gets pissed.

* SmugSnake: He's pretty arrogant and condescending compared to the rest of the series' villains, not believing the party to be serious threats and he can easily defeat them, despite the party defeating Murdaw, Jamirus, Gracos, Dhuran, Blackmar, and his various minions

* TortureTechnician: Tortures any prisoners from both worlds that were kidnapped including both Supreme Sage brothers Isaac (who is found in Gallows Moor) and Benjamin, his twin (who's found near Mortamor's castle).

The warden of Gallows Moor, the Dread Realm's infamous prison, and Mortamor's right-hand man. When one of the Archfiend's subjects refuses to break under his tortures, they are sent to Gallows Moor, where Blackmar and his minions subject them to horrific tortures and inhumane treatments before finally mass executing them.

* TortureTechnician: Tortures any prisoners from both worlds that were kidnapped, including Benjamin, Issac's twin brother.

* ForTheEvulz: One of his most heinous acts in the game is spreading a rumor that there's a treasure at the bottom of Greedmore Valley's lake, causing its citizens to kill each other just to get it. And then he rewinds this scenario time and time again just to amuse himself.

* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: He wants Sister Anne to marry him, using a cursed ring that will turn her evil to break the prisoners in Gallows Moor even further.
* BadBoss: Not even monsters in Gallows Moor are safe from him, as a Prison Guard tells you from firsthand experience that Blackmar killed one who got on his bad side.

* TortureTechnician: Tortures any prisoners from either of the three worlds that were kidnapped, including Benjamin, Issac's twin brother.

[[spoiler:The master of the Dread Realm, and the true villain of the game. He is responsible for the crimes of the Four Dread Fiends, and created the 'link' between the Real and Dream Worlds in order to conquer them both. His ultimate plan is to utterly remove hope from the hearts of everyone, transforming all three worlds into a bleak, soulless haven for despair and death.]]

* DubNameChange: From Chamoro to Nevan.

* DubNameChange: As it was originally '''Mireyu''', she became ''Milly''. She was Milayou in [[VideoGame/DragonQuestMonsters Dragon Warrior Monsters]].

* FlunkyBoss: He has 2 Lethal Charmours [[note]]Dragooners prior to ''VideoGame/DragonQuestOfTheStars''[[/note]] fighting alongside him. They can also summon a Cureslime to Fullheal their master, should the player ignore it.

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: To Zoma from ''Dragon Quest III''. Both are the final villains of their respective trilogies (Erdrick and Zenithain), both rule over a dark realm with an iron fist (Alfegard and the Dread Realm), and both have underlings who are initially the main villain (Baramos and Murdaw). However, Zoma sent only Baramos to try and conquer Aliahan, fights with ice magic and utilizes darkness as a shield, while he fed on the negative emotions of Alfegard's people, destroyed the first Sword of Kings, and defeated Rubiss, Mortamor sends 4 underlings, the aforementioned Murdaw included, to seal away Alltrades Abbey, Medford's Manor, Sorceria, and Cloudsgate Citadel, while sealing Pegasus's body and has a variety of skills and spells

* CutsceneBoss: She's only fought by Terry's in Wayfarer's Pass by the time the party reaches her.

* ForcedTransformation: He curses both Somnia's Queen Apnea and King Somnus by eternal sleep with this, turning the Queen into an insomniac version of the King in the Dream World and transforming the King into a doppleganger of him through MoreThanMindControl to guard his Dream World castle lair. Fortunately, the curse on each of them are soon derailed with the Mirror of Ra.

* EvilIsNotAToy: [[spoiler:In the backstory, the king of Castle Graceskull summoned him in an attempt to stop Mortamor. The fact that, when you find that kingdom, it's a blasted, ruined wasteland full of poisonous swamps should tell you how well things went.]]

* {{Irony}}: Despite Murdaw's boasting of giving his enemies their worst nightmares in their dreams, as well as the curse of eternal sleep to the King and Queen of Somnia, he never sleeps himself. That's how the party realizes the "Murdaw" they fought in the Dream World isn't the real one.

* FlunkyBoss: He has 2 Lethal Charmours [[note]] Dragooners prior to ''Dragon Quest of the Stars''[[/note]] fighting alongside him. They can also summon a Cureslime to Fullheal their master, should the player ignore it.

* HopeCrusher: [[spoiler: His ultimate plan. He even [[HeroKiller kills Eldress Isnomor]] and turns the inhabitants of Gallows Moor into cats out of spite towards their victory over Blackmar.]]
* HypnoticEyes: Just like Murdaw, he can use Lullab-Eye in his final form, which he retains in ''Dragon Quest IX'' and other spinoff appearances.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Orders Gracos to seal the city of Sorceria to prevent Magic Burst from being taught to humans when he himself uses the spell during the final battle. Justified, in his case since he doesn't want the spell to be used against him.

* OhCrap: When Nokturnus arrives to deal with him instead of the heroes, Mortamor is visably terrified. Considering [[AlwaysABiggerFish the scale of Nokturnus's power compared to his own]], the reaction is appropriate.
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler: Two of them, though the disembodied head and hands are the more iconic final forms.]]
* PlayingWithFire: Has Fierce Flame in his first form, Scorch in his second form, and Kafrizz, Pyre o' Fire, Hellfire, and Kafrizzle in his final form.
* StuffBlowingUp: Knows Kaboom during his boss fight, as well as Desperation Blast in ''Dragon Quest Tact''.

The lovable local hero of the town of Scrimsly. After an unfortunate bite to his behind during a monster attack, however, Scrimsly's population finds themselves conflicted between their adoration for him and their worry for what he becomes when the sun goes down. Hopefully, a solution can be found that makes everybody happy.

* BornUnlucky: [[spoiler:Cursed to turn into a monster when you first meet him and it only gets worse from there.]]

* YouALLLookFamiliar: In a similar case as [[VideoGame/DragonQuestV Tuppence]], he looks like a generic NPC blue warrior in the original game. The remake gives him an updated, though still similar sprite.

* GoodCounterpart: To Psaro from ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIV''. Both were Monster Scouts/Tamers in their youth, both were motivated to protect a female character they cared about from the abuse they suffered (Rose and humans wanting her ruby tears for Psaro, Milly and her being kidnapped by bandits from Felonia for Terry), both have Lightning Storm as one of their abilities, and both succumbed to the very worst of monsterkind (Psaro being an UnwittingPawn to [[EvilChancellor Aamon]]'s murder of Rose via brainwashing humans and used the Secret of Evolution to become the new Lord of the Underworld, Terry making a [[DealWithTheDevil deal with Dhuran]]). However, while Psaro became a monster and (In the remakes) had to be saved by the Chosen and a revived Rose, Terry just fights the party as part of Dhuran's challenge to the party and [[DefeatMeansFriendship later joins the party to defeat Dhuran's master.]]

** CutscenePowerToTheMax: He uses Dragon Slash to end his fight with Lizzie in Wayfarer's Pass, but later joins you as a beginning Gladiator who doesn't yet have that skill.
* PrettyBoy: Easily the prettiest boy in the game, although looking in a mirror as him reveals him to have preferred to have been a rugged manly man as opposed to a slender pretty boy.

* GoodCounterpart: To Psaro from ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIV''. Both were Monster Scouts/Tamers in their youth, both were motivated to protect a female character they cared about from the abuse they suffered (Rose and humans wanting her ruby tears for Psaro, Milly and her being kidnapped by bandits from Feliona for Terry), both have Lighting Storm as one of their abilities, and both succumbed to the very worst of monsterkind (Psaro being an UnwittingPawn to [[EvilChancellor Aamon]]'s murder of Rose via brainwashing humans and used the Secret of Evolution to become the new Lord of the Underworld, Terry making a [[DealWithTheDevil deal with Dhuran]]). However, while Psaro became a monster and (In the remakes) had to be saved by the Chosen and a revived Rose, Terry just fights the party as part of Dhuran's challenge to the party and [[DefeatMeansFriendship later joins the party to defeat Dhuran's master.]]

* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler:Gives Terry "ultimate power" in exchange for his service. Unlike other examples, Terry even keeps said "ultimate power", Lighting Storm, with no repercussions.]]

* ShockAndAwe: Knows Lighting Storm during his boss fight in ''VideoGame/DragonQuestX'', an ability he taught to Terry for his service in his debut game.

%%* ValleyGirl: Talks like one relatively frequently.

* FinalBoss [[spoiler: Will turn into this if you beat him in under 20 turns as he will kill Mortamor for you, after which you get the ending as though you beat Mortamor.]]

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: At first, he and the Elder blow off King Somnus's request to aid the party with more arrogance than you can shake a stick at... however, he gets a message from Rubiss and immediately changes his attitude, spending the rest of the game as a humble and and kind person.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Leaving Carver's stone body in front of the stairs leading to his throne room causes Carver himself to regain his memories and realizing that the Hero, himself, and Carver DID fight Murdaw for real during the game's intro, but he defeated them and sent Carver's spirit to the Dream World after turning him to stone. [[SlidingScaleOfGameplayAndStoryIntegration He even remembers Knuckle Sandwich for the entire game to use against Murdaw himself and all other monsters, including his master]], [[spoiler:Mortamor!]]

* StatusBuff: Casts Buff via his doppelganger in addition to genuine article doing it himself in ''Dragon Quest IX''.

* FireForgedFriends: Initially the Hero's rival for the title of guardsmen, the two of them put aside their differences and team up and become inseparable from there on out. [[spoiler:In actuality, however, they were friends before trying to fight Murdaw, who banished their spirits to the Dream World after turning them to stone, thus erasing their memories.]]

* PlayingWithFire: She learns fire spells naturally.
* QuestForIdentity: She begins as an invisible amnesiac, noting how rotten the combination is. [[spoiler:Ashlynn later discovers that she is from the magical kingdom of Sorceria and a descendent of its founder Ashmeralda. She was going to be its next ruling Eldress until Mortamor destroyed it and Gracos sealed its Dream World counterpart. Ashlynn used all her power to escape being sealed away with Sorceria, but lost her memories in the process.]]

%%* YouCanSeeMe: When you first meet her.

* {{Irony}}: Despite Murdaw's boasting of giving his enemies their worst nightmares in their dreams, as well as eternal sleep to the King and Queen of Somnia, he never sleeps himself. That's how the party realizes the "Murdaw" they fought in the Dream World isn't the real one.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Leaving Carver's stone body in front of the stairs leading to his throne room causes Carver himself to regain his memories and realizing that the Hero, himself, and Carver DID fight Murdaw for real during the game's intro, but he defeated them and sent Carver's spirit to the Dream World after turning him to stone. [[SlidingScaleOfGameplayAndStoryIntegration He even remembers Knuckle Sandwich for the entire game to use against Murdaw himself and all other monsters, including his master, [[spoiler:Mortamor!]]]]

* ShockAndAwe: Knows Lighting Storm, an ability he taught to Terry for his service in ''VideoGame/DragonQuestX''.

* BareFistedMonk: Seems to be geared towards the Fighter class initially, though the player can mess around with this somewhat.

* BookDumb: Tends to have a somewhat blue collar take on higher learning.

* FireForgedFriends: Initially the Hero's rival for the title of guardsmen, the two of them put aside their differences and team up and become inseparable from there on out.

* DiscOneFinalBoss: Murdaw has a suitably epic dungeon and battle but he needs to be defeated before you can finally unlock the game's intricate JobSystem.

* TakenForGranite: Does this to the Hero, Carver and Milly when they reach his throne room, even placing Carver's petrified body in front of the steps. When he tries to do it again to the three along with Nevan, it fails since they have the Mirror of Ra in their possession.

* ForcedTransformation: He curses both Somnia's Queen Apnea and King Somnus by eternal sleep with this, turning the Queen into an insomniac version of the King in the Dream World and transforming the King into a doppleganger of him through MoreThanMindControl to guard his Dream World castle lair. Fortunately the curse on each of them are soon derailed with the Mirror of Ra.

One of the Dread Fiends under Mortamor's direct command. He is responsible for creating and spreading rumors of a utopian paradise, the Isle of Smiles. In reality though, the Isle is a LotusEaterMachine where the prisoners are tortured for eternity.

* YouAreInCommandNow: After Murdaw's death, he is next in line to lead Mortamor's armies, though the party put a stop to it.

** CutscenePowerToTheMax: He uses Dragon Slash to end his fight with the monster in Wayfarer's Pass, but later joins you as a beginning Gladiator who doesn't yet have that skill.

* BreathWeapon: Of the ice variant.

* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler:Gives Terry "ultimate power" in exchange for his service.]]