History Characters / DragonsDogmaDarkArisen

* ShadowArchetype: As a [[spoiler:fallen Arisen]] obsessed with killing as much as it can as fast as possible, seeking new challenges against ever more grotesque monsters, circling the same dungeon endlessly, it bears more than a passing resemblance to a certain type of player Arisen that repeatedly grinded the Everfall on release and later Bitterblack Island when Dark Arisen came out to level up, get optimal gear, and fight different bosses.

* HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler:Twisted enough to once turn a young boy into a megalomaniac dragon demon he is now.]]

* OneHitKill: Daimon can summon a vortex in the middle of the arena once he reaches low enough on health. Should you or your pawns get sucked into the center, you die, end of story, unless you brought a wakestone. Any pawns lost to the attack are permanently gone for the rest of the battle, however. He also gets a super beefed-up attack as [[spoiler: Awakened Daimon]], where it now has a ''much'' larger range. Luckily, both forms can be stunned out of the attack.
* OneWingedAngel: Upon defeating him for a second time, [[spoiler:the face on his stomach grows more prominent and his entire combat style changes, with fully restored and [[MarathonBoss enormously buffed health]]. This "awakened" form poses a challenge even to those who have struck the level limit, as he has a penchant for [[ThatOneBoss spamming magic attacks and setting you on fire when you try to scale him]]]].
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: Daimon is the closest thing to a demon in ''Dragon's Dogma''. [[spoiler:He was turned into this after suffering from an extreme case of JackassGenie from Grette's part, who transformed him into a creature able to destroy the cycle of Arisen.]]
* PowerOfTheVoid: [[spoiler:Is the only living Arisen by far who has enough power to create a portal that sucks anyone into the Void. Once you hit the center, there's no way to go back[[note]]Unless you have a wakestone[[/note]]]].
* RageAgainstTheHeavens: [[spoiler:He did this once confronted by his SadisticChoice, desiring to destroy the gods for making him go through such a thing. [[JackassGenie The Dragon]] [[GoneHorriblyRight gave him a form able to do exactly that]].]]

* SoundtrackDissonance: {{Subverted}}. In his first form, which is when you're actually fighting Daimon the Arisen. The music that plays is ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGehzGPfJ5Y Coils of Light]]'', [[spoiler:which it is mostly a rather quiet, sorrowful song about regret, loss, and things that might have been, yet it's strangely fitting]]. The first few runs may not hold the meaning, considering the difficulty spike of the fight, but reading the lyrics and listening to the song [[spoiler:tells you that it was more of a MercyKill for a man who lived for thousands of years, than [[FridgeHorror an actual raid as you finished the first run]]]].
* TraumaCongaLine: For someone who is particularly powerful, it's almost certain that he has been through a lot. [[spoiler:Loses his mother over a SadisticChoice tied with his own life, struggling over the course of his tormented life to save his beloved pawn and was forced into a [[DealWithTheDevil Deal with the Dragon]] to fight him or turn him into the Daimon he is now.]]

* YouAreNotReady: [[spoiler:His awakened form is telling you this through the words "[[ArcWords Hone your spirit, refine it]]", especially when your pawn replaces you in your trials as the Arisen ''of a broken order''.]]

-->"''Death frees the spirit for its cycle of rebirth, only to have it lost in a vast sea of other screaming souls. Why meekly submit to this fate? I have cast away the shackles of the Arisen. In form and function, I have embraced my calling... as death. Let me be your paragon of perfection! Let me be your beacon of hope!''"

* OhCrap: Can easily induce these. It's drawn to corpses and lantern light, and if it appears while you're already fighting something like a [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever Condemned Gorecyclopes]], most players' first reaction will be a panic-stricken retreat.

* BloodKnight: The flavor text of the notice board quest directing you to kill Death heavily implies Death itself is offering the quest as challenge.

* WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler: If he is Arthacos, Death was actually once an Arisen, driven mad by the Bitterblack Isle by an unknown "voice" to kill Arisen to satiate the isle with souls. Whatever he is now definitely shows that the process turned him into something...inhuman.]]

* BonusBoss: Defeating Death is not necessary to progress through Bitterblack Isle, but doing so grants a lot of experience, and like all enemies in the game, Death has his own loot which may be necessary to enhance the player's equipment.

* SoundtrackDissonance: {{Subverted}}. In his first form, which is when you're actually fighting Daimon the Arisen. The music that plays is ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGehzGPfJ5Y Coils of Light]]'', [[spoiler:which it is mostly a rather quiet, sorrowful song about regret, loss, and things that might have been, yet it's strangely fitting]]. The first few runs may not hold the meaning, considering [[ViewersAreGoldfish the difficulty spike of the fight]], but reading the lyrics and listening to the song [[spoiler:tells you that it was more of a MercyKill for a man who lived for thousands of years, than [[FridgeHorror an actual raid as you finished the first run]]]].

* ContractualBossImmunity: Death is immune to all forms of debilitations. Uniquely, he is also the only enemy in the game who possesses explicit immunity to the Brine, as he hovers over water rather than fall into it in the event he gets knocked into a body of water deep enough for the Brine to be active.
* DamageSpongeBoss: Death is arguably the hardest boss in the game outside the online Ur-Dragon to kill in terms of sheer durability. You can't climb on it, it has no weak points or elemental weaknesses, and it has staggering levels of health. Combined with the fact that it runs after it takes too much damage, and you have yourself a really annoying to kill opponent.

* InstantDeathRadius: Unlike most attacks in the game, Death's scythe doesn't need to hit you to kill you. [[HitboxDissonance Just being too close when it swings will end with you kissing the floor]], [[UnblockableAttack and it can't be dodged, blocked, or countered.]]

* OhCrap: Can easily induce these. It's drawn to corpses, and if it appears while you're already fighting something like a [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever Condemned Gorecyclopes]], most players' first reaction will be a panic-stricken retreat.

* UnfriendlyFire: If it hits another boss with its scythe, that boss is just as dead as anything else. You don't get exp for this, though.

* {{Jerkass}}: He blatantly believes that you won't last long on Bitterblack Isle.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: The further you traverse Bitterblack Isle, however, the more he warms up to you, eventually advising you (in a stiff manner) to stay alive, and mentioning he'd like a "drinking partner" for once.

* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler:After being relieved as a host of another Olra, this Olra carries on with the dungeon hunting. Curious to find about more of her possession, explicitly telling you [[ButThouMust to repeat the dungeon as you please]].]]

* StandardStatusEffects: His Lantern will put anyone near him to sleep when it glows blue, making them easy prey for his next strike.