History Characters / Primal2019SupportingCharacters

* {{Fauxshadow}}: [[spoiler:She draws a large figure with horns and dot eyes, making it seem like this entity is the leader of those who kidnapped her. Spear seems to believe this, judging by the icy look in his eyes at what harmed his new friend. We never see just what took her at the end of season 1, leaving their appearance a mystery and suggesting Spear and Fang will rescue her from this thing. Once we see that the kidnappers are Vikings, we do not see Speak and Fang encounter any such entity that resembles the figure Mira drew. As the season 2 finale reveals, that figure... was just a Viking, one the two killed prior to rescuing her. The presence of a being that looks like what she drew was merely a coincidence and never confronts the heroes.]]

* SatanicArchetype: He’s a clearly malevolent, demonic, horned overlord who enslaves others into doing his bidding. His first actual appearance has him appearing in a dream, stoking the chieftain's desire for {{Revenge}} upon Spear and Fang by granting him a vision of Rikka's death at Fang's jaws, a quest that ultimately costs the Chieftain his remaining son's life and leads to him hitting the DespairEventHorizon, apparently exactly as the being wanted.
** Part 1 of "The Colossaeus" takes this even further, strongly implying that he ''is'' Satan ([[CrystalDragonJesus or at least the setting's equivalent]]) or at least he's based on, [[MetaOrigin or could even be the basis of]], the many Satan/Devil-like characters of various cultures. A possible interpretation is that he's Vidarr, the Norse god of revenge, in which case the first episode he actually appears in is named after him.

** His first actual appearance reveals them to be this to the series itself. Magic isn't an unknown element in the story, but the Viking Chieftain's confused and terrified reaction to seeing a vision of the demon in his dreams implies that it's completely alien to him and his people's way of life, and furthermore, he has no idea why this enigmatic being has involved itself in his story.

** Basically, he's an especially strange and frightening example in that the more we learn, the ''less'' sense it makes that he's even in this story. He's first introduced in the Season 1 finale, "Slave of the Scorpion", when Mira's drawings in the dirt include a towering, faceless HornedHumanoid, heavily implied to be the titular Scorpion, whose emblem is branded on the back of Mira's head. When Mira is recaptured, Spear pursues her to a Viking village and frees her, but something seems off as there's no sign of any horned being, and as mentioned the Chieftain clearly had no prior knowledge of such an entity. So he's unaffiliated with that ''particular'' Viking village but regardless seeks vengeance for Mira's escape, right? ''Wrong''. The series finale throws a curveball at us by giving us a flashback to Mira's first capture, revealing that the horned figure she drew represented the perfectly ordinary Viking warrior who took her -- the shadowy demon we ''thought'' had been foreshadowed since the end of Season 1 in fact came ''completely'' out of nowhere in the final act of Season 2, and has no personal reason to pursue Spear and Mira whatsoever apart from whatever he gets out of the Chieftain's DealWithTheDevil. The demon considers the bargain fulfilled the moment Spear is wounded, and drags the Chieftain off once again, never once interacting with the protagonists or even becoming known to them.

* OutsideContextProblem: Whatever the demon is, he and his followers have ships, bows and arrows, and metal tools. Fang and Spear have never seen any of those things.

* DespotismJustifiesTheMeans: There's no sign she's building or maintaining any kind of civilization, other than a warrior cult focused solely on personally enriching her. Even the Vikings had some sort of society removed from pillaging and killing. Ima's army exists purely to satisfy her desire to subjugate and brutalize everyone she comes into contact with.

* SmugSnake: constantly has a smug sneer on her face

* AmbiguouslyBrown: He is drawn with a darker skin tone and bald compared to the scientists; several angles make it clear that this isn't just lighting. It generally makes sense given the tropes of the time period, but then again...
* AmbiguouslyHuman: This maniac may ''look'' like a deranged muscular human but the way how he exhibits frightening agility for his size, absorbs physical blows, bullets, and arrows like a sponge, and craves human flesh it's unlikely to even distinguish him as an ordinary human being. Charles himself lampshades the situation.
--> '''Charles''': I would argue that thing is barely human!
* AxCrazy: As it turns out, calling him "madman" is putting it ''quite'' mildly. He's an extremely violent individual who brutally kills and ''devours'' anyone unlucky enough to cross paths with him, and is seemingly devoid of any thoughts or desires other than torment innocent people and spread carnage. He's less like a man and more like the living enbodiment of savagery and humanity's more primitive and bloody aspects. And worse, despite his bestial nature, it's shown several times that [[ItCanThink he's still got enough human intelligence left in him to be very crafty and dangerous]] against armed opponents, making it clear that he's not killing because he's hungry or unaware of what he's really doing -- he's brutally murdering people because he ''wants'' to, and even takes sadistic glee out of tormenting people before he kills them.

* BloodKnight: He brutishly relishes the vicious murders of anyone who crosses him. After ambushing Charles and Darlington, he goes right after the latter by decking him in the jaw. Darlington wipes the blood of his lip, takes off his jacket, and brings up both of his fists... The Madman '''grins''' at him. That said, he's shown to be incredulous, then genuinely pissed off when Darlington keeps landing blows on him whilst dodging his own attacks, suggesting he was looking forward to overpowering Darlington in a contest of pure strength, and upset when his opponent proves skilled enough to make him look like a fool.

* TattooedCrook: His chest and back are tattooed; they include a large skull with snakes coming out of its eye sockets, and the word "DEATH".

A gigantic, demonic figure residing in an underworld, much more powerful and terrifying than any human. When the Viking Chieftain starts dying after his battle with Fang and Spear, the entity transforms him into a demon to help the Viking get his revenge.

[[folder:Plague Monster]]

* BigBad: Ultimately {{subverted}}. The series seemingly builds up his threat with Mira's tale and the Vikings' return in the second season, but ultimately he takes a backseat, never personally meet the heroes (though they do end up glimpsing his hand in the finale) and lets the Chieftain be his herald in the mortal world who threatens the heroes directly.

** [[spoiler: He also ends up as one to Lula. Like Lula, the Viking Chieftain loses his family and has supernatural powers because of their allegiance to supernatural beings. However, whilst the loss of Lula's child made her realize she was doing a bad thing via the Ritual to Spear and reunited with her daughter in the afterlife as a result of fighting against her matriarch, the loss of his village pushed the Chieftain to become the Demigod of Hell's servant to kill Spear, in the process denying himself a peaceful afterlife with his family.

* EvilCounterpart: He clearly has many parallels with Spear. For one, they both had a family of four, is often with their oldest sons, and loved their wives dearly. Spear losing his family made him close to the DespairEventHorizon and the Chieftain already went past it. Their closures even differ. Spear killing the ''Tyrannosaurus'' that killed his family gave him the closure he needed. The Chieftain got his revenge, but he gets DraggedOffToHell despite his power.

* NoNameGiven: His name is never spoken in series[[note]][[FanNickname Fans initially called him]] The Scorpion, due to assuming he was the leader of the slavers using the Scorpion symbol.[[/note]]. Unless he is Vidarr, in which case he's name-dropped by the Chief and Eldar in the episode titled "Vidarr".

* RapePillageAndBurn: He's the leader of a fierce group of slavers. [[spoiler: He also literally burns some of the inhabitants in Mira's village in his demonic hellish form, likely as a way to attract Spear and Fang to fight him.]]

* VillainsActHeroesReact: [[spoiler: After concerning Spear and Fang on a mountain top, they're left no choice to fight his newfound power. The fiery chieftain assaults Fang first as he burns her alive by scorching her with a stream of hellfire. Spear looks on as he sees his beloved reptilian companion with utter emotional despair, grief, and sadness. By then, Spear reacts by roaring at the top of his lungs with imminent anger, and starts charging towards his foe until he too gets burnt, only for him to knock the chieftain to the bottom as he's beating him with nothing but violence and might. While Spear may have been completely crippled from being burned by hellfire, he at least managed to ward off the fiery chieftain, which forces the demon that empowered him to begin with, starts to drag him back to his realm.]]

* RapePillageAndBurn: He's the leader of a fierce group of slavers.

* VillainsActHeroesReact: [[spoiler: After concerning Spear and Fang on a mountain top, they're left no choice to fight his newfound power. The fiery chieftain assaults Fang first as he burns her alive by scorching her with a stream of hellfire. Spear looks on as he sees his beloved reptilian companion with utter emotional despair, grief, and sadness. By then, Spear reacts by roaring at the top of his lungs with imminent anger, and starts charging towards his foe until he too gets burnt, only for him to knock the chieftain to the bottom as he's beating him with nothing but violence and might. While Spear may have been completely crippled from being burned by hellfire, he at least managed to ward off the fiery chieftain, which forces the demon that empowered him to begin to drag him back to his realm.]]

** Part 1 of "The Colossaeus" takes this even further, strongly implying that he ''is'' Satan ([[CrystalDragonJesus or at least the setting's equivalent]]) or at least he's based on, [[MetaOrigin or could even be the basis of]], the many Satan/Devil-like characters of various cultures. A popular fan theory is that he's Vidarr, the Norse god of revenge, in which case the first episode he actually appears in is named after him.

* NoNameGiven: His name is never spoken in series[[note]][[FanNickname Fans initially called him]] The Scorpion, due to assuming he was the leader of the slavers using the Scorpion symbol.[[/note]].

** Part 1 of "The Colossaeus" takes this even further, strongly implying that he ''is'' Satan ([[CrystalDragonJesus or at least the setting's equivalent]]) or at least he's based on, [[MetaOrigin or could even be the basis of]], the many Satan/Devil-like characters of various cultures.

** Basically, he's an especially strange and frightening example in that the more we learn, the ''less'' sense it makes that he's even in this story. He's first introduced in the Season 1 finale, "Slave of the Scorpion", when Mira's drawings in the dirt include a towering, faceless HornedHumanoid, heavily implied to be the titular Scorpion, whose emblem is branded on the back of Mira's head. When Mira is recaptured, Spear pursues her to a Viking village and frees her, but something seems off as there's no sign of the scorpion emblem anywhere, and as mentioned the Chieftain clearly had no prior knowledge of such an entity. So he's unaffiliated with that ''particular'' Viking village but regardless seeks vengeance for Mira's escape, right? ''Wrong''. The series finale throws a curveball at us by giving us a flashback to Mira's first capture, revealing that the horned figure she drew represented the perfectly ordinary Viking warrior who took her -- the shadowy demon we ''thought'' had been foreshadowed since the end of Season 1 in fact came ''completely'' out of nowhere in the final act of Season 2, and has no personal reason to pursue Spear and Mira whatsoever apart from whatever he gets out of the Chieftain's DealWithTheDevil. The demon considers the bargain fulfilled the moment Spear is wounded, and drags the Chieftain off once again, never once interacting with the protagonists or even becoming known to them.

* ArchEnemy: Being the one to kidnap Mira from her family, he had given Spear and Fang a reason to rescue and kill her captors, his own family. As a result, he becomes the most persistent enemy the two have faced and one of the few they've had more than one encounter with.

* {{Foil}}: A grim one to the viking Chieftain. While Kamau is a slave and the other a slaver, their respective love for their children causes them to both make dark deals with monstrous authority figures.

A gigantic, demonic figure residing in an underworld, much more powerful and terrifying than any human. When the Viking Chieftain starts dying after his battle with Fang and Spear, the entity transforms him into a demon to help the viking get his revenge.

* BaitAndSwitch: Mira sketching his outline in the sand alongside her story of how she was MadeASlave and escaped hinted that he was the leader of the vikings, or at least involved in her people's enslavement in some manner. However, there is no hint of his presence of anything like him in the viking village, save the vague resemblance they possess to his natural appearance when wearing their helmets. His appearance before the Chieftain in a dream shows that man to be terrified and confused by him and his unexplained nature, showing that he's unaffiliated with the vikings at all, and later on is revealed to not even be known by Mira, with the horned figure in her drawings being simply the viking that murdered her friends and lover.
* BigBad: Ultimately {{subverted}}. The series seemingly builds up his threat with Mira's tale and the vikings' return in the second season, but ultimately he takes a backseat, never personally meet the heroes (though they do end up glimpsing his hand in the finale) and lets the Chieftain be his herald in the mortal world who threatens the heroes directly.

* MadeOfIron: In stark contrast to the other vikings, the Chieftain is tough as nails. Between his armor, large stature and skill, he takes several hard hits from Spear and survives a bite from Fang that split his villagers in two. He also survives being thrown off a giant bird, crashing into multiple trees and smashing his head on a rock. Eldar in contrast is, while clearly skilled, not built like his father and ultimately dies from a similar fall.

* PragmaticVillainy: The Chieftain and Eldar free their captured slaves once they return to the village and find that everyone there has been slaughtered, not out of any kindness, but because there was no viking village ''left'' for them to utilize/exploit the slaves in any meaningful way.

* SheCleansUpNicely: For most of the show, she's a slave dressed in plain rags and wearing no makeup or jewels. After she's captured by the Egyptians, she's [[GoGoEnslavement forced]] to wear a golden, [[BareYourMidriff midriff-baring]] outfit with earrings and a slight mascara, accentuating her beauty.

* BareYourMidriff: When enslaved by the Egyptian queen, her GoGoEnslavement has this as a feature.

* BareYourMidriff: She wears a red dress under her cape that leaves her midriff bare.