Orochi (Warriors Orochi)

Orochi is a powerful dark being responsible for bringing together the warriors of the Three Kingdoms Era and the Warring States Period and the main antagonist of the Warriors Orochi series, a crossover of the Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors series.

Personality
Orochi is a being of the surreal, able to distort a person’s image of him into what they desire and use the darkness and greed within someone to make them serve him. It is through this power that Orochi surrounds himself with powerful allies, but seems bored with actually administrating over anything, leaving that to his strategist, Da Ji. Out of all the warriors pressed to serve him, Orochi respects Lu Bu the most, though Lu Bu is only biding his time until he can defeat the Serpent King. As Orochi X, he is bitter towards his older counterpart for being awakened from eternal slumber. He is also highly arrogant of his might and constantly challenges heroes to slay him. Orochi X may have truly wanted the warriors to slay him and claim the new land for themselves, as speculated by Nu Wa.

History
Not much is known about Orochi’s past, except what can be pieced together from various stories and the conversations of characters. It is known that he was sealed by a trio of mystics, Taigong, Fu Xi, and Nu Wa for crimes towards humanity. However, after millennia, Orochi was freed at Mt. Wu Xi by Da Ji, Dodomeki, and Gyuki, who sympathized for him and interest in the chaos that he could bring about. Orochi decided that he wanted to test the warriors from the era of the Three Kingdoms of China and the period of the Warring States of Japan. He drew these heroes into a void that existed outside of dimensions and sent out his dark army upon them. Orochi slew, imprisoned, or subjugated many great warriors, seeking to find an opponent worthy of him amongst the warriors of the two eras. After defeating most of the warriors, Orochi defeated the mystics who had sealed him, making it seem as if nothing could stop him. However the warriors he had been battling joined forces and rose up to defeat him, though it is unclear who really stopped him. However Orochi returned in Warriors Orochi 2, revived as Orochi X by Kiyomori Taira and Da Ji but was defeated again. However it would seem he desired death since he said, “You have brought me peace” to the warrior that felled him.

Powers
Orochi is extremely powerful, so much so that he can bend time and space to his will through his dark magic, which he can use in combat as well. He possesses great strength and wields an enormous scythe in combat. Orochi is also able to use the energy known as musou like all the other characters in Warriors Orochi. He commands a large army of reptilian warriors and is skilled at drawing warriors to his side.

Trivia

 * Orochi is based on the snake demon, Yamato-no-Orochi, from Japanese Mythology.


 * Gideon Emery was his English voice actor while in the Japanese version, he was voiced by Ryōtarō Okiayu.