Crimson Wizard

Koren is a young and extremely powerful wizard who serves as a major antagonist in the game Seiken Densetsu 3. He is the right-hand man of the Dragon Emperor, one of the three available Final Bosses. If the player chose the swordsman Duran or the witch Angela as the main character, the Dragon Emperor will be the primary antagonist and Koren will play a major antagonistic role. If the player chose another main character, Koren and the Dragon Emperor will be slain by the primary antagonist around the middle of the story. It must be noted that in the original japanese game, the wizard is only refered by his title: Koren no Madoshi, or Guren no Madoshi, depending on the pronounciation. As the game was never realeased outside Japan, except for emulators, those who translated it chose to keep Koren as his name and to translate his title at the same time

Koren was born in Altena, the country of magic, where almost everyone is a wizard. For unexplained reasons, he was unable to perform magic during most of his life, and as such he was treated with scorn by almost anyone; including Jose, the master of the magic teachers, who lost patience more than once. He ultimately ran away, probably because he couldn't stand this situation anymore, and met the spirit of the evil Dragon Emperor, who was defeated around fifteen years before the start of the game by the Knight of Gold Loki. The Dragon Emperor tempted Koren, offering to make him the most powerful wizard that ever lived, in exchange of a part of his soul. Koren accepted and became incredibly powerful. Yet, as he shared his soul with the Dragon Emperor, Koren began to share his malevolence and ambition, and was corrupted by evil.

Now the Dragon Emperor's right-hand man, Koren came back to Altena and with his newfound power, he quickly rose in rank, becoming the general of the Altenian army and the personal advisor of the Altenian ruler: Valda, the Queen of Reason. Koren brainwashed Valda, becoming the de facto leader of Altena. He had Altena declaring war to the other nations, with the ultimate goal of seizing the eight Mana Stones, in which the God Beasts (eight formidable elemental demons) had been sealed millenia ago. He personally led an attack on the royal castle of the kingdom of Forcena, where he effortlessly defeated Duran, one of the best swordsmen of Forcena; the son of Loki, the Knight of Gold who defeated the Dragon Emperor at the cost of his life, and one of the six playable characters available.

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