Albinass is a chess-themed villainess in the manga/anime series Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai.
She is the Queen Warrior of Hadlar's personal guard and their leader under him. Created by animating a chess piece to battle the Disciples of the Great Hero Avan, she confronts them until her demise against the grappler-lady Maam.
In the 2020 anime, she was voiced by Yukari Tamura in Japanese and Jamie Konchak in English.
Appearance[]
Albinass is a human-shaped, silvery, metallic construct, looking like a beautiful woman clad in an encompassing cloak covering and concealing her entire body, large, pointed shoulder-pads, and an elaborate crown, with two points on each side of her head.
When she unleashes her full power, her cloak opens, revealing a shapely, muscular body, with wing-like spikes protruding from her shoulders and feet shaped like high-heels.
Personality[]
Albinass is easily the coldest and calmest among the Royal Elite Guard. She is able to quickly analyse the situation and devise the most suitable strategy, commanding her comrades efficiently. Though she is too confident for her own good, leaving her to be outdone.
She is polite and enjoys speaking with her enemies as if they were esteemed guest, though mostly when she dominates the battle.
If not, she becomes much sterner and aggressive, though her courtesy and respect is not faked. Also, should she gain the upper-hand, she is prompt to break her collected facade to gloat and laugh in triumph, if she is invested enough.
While cruel, uncaring and ruthless, killing dozens without a care, she cares very much for her comrades and her liege. She is so devoted that she would gladly go against his orders and wishes if it means ensuring his good, very much like a lover. This prompts Maam to ponder whether she is in love with him, to which she angrily retorts that a construct like her cannot feel, which only convinces Maam further. And indeed, while she denies having emotions, deep down she can feel.
Like the other Orichalcos Guards, she greatly enjoys a good fight and is furiously loyal to Hadlar. Her honourable conduct and sense of companionship is a reflection of Hadlar's newfound mentality when he created her.
Biography[]
Albinass, just like the other Elite Royal Guard members, was created by Hadlar using a forbidden spell on five Orichalcos chest pieces, with her being born from a queen.
She first appears when Hadlar sends the Elite Royal Guard attack the Kingdom of Sababa, when they easily wreck the entire capital city and destroy a ship full of weapons destined to battle the Dark Army. The powerful warrior and wannabe hero Nova attacked them, but was outmatched and defeated by Albinass' "Thousands Needle" technique, much to the Pawn Warrior Hym's displeasure.
Albinass battled Hyunckel, taunting him that her tactic was flawless, but he laughed it off. Soon, the heroes changed their strategy and the mage Popp used an opening to cast his deadliest spell "Medoroa", only for the Rook Warrior Block to collapse on them all and bury them underground, saving their lives at great cost to himself. With that, Hadlar told them to retreat and healed them.
Albinass and Hym witness the redeemed Dragon Knight Baran in the desolate Field of Death, the true headquarters of the Dark Army seeking to attack his former liege, only to get confronted by Hyunckel and Crocodine, who want to prevent him from throwing his life away. She takes profit of their face-off to attack both, but Hyunckel sacrifices himself to shield Baran, prompting him to ally with his son.
The Royal Elite Guard battled the heroes again when they invaded the Field of Death. But this battle would be stopped with the explosion of the Black Core Vearn secretly implanted in Hadlar's body (a magic-powered bomb as powerful as a modern nuke). After the explosion, the Elite Guard freed themselves from the debris, they sensed that Hadlar was in danger as he was battling Vearn, having rebelled outraged by the Dark King's callous disregard.
However, Albinass, Sigma, Hym, and Block are demobilized by Mystvearn and Killvearn. Eventually, Block sacrifices himself to save Hadlar and the other Shinei Kidan from Vearn with his special ability.
Later on, as the heroes are storming the flying Vearn Palace, Hadlar and his Elite Guard appear before them for a last stand. Since Hadlar wants to fight the hero Dai in a one-on-one duel, he has each of his remaining Guards to delay one of Dai's friends.
Albinass fights against the grappler lady Maam, who tries in vain to reason with her. Albinass tells her enemy that she plans to kill her, then every hero that after she killed her, including Dai despite him being locked in battle with Hadlar. She intends to disregard her liege's wish for a fair fight to please Vearn, hoping to bargain his greatest enemies' death in exchange of saving Hadlar, who was dying since the Black Core exploded. Using a special armour given by the Legendary Weaponsmith Lon Berck, Maam eventually forces Albinass to go all out, and despite being able to counter her formidable "Legion Sphere" technique, she was driven to a corner by her enemy's extreme speed, which proves too much for Marm to follow.
However, Maam soon remembers that in Chess the queen's weakness is that it can be easily trapped, so she lays down as if dying to prompt her to attack, then shatters her armor to hit her with the countless fragments and stop her when she is too close to dodge, successfully using the momentum of her speed against her to wound even her Orichalcos body. Enraged, the Warrior Queen rushes at contact, but her wounds slow her down and Maam can defeat her with her mightiest attack, the "Tiger Refractor Fist": a punch infused with Aura (energy stemming from life-force), punching out a hole in her chest.
Before dying, Albinass warns Maam to keep away before she explodes. An empathic Maam apologizes for not being able to settle things more peacefully, but the Warrior Queen reassures her, and pleads her to witness Hadlar's final battle and final moments. Maam complies, acknowledging the feelings her enemy so vehemently denied as true.
Powers and Abilities[]
Albinass is made of Orichalcos, a divine, nearly indestructible metal, making her immune to anything but the very best weapons, attacks and spells. Not only that, but even attacks able to shatter Orichalcos do not harm her unless they strike her Core at heart-level. Moreover, she can concentrate her power in her body to withstand even attacks able to harm her. She can cast basic spells to teleport and fly, and can appear under the shape of the chess piece she was born from, only human-sized.
In her basic state, Albinass remains mostly stationary and only moves by flying, attacking with magic. She masters the Heat spells, being able to cast the devastating highest-leveled one Kassiz, the most powerful regular spell that only few can master. She never cast it normally, using it in her technique Thousand Needle which divides its might throughout her entire body, firing it like an intense barrage of needle-like rays to strike everywhere before her.
When she unleashes her full might, she becomes much stronger and sprier than even the other Orichalcos Guards, and proves a tremendously skilled hand-to-hand martial artist. She moves too fast for the eye to follow, and blitzes even very fast enemies.
She now casts Kasizz from her hands as her Legion Sphere technique, concentrating all its might into a single spot into an orb she can throw with deadly precision and devastating destructive power.
Gallery[]
External Links[]
- Albinass on the Dragon Quest Wiki
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