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| “ | RIKKAAAA! | „ |
| ~ The Viking Chieftain mourning the loss of his wife, Rikka. |
| “ | Vidarr! | „ |
| ~ The Viking Chieftain's final words before Demonic Entity betrays him, strips him of his powers and kills him as he drags him back down into the underworld. |
The Viking Chieftain is the main antagonist of Season 2 of the Adult Swim series Primal.
He is a conquering warlord who leads a relatively advanced civilization amongst a prehistoric world and the leader of the Vikings. After his people are killed and losing his wife and two sons, he is left as the sole survivor of his tribe and later becomes the herald of a Demonic Entity. He is also the arch-nemesis of Fang and Spear.
He is voiced by Fred Tatasciore.
Appearance[]
The chieftain is a tall, muscular man with long brown hair, bushy eyebrows and a large scar on his right eye. He also has a mustache and a beard that is tied into a braid at the end.
After being transformed by the Demonic Entity, his body is completely darkened and is engulfed in flames. His eyes become red and grows larger and more muscular, making him resemble a smaller hornless version of the Demonic Entity who transformed him. Although he has no mouth while in his new form, he can summon a mouth in order to speak.
After he defeated Spear, even though there was still fight in him as he had yet to defeat Fang, he was forcefully transformed back to his normal, human self.
Personality[]
The Chieftain was presented as a stoic and hardened individual, holding a position of authority in his tribe and a merciless enemy to those who earned his wrath. As a conqueror, he led his people in invasions of other villages for resources, including the capture and enslavement of other humans, demonstrating his ruthless tendencies. The Chieftain seldom expressed emotion other than his authority and duty to his tribe. The initial exception to this was brief shock upon discovering the remains of another Viking, although he remained stable and focused. However, after seeing the massacre of the entire village at the hands of Spear and Fang, he reacted with visible horror to his people's deaths.
Despite all his cruelty, the Chieftain was shown to deeply love his family, as his main concern was whether his wife survived the tribe's fallout, and after realizing both her and their youngest child had perished, he lost composure and broke down in grief. He was similarly hesitant to set the arrow and burn their bodies during the Vikings' funeral, still in anguish from their departure, leaving his eldest child, Eldar, to finish the task. However, his grief begets a dark resolve for revenge against those who caused his loved ones' deaths, enticing back his brutal and merciless side.
The Chieftain's desire for vengeance was unyielding. He relentlessly pursued his targets and attacked them with great determination and rage. However, the Chieftain was willing to temporarily forgo his desire for revenge when he witnessed Eldar in danger, rushing to his side. When Eldar perished, the Chieftain had lost all hope for a time and was about allow himself to pass as well. This left him mentally vulnerable, and when given the opportunity to return and exact vengeance once more, the Chieftain quickly accepted.
In his new form, the Chieftain appeared to be nothing more than a single-minded weapon of vengeance, slowly-but-surely making his way across the land in a relentless search for the ones who took away everything dear to him. Soon when Spear was gravely injured in his final battle against him, the Chieftain thought he had won and that his revenge was final. However, his lust for vengeance had finally led to his ultimate downfall as the ominous being betrays him, strips him of his powers, and drags back down into the underworld.
Powers and Abilities[]
Fire Demon Form[]
- Fire Demon Physiology: After having been transformed into an immensely powerful demon of fire by the Demonic Entity, the Chieftain was granted extraordinary magic, making him able to accomplish many feats, though he would later lose this form after the entity dismissed him.
- Supernatural Strength: In his demonic form, the Chieftain possesses extraordinarily immense physical strength as he is able to hold his own against Spear and Fang.
- Supernatural Resilience: In his demonic form, the Chieftain possesses incredible enhanced durability, making him seemingly impossible to wound or kill, shown when Spear knocks him off from the top of the mountain yet took no meaningful harm.
- Supernatural Endurance: The Chieftain's stamina is shown to be extremely high, seen when he showed no exhaustion when tracking down Spear, Mira and Fang across the ocean and all the way to Mira's village. He also showed no signs of tiredness when fighting against Spear and Fang.
- Fire Manipulation: In his new form, the Chieftain gained the ability to manipulate both fire and lava.
- Fire Immunity: Thanks to his demonic form, the Chieftain gained the ability to be completely immune to fire.
- Fire Weaponry: The Chieftain is capable of wielding or creating weapons with pyrokinetic power, shown when he created an axe made of lava while testing his new form and was even able to make another during his fight with Spear and Fang.
- Earth Manipulation: The Chieftain gained the ability to control, manipulate and create the Earth into whatever he wishes, such as creating eruptions and earthquakes.
- Water Walking: The Chieftain has demonstrated the ability to stand, walk and run on the surface of water by literally defying the surface tension and can move across the surface of water as easily as he would be able to move on land.
- Shapeshifting: The Chieftain can shapeshift into any creature, shown when he transforms into an enormous demonic serpent during his fight with Spear and Fang.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Little was known of the Chieftain's past, but it is shown that he was a conqueror who took part in invading and pillaging various villages around the world. He was also responsible for the subjugation and enslavement of other humans for his tribe. At an unknown point in time, the Chieftain and two vikings came to Mira's homeland to invade it, where he killed some of Mira's friends and had her lover killed in the process.
Season 1[]
One night, the Chieftain's soldiers invaded a peaceful remote society where they burned the village, killed many inhabitants and enslaved the survivors. The slaves were transported to work in "a sad and cold land filled with darkness". When they were transported again for trade, one slave, Mira, managed to escape, eventually meeting Spear and Fang.
However, Mira was soon captured by a group of primates, who themselves were killed when the Chieftain's band massacred them with arrows. Despite Spear and Fang's best efforts to follow her, she was taken aboard the Chieftain's ship, which sailed away with her back to the warrior's domain.
Season 2[]
After locking up Mira and the rest of the slaves, Viking Chieftain and his son Eldar set out for another raid. By the time he returned however, they find everyone in their home already butchered by Spear and Fang; the duo's successful attempt to liberate Mira and other slaves didn't go without a hitch as they were forced to slaughter every Viking who stayed behind to guard the village in the process. What made the massacre tragic was among casualties were Rikka (Viking Chieftain's wife) and Eldar's little brother, much to their grief. Viking Chieftain and Eldar then buried the dead before reluctantly freed their newly captured slaves so their boats can be loaded with bodies of their deceased family members which then sent adrift and ignited from afar with a fire arrow. Because the Chieftain was too consumed by grief to do the last part of his wife and second born son's funerary rite, Eldar decided to do his father a favor instead. Noticing that the one behind the massacre had stolen one of their ships, the father and son set out to find their clan's killers.
Later, the Chieftain and his son had quickly tracked down the boat that Spear, Fang, and Mira had taken, resorting to ramming their own boat into it. Father and son fought with them in a furious aim to avenge their tribe and family, until Eldar fell into the river and the Chieftain dove in after him to save him from drowning. After making it ashore and confirming his son was alive, the Chieftain started a fire and waited for his son to wake, until a horned figure appeared in the fire, waking him up and he saw his son had returned with a deer for them to eat.
While they ate their food, the father and son affirmed their resolve for revenge and planned a new strategy. The next day, the Chieftain and his son scaled a mountain top and forcefully tamed two giant vultures in a last-ditch effort to attack Spear, Fang, and Mira and carry out their revenge. They flew off and tracked the trio down once more. But once again, Spear and Mira gained the upper hand. Spear bit the Chieftain's hand and threw him off into the forest, severely injuring him. Although he survived the fall, he witnessed Spear pushing Eldar off and fell to his death on a boulder near a river. The Chieftain swam to the other side to check on his son, but it was too late. His only remaining family member was gone. Now with nothing to fight for, the Chieftain is stricken with grief. He gives up and lets himself get swept away by the river.
A second chance for revenge[]
Sooner or later, the Chieftain is washed up to the shore and is severely injured. He slowly succumbs to his injures as he awaits the three Valkyries from the sky to arrive and take him to Vahalla. But suddenly, goblin-like demons grabbed him and dragged him down to the fiery depths of underground instead and the Valkyries refuse to help him. The Chieftain is then brought before the same being he saw in his dream. The terrifying figure gives the Chieftain the opportunity exact vengeance on Spear and Fang. With his mind and heart tainted by his inner demons, uncontrolled anger, and lust for vengeance, the Chieftain agrees with the newfound master's offer and is brutally transformed into a fiery being before ultimately being returned to the land of the living in this new form.
Arriving on the surface, the Chieftain then tested his new form just to see how powerful it was; he summoned a Dane axe made out of magma and delivered a massive strike against the ground. Impressed by his new powers, he lets out a roar of vengeance and began his manhunt for Spear, Mira, and Fang. After reaching a river, he seemed to realize that they had left by boat once again and began marching downstream in pursuit. The Chieftain's hunt took him across the open ocean, leading him to the Colossaeus formerly owned by a plundering, seafaring people and their cruel tyrant. His approach was observed from the vessel by an alarmed Kamau and his daughter.
Final battle with Spear and Fang[]
The Chieftain's hunt led him to Mira's village where he attacks and kills some of the camels. Spear and Fang ran off to take on the Chieftain, but they were horrified by his monstrous appearance. In a blind rage, he begins to attack them with his new powers. Spear and Fang are completely overwhelmed and start to retreat to the top of the mountain. But that doesn't stop the Chieftain when he shapeshifts into a demonic fire snake and slithers after them up the mountain. With nowhere left to run, Spear and Fang had no choice but to fight the demonic Chieftain to the death.
The Chieftain attempts to kill Fang with his powers, but the dinosaur managed to save herself when she stopped, dropped, and rolled the fire out. Spear decides to take the Chieftain head on himself in order to keep Fang safe, but he ends up getting severely burned. Spear makes the ultimate sacrifice when he shoves himself onto the demonic Chieftain and they both tumble down to the very bottom. As the severely burned Spear lies motionless to the ground, the Chieftain believed that he had won, and his vengeance is final. However, just as he witnessed Mira rushing over to Spear's side, the ominous being betrays the Chieftain as its giant hand emerged from the ground and stripped him of his powers. He is then dragged back down into the underworld, his soul now claimed by the entity.
Trivia[]
- The Chieftain's brutal transformation into a fire entity is most likely a callback to the Lava Monster in the Samurai Jack episode "Jack and the Lava Monster", also directed by Tartakovsky.
- When he is taken by the Fire Demon, the Valkyries do not attempt to save him, indicating that he is denied the entrance to Valhalla due to the darkness in his heart.
- The Viking Chieftain is considered a dark reflection of Spear. Both lose their families (Spear's family to a pack of bloodthirsty theropods, the Chieftain's family to Spear and Fang's attack) while they are away from home. Spear is initially overcome with grief to the point of contemplating suicide and finds a new purpose in his bond with Fang and in protecting others like Mira whereas the Chieftain, by contrast, immediately becomes consumed by a singular, unyielding desire for vengeance, which ultimately leads him to forsake his humanity and soul for power. Although Spear generally does not seek conflict unless necessary for survival or protection while evolving into a protector figure, the Chieftain, who is a conquering warlord by nature, actively engaged in raiding, murder, and enslavement of other humans, reflecting a more brutal and merciless worldview. The Chieftain's complete devotion to revenge leads him to make a deal with a demonic entity, transforming him into an infernal monster until it ultimately results in his damnation while Spear, by choosing to protect others even at the cost of his own life in his final confrontation with the Chieftain, is implied to have a more noble end, becoming a legend in the new age of civilization. The Chieftain serves as an example of what Spear might have become if he had fully embraced the path of pure, all-consuming vengeance.
External Links[]
- Viking Chieftain on the Primal Wiki
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