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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 in season 2 of the Adult Swim series Primal.
He is a conquering warlord who leads a relatively advanced civilization amongst a prehistoric world and is 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 a herald of a Demonic Entity. He is also the arch-nemesis of 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 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 peoples' 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[]
To be added...
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.
To be added...
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.
Gallery[]
External Links[]
- Viking Chieftain on the Primal Wiki
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