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| “ | We are Agito. The fangs of the fangless. | „ |
| ~ Volk |
| “ | You were born to privilege. You will never understand. Do you think the weak yearn for strength? Such is the depth of your privilege. The weak wish only to SHARE their weakness! They want everyone to wallow with them in squalor and irrelevance! | „ |
| ~ Volk explaining his motivations to Ranzal and Euden. |
| “ | Irremissible! | „ |
| ~ Volk's most famous line. |
Volk is a major antagonist from Dragalia Lost, being one of the Agito and first appearing in the Agito Uprising quests before the main story. He is an assassin that hates those he deems "privileged", and hunts them down with murderous intent, being the archenemy of Ranzal, a nobleman who wishes to usher in an age of equity. His transformed form is a giant winged werewolf.
He was voiced by Fuminori Komatsu in Japanese and Deven Mack in English.
Biography[]
Background[]
According to his Dragon story, Volk was born into poverty. (Though in one chapter he does mention his strength being stolen from him, which may mean he used to be more fortunate once) Starvation, discrimination, sickness, avoidance, and neglect was a constant in his life and he was considered a subhuman by others. He met an aristocrat who pitied him, but seeing how the aristocrat was so privileged, Volk became jealous and ran away.
Feeling an intense disgust, Volk snuck in the man's mansion to target him and fight him, but when he tried to sneak in, the moonlight illuminated him and exposed him. Had it not been for the aristocrat's mercy, he would've been killed but instead was just thrown into the streets. As the moonlight stops shining on him once he's thrown out, Volk comments on how it is unfair that the privileged get to rule the world, and how even the moon shuns the weak. He is shocked to hear a reply affirming his belief.
Volk turns around and sees a young man clad in black, Nedrick. He tells Volk that he too, has nothing, but can grant him the power to overturn the hierarchy. Volk is terrified and tries to fend him off with a dagger, but his each attack is parried away by Nedrick's sword. Nedrick is impressed by his determination and ferocity, so he gives him a mask that would not only give him superhuman strength, but also allow him to transform into a powerful beast. Though sceptical, Volk accepts the mask and using its power, effortlessly slaughters the guards of the mansion before killing the aristocrat himself.
The Agito Uprising[]
Purveyor of Plague[]
The cutscene begins with Volk committing an atrocious deed, likely murder, in front of a village chief. When the chief asks him why he did such things, he responds by telling him that it is to "liberate the weak" before killing him.
Ranzal and Euden hear news of many privileged people in society being mysteriously assassinated, so Ranzal goes off to investigate. As he is on the way, Volk ambushes him and attacks due to Ranzal being the son of the Lord of St Lotier Zacharias as well as out of jealousy for his strong body. As Ranzal fends him off, he explains his motives to him, and soon Euden, hearing the commotion, arrives and attacks Volk, causing him to stop attacking Ranzal. Suddenly, Volk warps space using his mask, pushing the heroes back before announcing that he is part of the Agito and engaging in combat.
Tools, Together[]
Volk appears during the Agito meeting, commenting on Tartarus's tardiness. He and most of the Agito remark on the weakness of Euden's party until Tartarus tells them that it's useless to pretend they aren't strong. They all agree that they are to rebel against the world, upon which Nedrick arrives and tells them they can do so with the Dawnshard.
Main Campaign[]
Chapter 13[]
Volk and Ciella are sent by Nedrick to find a document regarding the true origins of Euden. While searching the quarters of a nearby bishop, the latter walks in on him where Volk reveals that he was hired several times by him and was in fact, the one masterminded the death of another priest earlier, commenting on how the bishop acted as if he was in grief during the funeral and chastising him about how he uses religion to manipulate the weak. He is spotted by a templar, so Volk grabs the bishop and runs off to interrogate him. He is found later by templars, but as he thinks Ciella has already found the documents, he kills the bishop and escapes.
Later on, he and the rest of the Agito ambush part of Valyx's army and slaughter most of them except for a single officer. This prompts Valyx to avenge his men by travelling to the Northern Border of Alberia where he sees the Agito mockingly waving his standard. He and his men charge but are all felled except for him.
Chapter 14[]
Under orders of Nedrick, Volk is sent off once again, this time to retrieve Zethia after Beren absorbs Morsayati from her. Ranzal recognises him while Beren attempts to fight him, but Phares tells him that he isn't an enemy, so they leave him to his business. Volk demands that Euden hand over Zethia but he refuses, so they engage in battle. Volk is defeated and asks Euden if he enjoys trampling on the weak, to which he replies he doesn't but as he's trying to steal away Zethia he can't lose. Volk laughs at the prince's optimism and the party begin to feel him getting stronger, so Zena orders Elisanne to take Zethia to safety while they hold Volk off. Unfortunately, Nedrick kidnaps Zethia himself and signals for Volk to leave, so he does so. However, before leaving, Nedrick tells Elisanne that he will await them at Alberia's northmost checkpoint.
Chapter 15[]
Volk does not appear for most of the chapter, but is present when the Agito meet up to go to the Alberian border, killing and torturing a nobleman beforehand. He also arrives with the rest of the Agito and Nedrick during Euden's duel with Valyx when he is under control of Nedrick's black mana mask. He remarks that the fight took longer than he thought it would, with the rest of the Agito joining in to demean the party. When Euden tries to take back Zethia, Volk and the others join in to block off the party and defeat them. However, just as Nedrick attempts to land the final blow on Euden, Valyx overcomes the mask's control and takes it for him, before he is swiftly dispatched. Zena tries to teleport the away but fails, so Zethia uses her own mana to fend off the Agito and gives some to Zena so she can teleport them to safety. However, Nedrick threatens to hunt them down if they dare escape, so Zethia goes with him to placate him. Then, Nedrick and the Agito continue on their journey across Grams to the Faewood to find the Dawnshard.
Chapter 16[]
Volk doesn't appear at all in this chapter, but he and the rest of the Agito are mentioned when Leonidas orders a defeated Ciella to return to Nedrick and warn him of his vengeance for daring to cross him or his little brother. He and the rest of the Agito also hear of the news that Euden and his party too are headed for Grams, and is also present when Valyx challenges Nedrick once more to avenge his troop, but is once again beaten and is forced to travel along with them.
Chapter 17[]
Volk appears early on as Ranzal travels along with Euden and the party to Grams after receiving a letter from a man named Gatov, having some queries on whether it's right to entrust all their hopes and reams on the prince who himself has a lot to deal with. Volk notices Ranzal is troubled, and thus decides not to attack, feeling it would be dishonourable. He remarks on how Euden sacrificed all he had just for Zethia, causing Ranzal to feel more uncomfortable. He also tells him that Ranzal would soon come to understanding his motives once he sees the class disparity of Grams, and disappears before Euden notices. He is proved right as Ranzal comes to see the injustices of society there and attempts to correct them, fighting Templars after they refuse to let a beggar into the Church to pray for his daughter's healing and attempting to stop a man who is scamming others with false relics.
Pursued by the Templars under orders of Origa to capture them, the party flees Grams only to encounter Volk, who wishes to personally put an end to both Euden and Ranzal. Gatov remarks that he knows Volk well, and just when all seems lost, the people Gatov helped in the slums as well as the Grams Watch members arrive to fend off the Templars, allowing the party to deal with the Agito personally. However, the Templars manage to send the Watch into disarray, and Volk still manages to outlast the party. He attacks Ranzal, asking if he has a good sense of how unequal the privileged and weak are, before remarking that he's too fortunate to see it. However, Ranzal remarks that while he does see Volk's point, he won't give up so as to amend the wrongs of this world before beating him back. Ranzal's willpower attracts the corrupted dragon Void Zephyr, who is cleansed and reborn from it, drives the Templars away. Volk appears to be injured, causing Ranzal concern but he simply remarks that he will cause him to suffer one day before escaping.
Chapters 18 and 19[]
Volk likewise doesn't appear in this chapter, however he and the other Agito all travel along with Nedrick to the faerie kingdom, where he reveals the reason he seeks the Dawnshard is to gain a complete pact with the Genesiswyrm Bahamut while Kai Yan heads out on his own to cull weaklings though he is bested by Luca. He also meets the current faerie king and Nedrick's old friend Jinlorda who seeks to allow his kind to head out into the world, with Ayaha and Otoha also going off to kill androids for fun. He is also present when Jinlorda explains how Euden is made of the flesh of Morsayati, and he, Nedrick, Zethia, Valyx and the other Agito all make off to the Sacred Tree wherein the Dawnshard lies, while Tartarus also engages Cleo in combat, but decides not to continue as he decides they aren't worthy to join Alberius in the afterlife.
Chapter 20[]
Nedrick manages to defeat the guardians of the Sacred Tree and absorb the barrier, allowing passage for him and the Agito. There, it is revealed by Jinlorda that Nedrick plans to use the Dawnshard's power to give himself true freedom and create a perfect, free world for everyone. As he ventures up the Sacred Tree with Nedrick, Nedrick also reveals to Zethia that he is Euden's former self and her true sibling, and as a result of his pact to Bahamut reviving him, he must continually consume mana or his body will decay away from the Genesiswyrm's sheer power, as well as that he seeks to destroy the one who sealed Bahamut away. He requests of Zethia to dispel the barriers on the tree, which she does so as she begins to see Nedrick's point of view.
The party and Euden catch up and meet with Jinlorda, who is surprisingly cordial to them but denies them further passing to the Dawnshard. Challenged to a battle, the faerie king reveals Volk and the other Agito, who, angered by their defeats, have bolstered their fighting instincts to the very limit of control. The party engage in combat once again, emerging victorious but Jinlorda's subordinates intervene and revive the Agito. Just then, Audric appears and takes down all of the Agito by himself. Encouraging Euden, he continues to fight off the faeries attacking and leaves the prince to rescue Zethia and pursue Nedrick.
Chapter 21[]
Volk himself doesn't appear in the earlier parts of the chapter, but when Euden and the party face off Elysium, who plans to stop Nedrick and the party from releasing Bahamut so as to maintain complete order, the Holywyrm stops the flow of mana and freezes everybody. Fortunately, Euden remembers that the Agito are made of black mana and thus, using the black mana radiating from the Agito, uses apotheosis to transform into Beast Volk and lay a mortal wound on Elysium.
It is assumed that Volk perished along with Tartarus and Kai Yan during the collapse of the Sacred Tree from the black mana produced by Beren when he attempts to control Elysium, but as Ayaha and Otoha remark in one of their adventurer voice lines, he very well may be alive and kicking, waiting for a chance to strike again.
Chapter 26[]
While the original Volk doesn't appear, (as he would've perished thanks to Xenos erasing the world, being outside the Halidom) a memory of a parallel version of him arrives to save Ranzal from a parallel Zacharias and numerous fiends from other worlds. Ranzal assumes that Volk is here to kill him, but the memory instead reveals he's here to help, along with a parallel Ciella who saves Elisanne and Alex, as well as a parallel Tartarus with a very much alive Myriam and Alberius. There, this parallel Volk reveals that in his home timeline, the Agito along with Nedrick decided to put away their differences and work together with the Halidom party, though it seems that Volk simply wants Ranzal to despair in his weakness more. From there, the two former enemies fight off hordes of enemies, with Volk even transforming into his beast form.
However, when the fight is over, Ranzal notices heavy wounds all over Volk and realises he was taking all the hits for him. As Volk fades away, he explains that the Ranzal of his world died happy and as one of the strong, and thus by saving him, he can infect Ranzal with his weakness and let it spread. Ranzal accepts that he is weak, but promises that he'll never spread his weakness to anyone else, which Volk remarks is irremissible, promising to never let Ranzal off the hook before fading away. Ranzal bids his foe farewell, assuring him that he'll never let him go either.
Epilogue[]
Volk appears in the restored world, now seemingly living a happier and disease-free life in St. Lotier along with Ranzal and Zacharias. He remarks on Ranzal's moodiness, which is due to him having to show up as a representative of St. Lotier to Alberia, insisting on simply acting as a mercenary instead of a noble. Volk tells Ranzal that he should outgrow his mysterious wandering warrior phase and start being a true nobleman, to which he responds that when he inherits his father's position, he will personally grant Volk knighthood so that he outgrows his similar aesthetic, to which Volk laughs off before Ranzal leaves.
Appearance[]
In his normal form, Volk has shoulder-length green hair, pale skin and red eyes. He dresses in red pants, a red scarf and a mask that covers his mouth and also wears a large spiny pauldron on his left shoulder. He also wears clawed gauntlets and shoes that resemble hooves or dog feet. In battle he uses a large, modified spear that functions like a drill.
When transformed, he becomes a muscular werewolf with green fur, lime-green eyes, massive dark wings, and green flame-like hair. He still retains his armor and has a red, M-like symbol on his forehead. He also has red markings under his eyes and black eyelashes, as well as a large, bushy red tail. His hands are a darker shade of green with lime-green claws. Unlike contemporary werewolves however, his legs are double-jointed like those of a wolf instead of having humanoid ones.
Personality[]
Volk is snarky and irritable, frequently making snide comments about his foes, as well as his allies as he insults Ciella when she calls him untrustworthy. He seems to be highly sadistic and violent, laughing when he uses one of his undodgable attacks on the party fighting him and relentlessly atacking Ranzal as he tries to reason with him. He is also intensely jealous of the privileged or as he refers to them, the strong and seeks to reduce them to poverty like him, and will frequently taunt the supposedly-virtuous about their hypocrisy before killing them. Volk is somewhat hypocritical himself, having a rather muscular physique despite claiming to hate the strong and targeting Ranzal even though he despises most nobles for their arrogance, with the only possible motivation being that Ranzal is a noble himself.
Despite this Volk is shown to have a sense of honour, as when he notices Ranzal appears troubled about whether or not to keep following Euden, he gives him some breathing room and does not attack him, even asking to know what is bothering his foe. He also seems somewhat hopeful that Ranzal would see the injustice rampant within the world, something he shares with his parallel counterpart though he still hates the mercenary nonetheless.
However, following the world's restoration and his redemption, Volk seems to be more calm and sane now, even becoming good friends with Ranzal. Likewise, his snarky attitude seems to have mellowed into a more mischievous one as he seems to enjoy annoying his new friend, which Ranzal seems to have no issue with due to their personalities being somewhat similar.
Powers and Abilities[]
- Spear mastery: Volk is adept at using his modified spear, being able to dash about swiftly with it and perform quick attacks despite its cumbersome appearance. He can also rotate it like a drill.
- Summoning: Volk can summon claws from his spear that fly about and can hover in place. If they hit a player, they will deal damage and inflict sleep, preventing the target from moving unless the affliction wears out or is removed. He can also summon bombs that will defuse if touched, dealing either stun or sleep as an affliction and if not defused, will explode, dealing huge amounts of damage. In his beast form, he can summon wolves that carry the Plague affliction which will dash at players and attack them. He can also summon a large, moon-like meteor that has to be destroyed before he lets it fall down, dealing huge damage and killing all players.
- Plague: Volk can spread the Plague affliction which deals damage when he releases it. It also increases the susceptibility of adventurers to his other afflictions like Stun or Sleep.
- Teleportation: Volk can teleport, sending out a burst of plague before disappearing and reappearing elsewhere.
- Agito beast powers: With his Agito mask, Volk's strength and durability are enhanced to inhuman proportions, being able to easily down several trained guardsmen on his own with ease. He can also transform into an Agito beast form, his being a winged werewolf, with the beast being strong enough that even a shade of it used by Euden can be used to strike down Elysium. He can also use the mask to produce a feral shroud, a space isolated from reality which appears to be where his Agito Uprising battles take place.
- Elemental magic: Volk is attuned to the Wind element, being capable of using several wind-themed attacks such as summoning tornadoes, imbuing his spear and claws with wind energy, summoning wolf-shaped gales as well as inflicting adventurers with poison, which is a wind and shadow attuned affliction.
- Indomitable will: While not as strong as Ranzal's or Valyx's, Volk's will is incredibly powerful, allowing him to fight without tiring seemingly endlessly when empowered with the Agito mask.
- Intelligence: Volk is rather intelligent, being good at deduction as he realises the bishop's guilt and Ranzal's mixed feelings. He's also an expert of stealth, being able to bypass several guards without detection even before gaining his powers and sneaking into a bishop's heavily guarded residence with ease.
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Trivia[]
- Volk is the first member of the Agito the Halidom party meet, as evidenced by how they do not know what the Agito are when they first meet him, but realise that the other members are connected to him when they mention it.
- According to Dragalia Life #377, Volk likes to eat raw meat, and in his "Who's Who" profile, it's revealed his favorite food is gyros.
- The Flame attuned Agito weapon set associated with Volk is based off Norse mythology, with all of the weapons possessing names of objects from it.
- Despite this, Volk's name is Russian in origin, meaning simply "wolf".
- Deven Mack, Volk's voice actor was casted to voice Sonic the Hedgehog in the Netflix series Sonic Prime. This caused numerous memes of people editing Sonic's Werehog form to resemble Volk's beast form.
- Coincidentally, when Volk was first introduced in late 2019, the virus COVID-19 was also discovered, leading to some during the pandemic joking about how he, as a disease themed character, caused the virus.
- It is heavily implied throughout the story that Volk's home country is Grams, with the Captain of the 12th Watch Division, Gatov remarking that he knows Volk well and is implied to have fought him before, judging by how he remarks that Volk is one of Nedrick's strongest Agito. Volk also specifically asks of Ranzal to carefully observe the widespread injustice and poverty in the Holy City, implying that Grams is special to him and could be where he developed his hate for the strong.
- Likewise, Volk's Agito weapon set is associated with Norse mythology and the sword in said set, Nothung has the alternate name of Gram, very similar to Grams.
- Volk can be considered the mascot of the Agito Uprising quests, due to the quest banner of said quests bearing Volk's appearance on them.
- Despite wishing to spread weakness, remarks from Gatov may imply that out of all the Agito, Volk is the physically strongest, seeing as his mana was potent enough for Euden to assume his Beast form.
- According to his voice actor Deven Mack, Volk’s voice in the English version was inspired by his friend and fellow voice actor Edwyn Tiong’s voice work as Fuse from Dust: An Elysian Tail and Nazo the Hedgehog from both Sonic X and Sonic: Nazo Unleashed.
