Warg

''This article refers to the Rance Series character Warg as she appears in the game Rance X: Showdown. For information relating to the character as she appears in Kichikuou Rance, see Warg (Kichikuou Rance).''

"Warg"

- There's only three kinds of people that get near me. Those who want to take advantage of my powers, those who want to eliminate me and...weirdos.

About
Warg is an independent Dark Lord living in solitude in a remote location of the Monster Realm. A particularly infamous member of the Antagonist Race, Warg is a figure that evokes great fear to all; often compared to the abhorrently violent Medusa and RedEye.

Originally a human girl named Warg Aka (ワーグ・赤, wāgu aka), she was born with an extraordinarily rare magical ability to put those around her to sleep, manipulate their dreams and even peer into their memories. Her body inherently secretes pheromones capable of inducing a forceful sleep on anyone that inhales them, making every living being that gets close to her fall asleep on the spot. At a young age her powers were weak enough to go unnoticeable but by the time she grew into a teenager they quickly became potent enough to threaten everyone that approached her as Warg herself had no control over her ability. Confused and terrified by the young girl's strange powers, the people living in her small village began ostracizing her and her family. Her parents, attempting to avoid responsibility for their daughter's condition, neglected her until she was eventually expelled from the village entirely. Cursing her own existence, Warg delved deep into the Monster Forest hoping to end her own life. As even monsters were powerless to her ability her aimless wandering eventually led her to encounter Demon King Gi, who saved her from the depths of despair she was immersed into and turned her into a Dark Lord. Unfortunately, even with the extraordinary faculties inherent to the Demon King's servants, Warg remained incapable of controlling her own power, which only strengthened following her transformation. Her presence was enough to potentially endanger even other Dark Lords, making her a very troublesome individual who was preferable to avoid entirely. As time went on, even Demon King Gi grew distant from her and she secluded herself in an isolated area of the Monster Realm. Due to her inability to form relationships with others, she spent most of her life as Dark Lord alone; feared and shunned. If anyone tried to approach her it was usually to either exterminate her or to gain her favor to exploit her ability for their own ends. At some point during this time she encountered a very rare creature named “Dream Dolphin”, a bizarre parasitic life form that feeds off the soul of their preys until they die. As a Dark Lord, Warg would be able to feed it indefinitely without dying so she decided to keep it as a pet named Lassie.In the year GI1015, Gi named Kurusu Miki, a human girl from an Alternate Dimension, as his successor as Demon King, kidnapping her from her home to pass on his blood to her. Before Miki was able to fully awaken to the power of the Demon King, however, she was rescued by her boyfriend Ogawa Kentarou, who was able to temporarily stop her transformation through the use of Hirami Lemons. With Gi having allowed himself to be killed by Kentarou, and Miki refusing to accept the position of Demon King, the Monster Realm was left without a leader and thrown into a state of civil war. The war was fought between Hornet, Gi's daughter who desired to follow through with her father’s wishes and embrace Miki as the new leader of monsterkind, and Kayblis, the oldest and most powerful Dark Lord who desired to become the Demon King himself and wage war against humanity. Early on during the War of the Factions Warg was scouted by Satella in order to assist the Hornet Faction in the war but her distaste for war and battle made her very adamant in cooperating, resulting in her involvement in the war to be extremely limited. At some point the Apostles of the strongest Dark Lord Kayblis, Kaybnyan and Kaybwan started to visit Warg's small house to play (albeit usually falling asleep quickly). While Warg was suspicious about their intentions she was ultimately happy to have some company. Eventually, the two managed to convince Warg to side with the Kayblis Faction and help them end the long war. As Warg had no personal stakes in the conflict tying her to either side, it made little difference to her which side she would assist. Once in the Kayblis Faction, she took a more active role in the war. As many of the Monster Generals in Hornet's Monster Army were put to sleep, along with countless monsters, Kayblis' army would be free to mercilessly slaughter their opposition. Continuously losing commanders quickly led the army to fall into disarray and collapse as the Kayblis Faction pushed further and further into their territory, drastically turning the tides of the war that was, up until that point, at a stiff stalemate. After only a few months, Warg's full cooperation allowed the Kayblis Faction to come out victorious of the conflict, cementing itself as the undisputed ruler of the Monster Realm after 7 years of bloodshed. Once the civil war ended, Warg returned to her home but Kaybnyan and Kaybwan stopped visiting Warg entirely, confirming her suspicion that they were only interested in gaining access to her power, leading her to cut ties with the Kayblis Faction entirely. Shortly after, Kayblis ordered a large-scale invasion to conquer the human realm and find Little Princess, sparking the start of the 2nd Dark Lord War. Kayblis ordered all the Dark Lords available to take part in the invasion, Warg included, but as she had no desire to work for Kayblis again or to take part in a war she decided to wholly ignore the order and secluded herself in her humble house in the Monster Realm. Throughout the course of the war Kayblis attempted to persuade her countless times through letters but she mostly ignored these and continued with her usual life. At the start of the year LP8, over 5 months after the start of the war, at least one of the major armies invading the human countries have suffered a tremendous blow after having lost both of the Dark Lords assigned to it to the Dark Lord Extermination Squad led by Rance, as well as a substantial portion of the monsters making up its force. Growing impatient with Warg's defiant stance, Kayblis decides that enough is enough and goes out of his way to face Warg in person. Infuriated for ignoring his call to action, he immediately shreds her home, much to Warg's distress. In spite of her initial shock at his unexpected appearance, her ability turns out to be entirely useless on Kayblis as he reveals that he modified his body thousands of years ago so that it wouldn't require sleep in the off-chance that he would get killed while doing so, thus, rendering him immune to her power. He then strikes her with his tail, sending her flying and slamming against a tree with a tremendous force. Although he was very careful to hit her as lightly as possible, knowing that her physical constitution is weak, the titanic difference in strength between the two is enough to inflict serious damage on Warg. Faced against someone that the power she believed to be invincible was ineffective against filled Warg with terror for the first time in a long time. Kayblis insists her to either cooperate with him in the war or die by his hand, leaving her no choice but to comply on the spot. Following Kayblis' intimidation, Warg joins the war effort in the Monster Army sortied in the country that lacks any Dark Lords and is in a disadvantageous position in the battle with humanity. During this time she adopted a similar strategy to the one from the War of the Factions; approaching the enemy's forces at night and making them all fall asleep, prioritizing forts that would be hard to subdue and enabling the monster army to enter through the front gate and exterminate all the soldiers with no resistance. The range of her ability is large enough that human soldiers would be affected before even noticing her presence, not giving them an opportunity to escape or prepare any countermeasures. A Monster General in charge would generally give Warg instructions through letters on an arrow on where to move while maintaining their distance from her. Occasionally even some of the monsters would fall asleep if they were not careful enough to avoid entering within the range of her ability. As forts rapidly fell one after the other, the news spread like wildfire about the mysterious power until it eventually reached the ears of the Dark Lord Extermination Squad. A Dark Lord allied with the squad, Satella, about the possibility of Warg being the one responsible for the incidents, prompting the Fuhrer, owner of the Dark Lord-slaying sword Chaos, to take matters into his own hands. During her usual mission she eventually comes across the Dark Lord Extermination Squad while passing through a small village, with most of its members already asleep as the effect of her ability activated long before they managed to reach her. Warg gets her pet Lassie to fight for her while her power takes effect; the drowsiness greatly impacting their combat performance. The fight turns into a race of whether the squad would be able to defeat Lassie before they fall asleep. To turn the tide in her favor, Warg starts progressively removing some of her clothing to strengthen her ability, since more of her body being exposed releases a larger number of sleep powder. As the members of the elite squad continue to fall it is only their leader Rance who manages to remain strong, motivated by thinking of the fight as a cute girl giving him a free striptease. In time, Warg ends up completely in the nude as Rance remains the only still standing when he finally manages to defeat Lassie. Falling in defeat, Warg is reminded of her encounter with Kayblis and trembles in fear in face of an opponent that her ability was unable to bring down. Thinking that her life is about to end she’s briefly thrown into despair as Rance approaches her. On his last legs himself, the leader of humanity only has energy to hold her tightly on his arms before declaring his victory. Warg is confused and asks if he’s going to kill her but Rance says that it would be a waste to kill cute girls and was never aiming for her life, merely wanting to capture her. As Rance is on his limit, he offers her to join him and humanity before falling asleep at long last. Warg, bewildered over whether she should trust him but pushed by her desire for connections, is unable to decide on her own, telling Lassie to decide for her instead.

Following the battle, Warg wakes up the whole squad and deserts the Monster Army. The administration of the United Army of Humanity prepares a house settled near their headquarters in Rance Castle where Warg can live in for the time being. It is located in a mountain area far enough that her ability won’t affect anyone in the area, but close enough to keep her in touch, where she remained until the end of the 2nd Dark Lord War. During this time she remained in contact with some of members of the Human Army like Biscuitta Burns and Sill Plain through letters. Every now and then, Rance would also come to visit to play around whenever he had the time although his visits would generally last around 30 minutes before her ability would put him to sleep. During one of these visits while Rance was casually talking with Warg about Kurusu Miki she inadvertently informed him of being in possession of hypnotic abilities. Finding an opportunity to finally bed Miki, Rance convinced Warg to help him through hypnotising a sleeping Miki into loving him instead of Kentarou. Tricked into thinking that Kentarou was a perverse man that was abusing Miki, Warg agreed to go through with Rance’s plan. Despite being the Demon King, Warg's hypnotism effectively managed to replace of her memories of Kentarou with Rance, deceiving her into thinking her beloved boyfriend is someone else. As a result, Miki and Rance begin dating and she completely abandons Kentarou as he's now a complete stranger to her, mistaking him for a paperboy. Believing her to be afflicted with a strange case of amnesia, Kentarou goes through with Miki's interpretation and turns into a paperboy, hoping to get closer to her. It doesn't take too long for Miki to start feeling that there's something off about their relationship while she and Kentarou begin bonding again. As Warg lives a secluded life she's largely oblivious to how Miki's course of events following her involvement.

At the conclusion of the 2nd Dark Lord War, Warg, alongside the other remaining Dark Lords, pledged servitude to Rance after he assumed the position of Demon King. At some point during the RA Era, Rance managed to effectively seal the pheromones coming out of her body in a way that allowed her to turn off and on her ability whenever she desired, allowing her to live alongside Rance and the other members of his inner circle. She remained loyal to Rance even as other prominent members of the Monster Realm chose to rise up against him.

During the events of Rance X: Part 2, Warg occasionally assisted Rance by putting the members of the El Party to sleep so that he could assault Masou Shizuka without a direct confrontation. As Rance secluded himself even further due to the increasing influence of the Demon King’s blood within him, she along with the other Dark Lords remained confined in Amazing Castle and Rising Dragon Mountain.

Later when the El Party climbed Rising Dragon Mountain a second time, Warg witnessed their fight with Rizna. As Rance’s children had become much stronger since their previous encounter they acquired a strong resistance to Rizna’s own pheromones, an ability somewhat similar to Warg’s own. Seeing that her power would have no effect, she opted for going into hiding and letting them go through with no resistance.

During the fight against Quelplan, Warg, along with her other Dark Lord allies, had her Demonic Blood Soul forcibly ripped from her body and absorbed by the trans-dimensional abomination, removing her invincibility field and effectively reverting her to her original human form. Following Quelplan’s defeat, the destruction of the Demonic Blood Pool and the termination of the entire Demon King system with it, the former Dark Lords were freed from their eternity of servitude and allowed to live their lives however they desired to.

Trivia

 * Warg came in 12th place in the "Females" category of the Rance X:Popularity Poll.
 * Warg's character design was inspired by the design of Cyborg 003 from the anime series Cyborg 009.
 * According to Orion, the Rance Series' lead character designer, Warg was made to appear older than she had been in Kichikuou Rance per request of the series' creator TADA, who believed that Rance would be unmotivated to fight her if he did not find her attractive.
 * During early development of Rance X's story, Warg was initially planned to command an army of unconscious human civilians that she had manipulated the dreams of. These humans would have had their faces covered by strange masks of Warg's own design and been incapable of experience pain when damaged, making them surprisingly dangerous opponents. According to Orion, this idea was ultimately scrapped when Warg's character was changed, implying that she was initially intended to be closer in personality to her portrayal in Kichikuou Rance.
 * In the release version of Rance X, Warg was erroneously stated to be 142cm tall, as she was in Kichikuou Rance. This was fixed in version 1.02, as she was intended to have the appearance of a teenager.
 * Warg's human last named "Aka" (赤) simply means "red", possibly referencing her distinctively reddish attire.
 * Warg is given the nickname "Center of Silence" (静寂の中央) in the opening sequence of Rance X. This is likely in reference to the fact that areas where Warg stands are noted for being eerily quiet due to her presence making all living beings fall asleep; with her standing at the center of that silence.
 * Warg has the lowest current Level of any known Dark Lord.