lord of nightmares

The Golden Lord of Darkness, the Mother of Everything—these are merely a few names attributed to "her." The feminine designation is arbitrary; the Lord of Nightmares transcends gender and even form. In truth, she embodies the Sea of Chaos, which is her essence. While one might describe her as the "mind" or "will" of this chaos, such descriptions only attempt to encapsulate something beyond our comprehension.

Similar to gods and demons across various worlds, the Lord of Nightmares lacks a definitive form or gender. Like them, she can adopt different appearances based on her will. Her human guise manifests as a delicate blonde young woman, though she has also inhabited Lina's body and appeared in her likeness. Instead of a beastly form, the Lord of Nightmares represents the boundless Sea of Chaos beneath countless parallel worlds. Although these worlds exist above her, fragments of her presence permeate each one. Though unable to exert full power within any universe, her capabilities still instill fear among gods and dark lords alike, for nothing surpasses her.

Only two known spells invoke the Lord of Nightmares: Ragna Blade, which conjures a blade of chaos capable of slicing through anything, and Giga Slave, akin to Dragon Slave but summoning the Lord of Nightmares herself into the caster's body rather than just her power. Miscasting Giga Slave risks allowing the Lord of Nightmares to take over the caster’s body or even destroy the universe.

Like the Dark Lords, the Lord of Nightmares aims to return all worlds to the Sea of Chaos. However, due to her chaotic nature, she exhibits inconsistency. Rather than destroying the worlds herself, she appears to wait for the Dark Lords to do so, embodying self-contradiction. Alternatively, if Vorfeed and Darkstar's perspectives hold merit, gods and demons may simply exist to entertain her with their eternal struggle for dominance.

Outside her more serious endeavors, the Lord of Nightmares enjoys conversing with and playfully assaulting the author and Subordinate S (Dark Lord Shabranidgu) with shovels.

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  • Gourry Gabriev (ガウリイ・ガブリエフ)

    Gabriev Gourry

    Main

    Gourry is a wandering swordsman who meets up with Lina in the first episode of the television series. He accompanies her from then on. He carries the fabled Sword of Light, originally known as Gorun Nova before it came to the Slayers world.Gourry is somew...

  • Zelgadis Graywords (ゼルガディス・グレイワーズ)

    Graywords Zelgadis

    Main

    Zelgadis is a Chimera of human, rock golem, and blue demon, transformed by Rezo, the Red Priest. Zelgadis travels the land with Lina and company to find a way to restore his humanity. Zelgadis is a very talented individual in magic, sword-fighting, and s...

  • Lina Inverse (リナ・インバース)

    Inverse Lina

    Main

    Age: 15 (First volume; Lina directly states her age as 15); ~16 (Third volume; takes place a couple of months later); 1718 (Thirteenth volume; takes place two years after the first volume)Height: 147 cmLina is the primary protagonist and the only c...

  • Amelia Wil Tesla Saillune (アメリア・ウィル・テスラ・セイルーン)

    Saillune Amelia Wil Tesla

    Main

    Amelia is Linas best friend and a female magician and the princess of the kingdom of Saillune. She is a fighter of justice and her only desire is to fight and defeat evil.She is a bit naive and clumsy, and has a faible for holding weird and dramatical spe...

  • Copy Rezo (コピー・レゾ)

    Copy Rezo

    Supporting

    Copy Rezo was created by the original Rezo as a lab rat for experiments. The original Red Priest was seeking to cure his blindness, and used Copy Rezo to test his experiments on. However, while Copy Rezos eyes opened, the originals did not (though neither...

  • Dilgear (ディルギア)

    Dilgear

    Supporting

    Dilgear was a half-beastman, half-troll and was a henchman of Zelgadiss Graywords and his great-grandfather; Rezo the Red Priest.Unlike Zolf, Rodimus, and Noonsa, Dilgear was actually quite violent during battles and would even go as far as to kill his fo...

  • Lord of Nightmares

    Lord Of Nightmares

    Supporting

    The Golden Lord of Darkness, the Mother of Everything, these are only several of the names used to describe "her." Of course, the female designation is arbitrary, the Lord of Nightmares has no gender, in truth, not even a form because she is the Sea of Ch...

  • Sylphiel Nels Laada (シルフィールネルスラーダ)

    Nels Laada Sylphiel

    Supporting

    Sylphiel is a priestess of the shrine to Flare Dragon Ceifeed in Sairaag. When she was young, she took the Bless Blade from the shrine and hid it under the holy tree, Flagoon. This later proved to be useful, as the sword was needed to defeat Copy Rezo-Zan...

  • Noonsa (ヌンサ)

    Noonsa

    Supporting

    Noonsa (Japanese: ヌンサ Romaji: nunsa; also sometimes spelled as Nunsa) was a fishman; he had the body of a fish and the legs and arms of a human.He was one of Zelgadiss Graywords top four henchmen. When Lina Inverse refused to tell Zelgadiss anything about...