Patriarch Orstov is a major character and a tertiary villain in Dragon Quest X.
Appearances
Dragon Quest X
Biography
Patriarch Orstov first appears at the end of 3.0 waiting for the Hero to visit Nagaland. The Hero finally meets him, who reminds them that there is a dark bird on the loose, and a dark figure is wrecking havoc. The Unholy Bird is defeated, and Orstov recognizes the Hero as the one who will reunite Nagaland through its territories, and bring peace back to the land. Whenever the Hero defeats an end boss of a Version 3 story, Orstov will have a vision of what will happen next.
When Nagaland is reunited, however, Orstov is captured and taken to the dungeon. The Hero and Estelle fight his traitorous aide, Principal Nadia, and triumph. However, a tail slowly starts to emerge from his body, and stabs the Hero, skewering their body through before beating the life out of them by violently slamming them into the ground with a second stab. It turns out Orstov masterminded the whole thing to revive Nadraga, the Astoltian patron deity of the Dragons who was sealed away following his descent into evil after Goddess Luciana went off to fight the Great Source of Darkness. The Hero is revived by the other patron gods of Astoltia, which Orstov expected. He takes Estelle to the Nagaland temple to begin the ceremony to revive him, since he is sealed inside her, with the Hero and his sibling confronting and battling the evil Patriarch. Despite their best efforts in defeating him, Orstov remains confident in his victory, as Nadraga is revived, and he merges with him since he's actually a part of him that was cut off before he was sealed away. He is last seen guiding the Hero and Estelle out of Nadraga's body after the regional god's defeat.
Battle
| # - Patriarch Orstov ??? Family | |||||
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HP | MP | Attack | Defence | Weight |
| {{{HP}}} | {{{MP}}} | {{{Attack}}} | {{{Defense}}} | {{{Agility}}} | |
| Exp | Gold | Drop | None | ||
| 45000 | 420 G | ||||
| Note: None | |||||
| Abilities | |||||
| Normal attack Lightning Storm Mami-no-Kiri Poison Death Needle Evil Guru Dark Waves | |||||
| Spells | |||||
| Godspeed Meragaia | |||||
| Haunts at: | |||||
| Unknown | |||||
Trivia
- Due to his visions of what will happen next in the Nagaland story, and being evil all along, he can be considered an evil counterpart of Crow, an ally of the Hero.
- He also has similarities to Hargon. Both are the leader of a cult, both seek to revive their masters (Malroth & Nadraga), and both sacrifice themselves to said masters.
- However, while Hargon is evil from the start, destroyed Moonbrooke, cursed the Princess of Moonbrooke into a dog, laid a cure on the Prince of Cannock, and is only fought by the time the player reaches him, Orstov acts as a kind character to the Hero until the climax of Version 3.
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