Baran

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Baran
Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai
Dai2020 Baran.png
Romaji Baran
Title Dragon Master General
Class Warrior (A Hero's Bonds)
Race Dragon Knight
Age Unknown
Family Dai (son)
Soala (wife)

Baran is an antagonist in Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai, and the biological father of Dai. He serves as the main antagonist of the Dragon Knight act, but he later teams up with the disciples of Avan to defeat Vearn.

Appearances

Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai

Baran is first introduced as the Dragon Master General, the general of the dragon legion of Hadlar's Dark Army. Baran holds an unyielding grudge for how they treated him and his family in the past. Due to this grudge, Baran decided that humanity needed to be cleansed from the world, and thus he joined the Dark Army.

Baran is a Dragon Knight, a linage of warriors that is supposed to bring balance to the world. Due to their immense power, the gods only allow one Dragon Knight to be born each generation... However, something special happened during Baran's time. Fifteen years prior to the start of Dai's adventure, Baran was supposed to deal with Hadlar -who was threatening the balance in the world- but it was a human hero who vanquished Hadlar instead. Meanwhile, Baran was in the underworld fighting Velzar, the last intelligent dragon who seeked to conquer the world. After vanquishing the dragon, Baran was mortally wounded so he used his remaining strength to find the Fountain of Miracles, which is said to heal Dragon Knights. He got close to the water, but his exhaustion forbid him from reaching it. It was then he met Soala, a young human woman who helped him drink from the healing fountain. Soala was the princess of the kingdom of Alkeed. They eventually fell in love while Baran recovered from battle, and had Soala's father approval. However some vessels who didn't like a foreigner getting loser to the throne became to conspire against him. Due to his non-human nature and the recent memory of what a darkling tried not long ago, Baran was banished from the kingdom... but before leaving, Soala revealed to him that she was pregnant.

The couple then moved to a forest in Teran, where they lived peacefully for some months until their child was born. Soala proposed naming their son "Dino", which means "strong dragon" in the Alkeed language. Their happy days didn't last long and ended when a battalion of soldier from Alkeed, lead by their king who thought the dragon knight had kidnapped his daughter, found them. Baran surrendered quickly, as long as his lover and child didn't suffer any harm, to what the king agreed as long as the child was grew up somewhere else. The baby was sent to foreign land on a ship, but that ship got lost at sea and ended wrecking near Dermline Island where Brass would find him. The day of his execution, Baran was ready to accept his fate, but he didn't expect Soala to sacrifice herself to save him from the fire balls. Soala's last words encouraged Baran to find Dino and leave in peace with humanity after, but hearing Soala's father call her a disgrace for dying for a non-human filled the dragon knight with rage and hatred for humanity. His wrath soon brought the complete destruction of Alkeed kingdom. Unable to find Dino, Baran despaired and Dark King Vearn took that chance to convince him to join the Dark Army to destoy humanity.

While Dai is learning more about the Dragon Knights in the Dragon Knight Temple in Teran, Baran also enters the sanctuary. Baran reveals himself and the truth about Dragon Knights to the little hero, who is shocked to learn about his own linage. Soon after, Baran proposes his son joins the Dark Army to destroy humanity, which Dai refuses.

Other Appearances

Dragon Quest of the Stars

Baran appears as a boss in the collaboration events with the Japanese version of the game. There is some gacha equipment based on his humanoid form that allows players to dress up as him. Defeating Baran in his fiend difficulty boss fight might reward the player with items to look like Dragonoid Baran.

Dragon Quest Tact

Baran appears in the final part of the collaboration event with Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai, with both his humanoid and dragonoid forms being available to unlock. The first can be obtained by playing the event, while the later must be obtained through his gacha banner.

Dragonoid Baran can be scouted from his own banner, which also includes Flazzard. This form of Baran is an S-rank member of the dragon family. He knows Crest Beam naturally and learns Dragonoid Fury at level 32 and Doruora at level 52.

Dragonoid Baran (竜魔人バラン ryū majin baran)
Dragon Quest Tact
Stats


DQT Dragonoid Baran 2.png
Family Rank Role
Tact Icon Dragon.png
Dragon
DQTact Rank Icon S.png DQTact AttackType.png
Attack
Max Level HP MP Move
120 841 256 2
Attack Defense Agility Wisdom Weight
415 283 277 187 50
Basic Skills
First Second Third
Crest Beam Dragonoid Fury Doruora
Awakening Skills
First Second Third
Draconic Aura
Stats up
Zap Resis +25
Stats up
Combat Instincts
Doruora Potency +5%
Stats up
Fourth Fifth
Zam Resis +25
Stats up
Pureblood Dragon Knight
Doruora Potency +5%
Stats up
Leader Perks
First
Raises dragon attack potency by 20%
Basic Perks
First Second Third
Dragon Knight Doruora Potency +2% Doruora Potency +2%
Perk Details
First
Dragon Knight: When attacked by enemy, Heals the user's HP
Draconic Aura: Action start: When HP is 20% or over, raises Move and reduces damageby 20%
Combat Instincts: Action start: Restores MP
Pureblood Dragon Knight: When attacked by enemy: Rarely raises ATK and DEF for 1 turn.
Frizz Resistance * Sizz Resistance * Crack Resistance * Woosh Resistance *
Normal Very weak Normal Normal
Bang Resistance * Zap Resistance * Zam Resistance * Snooze Resistance
Very weak Half res Half res Normal
Poison Resistance Physical Lock Resistance Spell Lock Resistance Martial Lock Resistance
Normal Normal Normal Normal
Breath Lock Resistance Hobble Resistance * Stun Resistance * Dazzle Resistance
Normal Half res Immune Normal
Curse Resistance Paralysis Resistance Confusion Resistance Charm Resistance
Super weak Half res Normal Normal


Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai: A Hero's Bonds

Baran appears as a boss in both of his forms, and as a playable character.

Baran currently holds the honor of being the hardest boss in this game, due to his extremely difficult boss fight in the "Dragon Knight Challenger" event.

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