Nevartan

Nevartan is the Black Dragon known for centuries as the Insane Dragon and the father of Nefelina. A curse engineered through hell and heaven drives him into destructive wandering, but affection for his daughter repeatedly restores his reason before the madness is eventually cured through Grid's intervention. Nevartan is among the strongest Old Dragons: injury accelerates his recovery and growth, his black-dragon nature absorbs magical attributes, and his Breath can overlap into devastating volleys. After recovery, he shifts from dangerous pursuer to wary ally, studies humanity for Nefelina's sake, and fights the cultivator invasion beside Raiders. (Chapters 1090, 1674–1677, 1874, 1878–1879, 1908–1909, 1916–1918, 1920–1921, 1975–1976, 2006–2008, 2010, and 2013)

Biography

Apostles, Dragons, and the Overgeared World

Nevartan's violent activity creates humanity's common image of dragons. His madness spreads to nearby people, but he briefly overcomes it when he meets Nefelina for the first time. He recognizes the daughter he last knew as an egg, praises the people who protected her, asks to be called Papa, and warns her about Trauka. The tenderness is complicated by dragon custom: while still sane, he claims ownership over her future and speaks of consuming her if she fails his expectations. Grid rejects that logic and pulls Nefelina toward the human family that raised her. (Chapters 1674–1675)

The resulting confrontation draws Nevartan into the Overgeared World. Even without rational judgment or Dragon Words, he adapts to the divine realm, regenerates severed limbs almost immediately, and grows stronger under sustained damage. Grid, his apostles, and the Tower of Wisdom cannot safely overpower him. Nefelina finally awakens complete Dragon Words and declares that she wants to live with Grid. Her transcendence restores her father's golden eyes, and Nevartan accepts her choice. He leaves before the madness can return, while Grid revives the quest whose reward is the cure of Nevartan's condition. (Chapters 1675–1677)

Baal, Asgard, and the Complete Ending

Once cured, Nevartan confronts the forces that profited from his lost years. He reveals that the Black Dragon can absorb the attributes in magic and reproduce them, turning Metatron's own divinity back against the angel. He threatens anyone who harms Grid, acknowledging that Grid helped end the insanity, then defeats Bunhelier's challenge despite the gap in growth caused by centuries without proper sleep. Cranbel's intervention prevents the battle from damaging Grid's surface territory, and Nevartan withdraws rather than deepen that debt. (Chapters 1874 and 1878–1879)

Nevartan later opposes Grid's cooperation with Rebecca and calls Nefelina to fulfill the dragons' assigned role. She refuses to abandon her human family. Nevartan prepares to attack Grid and his daughter, but Grid changes the conflict by explaining that Hanul is secretly absorbing Rebecca's light. Nevartan tests the claim, teleports to the dimensional gap, and accepts cooperation against Chiyou when the Martial God blocks the entrance. His willingness to examine evidence prevents an immediate family war even though his larger loyalty to providence remains intact. (Chapters 1908–1909)

Against Chiyou, Nevartan supplies the direct killing force while Raiders manipulates time. Raiders repeatedly rewinds Chiyou's response, allowing Nevartan's claws and tracking Breaths to land; the Breaths are dangerous enough to remove Chiyou's limbs and repeatedly inflict fatal wounds. Braham later joins the formation and modifies the fight with his magic. The alliance remains unstable—Nevartan is willing to kill Braham as a future variable—but practical judgment lets the dragons protect and use him while attempting to reach Trauka. (Chapters 1916, 1918, and 1920–1921)

Nevartan and Raiders then destroy Full Moon Fortresses and fight the cultivators who defend them. Nevartan becomes curious about the human life Nefelina chose, copies Grid's Pinnacle sword dance in human form, and increasingly shows consideration he refuses to name. When Grid joins them, Nevartan coordinates a trap against escaping immortal souls and later admits the Old Dragons have weakened through Trauka's death, exhaustion, and loss of guidance from the foreign god. By the end, he chooses to sleep for a century and tells Grid not to marry Nefelina before he wakes, combining continuing paternal possessiveness with an acceptance that she will choose her own life. (Chapters 1975–1976, 2006–2008, 2010, and 2013)

Appearance and personality

In dragon form, Nevartan is a colossal Black Dragon whose body overlaps distant hills. He has immense black scales, golden eyes while sane, and eyes that turn black and unfocused when madness takes over. His claws and fingers dwarf the structures of Reinhardt, and his movements create storms and landscape-level destruction. In human polymorph, he appears as a beautiful, androgynous long-haired man. (Chapters 1674–1676, 1874, and 2013)

Nevartan is cold, perceptive, proud, and intensely confident in the immutable value of an Old Dragon. The insanity removes rational speech but does not erase predatory combat instinct. When sane, his reasoning is sharp enough to identify manipulation, reassess an alliance, and retreat from wasteful battles. His love for Nefelina is real but initially expressed through ownership and dragon reproductive expectations. Observing the human world she chose gradually makes him more considerate, cooperative, and curious, though he remains embarrassed by that influence and retains a possessive father's suspicion of Grid. (Chapters 1674–1677, 1874, 1878, 1908–1909, 1975–1976, 2006–2008, 2010, and 2013)

Abilities, classes, and skills

Nevartan is an Old Dragon and Black Dragon whose physical strength, scales, magic power, recovery, and Absolute Defense place him near the top of the species. His black-dragon affinity lets him use all magical attributes as laws, absorb attributes carried by hostile magic, and reproduce the absorbed power from his scales. This versatility is separate from the madness: the curse disables rational judgment and Dragon Words, but his instinctive targeting and combat timing remain extraordinarily effective. (Chapters 1090, 1674–1676, and 1874)

His defining combat trait resembles a berserker. Damage accelerates both his growth and recovery, so severed limbs and tail regenerate visibly and sustained attacks can make him more dominant rather than wear him down. The long period of madness still imposes a strategic cost: he could not sleep, accumulate magic, or develop normally for centuries, leaving a gap between his inherited power and his later growth. After Trauka's death, further loss of status and prolonged wakefulness weaken both Nevartan and Raiders. (Chapters 1674–1676, 1874, and 2008)

Nevartan's Breath is a nearly pure physical discharge of magic power with little elemental content. It can change trajectory in flight, persistently pursue a target who dodges too early, split into anomalous paths, or overlap dozens to hundreds of shots before unifying them into a larger force. The overlap greatly increases destructive power but slows operation when combined as one. These Breaths can seriously injure Chiyou, though Raiders' time manipulation—not Nevartan's own power—creates several of the openings that let them land. (Chapters 1675–1676, 1878, 1916, 1918, and 1920–1921)

Nevartan also uses teleportation, mass teleportation, cloning, darkness and fog, attribute magic, and rapid regeneration. He learns through observation: in human form he copies Grid's Pinnacle sword dance five times in succession, while later he deliberately turns a cultivator's binding chains against their owners after Grid's clone modifies them. These are situational demonstrations of intelligence and adaptability, not evidence that Nevartan permanently acquired Grid's complete sword-dance system or the cultivators' treasure techniques. (Chapters 1921, 1975–1976, and 2006–2007)

Relationships

Nefelina is Nevartan's daughter and the strongest anchor for his sanity. He loves her, immediately recognizes her, and accepts her wish to live with Grid after her awakening. Their relationship remains strained by his belief that a child belongs to the parent and by his expectations for dragon reproduction. Watching her affection for humanity eventually motivates him to study and imitate humans rather than simply dismiss them. (Chapters 1674–1677, 1908–1909, 1975–1976, and 2013)

Grid moves from potential enemy to respected ally. He challenges Nevartan's treatment of Nefelina, survives the resulting attack, and later contributes to curing the insanity. Nevartan repays that help by warning Metatron away from Grid, listening when Grid exposes Hanul's plan, and fighting cultivators beside him. Their trust is real but conditional because Nevartan still follows dragon providence and remains protective of Nefelina. (Chapters 1674–1677, 1874, 1908–1909, 2006–2008, 2010, and 2013)

Raiders is Nevartan's fellow Old Dragon and primary late-story partner. Raiders' time control complements Nevartan's direct offense against Chiyou, and the two later destroy Full Moon Fortresses together. They disagree over human influence and strategy, but coordinate closely enough to face multiple Absolutes and explain their shared decline to Grid. (Chapters 1916, 1918, 1920–1921, 1975–1976, 2006–2008, 2010, and 2013)

Bunhelier helped engineer Nevartan's curse and spent centuries fleeing the consequences. Once sane, Nevartan treats Bunhelier as inferior but does not initially intend immediate death. Bunhelier's surprise challenge crosses that line, and Nevartan overwhelms him until outside intervention ends the fight. The conflict measures both the cost of Nevartan's lost years and the extent to which his inherited power still exceeds Bunhelier's growth. (Chapters 1674, 1874, and 1878–1879)

Items

No notable items are documented for Nevartan in the supplied corpus.