


Shardar is also a Mad Scientist who regularly uses his subjects as fodder for drugs, poisons and torture devices in his quest of knowledge and power. Once tired of him, Shardar tried to have him executed. Usurping the throne after poisoning the former lord, Shardar led the purge of his family, only sparing Galathorn as a child to mold him as his plaything and kept him imprisoned till adulthood. Thorgal: Au-delà des ombres ( Beyond the Shadows) novel, by Amélie Sarn: Shardar-The-Almighty, tyrant of Brek Zarith, is even worse than his comic incarnation.Eventually, Sargon sentences Thorgal, his family and the rebel Chrysios to die in the maze, only sparing the young Ileniya because he wants her to bear him children. Holding Thorgal's wife and their young children hostage, Sargon attempts to coerce the hero into helping him to pose his men as gods so they can manipulate the Vikings into fighting for them. Sargon also condemns his opponents and Alcyor's teenage son Tiago to the same fate. Sargon usurped and murdered Alcyor, the previous leader of his colony, by casting him in a perilous labyrinth because Alcyor wanted to live in peace with the Earthlings. The Kingdom Beneath the Sand: Contarch Sargon is an Atlantean supremacist who want to conquer the world and subdue humanity.Volsung gleefully murders the village chief, rapes his wife, tries to kill even more people while trying to eventually rape Thorgal's own wife and murder Thorgal's baby daughter out of nothing but spite and cruelty. Volsung murders Thorgal and takes over his life, attempting to ruin his enemy's good name.

Given Thorgal's form, Volsung seduces a deity in love with Thorgal, in order to sleep with her and steal her magic belt. After Thorgal tried to save him, to no avail due to his own greed, Volsung is revived by the evil deity Nidhogg. The Guardian of the Keys: Volsung of Nichor, in contrast to the many complex and sympathetic villains, is a thuggish coward and all-around scumbag.
