Eldar was one of the only two known surviving Vikings from a Viking tribe and the eldest son of the Viking Chieftain.
Appearance
Eldar was a young man with a strong build. He had long brown hair with two braids that framed his face.
Eldar wore a tunic with a top layer of animal fur and had bandages wrapped around his wrists. When he set out on a journey for vengeance with his father, Eldar wore armor that included a helmet and chainmail mantle collar.
Personality
Eldar was usually stoic and levelheaded. Upon seeing the corpses of his fellow Vikings, he was briefly shaken and even vomited from the sight.
He deeply loved his family and cried silently when he carried the body of his younger brother to where his father cradled his mother's body. He showed a bit more emotional stability than his father since he was the one to set his mother and brother's funeral boat ablaze with an arrow as his father hesitated due to grief. His resolve to join his father in a quest for revenge shows a more brutal and vengeful side.
Eldar did free the new slaves he and his father had just captured and brought back to the village, though this may have been more from needing the boat for the Viking funeral rather than mercy.
History
Eldar and his father were away from their village to capture new slaves during the time Spear and Fang arrived to rescue Mira. While approaching the harbor, Eldar blew a horn to signal their return and was confused when met by silence.
When the boat docked, the Chieftain spotted a trail of blood and that a boat was missing. Eldar followed his father up to village and discovered it was shrouded in a red mist. They came across a tribesman's corpse being pecked at by crows; the gruesome sight caused Eldar to throw up. The red mist then lifted and revealed the massacred village. As his father went searching for his wife, Eldar wandered the village in the search of survivors and observed the destruction. Eventually, he discovered the body of his younger brother. While crying, Eldar carried his brother to where his father had found his mother's body. His father embraced him in their shared loss.
The two worked to bury the dead in a crypt that they sealed with a large boulder. After releasing their captured slaves, they prepared the boat for their family's funeral. Eldar noticed his father's hesitation to release the arrow meant to burn the boat due to his grief, and he offered to do it. With the funeral boat and what remained of their village set ablaze, the duo set to get revenge against their family's killers. (“The Red Mist”)
Later, the Chieftain and Eldar had quickly tracked down the boat that Spear, Fang, and Mira had taken, resorting to ramming their own boat into it. Father and son fought with them in a furious aim to avenge their tribe and family, until Eldar fell into the river and the Chieftain dove in after him to save him from drowning. After making it ashore and confirming his son was alive, the Chieftain started a fire and waited for his son to wake, until a horned figure appeared in the fire, waking him up and he saw his son had returned with a deer for them to eat. While they ate, the father and son affirmed their resolve for revenge and planned a new strategy.
The next day, the Chieftain and his son scaled a mountain top and forcefully tamed two giant vultures in a last-ditch effort to attack Spear, Fang, and Mira and carry out their revenge. They flew off and tracked the trio down once more. But once again, Spear and Mira gained the upper hand. Spear bit the Chieftain's hand and threw him off into the forest, severely injuring him. Eldar screamed for his father in despair, but he was pushed off his own vulture by Spear. Eldar then fell to his death on a boulder near a river where his father stood and watched in with pure horror. The Chieftain swam to the other side to check on his son, but it was too late. His only remaining family member was gone. Now with nothing to fight for, the Chieftain is stricken with grief. He gives up and lets himself get swept away by the river. (“Vidarr”)
As his father was confronted by a unknown being, Eldar's body is briefly seen floating down a river of lava, carrying with him a deathly expression through the cracks in the ground. (“The Colossaeus, Part I”)
Abilities
- Combat Proficiency: Eldar was skilled in using an axe and a bow. Apparently, he and his father were all that was needed for a raid to capture new slaves.
Trivia
- Eldar's name means "warrior who fights with fire" in Nordic. A subtle foreshadowing of his fate after death and what his father ended up becoming, It also sounds like "elder", playing on how he is the Chieftain's eldest son.
- Due to his clean-shaven appearance, Eldar's gender was ambiguous in his debut episode. The following episode, Vidarr, confirmed he is, in fact, male.