Orsted

""I am already preparing and moving while thinking about what will happen in a hundred years time. What has happened and what will happen, everything is strategic preparation. Because of Nanahoshi and you, things have become distorted...""

- Orsted to Rudeus Greyrat

Orsted (オルステッド) is the current Dragon God, a title given to the strongest member of the Dragon Tribe, and the sworn enemy of Hitogami. Initially presented as an antagonist, nearly killing Rudeus several times due to his affiliation with Hitogami, he later becomes a major supporting character after Hitogami's true, malicious nature is revealed.

His storyline is one of the major plot threats left unresolved by the end of Mushoku Tensei, making it likely he will once again appear in the planned sequel series.

Appearance
Similar to other Dragon Race people such as Perugius, he has silver hair and golden eyes with an overpowering look.

He carries no visible equipment and wears a white coat adorned with fur.

Personality
Because he has a curse of being hated and feared by all living things that see his face, Orsted has rather poor social skills and carries a somewhat distant attitude. However, he has an unexpectedly soft side to him.

He is patient and kind towards his comrades. However, when it comes to his objective, he will not hesitate from destroying anything on the way, no matter who or what. He immediately kills any apostle of Hitogami, usually without actually even taking the time to listen to them and has almost killed Rudeus twice because of this.

During his second fight with Rudeus, after realizing that Hitogami had threatened Rudeus' family, who were prophesized to one day ally with Orsted to kill him, Orsted immediately offered him two choices: 1. Join him against Hitogami and he will provide him protection for his family, or 2. Continue serving Hitogami and die, after which Orsted notes he will abduct Rudeus' children due to the aforementioned prophesy of them helping him kill Hitogami. Despite the heavy-handedness of this deal, Orsted makes his dealings with Rudeus as convenient as possible for him and his family even giving him Yubi Ori and magic stones to sell in order to cover for the expenses that Rudeus made in preparation for their battle. Furthermore he has shown himself to be extremely kind towards children, especially Rudeus' children who are immune to his curse and thus don't fear or hate him.

He is also very humble, preferring to refer to his followers as comrades rather than subordinates in spite of the vast power and standing differences.

He tends to become more emotional on topics that involve the Dragon Race as he was quite angry at Rudeus when he mentioned the Dragon Race and spoke of Perugius, a Dragon King. However, he does not get along with the other Dragon Race and seems to hate the Dragon Kings, on one occasion when Rudeus proposed giving himself the title of Dragon King to speed up their future negotiations, Orsted immediately rebuked him and notes that Rudeus is nothing like the Dragon Kings who just go around doing whatever they please due to their title.

Background
Orsted was born roughly 10,000~20,000 years ago from the union between his father, the previous Dragon God, and his mother, an ordinary human woman. At this point in time, the world had been split into six, with each being home to a different race and ruled by a god: the human world, dragon world, demon world, beast world, ocean world, and sky world. However, at some point, Orsted's mother ended up being killed under mysterious circumstances. The Human God, Hitogami, claimed that the other gods had conspired against the Dragon God, resulting in his wife's death. Enraged, the Dragon God and his loyal generals would wage a war of retribution against the other worlds.

The war which Orsted's father's wrought ended up killing the other gods and destroying their worlds, with only the human world being spared his wrath and prompting the survivors from the other world's inhabitants to flee there. However, at some point, the Dragon God's generals could no longer tolerate their liege's actions and turned against him, resulting in a battle so great it destroyed the dragon world as well. In the end, the Dragon God was left mortally wounded whilst the surviving dragons departed for the human world. At this point, Orsted's father had deduced that the person who he had thought was the Human God was, in fact, a fake whom had planned all of this. However, too weakended to actually defeat the imposter, he instead sealed him in the void between the worlds. Furthermore, before succumbing to his wounds, the Dragon God used the remainder of his power to send Orsted into the future, giving him one mission: to kill Hitogami.

Note: This section is under construction and revision.

Achievements

 * Achieving the title of Dragon God, which is only given to the strongest member of the Dragon Tribe.
 * Ranking #2 among the Seven Great Powers.
 * Effectively being #1 due to the actual #1 being sealed througout the entirety of the Mushoku Tensei.
 * Mastering virtually every combat technique in the world, be it swordmanship or magic, at God-Rank.

Note: This section is under construction and revision.

Quotes

 * Orsted: "Choose! Rudeus Greyrat! Side with the Human God, and lose everything to me! or follow me, and fight the Human God together! If it's you, since it's you who is immune to my curse, then you should be able to choose with your own will!"
 * Rudeus: "From my view point, you seem to hold a great grudge towards Human God, what is the reason?"
 * Orsted: "Is there someone who does not hold a grudge against that piece of trash?"
 * Rudeus: "...That's true."
 * Orsted: "Betray Hitogami and join me!"
 * Orsted: "There are many who call themselves the Dragon King. They live as they please with that tinny pride of theirs and die because of a foolish enemy. But you are different. Therefore, don't call yourself that, Rudeus Greyrat.
 * Rudeus: "Ah... um... yes."
 * Rudeus: "But, Orsted-sama, your mana..."
 * Orsted: "It's fine. You've done enough. I’ve resolved myself as well." Orsted shook his head.
 * Rudeus: "Resolved, about what?" He saw me and smiled a little but his face was also slightly stiff. The man with the most frightening face in the world declared.
 * Orsted: "I, too, want to try fighting believing in my comrades for once."
 * Orsted: "Possessing the Fighting God Armor and the Dragon King Sword. I assume that you'll have no excuses when you lose with both?"
 * Alek: "Wha!?"

Trivia

 * The curse of being hated and feared by all living creatures does not apply to members of the ancient Dragon Race, Nanahoshi, Rudeus and Rudeus' descendants.
 * Orsted tends to give an intimidating gaze. When he met Rudeus and Nanahoshi, he also asked why they are not looking away (indicating they are unaffected by the curse, otherwise they would).
 * Orsted unexpectedly enjoyed the company of Rudeus's child, Lucy, giving her a shoulder ride when she was small and even taught her a trick to do magic when she had difficulties.
 * Even though he is ranked second in Seven Great World Power, Orsted is said to be strongest in the world, surpassing Technique God.
 * Orsted often checks on Rudeus's family when Rudeus was out to make sure that they are safe.
 * He is the 100th generation of the Dragon Gods.
 * He stopped counting after 100 times "returns" (+100 times * 200 years= +20,000 years old)