Eugard Vollachia

Eugard was the sixty-first emperor of the Sacred Vollachia Empire and the former lover of [Iris](https://anilist.co/character/258804/Yorna-Mishigure) until the two of them were betrayed, leading to his beloved's death and causing him to descend into madness. At an unknown time during or after his reign, the story of his relationship was adapted into a famed tale called Iris and the King of Thorns. ~!After descending into madness and abandoning the paradise he had once intended to build, he chose to eradicate the races that betrayed him, and he brought his beloved back to life by casting a curse known as the Soul Marriage Curse on her, which forced Iris's soul to rise again while preventing it from ever returning to Od Lagna, causing her to endlessly reincarnate.!~ ~!In the events of Arc 8, Eugard appears as a zombie during the Great Disaster. After being struck down in a heated clash against [Halibel](https://anilist.co/character/191244/Halibel) The Admirer, Eugard revives - free of his curse.!~