- Behold the power of a god!
- —Overlord, Etrian Odyssey II: Heroes of Lagaard
Appearance after opening its shield-like wings.
The Overlord is the final boss of Etrian Odyssey II: Heroes of Lagaard, and, in its remake, serves as either the final boss of Classic Mode or as the penultimate boss of Story Mode. He is fought at 25F (The Overlord of Daybreak), at the throne room of his keep, the King's Hall.
The Overlord is the master of the Yggdrasil Labyrinth. He is a god-like being that resides the Heavenly Keep and holds the power of the Holy Grail (Grail of Kings in the remake), a concoction that is said to be able to give eternal life to humans. He is responsible for the creation of most of the monstrosities that reside in the labyrinth, which are results of his failed experiments on immortality.
Story[]
The Overlord, like Visil, is a scientist that managed to survive the apocalypse. He, along with other people, managed to live on by holing themselves for ages on a flying fortress, the Heavenly Keep. At some point, the Overlord started running experiments on humans using an artifact known as the Holy Grail, trying to achieve eternal life. His experiments were failures though, transforming the subjects into mindless monsters.
Realizing that his own mortality was getting in the way of his research, which would take several lifespans, he decided to upload his mind to an immortal, mechanical body so he could continue with his research for all eternity, if needed.
A long time after these events, the chaos caused by the great calamity that struck the world began to cease, allowing people to descend from the castle, braving the dangerous new lands and, once again, establishing society on land.
Hundreds of years have passed, and people have forgotten all about the flying castle their kind once called home, its knowledge being restrict to a select few. However, when the Grand Duchy of Lagaard fell terminally ill, the people that knew of the legends decided to, once again, seek the flying castle as the nobles of the city believed the Holy Grail would be able to cure their dear leader. In order to reach the Heavenly Keep once again, however, they had to cross the dangerous Yggdrasil Labyrinth, a humongous tree that at some forgotten point in time after the calamity mysteriously rose endlessly towards the sky.
Many have died in the dangerous journey, and the Overlord saw that as an opportunity to secure test subjects for his research. He made a contract with the birdfolk, a tribe of intelligent humanoid creatures living in the highest branches of Yggdrasil, the Petal Bridge. Posing as a god (thus his title of Overlord), he ordered the birdfolk to bring corpses of dead adventurers to him, acting like "angels" bringing souls to their god, never knowing their master's true intentions. And thus this cycle continued, until the Heroes of Lagaard came to the land, finally posing a true challenge to the Overlord and his failed creations.
Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold[]
While the Overlord's role remains the same in the game's remake, a few more details on his backstory are given in the story mode.
It is revealed that, in fact, the Overlord was the original creator of the Heavenly Keep. He was a member of the Yggdrasil Project, and the original goal of his research was to give mankind means to fight and defeat the Yggdrasil Cores. He was then aided by an engineer of the keep, who helped to further his researches. However, when mankind chose to return to land, she decided to return along with them, eventually becoming the Black Guardian and creating a ritual to seal one of the fearsome cores deep inside Ginnungagap.
When he found of the existence of the Knight of Fafnir, fruit of his old friend's research, the Overlord desired to take the knight's power for himself by killing the protagonist and infusing himself with his powers, taking into himself the responsibility of killing the core. However, the protagonist and his party defeat the Overlord in the end; thus he decides to use his last breath to grant them the Grail of Kings and its powers, so that they finally can make a stand against the core (realizing that the Fafnir Knight and his party would have an easier time killing the Yggdrasil Core than he would).
Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold also suggests that the Overlord may have created the birdfolk, although this is never explored much in the game's story, so it is currently left ambiguous whenever that's true or not, or what methods he may have used to do so.
Overlord (Etrian Odyssey II)[]
After defeating Colossus and reaching the throne room of the Heavenly Keep on pursue of the Holy Grail, the explorers finally confront Overlord, the ruler "god" of the Yggdrasil Labyrinth. He seems to be unwilling to lend them the grail, as it is an important part for his research to bestow immortality upon mankind. Your group of explorers is also unwilling to leave the castle empty-handed so, inevitably, both sides engage in battle. After being bested once, Overlord makes you an offer: If your group agrees to leave the keep without the Holy Grail, he'll make your guild immortal.
At this point, the player has a choice to make: You can either accept or decline the offer. Upon refusal, the story continues. However, if they accept the offer, the player gets a Game Over (possible reasons explained on the Trivia section). Upon their refusal, the angered god opens the way to the throne and escapes though a warp. At this point, you can no longer escape the room nor use a warp wire. Upon following the Overlord to the keep's roof, he finally reveals his true form and makes his last stand. Upon defeat, he finally dies and the labyrinth is freed of his tyrannical rule.
Phase 1[]
| Overlord (phase 1) | |
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| Description | |
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| Known as the Heavenly Majesty and the Overlord both, he has cast off his human form. | |
| Enemy Data | |
| HP | 5000 |
| ATK | 70 |
| DEF | 70 |
| EXP | 200000 |
| Skills | REPAIR, MACV, AACV |
| Items | None |
| Weakness | None |
| Resistance | None |
| Status Resistance |           
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| Status Immune |  
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Skills[]
Phase 1
REPAIR: Recover 431 HP- MACV: Powerful counter attack. Works only against physical attacks.
- AACV: Powerful counter attack. Works only against magic attacks.
- VOID1: Deals heavy, non-elemental damage to the whole party.
- VOID2: Deals very heavy, non-elemental damage to the whole party.
- LRDA: May inflict fear, curse or confusion to the whole party.
Phase 2[]
| Overlord (Phase 2) | |
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| Description | |
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| The Overlord's true form, appearing with overwhelming power before the explorers. | |
| Enemy Data | |
| HP | 8000 |
| ATK | 75 |
| DEF | 75 |
| EXP | 200000 |
| Skills | Sunlight, Voltself, Ice Rain |
| Items | Lord Wrath |
| Weakness | None |
| Resistance | None |
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| Status Immune |
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Skills[]
- Sunlight: Deals medium, fire based damage to the whole party. May bind target's head.
- Ice Rain: Deals medium, ice based damage to the whole party. May bind target's arm.
- Voltself: Deals medium, volt based damage to the whole party. May bind target's legs.
- Distress: Cut damage to a single target, with splash effect. Reduces their attack for 5 turns, and may confuse.
- Travel: Deals very heavy bash damage to random targets. Hit 3-5 times.
- Solitude: Inflicts curse on the whole party.
- Seek: Heals 862 HP and removes debuffs from the boss
- Dance: Untyped damage to the whole party. Removes all buffs.
Overlord (Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold)[]
The Overlord serves as the final boss of the classic mode, and the penultimate boss of the story mode.
The cutscenes through the fight differ slightly if you are playing on story mode. The Overlord only makes the proposal of eternal life to your party if you are playing on Classic Mode. The outcome of the scene remains the same however, so you must refuse the offer in order to advance to the second phase. In Story Mode, the Overlord instead wishes to assimilate the party and the power of the Fafnir, the fruits of his colleague's knowledge, and use it to destroy the Yggdrasil Core himself, so you proceed to the second phase without any breaks.
Again, the battle flows in two phases, without intervals between each:
Phase 1[]
| Overlord (Phase 1) | |
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| Description | |
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| Master of the floating castle and Ruler of Heaven, he has left his mortal body behind. | |
| Enemy Data | |
| HP | 6000 |
| ATK | 58 |
| DEF | 50 |
| EXP | 150000 |
| Skills | LRDA REPAIR VOID3 |
| Items | None |
| Weakness | 
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| Status Immune |    
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Skills[]
Phase 1:
- LRDA (Uses Head): Random status effects on the entire party.
- VOID3,2,1,0 (Uses Head): Almighty elemental damage to the entire party. Damage increases each time used, until count reaches 0.
- MACV (Uses None): Blocks physical attacks and counters with medium damage to the attacker.
- AACV (Uses None): Blocks elemental attacks and counters with heavy damage of the same elemental as the attack blocked.
- REPAIR (Uses Head): Recovers 1000HP to the boss.
Phase 2[]
| Overlord (Phase 2) | |
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| Description | |
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| The true form of the Ruler of Heaven. Behold his overwhelming power and despair. | |
| Enemy Data | |
| HP | 27000 |
| ATK | 59 |
| DEF | 50 |
| EXP | 200000 |
| Skills | Mountain Stream Seek Dance |
| Items | Imperial Wrath |
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Skills[]
- Mountain Stream (Uses Arms): Deals heavy bash damage to the front row.
- Seek (Uses None): Removes debuffs and increases the Overlord's attack power.
- Dance (Uses None): 5 random instances of heavy cut damage to the entire party. Number of hits and power increases if the Overlord's Core is active.
- Birth of Anguish (Uses Arms): Ranged cut attack to a target in the back row, with splash effect. Reduces target's offenses and may inflict Panic.
- Solitude (Uses Legs): Inflicts Fear or Curse and reduces the defense of the entire party.
- Dazzling Sunlight (Uses Head): Deals massive fire elemental damage to the entire party. May inflict head bind.
- Hail and Rain (Uses Head): Deals massive ice elemental damage to the entire party. May inflict arm bind.
- Crashing Thunder (Uses Head): Deals massive volt elemental damage to the entire party. May inflict leg bind.
- Chase Laser (Uses Head): Killer Satellites follow up the Overlord's elemental attacks with a ranged attack of the matching element to the entire party.
- Selfdestruct (Uses None): Killer Satellites destroy themselves for a powerful ranged fire attack to the entire party, after the Overlord uses Dance.
Strategy[]
- See Overlord/Strategy for more information.
Gallery[]
Videos[]
Quotes[]
- "Behold... the prime fruits of my research. The Juggernaut born from limitless power!" (When introducing the protagonist's guild to the 'Black Beast')
- "Show me what her research has wrough! The power that surpasses human potential! Exert your might to its fullest!" (When the guild was about to fight the Juggernaut)
Trivia[]
- The Overlord is never referred to by his real name, so it is unknown so far.
- The Overlord very much resembles a biomechanical version of the Elder Dragon, and, fittingly, has has a number of similar attacks. It is heavily implied that the Overlord's current form was based on research into the Dragons, which may very well explain his true form.
- Its implied that many monsters, including some bosses (Chimaera, Hellion, Scylla, Colossus, Ur-child and Ur-Devil) are, in fact, failed experiments on humans that resulted in those creatures.
- The game over the player gets upon agreeing the Overlord offer, is, most probably, because his research isn't complete yet. This means that the characters are either killed, or turned into monsters like the other test subjects.
- The Overlord, like the other final bosses of the series, isn't intrinsically evil, but does not follow a moral code. Whatever nobility his goals may have are vastly eclipsed by his capacity for doing whatever he deems necessary to those he experiments upon.
- The Overlord may be more spiritual and may have greater spiritual power than many of his colleagues (who are scientists like him), possibly explained by the fact that, after his death (in both Classic and Story Mode), his body dissipated into motes of light, and in the original EO2, after defeating him in his first phase, his body is said to crumble, but he still speaks to the players and his body is seen once again (in his first form before entering his second one), seemingly unscathed.