Dormas

Dormas (ドーマス) is one of the Four Heavenly Kings in the kingdom, known as "Swordmaster". He is also Bojji swordsmanship instructor.

Appearance
Dormas is a tall man with shoulder-length, dirty blond hair and brown eyes. He usually wears a blue tunic, khaki pants, and knee-high black boots.

Personality
Dormas was deeply-influenced by the former King Bosse, and based his personal sword-style on Bosse's overwhelming, physically-dominant fighting style. He held his former king in the highest regard, and takes his duties as a king's vassal very seriously.

Bosse personally appointed Dormas to be Bojji's sword instructor, a role Dormas took extremely seriously, to the point of learning sign language to more effectively communicate with the young prince. Because of this role Dormas is probably the member of Bosse's court considered closest to Bojji. However, in spite of the time they spend together, Dormas seems to have slowly become more stern and emotionally-distant from Bojji.

Similar to Jiling, Dormas does not consider Bojji a suitable successor to Bosse, and worries that Bojji's sweet personality and physical disabilities would prevent him from being an effective king. Because of this he voted for Prince Daida to succeed Bosse as the new King.

Dormas is extremely loyal to the Bosse kingdom, to the point where he accepted the order to kill Bojji from King Daida. Though he followed the order, Dormas instantly regretted it and was deeply tormented by what he had done. When his betrayal was discovered by Hokuro, Dormas fought the young guardsman, easily overwhelming him at first but eventually allowing Hokuro to cut a deep wound into his sword arm. Dormas ended the fight by severing his own sword hand in penance for what he had done.

Though he pretended to scorn Hokuro for wanting to return to the Bosse Kingdom and reveal what he had done, Dormas secretly followed him. When Queen Jiling sentenced Hokuro to death for his failure to protect Bojji, a disguised Dormas intervened and freed him. Dormas appears to feel some responsibility toward Hokuro, and has chosen to train him as a swordsman.

Dormas felt immense relief upon discovering that Bojji was still alive.

While training with Dormas, Hokuro comes to believe that Dormas is actually a very poor teacher, and is incapable of adapting his knowledge to anyone else's circumstances.