Vaclav Bolud

Vaclav Bolud (ヴァーツラフ・ボラド) is the main antagonist during the first part of the "main quest" in Tales of Legendia. He is the third prince of the viscous Crusand Empire.

Appearance and Personality
Vaclav is a tall and muscled built man with violet hair. His outfit consist of a horned black and crimson armor covering his entire body and carries two black bracers on each of his wrists. Valcav is a merciless person who desires power and will punish anyone who gets in his way. He has done terrible things to Ferines including horrible torture.

Fighting Style
Vaclav fights with fist like Senel Coolidge and uses only iron eres. During the the beginning of the battle Vaclav uses the base eres' Rending Blast and Devil Strike. When his health is on the halfway point he will use Hell Strike and the throwing technique God of Pain. When Vaclav's health depletes a great amount he will use his most powerful attack God of War, which causes a explosion of energy to attack and knock down his opponents. Vaclav's dark incarnation uses most of Vaclav's eres' when he was fought at the bridge, but Dark Vaclav is able to use several of the game's strongest elemental spells.

Plotting
Vaclav is the leader of an army in which his goal is to conquer the world. Long before appearing he sends his scout a young eren named Senel to capture the Merines in the Village of the Ferines. Time passes in which Senel begins to become friends with the Ferines and does not respond to Vaclav. This made Vaclav and his forces launch a attack on the village, killing anyone in the way. Senel and the Merines Shirley Fennes manage to escape leaving Vaclav without any leads. After Vaclav takes Stella to the Legacy to begin his plans for the future.

Three Years Later
Three years later Vaclav manages to get information about the whereabouts on Senel and Shirley and sends his forces to retrieve her, but Senel is full aware of the attack and takes Shirley out to sea. After hearing that Shirley has arrived on the Legacy he sends his scouts to attack the Bandit's Lair. Later after the party defeats the Long Long Demon, Senel decides to take Shirley away from the rest of party. Vaclav eventually finds them and sends Melanie to attack Senel, after Senel is defeated succesfully manages to capture Shirley and throws Senel off the cliff. After Vaclav takes Shirley to the Hidden Fortress, a place where his army has done unspeakable things to the Ferines to find out if they are the Merines.

With Shirley
After the events at the Waterways, Vackav takes her to the Ruins of Frozen Light. There he tells Shirley to read the writing in Relares, Shirley tells him it's a warning not to use the power on the bridge, but Vaclav punches her on the face in response thinking she is lying. After he shows Shirley a person standing in a machine and it is revealed to non other than her sister Stella, she sees this and agrees to do Vaclav's commands. When Senel arrives at the Ruins he attacks the party, but defeats them by using the God of War eres. After he tells the that Shirley and Senel are not related, right when he is going to kill Senel, Stella saves him by sending him to the Forest of No Return. After this he commands the Terrors to retrieve Senel seeing as source ot release the Shirley's power.

A War Torn Land
Valclav takes Stella and Shirley to the Bridge to use a deadly weapon known as the Nerifes Cannon to attack Gadoria. After Senel and the party manage to defeat the Terrors they arrive, but they were to late Vaclav manage to fire the the cannon. Seeing that the cannon destroy a holy mountain in Gadoria he commands another fire from the cannon seeing Shirley and Stella are still alive. Senel and the party agree it was time to defeat Vaclav and finally fight and defeat him once and for all. After the battle, Vaclav recognizes Senel, noting the eres he used. He then grabs a spare control for the cannon and fires it at Gadoria, but this is prevented, because of Stella's Teriques.

Birth
When the party goes to the Bridge in the beginning of Grune's character quest, Schwartz summons a dark version of Vaclav to kill the party, but he is defeated easily by them.