Volsung Fá
SupportingA towering pale giant of an Obsidian, Volsung Fá stands bigger than any man with an obscenely muscular build that makes his bare chest and arms look like armored plates. His long white hair falls in a tail from his shaved skull down to his heels, with blue worm veins webbing the sides of his head. Black eyes glitter from within the tattooed skull of a Stained on his face, which carries a horrible scar across half his nose, whiskers on his chin, and mangled teeth in a huge maw. Metal replaces the front of his ripped-out throat and his entire left forearm and hand, ending in dagger-sharp extendable nails, while identical slave brands of House Grimmus mark his scarred muscular torso. He wears thick jagged armor festooned with long spikes, a triple-horned exotic beast skull helmet sparkling with gems, and drags a heavy chain bearing dozens of abnormally large enemy skulls.
Volsung Fá emerges in the later books of the Red Rising Saga as a monstrous Obsidian warlord whose physical presence and brutal reputation mark him as one of the most terrifying figures in the post-Society power vacuum. Introduced in Dark Age as a towering, heavily augmented Stained with a grotesque metal throat and claw, he is revealed to be a living weapon forged by Atlas au Raa to destabilize the Rim. By Light Bringer, Fá has ascended to a crowned Obsidian king, his transformation from Atlas’s engineered assassin into a sovereign power illustrating the dangerous autonomy of the very monsters the Golds created to maintain control.
Physical Description
A towering pale giant of an Obsidian, Volsung Fá stands bigger than any man with an obscenely muscular build that makes his bare chest and arms look like armored plates. His long white hair falls in a tail from his shaved skull down to his heels, with blue worm veins webbing the sides of his head. Black eyes glitter from within the tattooed skull of a Stained on his face, which carries a horrible scar across half his nose, whiskers on his chin, and mangled teeth in a huge maw. Metal replaces the front of his ripped-out throat and his entire left forearm and hand, ending in dagger-sharp extendable nails, while identical slave brands of House Grimmus mark his scarred muscular torso. He wears thick jagged armor festooned with long spikes, a triple-horned exotic beast skull helmet sparkling with gems, and drags a heavy chain bearing dozens of abnormally large enemy skulls. Gargantuan Obsidian with ropey muscle like an albino python, a metal jaw, a clawed metal hand, and one tech-mod eye; black spiked armor and a gold crown.
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Book 5: Dark Age
Evolution
Dark Age
A towering pale giant of an Obsidian, Volsung Fá stands bigger than any man with an obscenely muscular build that makes his bare chest and arms look like armored plates. His long white hair falls in a tail from his shaved skull down to his heels, with blue worm veins webbing the sides of his head. Black eyes glitter from within the tattooed skull of a Stained on his face, which carries a horrible scar across half his nose, whiskers on his chin, and mangled teeth in a huge maw. Metal replaces the front of his ripped-out throat and his entire left forearm and hand, ending in dagger-sharp extendable nails, while identical slave brands of House Grimmus mark his scarred muscular torso. He wears thick jagged armor festooned with long spikes, a triple-horned exotic beast skull helmet sparkling with gems, and drags a heavy chain bearing dozens of abnormally large enemy skulls.
- First appears as a colossal Obsidian leading an army of Stained against the Republic forces on Mercury.
- Wears the slave brands of House Grimmus and drags a chain of massive enemy skulls as trophies.
- Demonstrates his cybernetic augmentations—metal throat, extendable claws, and tech-mod eye—during brutal frontline combat.
- Serves as Atlas au Raa’s secret weapon, unleashed to sow chaos among the Republic and Rim loyalists alike.
Light Bringer
Gargantuan Obsidian with ropey muscle like an albino python, a metal jaw, a clawed metal hand, and one tech-mod eye; black spiked armor and a gold crown.
- Crowned king of the Obsidians, now wearing black spiked armor and a gold crown that symbolizes his break from Atlas’s control.
- Uses his metal jaw and clawed hand in personal combat, showcasing the full extent of his augmentations.
- Positions himself as an independent power broker in the fractured Rim, no longer merely Atlas’s instrument.
- His growing autonomy threatens both Gold and Republic forces, turning him from pawn to wild card.
Relationships
Atlas raises Fá as a living weapon to destabilize the Rim, but Fá ultimately outgrows this role, seizing independent power and wearing a crown that signals his rejection of Atlas’s authority.
Key Events
Book Appearances
Dark Age
First appears Ch 46
Light Bringer