Acnologia is known as the “Black Dragon of the Apocalypse”, the king of dragons, but also the dragon of magic. He is a very powerful dragon hunter who can transform into a dragon at any time due to his extreme use of dragon hunter magic.

He practiced as a doctor in a small village, caring for the dragons that were close to him, until he witnessed the dragons’ actions towards his family and village. After the destruction of his village, Acnologia has only one goal: to kill all the dragons to exact her revenge.

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Appearance

Acnologia’s preferred appearance is that of his human form, a rather muscular young man with long, dark-blue hair. He has piercing black-rimmed eyes, dark skin and light-blue markings on his body, similar to those he wears as a dragon. He wears a high-collared black cape that also features dragon markings, sharp red claws around his neck, a white banded belt around his waist, a gold ring attached to his right arm and loose pants.

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In her dragon form, Acnologia is a behemoth covered in round black scales adorned with blue spiral markings. Her lower body, chin, chest, stomach, inner tail, thighs and arms are gray and smooth. His eyes are white and piercing, and his head is round with four large plates elongated towards the back. His mouth is filled with sharp teeth and he has an arrowhead-shaped protuberance attached to his chin. Its large wings are feathery, bird-like and resemble those of Grandiné, another dragon. The scales disappear at the tip of his tail, which ends in a stinger-like shape.

Personality

Four hundred years ago, Acnologia was a ruthless, bloodthirsty and violent person. He killed every dragon he could, ignoring the fact that many of them were his companions.

Today, Acnologia is a recluse who avoids all contact with humans, despite being one himself. As Zeleph Dragnir put it, he regards other humans as mere insects, ignoring any attempt at conversation on their part, suggesting that Acnologia is very arrogant. However, his motives remain shrouded in mystery, for even with one arm he has the power to dominate the world, but chooses not to. Outside sources have only scratched the surface of his desires, including his vague desire to fight humanity and face an opponent strong enough to offer him a real challenge. Ironically, despite her innate hatred for humanity, Acnologia prefers to take human form in certain circumstances.

In his dragon form, Acnologia is extremely destructive and violent. But in his human form, he retains a stoic, calm personality, even after defeating the mighty God Serena. However, the Black Dragon loves a good fight, as Zeleph assumed, looking for a worthy challenge and smiling when he promised he’d soon have a fight to match. When Acnologia encounters a powerful foe, he shows a more excited side than usual, as in his fight with Irene Belserion. He smiles enthusiastically after witnessing the power of a Spriggan Twelve member’s Shield and even congratulates his opponent.

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History

Born over 400 years ago, Acnologia was a doctor in a small village before becoming one of the first dragon hunters, participating in the Dragon King Festival in favor of coexistence between humans and dragons. However, Acnologia and the other dragon hunters were corrupted by their power and ignored the cause their comrades were fighting for, killing all the dragons they could and bathing in their blood. After encountering the dragons that had mortally wounded Sonya, Acnologia killed them all to beg forgiveness for the child. He then approached Sonya’s wounded body, promising to kill all the dragons after failing to save her. Due to his excessive use of magic, Acnologia’s body was transformed into that of a dragon, earning him the title of Dragon King. This event has gone down in history as the Dragon King Festival.

For many years, Acnologia roamed the Earth, reputed to be a fearsome dragon, and credited with destroying an entire country single-handedly. Acnologia met Gildarts Clive while the S-Class Mage was completing his “100-year quest” on Mount Zonia. In an instant, Acnologia tore off his left arm, left leg and an internal organ, leaving him to die, before flying off. Gildarts, however, managed to survive, albeit with difficulty, making him the first human to have seen Acnologia and survived to tell the tale.

Magic and Abilities

Dragon Hunter magic: As one of the first humans to participate in the Dragon King Festival, Acnologia was also one of the world’s first Dragon Hunters. However, over time, while slaying countless dragons, he himself turned into a dragon due to excessive use of his Lost Magic. It’s not known exactly what element Acnologia uses in his Dragon Hunter magic, but it gives him the ability to appropriate the souls of the dragons themselves, leaving them in a state of half-death. After killing and bathing in the blood of countless dragons, Acnologia is able to consume any type of magical element and/or “evil” aura to regenerate.

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Dragon Howl: Like all dragons and dragon hunters, Acnologia is capable of emitting a dragon howl, incorporating its respective element into a massive blast attack. This howl was powerful enough to “completely eradicate” the entire island of Tenrô and create a giant crater in the ocean.

Eternal Flare: Acnologia launches thousands of stars that fall destructively.

Time magic: Acnologia was able to master this magic. With the power of time, he could create a rift in space-time and move the seven dragon hunters into his world.

Time magic: Acnologia was able to master this magic.

Healing magic: Before becoming a dragon hunter, Acnologia used this magic to heal his patients when he practiced as a physician. However, he noted that this magic could only stop bleeding and could not completely heal mortal wounds or relieve pain.

Shape-shifting: Contrary to the legends surrounding him, Acnologia did not become a full dragon and retained the ability to transform into an extremely powerful dragon as he wished.

Flight: As a dragon, Acnologia possesses the ability to fly, using her large wings to travel long distances, move aloft and launch aerial attacks on her enemies.

Increased durability: Acnologia, despite being a dragon, is able to withstand the attacks of extremely powerful mages such as Erza Scarlett, Luxus Draer, Mirajane Strauss, Natsu Dragnir, Gajil Redfox and Wendy Marvell, the latter three using their dragon-hunting magic, all their attacks having absolutely no effect on the Black Dragon. Later, it is shown that even other dragons such as the Red Dragon Ignir find it difficult to inflict significant injury on him, with Acnologia surviving a massive fire-breath attack from Ignir without suffering any apparent damage.

Strength in its dragon form: Due to its immense size, Acnologia, in its dragon form, is easily able to reduce a large area to rubble simply by landing on it. As proof of his immense brute strength, Acnologia engaged in direct physical combat with Makarov in his Giant form and easily outmaneuvered him. According to Gildarts Clive, despite Acnologia’s incredible physical prowess on Tenrô Island, the Black Dragon didn’t use the same level of strength as in their brief confrontation, but rather toyed with each of them.

Strength in human form: Acnologia possesses considerable brute strength, even in human form, as he demonstrated when he killed God Serena with his bare hands, piercing his abdomen and killing him almost instantly.

Immense speed: Even in his human form, Acnologia moves at lightning speed, attacking God Serena before he or his companions, August and Jacob, even realize what was happening.

Enhanced sense of smell: Acnologia possesses an incredible sense of smell, which he shares with the other dragon hunters. He could instantly recognize that God Serena was a dragon hunter after smelling him from a distance, and he could detect the presence of seven other dragon hunters throughout the city of Fiore, despite the distance between them.

Immunity to manipulation: According to the Rog of the Future, Acnologia is immune to dragon supremacy magic.

Expert in close combat: Having lived over 400 years, Acnologia possesses great expertise in close combat, easily eliminating the seven dragon hunters who opposed him simultaneously.

Immense magical power: Even in its human form, Acnologia’s magical power is reputed to be overwhelming, so much so that even members of the Sacred Mages and the Spriggan Twelves were impressed and sweating in the face of its immense might. Irene Belserion even declared that he was more powerful than she initially thought.

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Source: The information provided in this text is based on the Fairy Tail manga.

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