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'''Dartz''' is a character in the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! (anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' anime and the main antagonist of the [[Waking the Dragons]] arc. He was the last potentate of the city of [[Atlantis]], and his history was tied to the lost city.

Dartz's usual outfit consisted of closed white and blue robes. His outfit also included a foot length cloak which trailed behind him, padded shoulders, cuffed wrists, a raised collar and a stone that bore the symbol of the Orichalcos around his neck. Dartz wore piercings on his left ear. He wore a fragment of the Orichalcos Stone in a chain on his forehead. His light blue hair featured a two locked fringe and trailed to near knee length and was tied at waist length. Dartz originally had gold irises, but after he was corrupted by the Orichalcos, he had [[wikipedia:Heterochromia|heterochromic]] irises; his right iris was green and his left was gold. His right eye returned to its original gold color after he was defeated by Yami Yugi. During his Duel with Yami Yugi and Seto Kaiba, he wore a [[Chaos Duel Disk]]. When he at Paradius Inc., Dartz wore a periwinkle colored suit with red tie and white shoes.

=== Abilities ===

As the master of the Orichalcos, Dartz was granted powerful magical abilities that rivaled those of the Millennium Items, like materializing Duel Monsters, Summoning his Orichalcos Soldiers all over the world and also recalling them, and also the power to brainwash others. Dartz also demonstrated the ability to cause weather storms, rain lightning blasts from the sky, conjure a sword from nothing, communicate with people telepathically, remote viewing, show visions, and using telekinesis. The Orichalcos also seemingly granted Dartz eternal youth, as 10,000 years had passed since he ruled Atlantis and he didn't age at all.

The corruption of the Orichalcos made Dartz believe that the world was a wicked place, and that humans had an inherent malice in their hearts. The transformation that the Orichalcos had inflicted on his fellow Atlanteans was, he believed, the punishment for being evil, as the outside of man became as twisted as their inside.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|178|ref}}</ref> Dartz was driven to revive the Great Leviathan to raze the world, so that he may reconstruct it in the image of glorious Atlantis. To do so, Dartz required human souls.  

Dartz wandered the Earth for 10,000 years, presumably kept alive by the power of the Orichalcos. He knew that he had found one of the powerful souls that he required when he encountered the [[Pharaoh Atem]] in ancient Egypt, and witnessed his control of the powers of darkness and his ability to command Duel Monsters. He also witnessed the Pharaoh, with [[Slifer the Sky Dragon (character)|Slifer the Sky Dragon]] pursuing [[Thief King Bakura]] and [[Diabound]]. While Dartz did not seem to fear Zorc nor see him as a threat, he could not capture the Pharaoh's soul because Bakura and [[Zorc Necrophades]] were in his way, so he had to wait another 5000 years (3000 in the Japanese version) to capture the Pharaoh's soul.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|180|ref}}</ref>

For ten thousand years, Dartz collected the souls of his adversaries and many innocents in order to ensure the return of the Great Leviathan into the world. With time, the number of souls that Dartz had stolen stretched into the millions, thanks in part to his underlings.

Once aware of the fact that the Pharaoh had been [[Yami Yugi|reincarnated]] and his spirit revived in the present day, Dartz began his agenda to take his soul by freezing over the Tablet of Memories, and prevented the Pharaoh from remembering his own past. Later, he ordered his minions to steal the [[Egyptian God]] Cards, and used their power along with human souls to revitalize the Leviathan. Subsequently, [[Yugi Muto]], [[Seto Kaiba]], and [[Joey Wheeler]] released and joined forces with the Legendary Dragons as the souls of both them and their friends came under threat. Dartz's surviving family, Ironheart and Chris assisted Yami in recovering his self-confidence and the trust of "[[Timaeus]]". Events gradually converged on a Duel between Yami Yugi, Kaiba, and Dartz, in which Yami Yugi claimed victory by releasing the power of the Legendary Dragons and returned them to their human forms. Kaiba, Joey, and Yugi's souls were emancipated from the clutches of the Leviathan.

 

However, Dartz sacrificed his own soul, and his human body was reduced to dust, to give Leviathan enough power to fully resurrect and raised Atlantis once more with himself combined with the Great Beast. In the ensuing battle, Yami Yugi released the spirits of the Egyptian Gods from within the Leviathan and together they destroyed it, and discharged all of the captive souls. However, a trace of its darkness remained, and revealed the Leviathan's original form, along with Dartz's soul, which Yami Yugi was able to banish, released Dartz from the influence of the Orichalcos, allowed him to be reunited with the spirits of his family, and entered the afterlife as Atlantis sank back beneath the sea.

Dartz played an '''"[[Orichalcos]]" Deck''', which centered on "[[The Seal of Orichalcos (anime)|The Seal of Orichalcos]]" and its upgraded forms, "[[Orichalcos Deuteros]]" and "[[Orichalcos Tritos]]", both of which added an additional ring to the glyph around the field.  Much of his attack force was provided by "[[Mirror Knight Calling]]", who generated "[[Mirror Knight Token]]s" (who copied the [[ATK]] of whichever monster they battled and protected themselves from destruction by removing their [[Shield Counter]]s instead) and Shield Counters for those Tokens that were unprotected.  However, Dartz's actual strategy involved "[[Orichalcos Kyutora (anime)|Orichalcos Kyutora]]", who reduced all [[battle damage]] that he took to 0. The [[Negate]]d damage was what fueled the ATK of "[[Orichalcos Shunoros (anime)|Orichalcos Shunoros]]".  However, "Orichalcos Shunoros" weakened itself very quickly (because it lost ATK after it battled a monster, or if either "[[Orichalcos Aristeros]]" or "[[Orichalcos Dexia]]" battled an opposing monster), so as a very last resort, if "Shunoros" was destroyed, Dartz [[Summon]]ed his infinitely strong "[[Divine Serpent Geh (anime)|Divine Serpent Geh]]", but if that monster was destroyed, he automatically lost.