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|Game={{Dragon Quest III}}

|Title=Archfiend<br>{{tt|Maou|Demon King}} (Japanese)

|Voice Actor=[[Masaharu Satō]] (Japanese, ''[[Dragon Quest III CD Theater|CD Theater]]'')<br>[[Takeshi Watabe]] (Original Japanese audio for ''[[Dragon Quest: Abel Yuusha]]'')<br>[[Garry Chalk]] (English Dub of ''[[Dragon Quest: Abel Yuusha]]'')<br>[[Takaya Hashi]] (Japanese, {{Rivals}})

'''Baramos''' (バラモス, ''Baramosu''), known as the '''Demon Lord''' and the '''Archfiend''' (魔王, ''Maou''), is one of the main villains of {{Dragon Quest III}}, and a recurring {{MFamilies}} in the [[Dragon Quest (series)|series]].

Baramos and his forces menaced the world for an unknown number of years prior, which necessitated The Hero [[Ortega]] departing from [[Aliahan]] to slay him in the game's opening prologue Though the [[King of Aliahan]] states that the world at large is unaware of the fiend's activities, his very presence emboldens monsters the world over to assault human settlements.

Throughout the first half of {{III}} Baramos is believed to be the final boss, but this is a malicious facade; when [[Erdrick|The Hero]] defeats Baramos and returns to [[Aliahan]] triumphant, [[Zoma]] interrupts the celebrations to reveal Baramos was just an underling of his--an advance force to clear the way for his master. Having failed, [[Zoma]] announces that he will personally plunge the world into eternal darkness, causing The Hero to continue his quest.

Baramos will attack the party twice more in [[Zoma's Citadel]], both as a [[Soul of Baramos|ghost]] and a [[Bones of Baramos|shambling corpse]]. There is no dialogue prior or during these encounters, implying that Baramos is not truly "revived" and is forced into further servitude by Zoma's magic.  In the {{III}} remakes, a common enemy in {{Cloudsgate Citadel  3}} is a pallete-swap known as a [[Baramonster]]. Whether the [[Baramonster]]s were in [[Zoma]]'s employ is not certain.

|skills=Can attack twice per turn.<br>[[Inferno]]<br>Recovers 90~110 {{HP}} per turn

| {{NES}} || [[Kaboom]] → normal attack → Inferno → [[Kafrizzle]] → [[Bazoom]] → normal attack → [[Kaboom]] → [[Fuddle]] → repeat

|All<br>others || [[Kaboom]] → normal attack → Inferno → normal attack → [[Kafrizzle]] → [[Fuddle]] → [[Kaboom]] → [[Bazoom]] → repeat

|Fizzled || Normal attack → [[Bazoom]] (fails) → Inferno → normal attack → repeat

Furthermore, Baramos has an excellent AI that halts him from casting [[Kaboom]] if a character has [[Bounce]] applied to them, skipping that phase of his pattern, and avoiding using magic altogether if he's been afflicted with [[Fizzle]], starting a briefer pattern of using physical blows and Inferno instead. The one exception to this is [[Bazoom]], which will fail to activate when cast and thus waste his turn.

In the {{Game Boy Color}} version Baramos will not cast [[Bazoom]] when Fizzled, gaining an additional physical attack in the spells place for a loop of normal attack → normal attack → Inferno → normal attack.

Baramos appears as a [[Legacy Boss]], obtained after completing [[List of quests in Dragon Quest IX#Quest #061 - #062|Quest #062]]. He is the weakest of the Legacy bosses, but he is still very powerful and capable of casting [[Kafrizz]] and [[Kaboom]] and can also use fire breath and regular attacks (which are prone to inflicting critical hits). Ice attacks are his weakness, but he resists wind attacks.

|''Initial''||[[Kafrizz]], [[Kaboom]], [[Scorch]], critical attack, sometimes attacks twice per round

|16||Always attacks twice per round

|41||Begins attacking 3 times per turn, stops using [[Scorch]] & [[Kafrizz]]

*Oddly, Baramos comes after his own ghost and corpse in the numerical list of monsters in {{III}}.

BaramosArt.png|Original artwork of {{III}}. ({{NES}})

DQIII Baramos artwork.png|Modern artwork. (older color scheme)

DQW Baramos.jpg|Baramos in ''Walk''.

 

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