Jedah Dohma

Японское имя:

ジェダ・ドーマ

Birth of origin: Makai (demon dimension)
Type: Demon
Birth year: 4045 B.C.
Height: 216 cm
Weight: 12–1002 kg (variable)

Jedah Dohma is the main antagonist of Darkstalkers 3. Dohma is always distressed about the future of Makai (Japanese for "demon world"). He believes that if Makai is left under Belial's rule, the master of the Aensland family and the true ruler of Makai, then it will slowly crumble and ultimately be destroyed. Belial would most likely say that such is destiny and life. Jedah considered Belial to be an abomination, actively seeking out the opportunity to kill him and waiting for the right time to strike. After the death of Garunan, the master of the Bosital family and the oldest of the three high nobles, Jedah has a young confidant named Ozomu, a gourmet of souls who came to Jedah was to eat "delicious souls". As a noble his skills were second class, but his ability to deceive others is first class and he is a genius in using others. He advises Jedah about using the gate of Makai and Jedah, being confident in his ability to absorb souls, agrees to do it. He orders Ozomu to break a part of the seal to open the gate. When Ozomu arrived at the gates, he realizes that enormous powers lay within the gates and that even Jedah would destroy himself if he absorbed all this power at once—he sees this as his chance to take over the throne. He lies to Jedah and tells him that he must destroy all the seals, because little power is coming out. After destroying the seals he runs off to the far reaches of Makai. The destruction of Jedah means his rise to power and his plot succeeded. Ozomu gathers the left over power and stores it in Dohma Castle. This is how Ozomu becomes the new master of the Dohma family and "Emperor Ozomu". 100 years later, after a century-long sleep, Jedah is resurrected in Makai. He feels for the crazed Makai, nobles fighting each other and spilling blood. Instead of anger he feels pity towards Ozomu, who had betrayed him. Jedah begins his complete revival and the cleansing of all souls. For this a new stage was necessary, manifested in a new dimension, the Majigen. Jedah arrives at Dohma Castle and seeing Ozomu he lays out his hand. Although his powers were not completely restored yet, he had enough power to remove Ozomu who had become a spineless gourmet. Jedah quietly whispers, "Ozomu... I am sorry, but please lend me your powers. Your soul would become the foundation of Majigen and will help the future of Makai." The Dohma Castle is taken into the dark space along with Ozomu, the beginning of Ozomu's salvation. Jedah believes that he was the one that needed to recreate life by fusing all souls into one life form, the Shintai. To do this, he summons all those with worthy souls to enter into his newly created realm. These souls were none other than the feared Darkstalkers and the saga's story ends with the strongest one, Demitri Maximoff, preparing to engage Jedah in a fight to the death.

His voice is provided by Isshin Chiba, best known for the voice of Jin Kazama from the Tekken series. Chiba reprises the role in Capcom Fighting Jam, and the Japanese version of Cross Edge, while Travis Willingham provides his voice in the English version of Cross Edge.

In December 1997 Jedah ranked fifth on Gamest' "top 50" list of the best video game characters, tying with Dan Hibiki, and in January 1998 was named the seventh best character of the preceding year.

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