Barbarossa

King Barbarossa is a character in the Valkyrie Profile series, appearing in Valkyrie Profile and Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria. The last king of Dipan, he wished to gain independence from the gods after his daughter Alicia unwittingly became the vessel for the imperfectly transmigrated soul of Silmeria, the youngest of the Valkyrie sisters.

King Barbarossa and Queen Malabeth had the misfortune of witnessing their only daughter, Princess Alicia, become the vessel for Silmeria's spirit. The Valkyrie rebelled against Odin's tyrannical rule and allied herself with Brahms, the Lord of the Undead. As punishment, Odin initiated the Sovereign's Rite, planning to place her dormant soul within Alicia. However, the process went awry, and Silmeria remained conscious and able to communicate with the child. Seeing her seemingly talking to herself and mentioning things she should not have been aware of eventually led Barbarossa to realize the truth. Furious at Odin's interference in his child's life, he took council with his Three Mages, Walther, Gyne and Alicia's childhood friend, Dallas. They came up with a scheme for rebelling against the gods, although Dallas urged him to declare Alicia dead and send her away in secret, in order to keep her uninvolved.

The Mages discovered the principles of time travel, creating the Time Machine, as well as the mechanism of the Sovereign's Rite, but their main objective was to locate the Dragon Orb and, using its power, to create a closed timeline independent of Yggdrasil and, thus, of Odin's influence. However, Odin could not let such an affront go unpunished: Dipan was destroyed and Barbarossa executed.