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| - Vrumugun (Japanese: ヴルムグン Romaji: vurumugun) is the name given to a group of Copy Men created by Eris Vrumugun, who serve as antagonists during the first season of Slayers and the third novel. He is voiced by 家中 宏 Hiroshi Yanaka in the original Japanese version and by Carter Cathcart/Jimmy Zoppi in the English dub. All of the Vrumugun copies are identical in power and appearance, each with the power of a third rate sorcerer, and all dressing in black robes, hoods, and capes. Their only distinguishing feature is a ruby embedded in their foreheads, used by Eris to control them. Also, in the anime only, it was revealed that one of the Vrumuguns had a bald spot under his hood. In the novels, Eris used the Vrumuguns, along with the fishman Rahanimu and the half-werewolf, half-troll Dilgear, to try and capture Lina Inverse, Gourry Gabriev, and Zelgadiss Graywords and bring them to Sairaag. However, she only sent one Vrumugun after them at a time, sending a new copy every time one was killed. This greatly confused Lina and co. at first, because no matter how many times they killed Vrumugun, he kept reappearing (they had thought that Vrumugun was a single person, not a group of copies). The Vrumugun copies disappeared once their controller, Eris, died. In the anime, he was grouped with the swordsman Zangulus as they tried to capture Gourry and Lina. Strangely in episode 18, after Zelgadiss Graywords kills a group of copies, Vrumugun vanishes and is never seen again for the remainder of season 1. At the end of the 2nd season, however, a person who greatly resembles Vrumugun (see the below photo) can be seen briefly seen in the audience at Zangulus and Martina Zoana Mel Navratilova's wedding. Vrumugun does not appear in the manga.
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