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This Baron Volligar 2 toy was added on March 2024 and originally released in 2020 with a retail price of $35.00. This action figure is part of the Mythic Legions genre within the Mythic Legions series and included in Wave 13 (Illythia). This toy currently has no recent price history so it's not possible to determine the worth. Quite a few (41) of these toys are in user collections so it does seem to be somewhat popular.
The Internet loves a controversy, and our Vampiric Warlord found himself embroiled in a bit of a scandal early on due to the “purple lines” painted on his chest, shield, and banner.
When we were designing Baron Volligar, we wanted him to be a mirror in some ways to our Templar figure. We didn’t want to be too on the nose with the design and simply do a purple cross on a black field as an alternative to the Templar’s red cross on white, but we liked the idea of the two figures having somewhat similar forms in their design aesthetic. We ended up creating a series of purple lines as a symbol of the vampire legions. There was no historical significance to that design, however some people thought that it was meant to represent some connection to paganism, or freemasonry, or the Illuminati, or some other shadowy organization. None of this was intentional. Baron Volligar is not a Freemason, we promise you.
Actually, the lines themselves did have a meaning in their design, but one that was tied into Mythoss and the Illythia's Brood faction. According to Eric Treadaway, "the symbol was not only an attempt at creating a Templar-type look, but it was also meant as a simplification of Illythia's form. The vertical bar represents her body and each of the horizontal bars represents a pair of her arms."