Gladium Regis was born in the early 2000s as a collaboration between Arcanist Augur Svafnir and Salinoch. The duo recorded "The Dark Stronghold" (2003), an unreleased demo. Though never published, the demo songs and ideas carried forward and have been later reworked for Draugr (the Italian pagan black metal band which Svafnir co-founded and fronted in 2000s).
Even before Gladium Regis or Draugr, Svafnir had been experimenting with folky synth and dark electronic compositions, collected under the demo "Svafnir – Let the Ravens Come". Years later, those early sketches became the foundation for “Kingdom” (2020), a dungeon synth release created in London as an atmospheric backdrop for tabletop campaigns. “Kingdom” served as both a resurrection of the Gladium Regis banner as a solo dungeon synth act and a bridge between past experiments and future directions.
Between 2022 and 2023 Svafnir decided to experiment with the introduction of metal elements again and started to work on some compositions to shift the dungeon synth style more towards a symphonic / epic black metal genre, to recreate a similar vibe to old 90s black metal bands.
With “Quest” (2025), Gladium Regis embraces its full metamorphosis into a solo project that recalls the unpolished grandeur of early 1990s symphonic and epic black metal.