# Menelek XIV — Beyond Thirty character guide

> Menelek XIV in Beyond Thirty by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Menelek

**First appearance:** 0000-i

## Snapshot

The wrathful emperor of a resurgent African power whose palace, besieged by yellow fleets, becomes the stage for Turck's desperate rescue of Victory.

## Who they are

Menelek XIV rules New Gondar with a scowl and a grip of iron, his authority tested by bombardment from without and defiance from within. When he seizes Victory and drags her toward his apartments, he embodies the predatory power that has replaced European civilization beyond 30°. Turck's violent intervention in that corridor transforms a political siege into a personal confrontation, and Menelek's roar of anger marks him as a foe whose reach extends far beyond his throne.

## Relationships

### [the girl](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beyond_thirty_se/characters/the_girl)

_family_

Menelek XIV is the girl's father, a protective and authoritative emperor figure.

### [Victory](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beyond_thirty_se/characters/victory)

_professional_

Menelek XIV and Victory have a formal, diplomatic relationship as ruler and foreign visitor.

### [the girl](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beyond_thirty_se/characters/the_girl)

_family_

Menelek XIV is the girl's father, a protective and authoritative emperor figure.

### [the girl](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beyond_thirty_se/characters/the_girl)

_family_

Menelek XIV is the girl's father, a protective and authoritative emperor figure.

### [Victory](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beyond_thirty_se/characters/victory)

_professional_

Menelek XIV and Victory have a formal, diplomatic relationship as ruler and foreign visitor.

## In the story

### [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beyond_thirty_se/chapters/viii)

The emperor of Abyssinia, whose arrival in New Gondar is anticipated and who is described as having led the conquest of Europe fifty years prior.

### [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beyond_thirty_se/chapters/ix)

Menelek appears as the emperor of Abyssinia, threatening Victory and ordering her taken to his apartments.

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