# Victory — Beyond Thirty character guide

> Victory in Beyond Thirty by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** VI Victory, IX Victory

**First appearance:** 0000-i

## Snapshot

A British warship turned Pan-American vessel whose hull carries Jefferson Turck past the forbidden meridian into a Europe reverted to savagery.

## Who they are

The Victory is both setting and symbol: a floating fragment of disciplined civilization pressing into waters no Western man has legally sailed for two centuries. Her mission is exploration and enforcement of the ancient boundary, yet every mile beyond 30° strips away the certainties her crew once trusted. When Turck is swept from her deck, the ship becomes the lost home he must survive without, and her fate shadows his struggle through hostile lands.

## Relationships

### [Snider](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beyond_thirty_se/characters/snider)

_professional_

Snider serves as Victory's loyal subordinate, carrying out orders with disciplined efficiency.

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

_psychological_

The girl is fascinated and somewhat obsessed with Victory, viewing him as a mysterious and powerful figure.

### [Buckingham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beyond_thirty_se/characters/buckingham)

_rivalry_

Buckingham resents Victory's influence and sees him as a rival for the girl's affection.

### [Menelek XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beyond_thirty_se/characters/menelek_xiv)

_professional_

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

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

_professional_

The officer and Victory interact in a formal, duty-bound context, likely as military or diplomatic counterparts.

### [Mary](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beyond_thirty_se/characters/mary)

_romantic_

Mary harbors romantic feelings for Victory, though the relationship is complicated by other attachments.

### [Buckingham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beyond_thirty_se/characters/buckingham)

_rivalry_

Buckingham resents Victory's influence and sees him as a rival for the girl's affection.

### [Snider](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beyond_thirty_se/characters/snider)

_professional_

Snider serves as Victory's loyal subordinate, carrying out orders with disciplined efficiency.

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

_psychological_

The girl is fascinated and somewhat obsessed with Victory, viewing him as a mysterious and powerful figure.

### [Buckingham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beyond_thirty_se/characters/buckingham)

_rivalry_

Buckingham resents Victory's influence and sees him as a rival for the girl's affection.

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

_psychological_

The girl is fascinated and somewhat obsessed with Victory, viewing him as a mysterious and powerful figure.

### [Menelek XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beyond_thirty_se/characters/menelek_xiv)

_professional_

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

## In the story

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beyond_thirty_se/chapters/iv)

Referred to as the girl rescued from the elephant country; Mary is her sister.

### [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beyond_thirty_se/chapters/v)

Explores the ruins with the narrator, sees paintings of horses and historic events for the first time, and bravely fights alongside him against lions.

### [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beyond_thirty_se/chapters/vi)

Voices her desire for adventure and to kill Buckingham; questions the difference between civilization and barbarism; saves the narrator from a lioness; later sits with Snider, then avoids him.

### [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beyond_thirty_se/chapters/vii)

Absent but central; her campfire is found; presumed to have killed Snider in self-defense and fled.

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

Mentioned as one of the narrator's companions whose fate is unknown after the capture.

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

Victory is revealed to be a slave in Menelek's palace; the narrator sees her and is overwhelmed with emotion. She is later married to the narrator at the Chinese imperial court.

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