# Tarzan and the Golden Lion — Character guide

> Key figures in Tarzan and the Golden Lion by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

- [Tarzan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_and_the_golden_lion_se/characters/tarzan.md): Tarzan moves between two worlds — the Greystoke estate and the wild — but grief strips him back to pure ape-man when the Waziri bring word that Jane is dead. He sends his warriors home and turns alone toward vengeance, a
- [Esteban Miranda](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_and_the_golden_lion_se/characters/esteban_miranda.md): Esteban Miranda is the kind of man whose bragging about hunting prowess leaves an expedition on half rations and his companions ready to shoot him. He's dangerous less for his strength than for his cunning: he can become
- [La](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_and_the_golden_lion_se/characters/la.md): La of Opar is a queen who fled her own city because she would not let Tarzan die on the Flaming God's altar, and now she hides in the jungle while her priests plot behind her back. When Tarzan calls her his mate to prote
- [Carl Kraski](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_and_the_golden_lion_se/characters/kraski.md): Kraski is the most intelligent and therefore most inventive member of the treasure expedition, rigging platforms in trees while his companions cling miserably to branches. He needles the Spaniard, mocks the German's stin
- [Cadj](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_and_the_golden_lion_se/characters/cadj.md): Cadj is the disloyal priest whose usurpation drove La from Opar in the first place, and he rules through fear and the Bolgani's tyranny over the Gomangani. When Tarzan vows to march on Opar and compel Cadj to relinquish 
- [Adolph Bluber](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_and_the_golden_lion_se/characters/bluber.md): Bluber's penny-pinching — too few carriers, too little food — has left his treasure party hungry, mutinous, and stranded deep in hostile country. He clings to tree branches half-exhausted and wholly terrified, a man whos
- [Flora Hawkes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_and_the_golden_lion_se/characters/flora_hawkes.md): Flora Hawkes arrives at Lady Greystoke's camp pleading for protection from two hundred mutinous west coast boys, trading on her past service with the Greystokes to win shelter. Her quick wit covers a deeper consternation
- [Bolgani](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_and_the_golden_lion_se/characters/bolgani.md): The Bolgani rule a strange land where ape-men keep Gomangani slaves and a dead lion lies upon a dais, and they regard Tarzan's passage through their country as trespass. When their emperor falls to the ape-man's spear, t
- [Jane Clayton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_and_the_golden_lion_se/characters/jane_clayton.md): Lady Greystoke commands the boma in Tarzan's absence, and her calm under Flora's sudden appearance and Luvini's shrieking horde is the discipline Tarzan drilled into his Waziri. She recognizes Flora instantly and knows t
- [John Peebles](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_and_the_golden_lion_se/characters/john_peebles.md): Peebles is one of the four white men Flora drags into Jane's camp, part of a supposed scientific expedition whose real business is gold. By the time the safari turns, he is reduced to perching in a tree fork beside Dick 
- [The Waziri](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_and_the_golden_lion_se/characters/the_waziri.md): Schooled by Tarzan, the Waziri have discarded the taunting dance of other tribes and simply wait, spears bristling, for the charge. When Usula later meets his master on the trail, he bares his breast and offers his life 
- [Manu](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_and_the_golden_lion_se/characters/manu.md): A monkey who aids Tarzan with information.
- [Owaza](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_and_the_golden_lion_se/characters/owaza.md): A Waziri warrior loyal to Tarzan.
- [Usula](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_and_the_golden_lion_se/characters/usula.md): A Waziri warrior who assists Tarzan.
- [Jad-bal-ja](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_and_the_golden_lion_se/characters/jad_bal_ja.md): Jad-bal-ja hunts beside Tarzan, Jane, and Korak, dragging his antelope kill back to his master's feet for praise — then bares his fangs at the smell of fresh blood and snaps at the ape-man's hand. Reared without the natu
- [Dick Throck](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_and_the_golden_lion_se/characters/dick_throck.md): An American adventurer involved in the treasure hunt.
- [Korak](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_and_the_golden_lion_se/characters/korak.md): Tarzan and Jane's son, a skilled warrior.
- [Oah](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_and_the_golden_lion_se/characters/oah.md): A female Oparian priestess.
- [The High Priest](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_and_the_golden_lion_se/characters/the_high_priest.md): A religious leader in Opar, often antagonistic.
- [Dooth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_and_the_golden_lion_se/characters/dooth.md): An Oparian priest serving under Cadj.

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