# Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar — Character guide

> Key figures in Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

- [Tarzan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_and_the_jewels_of_opar_se/characters/tarzan.md): Tarzan returns to the treasure vaults of Opar not as a lord but as a Mangani, and the temple's fanatics read his indifference as blasphemy. When La offers him godhood and herself, he refuses with a shrug that costs him a
- [Jane Clayton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_and_the_jewels_of_opar_se/characters/jane_clayton.md): Jane Clayton is not the kind of prisoner who weeps in a tent; she is the kind who walks out of one, twice, past lions and searchers, because she believes Tarzan is omnipotent in his native world. Her certainty is her str
- [Albert Werper](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_and_the_jewels_of_opar_se/characters/albert_werper.md): Werper is the novel's most quietly dangerous man: a deserter, a spy, and a thief who talks Tarzan out of slaughtering the Waziri because their treasure is walking exactly where he wants it borne. He survives Opar by luck
- [Achmet Zek](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_and_the_jewels_of_opar_se/characters/achmet_zek.md): Achmet Zek commands a motley crew of outlaws and sells white captives into northern harems, but his real religion is the buried treasure beside the Englishman's ruined bungalow. Outwitted by an unbeliever and robbed of t
- [La](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_and_the_jewels_of_opar_se/characters/la.md): La rules Opar's fanatic priests and its bloodstained altar, but her authority dissolves the moment the ape-man refuses her: she offers him godhood, slaves, and her love, and he pushes her aside with a sentence. Her rage 
- [Mugambi](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_and_the_jewels_of_opar_se/characters/mugambi.md): Mugambi is Tarzan's man in the field: silent in the shadow of a great tree, reconnoitering the palisade while the Arab camp hums behind it. When he recognizes Werper emerging from the jungle and watches the gates swing o
- [Mohammed Beyd](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_and_the_jewels_of_opar_se/characters/mohammed_beyd.md): Mohammed Beyd rides in Achmet Zek's raider band, a subordinate whose fear of his master outweighs even his horror of the jungle sounds that make his cowardly soul tremble. When Tarzan's bull-ape scream echoes through the
- [Numa](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_and_the_jewels_of_opar_se/characters/numa.md): Numa is the night's hungriest predator, drawn to the scent of fresh meat and the strange man-thing who squats over it with bestial growls. He has tasted human flesh before and knows it is easy prey, yet something in Tarz
- [Chulk](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_and_the_jewels_of_opar_se/characters/chulk.md): Chulk belongs to the great anthropoid tribe that has dwelt in and about Opar since before memory, so long that the Oparians have come to regard them almost as equals. He shares with Tarzan the rough language and instinct
- [Taglat](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_and_the_jewels_of_opar_se/characters/taglat.md): Taglat is one of the great anthropoids whose world Tarzan understands better than any human's, yet whose rivalry he can never fully escape. Where other apes accept the ape-man's strange authority, Taglat bristles against
- [Abdul Mourak](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_and_the_jewels_of_opar_se/characters/abdul_mourak.md): Abdul Mourak commands a file of ebony horsemen under the Emperor Menelek, and he is in no mood for appeals to justice or humanity after losing his gold, his jewels, and his prisoners. When he finds Jane Clayton hiding in
- [Jules Frecoult](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_and_the_jewels_of_opar_se/characters/jules_frecoult.md): M. Jules Frecoult moves through the novel's intrigue with the ease of a man who knows how to be trusted and how to betray. He trails Tarzan toward Opar's forgotten gold, sweating with terror on the cliffs yet spurred upw
- [Basuli](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_and_the_jewels_of_opar_se/characters/basuli.md): Basuli commands the Waziri warriors, a proud tribe whose bond with Tarzan runs deeper than any ordinary alliance. His loyalty is not blind obedience but a hard-won trust, and he must weigh the safety of his people agains
- [Tantor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_and_the_jewels_of_opar_se/characters/tantor.md): The elephant, a powerful jungle ally or danger.
- [Bara](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_and_the_jewels_of_opar_se/characters/bara.md): A deer, prey in the jungle.
- [Buto](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_and_the_jewels_of_opar_se/characters/buto.md): A rhinoceros, encountered in the jungle.
- [Cadj](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_and_the_jewels_of_opar_se/characters/cadj.md): A Mangani ape, part of the tribe.
- [Menelek](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_and_the_jewels_of_opar_se/characters/menelek.md): Emperor of Abyssinia, mentioned in passing.

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