# Tarzan the Terrible — Character guide

> Key figures in Tarzan the Terrible by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

- [Tarzan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_the_terrible_se/characters/tarzan.md): Tarzan enters Pal-ul-don hunting for the abducted Jane, but the valley's warring tribes and prehistoric beasts turn the search into a trial of survival. His legend precedes him — allies and enemies alike measure the man 
- [Jane Clayton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_the_terrible_se/characters/jane_clayton.md): Jane survives captivity in Tu-lur while Tarzan scours Pal-ul-don for her, her endurance a counterweight to his restless pursuit. When they reunite, her joy is shadowed by worry for their son Jack, fighting somewhere on t
- [Erich Obergatz](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_the_terrible_se/characters/erich_obergatz.md): Obergatz is the last of the three German officers who destroyed Tarzan's home, and months of terror have reduced him to a gibbering wreck. When Lu-don needs a living deity to rival Tarzan's claim, the broken lieutenant i
- [Jad-ben-Otho](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_the_terrible_se/characters/jad_ben_otho.md): Every faction in Pal-ul-don claims Jad-ben-Otho's authority: Lu-don props up a false god in the temple, while Ja-don begs Tarzan to play the role of Dor-ul-Otho to rally the people. The god himself never speaks, but his 
- [Pan-at-lee](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_the_terrible_se/characters/pan_at_lee.md): Pan-at-lee moves between the Ho-don and Waz-don worlds with a familiarity that few outsiders possess, and her loyalty to Tarzan is tested against the feuds of her own people. She carries the gund word and the weight of O
- [Ja-don](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_the_terrible_se/characters/ja_don.md): Ja-don has watched Lu-don's priests tighten their grip on Pal-ul-don and knows the temple and the palace cannot both rule. When he meets Tarzan, he seizes on the ape-man as the Dor-ul-Otho whose blessing could break the 
- [Mo-sar](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_the_terrible_se/characters/mo_sar.md): Mo-sar rules Tu-lur as a chief accustomed to taking what he wants, and what he wants now is the woman seized from the princess O-lo-a's apartments. When Tarzan strides alone into his city demanding her return, Mo-sar mus
- [Om-at](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_the_terrible_se/characters/om_at.md): Om-at leads the Kor-ul-ja, a Waz-don tribe locked in feud with the neighboring Kor-ul-lul, and he measures every newcomer against the memory of Tarzan-jad-guru. When a speechless stranger arrives asking after the ape-man
- [Ko-tan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_the_terrible_se/characters/ko_tan.md): Ko-tan sits atop a pyramid throne no other foot has touched in forgotten ages, and he offers that pinnacle to the stranger he believes is the son of Jad-ben-Otho. Yet when Tarzan seats himself on the sacred stone and inv
- [Lu-don](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_the_terrible_se/characters/lu_don.md): Lu-don presides over altars where an adult dies at sunset and a newborn babe at dawn, and he knows better than any Ho-don that the faith he preaches is a machine he operates. When Tarzan claims to be the son of Jad-ben-O
- [O-lo-a](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_the_terrible_se/characters/o_lo_a.md): O-lo-a, daughter of King Ko-tan, is the princess from whose apartments Jane was taken, making her the quiet cause of the confrontation at Tu-lur. Her name is the leverage Tarzan uses when he walks alone into Mo-sar's hos
- [Es-sat](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_the_terrible_se/characters/es_sat.md): A Ho-don warrior and priest loyal to Lu-don.
- [Ta-den](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_the_terrible_se/characters/ta_den.md): A Waz-don warrior and friend of Om-at.
- [Tor-o-don](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_the_terrible_se/characters/tor_o_don.md): A primitive beast-man creature of the jungle.
- [Dak-at](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_the_terrible_se/characters/dak_at.md): A Ho-don warrior and guard in Tu-lur.
- [Pithecanthropus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_the_terrible_se/characters/pithecanthropus.md): An ape-man creature encountered by Tarzan.
- [Gryf](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_the_terrible_se/characters/gryf.md): A monstrous reptilian creature used as a beast of burden.

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