# Mu Tel — The Master Mind of Mars character guide

> Mu Tel in The Master Mind of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

**Role:** supporting

**First appearance:** 0010-ix-the-palace-of-mu-tel

## Snapshot

A Toonolian nobleman with a private projection room, a taste for Earth's wars, and a philosopher's bleak view of peace.

## Who they are

Mu Tel opens his palace and his instruments to the stranger, letting him watch Earth's trenches from a darkened auditorium a world away. He is generous, curious, and unshakably cynical — he tells Vad Varo that war is nature's natural state and peace merely the interval for preparing the next one. His hospitality gives the narrator both a view of home and a sobering lesson in how Barsoomians think about the violence he has just escaped.

## In the story

### [Hands Up!](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_master_mind_of_mars_se/chapters/viii-hands-up)

Mentioned as the Prince of the House of Kan, whose gardens are the intended escape destination.

### [The Palace of Mu Tel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_master_mind_of_mars_se/chapters/ix-the-palace-of-mu-tel)

Prince of the House of Kan, nephew of Vobis Kan, offers Vad Varo a flier and assistance, reveals his ambition to seize the throne.

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