# The Warlord of Mars — Character guide

> Key figures in The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

- [Dejah Thoris](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_warlord_of_mars_se/characters/dejah_thoris.md): Dejah Thoris is the wife John Carter crosses a hostile planet to reclaim, and her captivity drives the novel's pursuit. When she mistakes Carter for a stranger in disguise, her righteous fury reveals both her pride and t
- [John Carter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_warlord_of_mars_se/characters/john_carter.md): John Carter narrates his own relentless pursuit of Dejah Thoris, moving through hostile courts and hidden fortresses with sword and fists. His disguise as a yellow-skinned stranger backfires when his own wife fails to re
- [Thurid](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_warlord_of_mars_se/characters/thurid.md): Thurid is a rival and conspirator among Barsoom's scheming factions, quick to seize advantage when Dejah Thoris is within reach. He lunges to cut Carter down on the balcony and later abandons him for dead, showing a prag
- [Kulan Tith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_warlord_of_mars_se/characters/kulan_tith.md): Kulan Tith presides over an audience chamber where accusations and old alliances collide, and he does not suffer blasphemy lightly. Convinced by Matai Shang and Thurid that Carter is a heretic and assassin, he orders him
- [Woola](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_warlord_of_mars_se/characters/woola.md): Woola is the loyal calot who waits faithfully in a courtyard ringed by twelve growling banths, held back only by Thuvia's command. When Carter returns, the beast bounds aboard the flier in such exuberant happiness that h
- [Salensus Oll](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_warlord_of_mars_se/characters/salensus_oll.md): Salensus Oll rules the yellow men of Okar with absolute authority, and his desire for Dejah Thoris curdles instantly into rage when John Carter appears. He tears the couple apart with a hundred ruthless hands and decrees
- [Thuvan Dihn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_warlord_of_mars_se/characters/thuvan_dihn.md): Thuvan Dihn rules Ptarth as its jeddak, but his authority matters less here than his fatherhood: his daughter Thuvia is a prisoner, and he has joined John Carter's pursuit to get her back. When Kulan Tith's palace proves
- [Matai Shang](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_warlord_of_mars_se/characters/matai_shang.md): As head of the thern religion, Matai Shang commands reverence across Mars, but his power rests on fraud and he knows it. When confronted, he shrinks back and calls truth a lie, dragging Dejah Thoris from a balcony while 
- [Phaidor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_warlord_of_mars_se/characters/phaidor.md): Phaidor is thern royalty and a rival for Carter's devotion, and she makes her case with a raised blade rather than a plea. Her jealous rage at Dejah Thoris drives her to violence inside the Temple of the Sun, and the mem
- [Carthoris](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_warlord_of_mars_se/characters/carthoris.md): With his father refusing the crown and his grandparents presumed dead, Carthoris is named Jeddak of Helium by acclamation, a young man handed a nation in the middle of a crisis. He is the reason Carter cannot simply vani
- [Thuvia](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_warlord_of_mars_se/characters/thuvia.md): Thuvia is a prisoner through much of the story, passed between therns and First Born, but she is never merely a hostage. Her kindness toward the banths of the Golden Cliffs has made them her devoted guardians, a loyalty 
- [Lakor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_warlord_of_mars_se/characters/lakor.md): A yellow man of Okar, a minor antagonist.
- [Solan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_warlord_of_mars_se/characters/solan.md): A yellow man of Okar, a guard or minor official.
- [Tardos Mors](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_warlord_of_mars_se/characters/tardos_mors.md): Jeddak of Helium, grandfather of Carthoris.
- [Talu](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_warlord_of_mars_se/characters/talu.md): Talu belongs to the yellow race of the far north, a people Carter knows nothing about when he crosses the ice barrier in pursuit of Matai Shang. As a prince of Marentina, he offers the kind of local allegiance that turns
- [Tars Tarkas](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_warlord_of_mars_se/characters/tars_tarkas.md): Jeddak of Thark, a green Martian ally of John Carter.
- [Mors Kajak](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_warlord_of_mars_se/characters/mors_kajak.md): Father of Dejah Thoris, a Heliumite noble.

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