# Thuvia, Maid of Mars — Character guide

> Key figures in Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

- [Carthoris of Helium](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/thuvia_maid_of_mars_se/characters/carthoris_of_helium.md): Carthoris moves through the royal gardens of Ptarth as the Warlord's heir, yet his rank matters less to him than the woman whose hand he takes before a file of guardsmen. His temper is quick, his blade quicker, and his d
- [Thuvia of Ptarth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/thuvia_maid_of_mars_se/characters/thuvia_of_ptarth.md): Thuvia is the daughter of a jeddak, courted by princes and valued as a diplomatic prize, yet she moves through crisis with a composure that shames the warriors around her. She halts a killing in her father's gardens not 
- [Astok of Dusar](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/thuvia_maid_of_mars_se/characters/astok_of_dusar.md): Astok is the son of a tyrant and a slave woman, raised without love and schooled in his father's cruelty, yet not quite hardened enough to match it. He schemes to take Thuvia of Ptarth and shifts the blame onto Carthoris
- [Jav](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/thuvia_maid_of_mars_se/characters/jav.md): Jav serves the hidden city of Lothar with the servile terror of a man who has never imagined defiance, whimpering before Tario and wriggling on his belly when accused of treachery. He believes the great banth Komal is a 
- [Tario of Lothar](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/thuvia_maid_of_mars_se/characters/tario_of_lothar.md): Tario rules Lothar through mirage and mental domination, bending a woman's sense of her own heart until she believes she has always loved him. His power is real but brittle, undone by a rival's distant thought and a dagg
- [Vas Kor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/thuvia_maid_of_mars_se/characters/vas_kor.md): Vas Kor is the instrument of Dusar's scheming, the noble who recruits a supposed panthan and later levels a short-sword at a kneeling princess in Nutus's name. He fights skillfully and bleeds for it, trusting Astok to st
- [Kar Komak](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/thuvia_maid_of_mars_se/characters/kar_komak.md): Kar Komak belongs to the strange economy of Lothar, where Jav's mind projects armies of bowmen who fight and die and rise again each day. Alone among them he persists after the sun sets, a solid man in a city of illusion
- [Komal](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/thuvia_maid_of_mars_se/characters/komal.md): The great white ape that serves as a guardian in Lothar.
- [Turjun](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/thuvia_maid_of_mars_se/characters/turjun.md): Turjun moves through the story as a mercenary whose trade is violence and whose true name is a secret he guards with his life. Creeping along a companionway with his fingers closed on a dagger, ready to slay an entire ut
- [Kulan Tith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/thuvia_maid_of_mars_se/characters/kulan_tith.md): Kulan Tith stands at the center of Barsoom's political web as the man Thuvia of Ptarth is promised to, a jeddak whose dignity and restraint mark him as everything Astok of Dusar is not. Yet Thuvia, awaiting death in an e
- [Nutus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/thuvia_maid_of_mars_se/characters/nutus.md): Jeddak of Dusar and father of Astok, involved in political intrigue.
- [Thar Ban](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/thuvia_maid_of_mars_se/characters/thar_ban.md): A green Martian warrior who captures Thuvia.
- [John Carter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/thuvia_maid_of_mars_se/characters/john_carter.md): Warlord of Mars and father of Carthoris, appears briefly.
- [Hortan Gur](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/thuvia_maid_of_mars_se/characters/hortan_gur.md): A grotesque creature encountered in the Hall of Doom.

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