Tarkas

Tarkus is a merchant and master of Orba, Gowen, and the other Gladiators in his troupe. He only cares about money and treats almost everything as a business transaction. Tarkas was always a man of big plans, he had dreams of someday building a stadium exclusively for the use of the his gladiatorial troupe or planning to buy a dozen of a new and exotic dragon species. His troupe includes about one hundred gladiators and slaves as well as a dozen or so Dragons.

Tarkas has close ties with Fedom Aulin, the lord of Birac and head of the Gladiator's guild, which is why he was entrusted with Orba. It was because of Fedom that Tarkus's trope was recruited to perform at the marriage ceremony between the Mephian Crown Prince and the Garberan Princess. He was approached by a merchant who offered considerable financial support and Tarkas jumped in without a second thought. One of the conditions of this support was that he had to take in a bunch of new Gladiators.

Tarkas had no idea what was going on when Fredom suddenly showed up at the Gladiator training grounds a few days before the wedding and took Orba away with him. He was given no explanation and scrambled to change the performance that had been planned during the wedding.

During the wedding ceremony the dragons suddenly went on a rampage and several of the new gladiators attempted to assassinate the prince and princess. After the attack was thwarted, Tarkus and the troupe were taken into custody. They might have been immediately killed had Gil not spoken up in their defense. Even after questioning, Takas stood by his statement that he had no knowledge about the attack and even steadfastly defended Hou Ran when it came to the dragon's rampage.

After it was announced that Gil would lead the troops in retaliation against the mastermind behind the attack, Ryucown, the troupe was taken along to the boarder fortress of Idoro. Even though it was found that he was not involved, Tarkas was still striped of all his slaves and imprisoned for not taking enough precautions. It was rumored that the slaves were going to be beheaded by Idoro's Lord as a way of raising troop moral, but unexpectedly Prince Gil took them in as his personal guard. However, Tarkas remained in the prison.