Kar Komak

Kar Komak is a Lotharian construct. He is one of the protagonists in the story Thuvia, Maid of Mars

History

The Kar Komak as seen in Thuvia, Maid of Mars is a phantom bowman summoned by the Lotharians. His appearance and personality are based on a White Martian who lived millennia before the events from the story, when Mars was still in it's prime.

The original Kar Komak was a famous voyager and warrior of ancient times before the Seas dried. He is unlikely to have been a contemporary of Tario, the last Jeddak of Lothar, and was probably known to him only as a historical figure suggesting that Kar Komak was a person of some fame and distinction.

The Kar Komak of present time is a 'permanent materialization' a creation of Tario's powerful mind that has, through hundreds of years of manifestation finally achieved 'reality'. Tario and other Lotharians had been trying for many years to make their Phantom Bowmen materialize permanently, and without realizing it himself Tario had succeeded with Kar Komak.

Personality

The frank, straightforward character of the bowman makes an immediate positive impression on Carthoris. Kar Komak was always contemptuous of 'landsmen' and despises his 'creator' Tario. He is eager to leave Lothar and seek out cities where he might find warriors like himself. He proves a brave and loyal comrade standing by Carthoris as the latter seeks out and rescues Thuvia.

Powers and Abilities

To his own surprise Kar Komak discovers that he possesses the power of calling forth 'materializations' of bowmen out of the past just as Tario his creator could. Needless to say having an army at command proves extremely useful.

Kar Komak apparently also knows some things about astral projection between planets. At the start of The Chessmen of Mars John Carter reveals that Kar Komak teached him how he can take objects and even other people with him when astral projecting between Earth and Mars, thus allowing him to show up at his cousin Edgar's doorstep dressed in the Garb of a Barsoomian warrior.