First Conri Tora

First Conri Tora

First Conri Tora
Publication information
Series	Tribal Universe
Created by	Tony James Nelson II, writing as Tribal Brown
First appearance	Tribal Bloody Beginnings: The Rise of the Dark Alpha
In-universe information
Aliases	The First • The first Conri • Original Conri Tora • The ancient parasite • The first monster • The ghost
Species	Ancient parasitic spirit or possessing entity
Gender	Male identity
Age	Thousands of years
Status	Exorcised from Kavumo and returned to Murder Island; not confirmed destroyed
Abilities and equipment
Abilities	Bodily possession, consciousness suppression, host memory access, identity imitation, use of host abilities, psychological manipulation, apparent prophetic awareness, visions and long-term survival through hosts
Additional information
Primary name	First Conri Tora
Origin	Associated with Murder Island; exact origin unknown
Current location	Murder Island
Role	Possessing entity • manipulator • hidden mythological antagonist
Known hosts	Unnamed old Alpha of Nebu Kavumo Dlamini
Known agent	Unnamed elder with milk-white eyes
Known targets	Rimitorry Ka’ Tora • Kavumo Dlamini • the proctor • Nebu’s Alpha line
Associated locations	Murder Island • Nebu • Terra
Associated objects	Tribal Bible • unidentified key or focus
Weaknesses	Binding circles, coordinated exorcism, separation from a host, death of a host without an available escape route, behavioral inconsistencies and sustained surveillance
Chronological prequel appearance	Rimitorry: Daughter of the Dark Alpha

First Conri Tora, commonly called the First, is an ancient possessing entity, manipulator and major hidden antagonist within the Tribal Universe. He appears in Tribal Bloody Beginnings: The Rise of the Dark Alpha and in the chronological prequel Rimitorry: Daughter of the Dark Alpha, the first novel in the Children of the Dark Alpha series by Tony James Nelson II, writing as Tribal Brown.

First Conri Tora is not merely a former king, ancestor or dead man. He is depicted as an ancient will capable of surviving through the bodies of other people. He enters powerful hosts, suppresses their consciousness, accesses their memories and wears their identities while continuing his plans across generations.

His confirmed hosts include an unnamed woman who ruled Nebu as Alpha before the rise of the Dark Alpha and Kavumo Dlamini, whose body he controlled for sixteen years. During Kavumo’s possession, the real Kavumo remained conscious but trapped inside his own mind, experiencing every movement, battle and killing committed through his body without being able to intervene.

The First’s influence extends far beyond possession. He manipulates four-year-old Rimitorry Ka’ Tora into accepting the kidnapping that brings her to Nhem’Rakul, predicts that her father will one day carry the name Conri Tora and claims knowledge of events preserved within the island’s memory.

He is also connected to the scattered Tribal Bible, an unidentified key or focus hidden within Nebu and a plan involving the reunification of divided tribes. However, much of this information is delivered through the First himself. Because he is a skilled manipulator, his version of ancient history cannot automatically be treated as an objective account.

The First is ultimately removed from Kavumo through a coordinated trap involving Conri, Utrea, Knargz, Zuberi, Oshira, twelve mages and Khalembo. The exorcism frees Kavumo but does not destroy the entity. Instead, First Conri Tora is forced back to Murder Island, where he remains an unresolved threat.

Name and identity

First Conri Tora

The name First Conri Tora distinguishes the ancient entity from the later ruler known as the Dark Alpha, who also carries the name Conri Tora.

The word First indicates that the entity’s connection to the name predates that of the Dark Alpha.

In Rimitorry: Daughter of the Dark Alpha, the young Rimitorry encounters the entity before her father carries the name. The First tells her that her father will one day inherit it and that the event will open a new wound in the island.

The name therefore functions as more than a personal identifier. It is connected to:

• inheritance;
• rulership;
• prophecy;
• bodily possession;
• Murder Island’s history;
• wounds repeated across generations.

The exact original meaning of Conri Tora has not yet been revealed.

The First

Characters familiar with the entity frequently shorten his name to the First.

This form emphasizes his ancient age and his claim to an original position preceding later rulers, hosts and inheritors.

Original Conri Tora

The entity identifies himself as the original Conri Tora and speaks as though the later use of his name represents an inheritance, theft, continuation or reopening of something ancient.

Whether he was truly the first person ever to possess the name has not been independently confirmed.

The ancient parasite

Conri describes the First as a parasite rather than a god or legitimate immortal ruler.

The description reflects the entity’s method of survival:

• entering another person;
• suppressing the original consciousness;
• using the host’s body;
• using the host’s memories;
• continuing to live through stolen flesh.

The ghost

During the exorcism of Kavumo, the First is described as a ghost, memory and scream given form.

This hostless state appears substantially weaker than his possessed form.

The first monster

Khalembo views the First as an ancient monster whose crimes are not limited to physical murder.

The First steals:

• bodies;
• identities;
• years;
• family relationships;
• the moral responsibility attached to a person’s own hands.

Distinction from the Dark Alpha

First Conri Tora and the Dark Alpha are separate characters.

The Dark Alpha is:

• a human survivor of the Thirteen Chambers;
• father of Rimitorry Ka’ Tora;
• partner of Utrea;
• founding ruler of the Ka’Rukan Empire;
• later ruler of Nebu;
• a member of The Five.

First Conri Tora is:

• an ancient possessing entity;
• apparently thousands of years old;
• associated with multiple hosts;
• an enemy of the Dark Alpha and his family;
• the earlier bearer or originator of the Conri Tora name.

The Dark Alpha later carries the name, but the available material does not explicitly establish that he becomes a direct host of the First.

The relationship between the two names may involve:

• succession;
• inherited title;
• prophecy;
• ancient obligation;
• spiritual contamination;
• political symbolism.

The exact mechanism remains unrevealed.

Appearance

First Conri Tora does not possess one stable confirmed physical body.

He appears in at least three distinct forms:

1. a young-looking man encountered by Rimitorry;
2. the bodies of possessed hosts;
3. a hostless ghost-like manifestation during Kavumo’s exorcism.

Young human manifestation

When four-year-old Rimitorry encounters the First in the forest, he appears to be a young man.

His visible characteristics include:

• a smooth face;
• a strong body;
• an apparently youthful appearance;
• eyes impossibly older than the rest of him.

Rimitorry describes his eyes as older than:

• her father;
• the surrounding fires;
• possibly Murder Island itself.

His body therefore presents youth while his eyes reveal age.

He stands between the trees as though he has always occupied that space. His presence causes the forest to become unnaturally quiet, with even insects appearing to listen when he speaks his name.

This manifestation may have been:

• an actual physical form;
• a projection;
• a vision;
• a remembered host;
• a shape chosen to appear less threatening to a child.

The text does not provide a final explanation.

Host appearance

While possessing another person, the First outwardly resembles the host.

His longest detailed host is Kavumo Dlamini.

While wearing Kavumo, the First possesses:

• Kavumo’s face;
• Kavumo’s gold eyes;
• Kavumo’s voice;
• Kavumo’s strength;
• Kavumo’s Ka’ru;
• access to Kavumo’s memories and behavior.

However, people close to Kavumo notice that something beneath the body is wrong.

The eyes are repeatedly described as ancient and terrible.

The smile belongs to Kavumo physically but not emotionally.

The voice is recognizable while carrying an older presence beneath it.

Restored Kavumo host

After Kavumo is severely injured, his body is placed inside a medical healing tank.

The First awakens through him after the body has been restored.

At that point, Kavumo’s physical form appears:

• whole;
• unmarked;
• without its previous scars;
• physically perfected by the healing process;
• illuminated by gold eyes carrying an inhuman presence.

The First then destroys the tank and walks into Nebu’s throne room using Kavumo’s restored body.

The restoration itself is associated with the Doctor’s treatment and the healing tank. It should not automatically be interpreted as an independent regeneration ability belonging to the First.

Hostless manifestation

When the First is violently removed from Kavumo, he temporarily appears without a host.

He is described as:

• solid;
• ancient;
• possessing eyes that have witnessed empires rise and fall;
• having a face connected to betrayal thousands of years earlier;
• a ghost;
• a memory;
• a scream given form.

In that state, he appears stripped of the physical power supplied by Kavumo.

His true original appearance remains uncertain.

The hostless form may represent:

• his original body;
• a spiritual self-image;
• a remembered identity;
• the shape of his consciousness;
• an exorcism-generated manifestation.

Personality

First Conri Tora is patient, manipulative, intelligent, theatrical and deeply committed to survival.

He rarely begins by threatening people openly.

Instead, he studies what they need.

With Rimitorry, he identifies:

• loneliness;
• curiosity;
• desire for other children;
• trust in calm adult certainty;
• fear that others may die because of her.

He then turns those needs into a path leading away from her home.

The First’s most dangerous qualities include:

• emotional precision;
• ancient patience;
• confidence in his superiority;
• willingness to wait years or generations;
• ability to imitate intimacy;
• belief that bodies and identities are usable vessels;
• refusal to accept death as a natural ending.

He is capable of appearing sad, gentle or thoughtful.

These emotions may be genuine, performed or strategically mixed.

When speaking to Rimitorry, he does not behave like a simple monster. He speaks softly, answers questions and offers the exact promise she most wants to hear.

His calmness makes the manipulation more effective.

Arrogance

The First believes his age and experience place him beyond ordinary defeat.

While trapped in the throne room, he initially insists that his imitation of Kavumo was perfect.

He claims to have learned:

• Kavumo’s mannerisms;
• Kavumo’s memories;
• Kavumo’s soul;
• the behavior required to deceive Kavumo’s family.

His arrogance prevents him from understanding that imitation is not the same as relationship.

He can access memories, but he cannot fully recreate the patterns through which loved ones recognize one another.

Fear of extinction

The First presents himself as immortal, but his behavior suggests an intense fear of annihilation.

He survives by moving between bodies and preparing escape routes.

During Kavumo’s exorcism, he displays fear when:

• the binding circle prevents movement;
• his power becomes inaccessible;
• the elder assisting him is killed;
• he is separated from his host;
• Khalembo refuses to fear his promised return.

His pursuit of immortality appears less like divine transcendence and more like an inability to accept nonexistence.

Self-mythologizing

The First frequently presents his actions as part of a larger historical purpose.

He speaks of:

• betrayal by siblings;
• the truth of the tribes;
• restoring what was divided;
• recovering scattered knowledge;
• a key hidden in Nebu;
• the island’s memory;
• the corruption of the later Five.

These claims may contain genuine history.

They may also serve to make possession, manipulation and political interference appear sacred or necessary.

Nature

The exact species and metaphysical classification of First Conri Tora remain unknown.

The available descriptions support several overlapping interpretations:

• ancient spirit;
• parasitic consciousness;
• possessing ghost;
• surviving ruler;
• Ka’ru-based entity;
• body-jumping intelligence.

He is not presented as an ordinary human ghost.

Ordinary ghosts do not typically demonstrate his confirmed ability to:

• occupy living bodies for years;
• suppress the original consciousness;
• use host memories;
• imitate identities;
• move through generations;
• maintain long-term political plans.

He is also not confirmed to be a god.

His dependence on hosts and vulnerability to exorcism suggest limitations inconsistent with absolute divinity.

Relationship with Ka’ru

The First can use the Ka’ru present within a host body.

While occupying Kavumo, he gains access to a body containing immense physical and spiritual power.

The First refers to Kavumo as someone strong enough to wear, suggesting that not every body can safely contain him.

A suitable host may need:

• exceptional Ka’ru;
• physical durability;
• psychological strength;
• a powerful bloodline;
• political usefulness.

The precise requirements have not been fully explained.

It is also unknown whether possession allows the First to permanently absorb a host’s Ka’ru or only command it while occupying the body.

Ancient history

The First claims to have survived for thousands of years.

The narration surrounding his hostless manifestation supports the idea that he has witnessed multiple empires and an ancient betrayal.

However, the complete history of his earliest life has not yet been revealed.

Unknown details include:

• his birthplace;
• original species;
• original family;
• original body;
• first host;
• the exact age at which he began possessing others;
• whether he created the Conri Tora title;
• why he became bound to Murder Island;
• whether he can permanently leave the island without a host.

Claimed betrayal by his siblings

The First claims that his siblings betrayed him thousands of years earlier.

The hostless manifestation during his exorcism is described as carrying the face of someone who remembers that betrayal.

His account suggests an ancient conflict involving:

• divided tribes;
• lost power;
• the Tribal Bible;
• the creation or concealment of a key;
• Murder Island;
• the origins of the Conri Tora identity.

Because these details are largely delivered by the First, they remain partly disputed.

No independent account has yet confirmed:

• the names of the siblings;
• their motives;
• the exact betrayal;
• whether the First was an innocent victim;
• whether the division of the tribes was caused by him.

Connection to the Tribal Bible

First Conri Tora is connected to the Tribal Bible, an ancient source of knowledge and power whose pages have been scattered.

During a vision, he instructs a proctor to locate the missing pages.

He claims they are:

• buried in old ruins;
• hidden in ancient libraries;
• guarded by people unaware of their importance;
• capable of increasing the reader’s power.

The First also acknowledges that using the Bible’s spells drains Ka’ru.

He claims that a method exists to avoid paying entirely with the practitioner’s own life force.

The hidden key or focus

According to the First, an object or mechanism remains hidden somewhere in Nebu.

He describes it as:

• a key;
• a focus;
• something left behind by the original Conri Tora;
• a means of channeling surrounding life force rather than consuming only the user’s Ka’ru.

The object has not been fully identified in the available material.

Its location, appearance and current owner remain unknown.

The First’s instructions concerning it may be truthful, manipulative or both.

Desire to reunite the tribes

The First tells the proctor to reunite divided tribes through truth rather than conquest.

He presents this as a restoration of what existed before the tribes were broken.

This claim stands in tension with his own methods, which include:

• possession;
• deception;
• suppression of consciousness;
• manipulation of children;
• control through secret agents.

The contradiction raises an important question:

Does the First genuinely desire unity, or does he desire a unified structure that can be controlled through him?

The story has not yet provided a final answer.

First meeting with Rimitorry

Chronologically, one of the earliest known appearances of First Conri Tora occurs when Rimitorry is four years old.

Rimitorry wanders beyond the immediate fires of her family’s territory but does not believe she has entered danger.

She finds the First standing between the trees.

His presence creates immediate unease.

Although she believes she should run or scream, her fear becomes quiet around him.

The First greets her as:

Hello, little one.

— First Conri Tora to Rimitorry

Rimitorry explains that she is forbidden from speaking to strangers.

Rather than dismissing the rule, the First calls it a good one.

He then bypasses it by exchanging names with her and declaring that they are no longer strangers.

The exchange demonstrates his understanding of childhood reasoning.

He does not force Rimitorry to abandon a rule.

He reshapes the rule until it no longer protects her.

Knowledge of the Dark Alpha’s future

The First tells Rimitorry that he knew what her father would become before her father knew it himself.

At that time, Rimitorry’s father has not yet inherited or assumed the name Conri Tora.

The First later predicts that the name will be carried by him.

This suggests access to one or more of the following:

• prophecy;
• future memory;
• Ka’ru-based foresight;
• predetermined historical cycles;
• knowledge of a plan already in motion.

The exact source of this knowledge remains unknown.

Manipulation of Rimitorry’s kidnapping

The First informs Rimitorry that warriors are approaching and will take her deeper into Murder Island.

He tells her not to scream.

When Rimitorry says she does not want to go, he explains that the approaching men will die if she resists loudly.

This places moral responsibility for their survival onto a four-year-old child.

He then tells her that the warriors will bring her to other children.

The promise targets Rimitorry’s deepest emotional vulnerability.

At that time:

• she has no nearby children her age;
• she creates imaginary kingdoms alone;
• she longs for siblings;
• she wants someone with whom she can run and play.

The First knows exactly what promise will overcome her fear.

The island’s memory

When Rimitorry asks how he knows what will happen, the First replies:

Because this night has already happened in the island’s memory.

— First Conri Tora

The statement is one of the most important unresolved lines associated with him.

Possible interpretations include:

• the event has occurred in a previous cycle;
• Murder Island possesses a living memory;
• the First can perceive future events as memories;
• time behaves differently on the island;
• Ka’ru preserves events before they occur;
• the First helped arrange the event and speaks metaphorically.

Rimitorry herself remains uncertain whether he means:

• time;
• prophecy;
• Ka’ru;
• something older than all three.

Love becoming rage

The First explains that Rimitorry’s father and the others must be moved.

He tells her that some doors on Murder Island do not open through peace and only open when love becomes rage.

Rimitorry’s kidnapping does exactly that.

The event draws:

• her father;
• Utrea;
• Kavumo;
• Knargz;
• Zuberi

toward Nhem’Rakul.

The resulting attack destroys the settlement’s adult resistance, rescues its surviving children and contributes to the family structure that later develops around Ka’Rukan.

The First therefore uses Rimitorry not merely as a hostage but as a lever capable of moving The Five.

Promise of safety

The First promises that the kidnappers themselves are not the danger Rimitorry should fear.

His statement is partly accurate.

The warriors do not immediately torture or kill her.

However, the promise conceals the larger consequences:

• Nhem’Rakul is destroyed;
• adults die;
• children lose their settlement;
• The Five expand their influence;
• Rimitorry becomes more deeply tied to the violence of Murder Island.

The First’s manipulation often operates through partial truth rather than simple falsehood.

Prophecy of the inherited name

Before disappearing, the First tells Rimitorry:

One day, your father will carry my name. When he does, the island will begin a new wound.

— First Conri Tora

He adds that the night of her kidnapping will help determine how deep the wound becomes.

The prediction connects several events:

• Rimitorry’s abduction;
• the movement of The Five;
• the destruction of Nhem’Rakul;
• the growth of the Ka’Rukan family;
• the father’s future identity as Conri Tora;
• later conflict involving Nebu and the First.

The full meaning of the new wound has not yet been revealed.

Disappearance into darkness

After the kidnappers approach, the First steps backward into darkness.

He does not appear to walk or run.

He simply becomes part of the dark.

This may represent:

• teleportation;
• shadow manipulation;
• invisibility;
• a vision ending;
• withdrawal of a projected form.

No definitive mechanism is provided.

Effect on Rimitorry

The First’s encounter leaves a long psychological wound in Rimitorry.

Years later, when Polezah calls her “little one,” the phrase immediately reminds her of the man in the forest.

The memory connects:

• childhood vulnerability;
• manipulation;
• the taking of names;
• Polezah’s increasingly unsettling personality;
• the feeling that someone has found an old wound and pressed it.

Rimitorry eventually understands that the First did not overpower her physically.

He opened the part of her heart shaped by loneliness.

Influence over Nebu’s Alpha line

The First’s influence extends into the leadership history of Nebu.

At least one Alpha before the Dark Alpha served as his host.

This transforms Nebu’s succession from a purely political process into a potential system of spiritual contamination.

A ruler may inherit:

• authority;
• enemies;
• ritual obligations;
• vulnerability to possession;
• the attention of the First.

It remains unknown whether every Alpha has been exposed to the same danger.

Possession of the old Alpha

The old Alpha who ruled Nebu before Conri’s Calling was a woman.

Utrea later reveals that the old ruler had also been used by First Conri Tora.

This confirms that the entity can inhabit hosts of different genders.

Utrea eventually kills the old Alpha.

According to her account, the entity inside the host has nowhere to transfer when the body dies.

It dissolves, leaving the ruler’s brain behind.

Utrea preserves the brain in a sealed container.

The remains are later used to study:

• the entity’s nature;
• possession;
• host dependence;
• possible vulnerabilities;
• methods of exorcism.

This discovery becomes essential to the eventual liberation of Kavumo.

Host death without escape

The old Alpha’s death provides evidence that First Conri Tora’s survival is conditional.

When a host dies and the entity cannot reach another suitable body, at least the portion or manifestation occupying that host may dissolve.

It remains uncertain whether:

• this destroys the entire First;
• it destroys only one extension of him;
• multiple versions can exist simultaneously;
• a primary self remains on Murder Island while projected fragments occupy hosts.

The later text suggests that a “real” or original presence remains associated with the island, making his metaphysical structure more complicated than ordinary one-body possession.

Selection of Kavumo

The First takes Kavumo on the night before Kavumo is meant to win his Calling.

Conri later explains that the entity had been waiting for someone strong enough to wear.

Kavumo is an exceptional target because he possesses:

• enormous Ka’ru;
• extraordinary physical strength;
• membership in The Five;
• access to the family;
• future authority in Terra;
• the trust of Conri, Utrea, Knargz and Zuberi.

Possessing him gives the First both a powerful body and a politically valuable identity.

The night before the Calling

The timing of the possession is strategic.

By taking Kavumo immediately before the Calling, the First gains an opportunity to:

• leave Murder Island;
• enter Terra;
• claim the authority of an Alpha;
• separate Kavumo from the people most capable of recognizing the deception;
• expand his influence beyond the island.

Kavumo’s Calling therefore becomes both his escape from Murder Island and the beginning of his sixteen-year imprisonment.

Suppression of Kavumo

The First does not erase Kavumo’s consciousness.

Instead, he pushes it aside and confines it within the host’s own mind.

Kavumo remains aware.

He experiences:

• every battle;
• every killing;
• every movement of his hands;
• every conversation conducted with his face;
• every moment in which the First pretends to be family.

He cannot:

• control his body;
• speak;
• cry;
• warn anyone;
• stop the violence committed through him.

The possession is therefore not only theft of the body.

It is prolonged psychological imprisonment.

Wearing Kavumo for sixteen years

First Conri Tora controls Kavumo’s body for sixteen years.

During that time, he learns enough to present himself publicly as Kavumo.

He claims to have learned:

• mannerisms;
• memories;
• personal history;
• the emotional language of the family;
• Kavumo’s soul.

Despite this access, the imitation is imperfect.

The family notices behavioral differences.

The false Kavumo

The First’s performance as Kavumo creates a disturbing contradiction.

He possesses the correct:

• body;
• face;
• voice;
• memories;
• combat ability.

Yet the people who love Kavumo sense that the person inside is not their brother.

His actions reveal differences that memory alone cannot conceal.

Behavioral evidence

One of the greatest clues is the false Kavumo’s relationship with killing.

During his Calling, the possessed Kavumo wins without killing his opponents.

To outsiders, restraint may appear merciful or admirable.

To the family, it is wrong.

The real Kavumo is remembered as gentle in some personal situations but also deeply shaped by Murder Island’s violence. His battlefield behavior follows patterns the First cannot reproduce correctly.

The family watches the difference and begins planning.

Combat through Kavumo

While controlling Kavumo, the First demonstrates extreme combat ability.

He defeats three Harpies through precise nonlethal destruction, breaking joints and disabling them without immediately killing them.

He also defeats Deathwave in approximately eleven seconds.

These feats demonstrate access to:

• Kavumo’s speed;
• Kavumo’s strength;
• Kavumo’s reflexes;
• Kavumo’s combat knowledge;
• Kavumo’s Ka’ru.

It remains unclear how much of the technique belongs to Kavumo’s stored memory and how much comes from the First’s own thousands of years of experience.

Hidden awareness of the family

Conri, Utrea, Knargz and Zuberi suspect the truth for years.

They do not confront the First immediately.

Instead, they:

• observe;
• compare behavior;
• study earlier possession;
• search for weaknesses;
• prepare a binding method;
• place an intelligence source near the possessed host.

Their patience mirrors the First’s own long-term planning.

Oshira’s surveillance

Oshira is positioned inside Nebu as a hidden observer.

She possesses the ability to see and hear across extraordinary distances and through barriers.

For thirteen years, she watches the First while he believes himself unobserved.

She reports to Utrea concerning:

• his private speech;
• his plans;
• his intended use of the proctor;
• his fears;
• moments of weakness;
• his reaction to the possible reunification of the tribes.

The First’s defeat is therefore made possible partly by surveillance he never detects.

The milk-white-eyed elder

An unnamed elder with milk-white eyes serves First Conri Tora.

The elder assists him for sixteen years by:

• helping maintain Kavumo’s possession;
• ensuring the real Kavumo remains suppressed;
• spreading or protecting false information;
• influencing the proctor;
• redirecting people who approach the truth.

The exact beginning of the elder’s service is unknown.

The relationship may have lasted far longer than Kavumo’s possession.

The elder later claims he acted because he feared the First would kill him.

The extent to which this is true remains uncertain.

Manipulation of the proctor

The First communicates with a proctor through a vision.

Within it, he offers:

• secret history;
• warnings concerning The Five;
• information about the Tribal Bible;
• instructions to locate missing pages;
• information concerning the hidden key;
• a mission to reunite the tribes.

He depicts The Five as former broken children who grew into hungry and destructive powers.

This description contains recognizable truth but is delivered by an entity attempting to recruit or manipulate the listener.

The First’s strategy is effective because he does not offer a complete lie.

He combines:

• genuine secrets;
• selective history;
• moral criticism;
• promises of power;
• warnings against potential allies.

Account of The Five’s escape

The First claims that after he demonstrated their weakness, the future Five formed a plan to kill Nebu’s old Alpha, accelerate their Callings and escape Murder Island.

He portrays their later rise as a response to fear of him.

This may explain part of the family’s hidden history.

However, the account is not independently presented from a neutral perspective.

It may exaggerate his importance in order to make every later event appear centered upon him.

Concealment of Reonniz

After Kavumo is freed, the family states that Reonniz was taken to Terra on the day of his birth and hidden from Conri and Utrea for thirteen years by First Conri Tora.

The exact details of the operation have not yet been fully shown.

His motive may have involved:

• control over the bloodline;
• manipulation of future conflict;
• preventing family reunification;
• preserving a useful child as leverage;
• shaping a future host or weapon.

It is not confirmed that the First intended to possess Reonniz.

Awakening in the healing tank

After Kavumo’s body is severely injured, the Doctor places him inside a healing tank.

The First awakens while the body is still submerged.

His consciousness responds to:

• the restored flesh;
• Kavumo’s Ka’ru;
• sixteen years of familiarity with the body.

He destroys the tank, steps from the wreckage and asks for Conri.

The First believes he is entering the throne room from a position of restored power.

In reality, the family is waiting for him.

The throne-room trap

The First enters Nebu’s throne room wearing Kavumo’s face.

Present are:

• Conri;
• Utrea;
• Knargz;
• Zuberi;
• Oshira.

No ordinary guards, Harpies or Deathwave units surround them.

The controlled environment is designed specifically for the confrontation.

Conri rejects the entity’s claim to Kavumo by declaring that Kavumo does not belong to it.

The binding circle

Twelve mages emerge and form a binding circle around the First.

The circle is described as ancient and absolute.

Once activated, it prevents the possessed body from:

• moving freely;
• summoning power;
• escaping immediately.

The First experiences fear because a method prepared across sixteen years has successfully neutralized advantages he believed secure.

Exposure of the deception

The First insists no one could have identified the possession.

Utrea answers that the family always could.

They explain that the difference became visible during the Calling.

This revelation destroys one of the First’s central assumptions:

He can steal memories, but he cannot perfectly manufacture belonging.

Death of the elder

Khalembo enters the throne room dragging the milk-white-eyed elder.

The elder is exposed as the person who helped maintain the possession.

Conri pronounces a sentence of death.

Khalembo executes the elder with his scythe.

The killing removes the First’s principal known servant and demonstrates that the network protecting the possession has collapsed.

Exorcism from Kavumo

The mages intensify the binding ritual.

The First is torn from Kavumo’s body violently.

The separation affects:

• flesh;
• memory;
• consciousness;
• the surrounding air;
• the physical stability of the room.

Kavumo’s body convulses as sixteen years of suppression end.

The exorcism allows his own consciousness to regain control.

Confrontation with Khalembo

Once separated from Kavumo, the First directs his attention toward Khalembo.

For the first time in millennia, his ancient eyes visibly contain fear.

The First threatens to return.

Khalembo responds without fear and promises that he will continue growing stronger while the First remains alone on the island.

The exchange reverses the relationship the First normally creates.

Instead of opening another child’s fear, he encounters a child who enjoys the idea of eventually hunting him.

Return to Murder Island

The exorcism does not annihilate First Conri Tora.

The spell sends him back to Murder Island.

Reality appears to fold around him as he vanishes.

The return suggests that Murder Island may function as:

• his original home;
• his spiritual anchor;
• a prison;
• the location of his primary self;
• the only place capable of containing his hostless state.

The precise nature of the binding remains unknown.

Liberation of Kavumo

After the First disappears, Kavumo regains control of his body.

His eyes remain gold but become recognizably his own.

He sees:

• Conri;
• Utrea;
• Knargz;
• Zuberi;
• Khalembo.

Kavumo learns that sixteen years have passed.

He explains that he felt everything the First did through him.

His survival confirms that a host can remain alive and conscious through an extraordinarily long possession.

It also demonstrates that removing the First does not automatically restore the years or identity stolen from the victim.

Possession mechanics

The available material establishes several rules concerning the First’s possession.

Element	Confirmed or suggested function
Host selection	The First appears to prefer unusually powerful bodies capable of containing him.
Entry	The exact physical or spiritual method of entering a host has not been revealed.
Consciousness	The original consciousness remains present but can be pushed into a confined part of its own mind.
Memory access	The First can access memories, personal history and learned behavior.
Identity imitation	He can use the host’s face, voice and mannerisms but may fail to reproduce emotional patterns recognized by close family.
Physical ability	He can use the host’s strength, reflexes, training and Ka’ru.
Duration	Possession can continue for at least sixteen years.
Host awareness	Kavumo remains aware of actions performed through his body.
Host survival	Kavumo survives possession and recovers control after exorcism.
Transfer	The First is believed to move between bodies, though the exact transfer process remains unknown.
Host death	A host’s death may destroy or dissolve the occupying manifestation when no escape route or replacement body is available.
Removal	Coordinated magical binding and exorcism can separate the First from a living host.
Hostless state	Without Kavumo, the First appears drastically weakened and is described as a ghost without a host’s power.

Known hosts

Host	Position	Duration	Outcome
Unnamed old Alpha	Ruler of Nebu before Conri’s Calling	Unknown	Killed by Utrea. The occupying manifestation reportedly dissolved when it could not transfer. The host’s brain was preserved for study.
Kavumo Dlamini	Member of The Five and later Alpha of Terra	Sixteen years	First Conri Tora was exorcised. Kavumo survived and regained control of his body.

The First claims to have moved from body to body for thousands of years, suggesting numerous additional hosts.

Their identities remain unknown.

Abilities and powers

Bodily possession

The First can occupy living bodies and control them for extended periods.

This is his defining power.

Consciousness suppression

He can imprison the original person within their own mind while keeping them conscious.

The suppression may last for years.

Memory access

The First can access enough of a host’s memories to imitate personal history and relationships.

The limits of this access remain uncertain.

Identity imitation

He can reproduce:

• voice;
• facial expressions;
• familiar language;
• remembered behavior;
• public identity.

The imitation is highly convincing but not flawless.

Use of host Ka’ru

While occupying Kavumo, he can use Kavumo’s immense Ka’ru and physical abilities.

Combat experience

The First combines a powerful host body with ancient personal experience.

This makes him capable of defeating elite fighters and engineered weapons.

Long-term survival

He has apparently survived for thousands of years by moving through hosts.

This is functional immortality rather than confirmed absolute invulnerability.

Psychological manipulation

He identifies emotional wounds and turns them into tools.

Rimitorry’s loneliness is the clearest example.

Apparent prophetic awareness

He knows in advance that Rimitorry will be taken and predicts her father’s later use of his name.

The source of this knowledge is unknown.

Awareness of island memory

The First claims that events may already exist within Murder Island’s memory.

Whether he reads, creates or merely interprets that memory remains unresolved.

Vision projection

He can communicate through at least one extended vision containing historical scenes, instructions and warnings.

Shadow-like disappearance

His forest manifestation disappears by becoming part of the darkness.

The exact nature of this ability is not confirmed.

Political manipulation

He operates through:

• hosts;
• agents;
• visions;
• hidden knowledge;
• disputed history;
• manipulation of succession.

His greatest power may be the ability to shape events while remaining hidden behind another person’s face.

Weaknesses and limitations

Dependence on hosts

The First is substantially more powerful while occupying a suitable body.

Without Kavumo, he appears reduced to a vulnerable ghost-like state.

Requirement for powerful vessels

Conri states that the First waited for someone strong enough to wear.

This implies that weak bodies may be unable to contain him.

Binding magic

An ancient binding circle created by twelve mages prevents him from moving or summoning power.

Exorcism

Coordinated ritual magic can remove him from a living host.

Host death without transfer

The death of the old Alpha reportedly causes the occupying manifestation to dissolve when it has nowhere to go.

Behavioral inconsistencies

The First can imitate memory more successfully than emotional truth.

People who know a host intimately may detect the difference.

Surveillance

Oshira’s long-term observation allows the family to learn his plans and vulnerabilities.

His confidence in secrecy makes him vulnerable to someone he does not recognize as an observer.

Agents

The First relies upon servants such as the milk-white-eyed elder.

Removing those agents weakens his ability to sustain deception and possession.

Arrogance

He believes age and stolen memory make him impossible to detect.

That belief contributes directly to his defeat.

Uncertain freedom from Murder Island

After exorcism, the First is returned to Murder Island.

It is unclear whether he can leave without:

• a host;
• a Calling;
• an agent;
• a ritual;
• someone opening a path for him.

Relationships

Rimitorry Ka’ Tora

Rimitorry Ka’ Tora is one of the First’s earliest known targets in the chronology.

He does not possess her.

He manipulates her.

The First recognizes that Rimitorry’s loneliness can move her more effectively than force.

His intervention contributes to:

• her kidnapping;
• the destruction of Nhem’Rakul;
• the formation of new childhood bonds;
• the movement of The Five;
• the future development of Ka’Rukan.

Rimitorry remembers him for years.

Their relationship is defined by a violation of trust disguised as understanding.

The Dark Alpha

The Dark Alpha later carries the name Conri Tora.

The First predicts this before it occurs.

They become enemies.

Conri spends years helping prepare the plan that frees Kavumo and rejects the First’s ownership of his brother.

Their shared name creates an unresolved question concerning inheritance and identity.

Kavumo Dlamini

Kavumo Dlamini is the First’s most important confirmed host.

The entity steals:

• sixteen years of his life;
• control of his body;
• his public identity;
• his role in family memories;
• his ability to choose whether his hands kill.

Kavumo’s survival transforms the possession from a simple replacement into prolonged captivity.

Their relationship is one of the darkest violations in the series.

Utrea

Utrea is one of the principal architects of the First’s defeat.

She:

• kills the possessed old Alpha;
• preserves the brain;
• studies the entity;
• coordinates long-term intelligence;
• helps prepare Kavumo’s liberation;
• recognizes the false Kavumo.

Utrea fights the First through knowledge rather than direct rage alone.

Knargz

Knargz helps observe the possessed Kavumo and participates in the family’s sixteen-year plan.

His loyalty to Kavumo prevents the First from fully replacing their brother within the family.

Zuberi Ka’ Nalo

Zuberi Ka’ Nalo studies patterns and notices that the false Kavumo’s behavior does not align with the real man.

He helps maintain the patient strategy leading to the exorcism.

Oshira

Oshira becomes one of the First’s greatest hidden threats.

She watches him for thirteen years while he assumes she is merely part of Nebu’s environment.

Her reports reveal his private plans and fears.

The relationship reverses the normal structure of his power:

The possessor believes he is the unseen observer, but Oshira is watching him.

Khalembo

Khalembo kills the elder who helped maintain Kavumo’s possession.

He then confronts the hostless First without fear.

The First threatens to return.

Khalembo treats the threat as a future challenge rather than a source of terror.

The First’s fear of Khalembo suggests that the child may eventually become capable of confronting him directly.

The milk-white-eyed elder

The unnamed elder serves the First for at least the duration of Kavumo’s possession.

He helps protect the deception and manipulate the proctor.

His execution removes the First’s principal known human collaborator.

The proctor

The First approaches the proctor through a vision and attempts to shape the person into:

• reader of the Tribal Bible;
• seeker of missing pages;
• finder of the hidden key;
• possible unifier of the tribes;
• opponent or critic of The Five.

Whether the proctor is intended as an ally, instrument, future host or temporary agent remains unknown.

The old Alpha

The unnamed old Alpha of Nebu is a confirmed host.

Her individual personality, history and degree of awareness during possession have not yet been shown.

Reonniz

The First is involved in hiding Reonniz from his parents for thirteen years.

The exact relationship between them remains largely unrevealed.

Role in the story

First Conri Tora performs several major narrative functions.

Hidden origin of corruption

He reveals that the violence surrounding Nebu’s Alpha line is not purely political.

It is also spiritual, parasitic and inherited.

Manipulator of foundational events

His intervention helps create the circumstances leading to Rimitorry’s kidnapping and Nhem’Rakul’s destruction.

Violation of identity

Through Kavumo, the story explores what happens when a person remains alive but loses control of:

• body;
• voice;
• reputation;
• moral agency.

Distorted historian

The First possesses ancient knowledge but delivers it through manipulation.

Readers must determine which parts are:

• history;
• prophecy;
• confession;
• recruitment;
• self-justification.

Mirror of the Dark Alpha

Both the First and the Dark Alpha are associated with:

• power;
• inheritance;
• control;
• fear;
• the Conri Tora name.

The difference is that the Dark Alpha openly rules through his own body, while the First survives by taking the bodies of others.

Threat beyond death

Most enemies can be defeated by killing them.

The First turns death into a logistical problem.

Defeating the host may not defeat the entity.

Character analysis

A monster who enters rather than conquers

The First does not need to defeat an entire kingdom openly.

He can enter one person near its center and allow everyone else to continue obeying the stolen face.

His form of conquest is internal.

Partial truth as a weapon

The First rarely depends on obvious lies.

He tells Rimitorry there will be other children.

There are.

He tells her the kidnappers are not the greatest danger.

They are not.

He tells the proctor that The Five are dangerous.

They are.

The manipulation occurs through what he omits and how he directs the listener’s response.

Immortality as theft

The First’s survival is not presented as peaceful transcendence.

Every additional life may require someone else to lose ownership of their body.

His immortality is therefore built from stolen time.

Memory without belonging

The First can acquire memories but cannot fully become the person remembered by others.

The family recognizes Kavumo through patterns that cannot be reduced to stored information.

The story distinguishes between:

• knowing what someone did;
• knowing why they did it;
• being the person who shared the moment.

The corruption beneath titles

The name Conri Tora and the title of Alpha become dangerous because they may carry more than political authority.

They may also carry:

• ancient expectation;
• spiritual vulnerability;
• inherited enemies;
• unfinished possession.

Children as doors

The First repeatedly approaches younger or vulnerable people as access points into larger systems.

Rimitorry becomes a door to The Five.

The proctor becomes a possible door to the Tribal Bible.

Reonniz becomes a hidden point of conflict within the family.

He understands that moving one child can move an empire.

Themes

First Conri Tora is closely associated with themes including:

• stolen identity;
• bodily autonomy;
• inherited corruption;
• memory and personhood;
• immortality through exploitation;
• names as wounds;
• children manipulated by ancient powers;
• political authority as spiritual contamination;
• truth mixed with deception;
• family recognition;
• history controlled by its oldest survivor;
• possession as prolonged imprisonment;
• the inability to accept death.

Quotes

My name is Conri Tora.

— First Conri Tora introducing himself to Rimitorry

Because this night has already happened in the island’s memory.

— First Conri Tora explaining his knowledge of Rimitorry’s kidnapping

Some doors on this island do not open for peace, little wolf. Some only open when love becomes rage.

— First Conri Tora

One day, your father will carry my name.

— First Conri Tora to Rimitorry

I wore him like skin.

— First Conri Tora describing his possession of Kavumo

You can’t kill me. I’m immortal.

— First Conri Tora while trapped in the binding circle

This isn’t over. I will return.

— First Conri Tora after being removed from Kavumo

Status

First Conri Tora is not confirmed dead.

His latest confirmed condition is:

• removed from Kavumo;
• without a known host;
• stripped of Kavumo’s physical power;
• forcibly returned to Murder Island;
• separated from his known elder;
• still conscious;
• still threatening to return.

His status is best described as:

Exorcised and contained on Murder Island, but not destroyed.

Whether he can acquire another host remains unknown.

Legacy

First Conri Tora’s legacy extends across multiple generations.

He is connected to:

• the oldest known history of the Conri Tora name;
• the corruption of Nebu’s earlier Alpha line;
• the possession of Kavumo;
• the concealment of Reonniz;
• the manipulation of Rimitorry;
• the scattered Tribal Bible;
• the hidden key in Nebu;
• the unresolved history of divided tribes.

His greatest crime may not be any single killing.

It is the conversion of people into containers.

Under his influence:

• a ruler becomes a vessel;
• a brother becomes a disguise;
• a child becomes a lever;
• a memory becomes camouflage;
• a name becomes a wound.

He survives by convincing the world that the body it recognizes still contains the person it loves.

The liberation of Kavumo proves that the First can be removed.

His return to Murder Island proves that removal is not the same as ending.

Appearances

First Conri Tora appears or is centrally discussed in:

• Tribal Bloody Beginnings: The Rise of the Dark Alpha
• Rimitorry: Daughter of the Dark Alpha

His major storylines include:

• the forest encounter with four-year-old Rimitorry;
• manipulation of Rimitorry’s kidnapping;
• prophecy concerning the Dark Alpha’s name;
• influence over Nebu’s old Alpha;
• ancient history involving the Tribal Bible;
• communication with the proctor;
• possession of Kavumo;
• sixteen-year suppression of Kavumo’s consciousness;
• concealment of Reonniz;
• surveillance by Oshira;
• the healing-tank awakening;
• the Nebu throne-room trap;
• the death of the milk-white-eyed elder;
• exorcism from Kavumo;
• return to Murder Island.

See also

• The Dark Alpha
• Rimitorry Ka’ Tora
• Kavumo Dlamini
• Utrea
• Knargz
• Zuberi Ka’ Nalo
• Oshira
• Khalembo
• Reonniz
• The Five
• Family of Alpha and Utrea
• Murder Island
• Nebu
• Terra
• Ka’ru
• Tribal Bible
• Calling
• Nhem’Rakul
• Tribal Bloody Beginnings: The Rise of the Dark Alpha
• Rimitorry: Daughter of the Dark Alpha
• Children of the Dark Alpha
• Tribal Universe