Sakori
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| Name | Sakori |
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| Series | Tribal |
| First | Tribal: Bloody Beginnings |
| Creator | Tony James Nelson II |
| Species | Human |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Warrior |
| Affiliation | Family of Alpha and Utrea |
| Relatives | Alpha (father); Utrea (mother); Doctor Polezah (brother); Rimitorry (sister); Eshari (sister); Zafira (sister); Khalembo (brother); Reonniz (brother) |
| Weapon | Blade |
| Status | Alive |
Sakori is a fictional character in Tribal: Bloody Beginnings by Tony James Nelson II. He is one of the most important members of the fractured sibling generation surrounding Alpha, Utrea, and the children scattered by war, abandonment, and divided loyalties. Among the siblings, Sakori is one of the clearest emotional anchors: a fighter capable of terrifying endurance, but also one of the few people still trying to hold the family together instead of simply surviving its ruin.
Sakori plays a major role in the family-centered revelations of the Book. He is the one who overheard Alpha and Utrea’s argument on the night before the Calling, carries memories of the family split that other siblings only lived from the outside, and repeatedly chooses love and kinship over blind violence when confronting his brother Khalembo and sister Zafira.
He is also one of the central younger-generation members of the Family of Alpha and Utrea, where his role is not just to fight, but to remember.
Biography
Origins
Sakori is part of the bloodline centered on Alpha and Utrea, and is one of the siblings tied to Doctor Polezah, Rimitorry, Eshari, Zafira, Khalembo, and Reonniz. The Book places him directly inside the family’s key emotional and historical fractures.
During a confrontation with Eshari, he says he was there on the night before the Calling, seventeen years old and hiding near the edge of the territory, when he overheard Conri and Utrea arguing. That memory makes him one of the only siblings with direct knowledge of how the family separation unfolded.
Witness to the family split
Sakori’s importance in the family mythology comes partly from what he knows. He is not just another child shaped by the aftermath; he is an eyewitness to the final fracture. When Eshari accuses the others of abandoning her, Zafira, and Khalembo, Sakori steps forward carefully and says, “That’s not the whole story, sister,” before recounting how he heard Utrea and Conri fighting the night before the second Calling.
This positions Sakori as one of the few siblings who understands that what happened was not simple indifference, but a deeper collapse inside the family and its power structure.
Relationship with Zafira
One of Sakori’s most important scenes is his reunion with Zafira. When she claims loyalty to Alpha as his daughter and favorite, Sakori challenges her to prove it by fighting him. She refuses, confessing that he is the only one who ever held her when she cried, taught her to laugh, and made her feel safe. Sakori responds by remembering her as a frightened three-year-old who grabbed his shirt in the dark and looked at him as if he could fix anything. He admits that he could not fix anything and could not even stay, but that he remembered her always.
This scene establishes Sakori as one of the few truly nurturing figures in the sibling generation. Even after years of separation, he still carries the memory of protecting her.
Relationship with Khalembo
Sakori’s bond with Khalembo is one of the most emotional in the Book. During their confrontation, Khalembo cannot bring himself to attack immediately. Instead, Sakori runs to him, embraces him, apologizes repeatedly, and promises not to leave again. Khalembo, reduced in that moment from conqueror to grieving child, clings to him and begs him not to leave. Sakori then devises a way for Khalembo to save face before Alpha by staging a real-looking fight rather than forcing a true betrayal. He promises to wait for Khalembo until he is strong enough to walk away and be his brother again.
The scene reveals Sakori’s central trait: even in the middle of violence, he still tries to preserve his siblings’ humanity.
Connection to Eshari
Sakori addresses Eshari directly as “sister” during one of her bitter confrontations with the group. He is one of the few who tries to answer her pain instead of simply reacting to her anger. His response suggests that he still sees her as family, even after years of bitterness and separation.
Mission toward Reonniz
Sakori is part of the group moving toward Reonniz in Terra. Zafira explicitly includes him in the conversation when she reveals she knows Kavumo took Reonniz and that Alpha will destroy the world to find him first. Sakori’s presence in these scenes helps position him as one of the siblings actively working to recover what remains of the family rather than surrendering it to Alpha’s control.
Personality
Sakori is protective, emotionally durable, and unusually compassionate for a character raised in such a brutal world. He is capable of fury and violence, but his strongest distinguishing trait is restraint shaped by love rather than weakness. He is the sibling who remembers, the sibling who explains, and the sibling who still reaches for family even when family has become dangerous.
He also carries guilt. In his scenes with Zafira and Khalembo, he openly admits that he could not stay and could not protect everyone. That guilt deepens his tenderness rather than hardening him into cruelty. In a Book full of broken predators, Sakori often feels like the one still trying to be a brother first.
Abilities and traits
- Elite swordsman
- Extremely high pain tolerance and battlefield endurance
- Capable of continuing to fight while heavily wounded
- Strong enough to survive battles against multiple top-tier threats
- Emotionally stabilizing presence among the siblings
- Strategic instinct in emotionally volatile situations
The Book portrays Sakori as almost absurdly durable. Khalembo inventories his wounds after battle and notes that Sakori had already fought the Harpies, the Commander, Deathwave, and Alpha, and was still standing. Khalembo calls him “magnificent” and “the strongest of us all.” Sakori himself describes himself as “his oldest” and “the boy who spat in his face,” insisting that he does not know how to fall.
Relationships
The Dark Alpha
Alpha is Sakori’s father. Their relationship is shaped by conflict, defiance, and survival rather than warmth. Sakori is identified as Alpha’s oldest son in one confrontation, and his refusal to break under Alpha’s violence becomes part of his identity.
Utrea
Utrea is Sakori’s mother. He heard her arguing with Conri on the night before the Calling, making him one of the siblings most directly tied to the truth of the family’s collapse.
Doctor Polezah
Doctor Polezah is Sakori’s brother and one of the strangest branches of the same bloodline. Where Sakori represents memory, endurance, and emotional protection, Polezah represents science, experimentation, and the engineered side of the family’s horror.
Zafira
Zafira is Sakori’s younger sister. Their reunion confirms a long emotional history, with Sakori having comforted her as a child when she was terrified in the dark. She refuses to fight him because she loves him.
Khalembo
Khalembo is Sakori’s younger brother. Their reunion is defined by grief, apology, and a desperate attempt to preserve brotherhood in front of Alpha’s gaze. Sakori tells Khalembo that he will wait for him until he is ready to be his brother again.
Eshari
Eshari is Sakori’s sister. He tries to answer her bitterness with memory and truth, rather than denying the pain she carries.
Rimitorry
Rimitorry is one of Sakori’s sisters and part of the sibling group he moves with during the journey scenes. Their dynamic is less foregrounded than some others, but they are clearly part of the same family effort to understand the past and reach Reonniz.
Reonniz
Reonniz is Sakori’s brother and part of the larger family mission driving the group toward Terra. His hidden existence helps bind the siblings into action.
Role in the story
Sakori serves several major functions in Tribal: Bloody Beginnings:
- He preserves memory of the family split.
- He provides one of the Book’s clearest examples of brotherly love.
- He stabilizes or redirects volatile sibling confrontations.
- He demonstrates extreme combat endurance and status.
- He helps keep the fractured bloodline oriented toward Reonniz and possible reunion.
Themes
Sakori is strongly tied to several of the Book’s major themes:
- Family fracture
- Memory and witness
- Brotherhood and protection
- Endurance under violence
- Love as resistance
- Guilt and failed protection
Trivia
- Sakori was seventeen when he overheard Alpha and Utrea arguing the night before the Calling.
- Zafira remembers him as the only one who held her when she cried.
- Khalembo begs him not to leave again during their reunion.
- Khalembo calls him “the strongest of us all” after seeing him survive impossible injuries.
- Sakori says he is “the boy who spat in his face,” referring to Alpha.
See also
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