Thirty-Two

Thirty-Two

Thirty-Two, the Nebu proctor also called Jabari Nthanda
Publication information
Series	Tribal Universe
Created by	Tony James Nelson II, writing as Tribal Brown
Publisher	Roovet Books
First appearance	Tribal Bloody Beginnings: The Rise of the Dark Alpha
Publication date	July 17, 2026
In-universe information
Full name	Jabari Nthanda
Aliases	32 Proctor • wolf operative • interrogator
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Age	26 at the beginning of Tribal Bloody Beginnings
Occupation	Former occupations: Wolf operative • extractor • interrogator Current role: Proctor • sacred witness • Tribal Bible reader
Affiliation	Nebu • office of proctor • expedition toward Terra
Relatives	Partner: Rimitorry Ka’ Tora
Status	Alive
Additional information
Age when taken	Nine
Years carrying number	Seventeen
Birth name	Unknown
Biological mother	Tia Washington
Home	Nebu
Primary power source	Ka'ru
Sacred access	Tribal Bible
Known abilities	Interrogation, close combat, pain tolerance, observation, conditioned emotional control, spell reading, magical activation and sacred witnessing
Featured comic issue	Tribal Comics Issue 4: Assault on Gia – Sakori’s Fury
Role in Issue 4	Point-of-view narrator • co-protagonist of the key search • magical witness to the assault on Gia
Adapted from	Chapter 18 of Tribal Bloody Beginnings: The Rise of the Dark Alpha

Thirty-Two, often written as 32 and later given the chosen name Jabari Nthanda by Rimitorry Ka’ Tora, is a fictional operative, interrogator, proctor, sacred witness and Tribal Bible reader in the Tribal Universe. He is one of the central point-of-view characters of Tribal Bloody Beginnings: The Rise of the Dark Alpha, written by Tony James Nelson II under the name Tribal Brown.

Thirty-Two was taken from his original life at the age of nine, stripped of his personal identity and assigned a numerical designation by Nebu. He spends seventeen years being conditioned into an obedient wolf operative capable of interrogation, extraction and violence without ordinary emotional hesitation.

His biological mother is later identified as Tia Washington. Before recognizing her, Thirty-Two is ordered to interrogate and brutalize her, making their relationship one of the clearest examples of Nebu’s ability to separate a person from memory, family and moral recognition.

Following the events connected to Tia, The Dark Alpha elevates Thirty-Two to the office of proctor. The position transforms him from a numbered enforcer into a witness responsible for memory, sacred record and hidden tribal truth. His new role brings him into contact with the Tribal Bible, the cost of reading its pages and the deeper history concealed beneath Nebu.

In 2026, Thirty-Two appears as the point-of-view narrator and one of the principal noncombat characters in Tribal Comics Issue 4: Assault on Gia – Sakori’s Fury, a 42-page visual adaptation of Chapter 18 of Tribal Bloody Beginnings.

During the comic, Alpha refuses to allow Thirty-Two to join the invasion of Gia, warning that his growing power and limited Tribal spells are not ready for the war. Rather than remaining passive, Thirty-Two takes Rimitorry into Nebu’s elders’ quarters and searches for a key capable of reducing the physical cost of reading the Tribal Bible.

An ancient elder reveals that the key is a cipher hidden inside Nebu’s oldest foundation—a room between walls connected to the place where Conri Tora first learned what he was. The elder then opens a magical viewing window through which Thirty-Two and Rimitorry witness Sakori defend Gia against Commander Zuberi, Deathwave, the Harpies, Alpha and Khalembo.

Thirty-Two’s role in the issue is therefore different from Sakori’s.

Sakori protects Gia through physical combat.

Thirty-Two protects the future through knowledge.

He watches, records, interprets and eventually acts upon information that may allow him to read the Tribal Bible without bleeding himself to death.

His story is centered on:

• identity and erasure;
• number and name;
• conditioning and awakening;
• violence and witness;
• memory and sacred record;
• the physical cost of forbidden knowledge;
• and the possibility that a person created as a tool may become the keeper of truths his creators intended to control.

This article contains major plot details from Tribal Bloody Beginnings and Tribal Comics Issue 4.

Canonical identity

Thirty-Two is a human male whose original childhood identity is largely unknown.

The available material establishes that:

• he was taken at the age of nine;
• his original personal name was erased or withheld;
• Nebu assigned him the designation Thirty-Two;
• he carried that designation for seventeen years;
• he is twenty-six at the beginning of the main story;
• he was trained as a wolf operative;
• he became skilled in extraction and interrogation;
• he was conditioned to suppress emotion and obey tribal authority;
• Tia Washington is his biological mother;
• he interrogated Tia before recognizing their relationship;
• the Dark Alpha later elevated him to proctor;
• he can read and activate pages of the Tribal Bible;
• reading the Bible extracts a severe physical cost;
• Rimitorry gives him the chosen name Jabari Nthanda;
• he searches for a cipher or key that can redirect the cost of reading;
• he witnesses the assault on Gia through an elder’s magical window;
• he travels with Rimitorry, Sakori, Eshari and Zafira during the effort to reach Reonniz;
• he remains alive during his latest confirmed appearance.

Confirmed facts

• Thirty-Two is his assigned Nebu designation.
• 32 is the shortened written form of that designation.
• He was nine when taken.
• He is twenty-six at the beginning of the novel.
• He has lived under the number for seventeen years.
• Tia Washington is his biological mother.
• He is trained in interrogation and violence.
• He is a central point-of-view character.
• He becomes a proctor.
• He can read at least some pages of the Tribal Bible.
• Tribal spells can injure, drain or potentially kill him.
• He has only a limited number of Bible pages during the assault on Gia.
• Sakori possesses or obtains thirteen Gia-associated pages that later expand Thirty-Two’s access.
• Rimitorry becomes his partner.
• Rimitorry gives him the name Jabari Nthanda.
• An elder identifies a hidden cipher capable of redirecting the cost of Bible use.
• The cipher is associated with Nebu’s oldest foundation.
• Thirty-Two and Rimitorry begin searching for the foundation while Alpha’s forces attack Gia.
• He is alive.

Unconfirmed information

The following details have not been fully revealed:

• his birth name;
• his birthplace;
• his biological father;
• the exact circumstances of his abduction;
• who selected the number Thirty-Two;
• whether he had siblings before Nebu;
• how much of his childhood memory can be recovered;
• the complete nature of the proctor office;
• the total number of Tribal Bible pages he will eventually possess;
• whether Jabari Nthanda becomes his permanent legal name;
• the complete limits of his Ka’ru;
• whether the key permanently removes the cost of spell use;
• who currently holds or protects the key;
• whether he survives the final conflict;
• his ultimate political allegiance.

Name and designations

Thirty-Two

Thirty-Two is the numerical identity imposed upon him by Nebu.

The designation functions as:

• a replacement for a personal name;
• evidence of ownership;
• a method of classification;
• a reminder that wolves are treated as interchangeable functions;
• a barrier between the adult operative and the child he once was.

For seventeen years, the number becomes the only identity most people around him recognize.

He does not initially treat the designation as unusual because the system that shaped him removed the expectation that he should possess anything else.

32

32 is the shortened written and spoken form of Thirty-Two.

It carries the same institutional meaning as the full designation.

The numerical form emphasizes efficiency and dehumanization. It reduces a person’s history, family and internal life to a label that can be recorded, commanded and replaced.

Proctor

Proctor is an office granted to Thirty-Two by the Dark Alpha.

The title separates him from ordinary wolves.

A proctor is associated with:

• witnessing;
• recording;
• memory;
• sacred knowledge;
• tribal truth;
• access to material hidden from ordinary operatives;
• responsibility for events that rulers may want remembered correctly.

The office grants Thirty-Two status while creating new danger.

As an interrogator, he was expected to extract truth from other people.

As a proctor, he becomes responsible for truths that may destroy him if he reads too deeply.

Jabari Nthanda

Jabari Nthanda is a chosen name given to Thirty-Two by Rimitorry.

It is not confirmed as his recovered birth name.

The distinction is important.

Rimitorry does not restore a name she has discovered in an archive. She gives him a new personal name because she rejects Nebu’s claim that a number is sufficient identity.

The name represents:

• personhood;
• intimacy;
• resistance to Nebu;
• the right to possess an identity beyond function;
• the possibility of becoming someone not entirely defined by the past.

Thirty-Two’s response to the name forms part of his gradual movement from conditioned instrument toward self-directed personhood.

Appearance

The available material focuses more heavily on Thirty-Two’s actions, internal narration and controlled physical behavior than on a complete visual description.

He is generally presented as:

• an adult male;
• physically trained through Nebu’s wolf system;
• capable of enduring interrogation environments and close combat;
• controlled in posture;
• observant in expression;
• difficult to read emotionally;
• marked by the discipline expected from a long-conditioned operative.

His exact:

• height;
• weight;
• eye color;
• hair color;
• hairstyle;
• scars;
• standard uniform;
• civilian clothing

have not been fully established in the available article material.

Official comic depiction

Tribal Comics Issue 4: Assault on Gia – Sakori’s Fury includes Thirty-Two as the chapter’s point-of-view narrator and magical witness.

Tribal Comics Issue 4 provides Thirty-Two’s first major comic-book role.

The visual adaptation presents him primarily within:

• Alpha’s throne room;
• Nebu’s corridors;
• the bone-walled route to the elders’ quarters;
• the elder’s chamber;
• the magical viewing window;
• the beginning of the descent toward Nebu’s oldest foundation.

His role is visually quieter than Sakori’s battlefield action but structurally essential.

The invasion is seen through the magical window opened for Thirty-Two and Rimitorry. This makes the proctor one of the audience’s principal witnesses to Sakori’s defense of Gia.

Personality

Thirty-Two is controlled, observant, analytical, emotionally restrained, direct and increasingly curious about the systems that created him.

His personality reflects two competing structures.

The first is Nebu’s conditioning.

The second is the person beginning to emerge beneath it.

Emotional control

Thirty-Two can function in environments of:

• pain;
• blood;
• fear;
• interrogation;
• death;
• political danger;
• supernatural pressure.

He does not normally display panic in the way an untrained person might.

This control makes him effective.

It also reveals the depth of what was done to him.

The ability to remain calm while torturing Tia Washington is not evidence that he lacks humanity by nature. It is evidence that Nebu successfully disconnected action from recognition.

Observation

Thirty-Two pays attention to:

• changes in tone;
• posture;
• room atmosphere;
• hidden movement;
• political hierarchy;
• inconsistencies in orders;
• the physical cost of magic;
• the difference between what people say and what they fear.

His observational ability supports both interrogation and proctor work.

Curiosity

After becoming proctor, Thirty-Two begins asking questions that an ordinary wolf would have been trained not to ask.

He seeks:

• the truth about Tia;
• the nature of the Tribal Bible;
• the purpose of the pages;
• the hidden history of Conri Tora;
• the key beneath Nebu;
• the meaning of his own growing power.

Curiosity becomes a form of rebellion.

Conditioned obedience

Thirty-Two does not immediately escape the habits of obedience.

He understands orders as structures around which survival has been organized for most of his life.

Even after gaining status, he continues to calculate:

• what Alpha expects;
• which questions are dangerous;
• how much truth may be spoken;
• whether disobedience will be detected;
• what a person must appear to be while secretly becoming something else.

Emerging empathy

Thirty-Two’s empathy appears gradually.

His relationship with Rimitorry forces him to recognize identity as something that can be stolen and restored.

His reaction to Sakori’s apparent death also reveals emotional development.

When the viewing spell ends after Sakori is impaled, Thirty-Two insists that the scene cannot be the end.

The statement is more than narrative disbelief.

It shows that the proctor is no longer merely recording outcomes.

He has begun hoping for people.

Biography

Early life

Thirty-Two’s childhood before Nebu remains largely unknown.

He is taken at the age of nine.

The available material does not yet reveal:

• where he lived;
• what language he originally spoke;
• what name he used;
• who took him;
• whether Tia witnessed the abduction;
• how quickly his memories were suppressed;
• whether he attempted to escape.

The removal of this information is part of his characterization.

The unknown childhood is not simply missing backstory.

It is evidence of a successful system of erasure.

Taken by Nebu

After being taken, Thirty-Two is absorbed into the structure that produces Nebu wolves.

The system removes ordinary identity and replaces it with:

• numbers;
• commands;
• ranks;
• conditioning;
• violence;
• usefulness.

He learns that survival depends upon becoming the function assigned to him.

The child does not disappear completely.

He becomes inaccessible beneath layers of training.

Seventeen years as Thirty-Two

By the beginning of Tribal Bloody Beginnings, he has carried the number for seventeen years.

The duration means that most of his conscious adult life has been organized around the designation.

He does not possess an ordinary transition between childhood and adulthood.

Nebu replaces that development with weaponization.

Life as a wolf operative

Thirty-Two becomes a highly capable operative specializing in extraction and interrogation.

His work requires:

• controlling prisoners;
• reading fear;
• applying pain;
• maintaining emotional distance;
• obeying political authority;
• continuing after ordinary people would stop.

He is effective because the system has taught him to treat suffering as information.

This professional identity later conflicts with the proctor’s responsibility to preserve truth rather than merely force it from another person.

Interrogation of Tia Washington

Thirty-Two is assigned to interrogate Tia Washington without knowing she is his biological mother.

He can harm her without recognition because:

• his childhood memory has been buried;
• his emotional responses have been conditioned;
• the tribe controls the information available to him;
• Tia has been reduced to a target within the interrogation system.

The event is one of the main moral catastrophes of his life.

It establishes that Nebu’s greatest violence is not only physical.

The tribe can arrange circumstances in which family members destroy one another while believing they are performing ordinary duty.

Discovery that Tia is his mother

The later revelation that Tia is his biological mother destabilizes the identity Nebu created.

Thirty-Two must confront several truths at once:

• the prisoner was his mother;
• he was taken from her;
• the system knew more than he did;
• his obedience was built on stolen information;
• his skill made him capable of participating in his own family’s destruction.

The revelation does not instantly restore his original self.

It creates the need to search for one.

Connection to Doctor Polezah

Doctor Polezah is closely associated with the systems that transform people into controlled outcomes.

Thirty-Two’s history intersects with Polezah’s work and with the Deathwave program.

Polezah reveals that Thirty-Two was once considered in relation to the program but did not become a true Deathwave subject.

The distinction suggests that Thirty-Two’s usefulness was identified as something different from engineered physical perfection.

Deathwave becomes a weapon designed to act.

Thirty-Two becomes a witness capable of reading.

Elevation to proctor

The Dark Alpha does not discard Thirty-Two after the Tia Washington crisis.

He elevates him.

The decision may be interpreted in several ways:

• recognition of unusual value;
• strategic use of a destabilized operative;
• deliberate access to sacred systems;
• protection through rank;
• another method of control;
• preparation for a role the tribe anticipated.

The office gives Thirty-Two greater authority but also places him near truths that ordinary wolves never encounter.

Access to the Tribal Bible

Thirty-Two becomes one of the clearest known readers of the Tribal Bible.

The Bible is not an ordinary text.

Its pages may contain:

• spells;
• records;
• commands;
• sacred history;
• hidden systems;
• access to forms of power not available through ordinary Ka’ru training.

Reading and using the pages carries a physical cost.

Thirty-Two’s body may:

• bleed;
• weaken;
• collapse;
• become overwhelmed by the energy passing through him.

His access is therefore powerful but incomplete.

The pages can make him more than a wolf while killing him for attempting to use them.

Limited pages

During the assault on Gia, Alpha tells Thirty-Two not to waste his Tribal spells on a war that does not yet require him.

The statement confirms that:

• Thirty-Two’s power is growing;
• Alpha recognizes that growth;
• he possesses a limited reserve of spells or pages;
• the current version of his power is not considered ready for the battlefield;
• Alpha expects Thirty-Two to matter in a later conflict.

The order prevents him from joining the assault but does not prevent him from pursuing knowledge beneath Nebu.

Assault on Gia

Main article: Tribal Comics Issue 4: Assault on Gia - Sakori's Fury

Tribal Comics Issue 4 adapts Chapter 18 of Tribal Bloody Beginnings and uses Thirty-Two as its first-person point-of-view narrator.

The issue contains two connected narratives:

1. Alpha’s multi-front assault on Gia;
2. Thirty-Two and Rimitorry’s search for the key beneath Nebu.

The battlefield story demonstrates Sakori’s physical power.

The Nebu story develops Thirty-Two’s sacred role.

Excluded from the invasion

Before dawn, Alpha assembles the invasion force inside Nebu’s throne room.

He orders Rimitorry to remain behind because her mother is Queen Utrea and because he believes family memory may create hesitation.

He also orders Thirty-Two to remain.

Alpha tells him that his power is growing but is not ready for the battle.

He specifically warns the proctor not to waste his Tribal spells on a war that does not yet need him.

The decision places Thirty-Two in an unusual position.

He is trusted enough for Alpha to recognize his potential.

He is not yet trusted or developed enough to use that potential independently on the battlefield.

Decision to seek the elder

After Alpha leaves, Rimitorry believes he intends to kill Utrea.

Thirty-Two answers that Alpha will try.

He then argues that they must become stronger before Alpha returns and decides to seek the elder who previously showed him the First Conri Tora.

Thirty-Two believes the elder possesses information concerning:

• the Tribal Bible;
• the key;
• the hidden power beneath Nebu;
• the history concealed by Alpha’s throne.

Rimitorry agrees to accompany him.

The decision marks an important development.

Thirty-Two does not merely wait for new orders.

He creates his own objective.

The bone corridor

Thirty-Two leads Rimitorry through a corridor whose walls are constructed from human bone.

The passage contains:

• polished and fractured bone;
• blue flames that produce no heat;
• unnatural silence;
• an atmosphere that appears to observe them;
• a door without a visible handle, lock or seam.

The door opens as they approach.

The location demonstrates that Nebu’s political structure is built over something older, stranger and more dangerous than its public throne room.

Meeting the elder

Inside the chamber, Thirty-Two and Rimitorry meet an ancient blind elder.

The elder possesses milk-white eyes and claims to have witnessed events involving the First Conri Tora when he was barely a century old.

He understands why Thirty-Two has come before the proctor fully explains it.

The elder identifies the object of the search as the key.

Nature of the key

The key is not described as a conventional piece of metal.

The elder calls it a cipher that redirects the cost.

Its purpose is not to grant Thirty-Two unlimited additional pages.

Instead, it may prevent him from bleeding to death whenever he reads or activates the Tribal Bible.

This distinction is central to his developing power.

Thirty-Two’s primary limitation is not only access.

It is survival.

The cipher may allow him to continue using sacred knowledge without paying the entire cost through his body.

Location beneath Nebu

The elder states that the key is hidden in Nebu’s oldest place.

He describes the location as:

• the place where Conri Tora first learned what he truly was;
• a room existing between walls;
• a space that remembers;
• a level older than the throne room;
• part of the original foundation beneath the expanded den.

Rimitorry recognizes the location as Nebu’s sealed lower foundation.

The route is protected by traps and puzzles that cannot be defeated through Ka’ru alone.

The elder warns that the defenses may kill anyone unable to think several moves ahead.

The danger makes Thirty-Two’s analytical ability as important as his magical access.

The unknown loyal keeper

When Thirty-Two asks who possesses the key, the elder answers that it belongs to or is protected by:

Someone loyal. Until loyalty becomes a lie.

— The elder

The statement remains unresolved.

It may refer to:

• a hidden guardian;
• a member of Alpha’s court;
• an elder;
• a family member;
• a person whose obedience is beginning to fracture.

The identity of the loyal person has not been confirmed.

The magical viewing window

The elder senses that Rimitorry wants to see her mother fight.

He creates a magical window from air that thickens into a glass-like surface.

The window allows Thirty-Two and Rimitorry to witness the assault on Gia from Nebu.

Through it, they see:

• Commander Zuberi’s eastern attack;
• Deathwave breaking the western gate;
• the Harpies climbing the southern wall;
• Sakori moving between each battlefield;
• Alpha entering through Gia’s main gate;
• Khalembo’s arrival;
• Kavumo, Odrik and Rukhan entering the conflict;
• Utrea confronting Alpha.

The spell turns Thirty-Two into the sacred witness his title suggests he was meant to become.

Witnessing Sakori’s defense

Thirty-Two observes Sakori defeat or stop each major attacking force.

He sees Sakori:

• defeat Zuberi without killing him;
• break Deathwave’s arm and throw him through a wall;
• kill two Harpies;
• spare the third Harpy;
• force Alpha toward seventy to seventy-five percent of his power;
• refuse to kill Alpha when given the opportunity;
• rise after Alpha defeats him;
• reunite with Khalembo;
• participate in a staged fight designed to preserve Khalembo’s cover;
• stand again when Utrea is threatened.

Thirty-Two’s narration frequently interprets what the fighters themselves cannot explain.

He identifies the difference between:

• Sakori’s controlled fury and uncontrolled rage;
• Deathwave being built and Sakori being trained;
• the public violence of Khalembo and the abandoned child beneath it;
• Alpha’s power and the fear created when Sakori forces him to use more.

Witnessing the brothers

The reunion between Sakori and Khalembo affects Thirty-Two’s understanding of Alpha’s family.

The proctor watches Sakori refuse to fight his younger brother and describe the three-year-old child he left behind.

He sees Khalembo’s Conqueror identity collapse as the younger brother admits that no one picked him up after Sakori left.

The brothers embrace and then stage a convincing battle for Alpha.

The scene parallels Thirty-Two’s own conflict between imposed identity and hidden personhood.

Khalembo is more than the Conqueror.

Thirty-Two is more than the number.

Sakori’s apparent death

Near the end of the viewing spell, Alpha raises his sword toward Utrea.

Sakori steps between them.

The blade passes completely through Sakori’s chest.

When the magical window collapses, Thirty-Two refuses to believe the scene is the end.

That’s not the end. It can’t be.

— Thirty-Two after Sakori is impaled

The response demonstrates that the proctor has developed beyond detached observation.

He does not merely record that Sakori fell.

He hopes Sakori survives.

Descent toward the foundation

After the viewing window disappears, the elder orders Thirty-Two and Rimitorry to move while Alpha is occupied making history in Gia.

Rimitorry identifies their destination:

The foundation. Now.

— Rimitorry

Thirty-Two takes her hand and runs.

The issue ends by redirecting the story from the visible war in Gia to the hidden war beneath Nebu.

Sakori’s body stands between Gia and destruction.

Thirty-Two’s search stands between the Tribal Bible and the people attempting to monopolize its power.

The Tribal Bible

The Tribal Bible is central to Thirty-Two’s transformation.

It is both a source of power and a system of danger.

Reader and proctor

Thirty-Two’s ability to read the Bible may be connected to his office as proctor.

The exact relationship remains unknown.

Possible explanations include:

• the office grants access;
• his bloodline permits access;
• his conditioning made him receptive;
• the Dark Alpha selected him because of a known compatibility;
• the Bible itself recognizes him;
• his function as witness is spiritually linked to the text.

No single explanation has been confirmed.

Pages and spells

Individual pages may contain specific spells or forms of access.

Thirty-Two’s known use of the Bible includes magic capable of affecting other people and opening abilities beyond ordinary combat training.

In earlier events, he uses a spell from Gia-associated texts to compel forty-five trainees to attack Khalembo during the Training Tower Incident.

The action contributes directly to Khalembo earning the title the Conqueror.

Physical cost

Reading or activating the Bible is dangerous.

The cost may include:

• bleeding;
• exhaustion;
• physical collapse;
• loss of control;
• death.

The elder’s cipher does not promise infinite power.

It promises a different method of paying.

Thirteen Gia pages

Sakori later contributes thirteen pages associated with Gia’s portion of the Tribal Bible.

The pages expand Thirty-Two’s available knowledge and spells.

The exact circumstances under which Sakori obtains them remain partly unexplained.

Their transfer connects Sakori’s protective role to Thirty-Two’s sacred development.

Sakori survives battles to protect people.

He also steals knowledge capable of strengthening the proctor who may change the wider war.

The key as cipher

The key is best understood as a mechanism for redirecting cost.

It may function as:

• a magical translation system;
• a ritual access code;
• an energy-routing device;
• a method of transferring the burden;
• a hidden rule within the Bible;
• a physical or symbolic object linked to Nebu’s foundation.

Its full form has not yet been revealed.

Ka’ru

Thirty-Two possesses developing Ka’ru.

His power is less fully demonstrated through direct combat than the power of characters such as Sakori, Rimitorry, Khalembo or Alpha.

His importance lies in the relationship between Ka’ru and sacred text.

Growing power

Alpha explicitly states that Thirty-Two’s power is growing.

This confirms that the proctor’s development is visible even to one of the strongest Ka’ru practitioners in the setting.

Spell amplification

The Tribal Bible allows Thirty-Two to perform actions beyond his ordinary training.

The pages may amplify, direct or transform his Ka’ru into specific magical effects.

Cost limitation

His body remains the primary restriction on his magical growth.

Possessing a spell does not mean he can safely use it.

The cost prevents him from becoming instantly unlimited.

Potential

Thirty-Two’s long-term potential may depend on three factors:

1. the number and nature of pages available;
2. his ability to survive their use;
3. whether he obtains the cipher beneath Nebu.

He is therefore a character whose maximum power cannot be measured only by physical combat.

His importance may come from access to rules that stronger fighters cannot read.

Abilities

Interrogation

Thirty-Two is an experienced interrogator capable of:

• reading fear;
• applying controlled pain;
• identifying resistance;
• maintaining emotional distance;
• extracting information;
• functioning without visible hesitation.

The skill is morally central to his character because it is used against his own mother.

Extraction

As a wolf operative, he is trained to recover people or information under dangerous conditions.

Close combat

Thirty-Two possesses advanced physical training appropriate to a Nebu operative.

His exact preferred weapon has not been established.

Pain tolerance

Conditioning allows him to function through physical and psychological strain.

This ability becomes essential when reading the Tribal Bible.

Observation

Thirty-Two notices details other characters may ignore.

The skill supports:

• interrogation;
• political survival;
• sacred witnessing;
• puzzle solving;
• interpretation of magical events.

Emotional suppression

He can suppress visible emotional responses.

The trait is useful in danger but also prevents him from recognizing what he feels until those emotions become impossible to ignore.

Sacred reading

Thirty-Two can read and activate at least part of the Tribal Bible.

This is one of his rarest abilities.

Spell activation

Known magical uses include forms of compulsion or control associated with Bible pages.

His complete spell list remains unknown.

Magical witnessing

Although the elder creates the Gia viewing window, Thirty-Two’s role as proctor gives special significance to his presence.

He observes and narrates the battle in a manner consistent with sacred witnessing.

Tactical reasoning

The foundation’s defenses require a person capable of thinking several moves ahead.

Thirty-Two’s analytical training may make him particularly suited to the challenge.

Resistance to conditioning

His resistance is incomplete but growing.

Every self-directed choice—seeking the elder, accepting a name, questioning Alpha’s systems—demonstrates that the conditioning is not absolute.

Relationship with Rimitorry

Rimitorry is Thirty-Two’s partner and one of the most important forces in his rehumanization.

Their relationship develops through:

• danger;
• mistrust;
• attraction;
• shared secrets;
• naming;
• joint investigation;
• magical witnessing;
• physical contact during moments of fear.

Rimitorry refuses to accept that a number defines him completely.

She gives him the name Jabari Nthanda.

During the assault on Gia, Thirty-Two takes both of her hands after she realizes Alpha intends to kill Utrea.

He redirects her fear toward action and proposes the search for the elder.

Their partnership is therefore not one-sided.

Rimitorry gives Thirty-Two a name.

Thirty-Two gives Rimitorry a path forward when fear might otherwise leave her powerless.

Together they enter the elders’ quarters and begin the descent toward Nebu’s foundation.

Relationship with Tia Washington

Tia Washington is Thirty-Two’s biological mother.

Their relationship is defined by:

• childhood separation;
• erased recognition;
• forced violence;
• hidden experimentation;
• the possibility of recovery.

Thirty-Two’s interrogation of Tia represents the success of Nebu’s conditioning.

His later discovery of the relationship represents the beginning of that system’s failure.

Tia is proof that a number cannot erase blood completely, even when memory has been buried.

Relationship with the Dark Alpha

The Dark Alpha is Thirty-Two’s ruler, evaluator and the person who elevates him to proctor.

Alpha recognizes his growing power.

He also limits when that power may be used.

Their relationship includes:

• command;
• fear;
• recognition;
• strategic interest;
• controlled access to sacred knowledge.

Alpha’s decision to keep Thirty-Two out of the Gia invasion may be protective, possessive or tactical.

He appears to believe the proctor is intended for a later purpose.

Thirty-Two’s decision to search beneath Nebu while Alpha is absent demonstrates a developing independence from that purpose.

Relationship with Doctor Polezah

Doctor Polezah is connected to the systems that nearly transformed Thirty-Two into a different kind of weapon.

Polezah approaches people through:

• experimentation;
• classification;
• biological function;
• controlled outcomes.

Thirty-Two’s development as proctor places him outside the Doctor’s simplest categories.

He remains a product of the system but becomes capable of witnessing the system itself.

Relationship with Sakori

Sakori and Thirty-Two occupy different but complementary roles.

Sakori is a physical protector whose defining ability is remaining upright after catastrophic injury.

Thirty-Two is a sacred witness whose developing ability may allow him to preserve or redirect knowledge that destroys ordinary readers.

During Sakori’s Fury, Thirty-Two watches Sakori defend Gia and refuses to believe that the sword through his chest represents the end.

Sakori later contributes thirteen Gia Bible pages and travels with Thirty-Two during the mission toward Reonniz.

Their relationship links endurance of the body with endurance of knowledge.

Relationship with Khalembo

Thirty-Two plays an important role in Khalembo’s public emergence.

During the Training Tower Incident, he uses a mind-control spell to compel forty-five trainees to attack Khalembo.

Khalembo kills them and receives the title Khalembo the Conqueror from Alpha.

Rather than punishing Thirty-Two, Khalembo thanks him for providing a challenge worthy of the title.

During the assault on Gia, Thirty-Two witnesses the child beneath the Conqueror identity when Khalembo reunites with Sakori.

The scene may affect how he interprets his own numbered identity.

Both men carry names created by systems of power.

Both contain a person beneath the title.

Relationship with the elder

The unnamed elder becomes one of Thirty-Two’s most important sources of sacred knowledge.

He previously shows Thirty-Two the First Conri Tora and later explains the nature of the key.

The elder:

• recognizes Thirty-Two’s purpose;
• understands the Tribal Bible;
• remembers ancient events;
• knows the location beneath Nebu;
• creates the viewing window;
• pushes Thirty-Two toward action.

His motives remain uncertain.

He provides knowledge but not safety.

Relationship with First Conri Tora

The First Conri Tora is connected to the hidden history Thirty-Two begins uncovering.

The elder who explains the key previously showed Thirty-Two the First.

The key’s location is described as the place where Conri Tora first learned what he truly was.

This suggests that Thirty-Two’s search may reveal:

• the origin of the Conri Tora identity;
• the relationship between sacred text and possession;
• the hidden foundation of Nebu’s authority;
• knowledge Alpha may not want widely understood.

Relationship with Deathwave

Deathwave represents a path Thirty-Two might have been forced to follow.

Both are products of organized weaponization.

Deathwave is engineered toward physical perfection and obedience.

Thirty-Two is conditioned toward interrogation and later redirected toward witness.

Their contrast raises the question of which outcome is more dangerous:

• a weapon that cannot question;
• or a witness who learns enough to question everything.

Role in the mission toward Reonniz

Thirty-Two later travels with:

• Rimitorry;
• Sakori;
• Eshari;
• Zafira.

The mission seeks Reonniz in Terra before Alpha can secure control over him.

Thirty-Two contributes:

• Bible access;
• proctor authority;
• observation;
• knowledge of Nebu;
• experience with hidden tribal systems.

His participation expands his role beyond personal identity recovery.

He becomes part of an effort to prevent another child from being transformed into a numbered or weaponized function.

Power assessment

Thirty-Two should not be ranked only through direct physical combat.

His power operates across several categories.

Physical capability

He is an experienced Nebu operative with advanced training, pain tolerance and interrogation skill.

Political capability

The office of proctor grants unusual status and access.

Magical capability

He can activate Tribal Bible pages and use spells unavailable to ordinary warriors.

Informational capability

He gains access to hidden history, sacred systems and truths beneath Nebu.

Current limitations

His limitations include:

• a small number of pages;
• incomplete understanding;
• severe physical cost;
• continued conditioning;
• dependence on hidden teachers;
• uncertainty concerning the key;
• lack of battlefield readiness compared with the strongest family warriors.

Alpha’s statement that his power is growing but not ready should be treated as the clearest current assessment.

Thirty-Two may possess extraordinary future potential.

That potential has not yet become unlimited power.

Character analysis

The number who becomes a witness

Nebu gives Thirty-Two a number to prevent him from possessing a personal story.

The Dark Alpha later gives him an office built around preserving stories.

The contradiction defines his narrative role.

A person trained not to remember becomes responsible for memory.

Violence without recognition

The interrogation of Tia demonstrates that physical familiarity is not enough when identity has been systematically erased.

Thirty-Two’s hands can touch his mother without his mind recognizing what they mean.

The scene shows how institutions can interrupt even the most fundamental human bonds.

A chosen name rather than a recovered name

Jabari Nthanda matters precisely because it is not confirmed as the name stolen from him.

Rimitorry does not promise that the past can be restored perfectly.

She offers him the right to become someone in the present.

The cost of reading

The Tribal Bible turns knowledge into bodily sacrifice.

Thirty-Two cannot separate understanding from pain.

Every spell asks whether the truth is valuable enough to bleed for.

The key changes the question.

Instead of removing cost, it may redirect it.

This creates a moral danger: if Thirty-Two no longer pays through his own body, who or what will pay instead?

Witness and participant

During the assault on Gia, Thirty-Two watches rather than fights.

Yet watching is not passive.

His observations preserve:

• Sakori’s victories;
• Alpha’s vulnerability;
• Khalembo’s hidden love;
• Utrea’s resistance;
• the emotional truth beneath the political war.

At the end, he moves toward the foundation.

The witness becomes a participant.

Parallel with Khalembo

Khalembo is given a title after violence.

Thirty-Two is given a number before he understands what was taken from him.

Both identities are useful to Alpha’s system.

Sakori reaches the child beneath the Conqueror.

Rimitorry reaches the man beneath Thirty-Two.

Parallel with Sakori

Sakori refuses to remain physically fallen.

Thirty-Two begins refusing to remain psychologically erased.

One survives through endurance of the body.

The other may survive through recovery of identity and memory.

Knowledge as rebellion

Thirty-Two’s most dangerous act may not be a spell.

It may be asking what exists beneath the throne.

Empires depend on people accepting the visible structure as the complete truth.

The proctor walks toward the foundation.

Themes

Thirty-Two is associated with themes including:

• identity and erasure;
• number versus name;
• conditioning and free will;
• family recognition;
• violence as institutional design;
• sacred knowledge;
• memory and witness;
• the bodily cost of power;
• chosen identity;
• hidden foundations beneath political authority;
• the difference between reading and understanding;
• obedience becoming curiosity;
• dehumanization and rehumanization;
• whether a weapon can become a keeper of truth.

Selected quotations

Then we get stronger. Faster.

— Thirty-Two to Rimitorry

The elder.

— Thirty-Two proposing the search for the key

That’s not the end. It can’t be.

— Thirty-Two after witnessing Sakori’s impalement

The foundation. Now.

— Rimitorry beginning the descent with Thirty-Two

Status

Thirty-Two remains alive during his latest confirmed appearance.

He has survived:

• childhood abduction;
• seventeen years of Nebu conditioning;
• service as a wolf operative;
• interrogation work;
• the revelation concerning Tia Washington;
• elevation to proctor;
• dangerous use of Tribal Bible pages;
• exposure to the elder and First Conri Tora;
• the magical witnessing of the assault on Gia.

His current path includes:

• searching for the key beneath Nebu;
• developing his connection to the Tribal Bible;
• accepting or negotiating the name Jabari Nthanda;
• traveling toward Reonniz;
• deciding whether his loyalty belongs to Nebu, Rimitorry, the truth or himself.

His canonical status is:

Alive.

Legacy

Thirty-Two’s emerging legacy includes:

• becoming one of the principal narrators of Tribal Bloody Beginnings;
• representing Nebu’s use of numerical identity;
• surviving seventeen years as a conditioned operative;
• becoming the son forced to interrogate his own mother;
• being elevated from wolf to proctor;
• becoming one of the clearest known Tribal Bible readers;
• helping create the event that gives Khalembo the Conqueror title;
• receiving the chosen name Jabari Nthanda;
• witnessing Sakori’s defense of Gia;
• beginning the search for the cipher beneath Nebu.

Thirty-Two begins as evidence that a system can erase a person.

His later story asks whether witness, love, naming and forbidden knowledge can build that person again.

Nebu teaches him to extract truth from bodies.

The Tribal Bible teaches him that truth can also extract a cost from his own.

Rimitorry gives him a name.

The elder gives him a direction.

The foundation may determine what he becomes next.

Appearances

Novels

• Tribal Bloody Beginnings: The Rise of the Dark Alpha

Comics

• Tribal Comics Issue 4: Assault on Gia – Sakori’s Fury — point-of-view narrator, co-protagonist of the key search and magical witness to the assault on Gia

Series

• Tribal Universe
• Tribal Comics

External links

• Tribal Comics Issue 4: Assault on Gia – Sakori’s Fury on Roovet Books
• Tribal Comics Issue 4 on Google Play Books
• Tribal Comics Issue 4: Assault on Gia – Sakori’s Fury on Roovet Articles

See also

• Rimitorry Ka’ Tora
• Tia Washington
• The Dark Alpha
• Doctor Polezah
• Sakori
• Khalembo
• Eshari
• Zafira
• Reonniz
• Deathwave
• Deathwave 47
• Deathwave 201
• First Conri Tora
• Nebu
• Gia
• Terra
• Ka'ru
• Tribal Bible
• Tribal Bible key
• Proctor
• Family of Alpha and Utrea
• Tribal Bloody Beginnings: The Rise of the Dark Alpha
• Tribal Comics
• Tribal Comics Issue 4: Assault on Gia - Sakori's Fury
• Tribal Universe