The Dark Alpha
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| Name | The Dark Alpha |
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| Series | Tribal |
| First | Tribal: Bloody Beginnings |
| Creator | Tony James Nelson II |
| Aliases | Alpha; Conri; Conri Tora |
| Species | Human |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Ruler of Nebu |
| Affiliation | Nebu; Family of Alpha and Utrea |
| Relatives | Utrea (wife/partner); Knargz (brother); Zuberi (brother); Kavumo (brother); Doctor Polezah (son); Rimitorry (daughter); Eshari (daughter); Zafira (daughter); Sakori (son); Khalembo (son); Reonniz (son) |
| Status | Alive |
The Dark Alpha, also known as Alpha, Conri, and Conri Tora, is a fictional character in Tribal: Bloody Beginnings by Tony James Nelson II. He is one of the central powers in the Book and one of its most dangerous figures, serving as ruler of Nebu, patriarch of the fractured family surrounding Utrea, and father to the bloodline that includes Doctor Polezah, Rimitorry, Eshari, Zafira, Sakori, Khalembo, and Reonniz.
The Dark Alpha is portrayed as a man shaped by power, abandonment, obsession, and monstrous love. He is both warlord and father, protector and destroyer. In battle, he is described as nearly impossible to comprehend at full strength; in family matters, he is equally devastating, bending affection, possession, grief, and cruelty into a single ruling force.
He is also one of the central figures in the Family of Alpha and Utrea, the broken bloodline that drives much of the Book’s political and emotional conflict.
Biography
Rise as Alpha
Conri becomes the ruling Alpha of Nebu and eventually the figure known throughout the story as the Dark Alpha. By the time of the main events, he is not merely a tribal leader but the center of a whole structure of fear, loyalty, and inherited violence. He rules from a throne room where even his closest allies and children approach him with caution.
The Book also reveals that the title of Alpha existed before him. Utrea preserves the brain of the old Alpha, whom she killed years earlier, and explains that the prior ruler had also been used by the parasitic entity known as First Conri Tora. This places Conri’s own reign within a longer and darker lineage of succession, power, and possession.
Relationship with Utrea
One of the defining elements of Alpha’s story is his relationship with Utrea. Their bond is one of the main emotional engines of the Book: love, war, betrayal, and history all compressed into one long-running wound. Utrea confronts him directly during the battle scenes, accusing him of killing her people and breaking her son. Alpha answers with cold casual brutality, but the Book repeatedly suggests that his feelings for her never fully died — they merely curdled into obsession, anger, and possession.
During one confrontation, after defeating both Utrea and Kavumo, Alpha touches Utrea’s cheek and says, “This is what you left,” framing himself not only as monster but as the result of abandonment. The gesture is tender in form but vicious in meaning, one of the clearest examples of how love and cruelty coexist inside him.
Brother of Knargz, Zuberi, and Kavumo
Alpha is part of the older family generation that includes Knargz, Zuberi, and Kavumo. These figures form the elder core often treated as part of the same deep family structure surrounding Alpha and Utrea.
His relationship with Kavumo is marked by deep history, long separation, and eventual reunion after Kavumo is finally freed from possession by First Conri Tora. Once Kavumo returns to himself, Alpha stands with him as one of the “five” reunited at last: Conri, Utrea, Kavumo, Knargz, and Zuberi. The moment is one of the rare scenes where Alpha is shown as part of a restored family unit rather than simply a tyrant on a throne.
Father of the fractured bloodline
Alpha is the father or paternal center of the younger generation that includes Doctor Polezah, Rimitorry, Eshari, Zafira, Sakori, Khalembo, and Reonniz. His children are scattered across worlds and loyalties: some remain tied to him and Nebu, some leave with Utrea, some are hidden, and some are left behind on the island.
His fatherhood is one of the most disturbing aspects of his character. He does not cease to care about his children; instead, he cares about them in ways twisted by domination and power. He names Khalembo “the Conqueror,” seeks to reclaim Reonniz, acknowledges Rimitorry, and shapes the next generation through violence, expectation, and legacy.
Doctor Polezah, identified as the oldest non-warrior son of Alpha and Utrea, represents a different branch of the bloodline: not conquest through combat, but conquest through science, experimentation, and the creation of horrors such as Deathwave.
Obsession with Reonniz
One of Alpha’s most important late-Book motivations is the recovery of Reonniz. When Kavumo reveals that Reonniz was taken to Terra on the day he was born and hidden there for thirteen years, Alpha’s entire strategy changes. He immediately shifts from destruction to possession, deciding not to kill Utrea and Kavumo because they now matter as keys to recovering his son.
He then orders an extraction operation into Terra, choosing not to send an army but instead dispatching Deathwave 47 through the Dark Forest to seize Reonniz before Terra realizes what is happening. The scene makes clear that Alpha’s love for Reonniz is real, but that it expresses itself as retrieval, ownership, and control.
Power at one hundred percent
The Book’s most awe-struck description of Alpha comes during his battle with Utrea and Kavumo. At “one hundred” percent, the narration states that language itself struggles to describe him. The ground breaks under the pressure of his presence. Buildings collapse. Even the courtyard seems to yield. He does not simply fight; he overwhelms the physical environment around him.
This sequence establishes him as one of the absolute top-tier powers in the Book, a figure whose full release of strength is not just deadly but reality-distorting in its effect on the battlefield.
Personality
The Dark Alpha is calculating, possessive, charismatic, and terrifyingly self-aware. He is not a simple brute. He plans, waits, studies, and chooses the moment of violence carefully. Even in scenes of emotional confrontation, he often remains cold enough to turn pain into leverage.
At the same time, he is not emotionally empty. One of the most unnerving things about him is that he feels intensely. He loves, but possessively. He remembers, but vindictively. He protects, but through domination. His children, his brothers, and Utrea all matter to him — just in ways warped by years of violence and power.
He is also one of the clearest examples in the Book of how rulership, family, and monstrosity can become impossible to separate.
Abilities and traits
- Supreme combat ability
- Overwhelming physical and spiritual presence
- Capable of fighting multiple top-tier opponents at once
- Tactical intelligence and long-range planning
- Extreme endurance and rapid recovery
- Deep influence over Nebu’s military and political structure
- Power great enough to reshape the battlefield at full output
- Strong connection to the deeper sacred and dynastic systems of the world
The Book emphasizes that Alpha at full strength is difficult to describe in ordinary language. His presence alone cracks stone and collapses structures. He defeats Utrea and Kavumo together, then remains calm enough to turn immediately to strategy after learning Reonniz is in Terra.
Relationships
Utrea
Utrea is the central love-war counterpart in Alpha’s life. He addresses her by name in battle, fights her with familiarity, and treats her as both beloved and betrayer. Their relationship is one of the deepest emotional fault lines in the story.
Knargz
Knargz is Alpha’s brother and his Bote, one of the highest-ranking figures in Nebu. Their relationship reinforces that Alpha’s power is not solitary but built on a family-shaped hierarchy.
Zuberi
Zuberi is Alpha’s brother and the Commander of Nebu. Like Knargz, he forms part of the older family generation and helps complete Nebu’s upper structure of power beneath Alpha.
Kavumo
Kavumo is Alpha’s brother. Their reunion after sixteen years is part grief, part restoration, and part re-entry into unfinished conflict. Kavumo also becomes the person who tells Alpha the truth about Reonniz.
Doctor Polezah
Doctor Polezah is Alpha’s oldest non-warrior son and one of the strangest extensions of his bloodline. Through Polezah, Alpha’s lineage expresses itself not only through battle and rule, but through laboratory horror, experimentation, and the engineering of systems like Deathwave.
Khalembo
Khalembo is one of Alpha’s sons and one of the clearest examples of what Alpha’s influence creates. He publicly names him Khalembo the Conqueror, turning paternal recognition into a kind of coronation through bloodshed.
Rimitorry
Rimitorry is Alpha’s daughter and one of the children caught most directly between him and Utrea. Alpha recognizes her and plans around the possibility of facing her again, treating even family as part of the strategic future.
Eshari, Zafira, and Sakori
Eshari, Zafira, and Sakori belong to the same fractured younger generation shaped by Alpha’s power, Utrea’s departure, and the island-side rupture that split the family.
Reonniz
Reonniz is the hidden son Alpha becomes determined to recover. His reaction to learning Reonniz is alive is immediate and consuming, transforming the next phase of the war.
Role in the story
The Dark Alpha serves several major functions in Tribal: Bloody Beginnings:
- He is the ruling force behind Nebu.
- He acts as patriarch of the broken family line.
- He embodies the fusion of love, ownership, and violence.
- He sets the strategic hunt for Reonniz in motion.
- He establishes the upper scale of power in the Book through his full-force battle scenes.
- He links political rule, sacred corruption, and bloodline conflict into one central figure.
Themes
The Dark Alpha is strongly tied to several of the Book’s major themes:
- Power as corruption and inheritance
- Possessive love
- Children shaped by violent fathers
- Family fracture
- Monstrosity born from abandonment
- The ruler as both father and destroyer
- Empire built from bloodline
Trivia
- Alpha is also called Conri and Conri Tora.
- He chooses to send Deathwave 47 into Terra rather than launch a full invasion immediately.
- At one hundred percent of his power, the courtyard and surrounding buildings begin to fail under his presence alone.
- He decides not to kill Utrea and Kavumo after learning Reonniz is alive in Terra.
- He is one of the “five” finally reunited after Kavumo is restored.
- He stands at the center of the Family of Alpha and Utrea.
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