Tarnak

Youthful and handsome, Tarnak carried a muscular build, blond hair combed back, and sharp green eyes that blazed lime green whenever rage or his powers took hold. He dressed in a long white coat finished with a striking blood-red collar and golden shoulder pads, layered over a plain gray shirt and rounded out by black trousers, dark shoes, and white gloves.

An inflated ego drove Tarnak, paired with sweeping loathing for the human race. That scorn surfaced in his flat refusal to count Jinwoo as a fit heir to the Shadow Monarch, his only objection being the man's human birth. Even so, arrogance never wholly blinded him: he kept enough sense to admit that challenging Jinwoo without Antares at his side was a losing proposition.

Once the Tokyo gate ranked at S had been settled, Tarnak teamed with Querehsha and Rakan to storm Christopher Reed's residence. Chris fell back on his Spiritual Body Manifestation to fend them off, but three Monarchs overwhelmed him, and they slew him, leaving his mangled remains for humans to stumble upon. When Sillad later urged the others to take Jinwoo down before he gained his full power, the first voice against the plan was Tarnak's; he judged a solo strike on the Shadow Monarch to be suicide and held that waiting on Antares made far better sense.

His downfall came once Antares stormed the human realm. Catching sight of Thomas Andre, Tarnak closed in, far too smug to spot the trap laid for him. Bellion and Beru erupted from Thomas' shadow, and his bid to reach Antares through telepathy collapsed the moment Tusk cut the connection. Furious, he unleashed his Spiritual Body Manifestation and charged the three on his own, only for the group to overpower and finish him in the fight that followed. Among the nine Monarchs he wielded vast power: telepathy linked him to his peers, he could rip open gates to other worlds, his Iron Body Reinforcement steeply boosted both attack and defense while warding his soul against life-draining effects, and his Spiritual Body Manifestation turned him into a towering golem sheathed in dark gray armor, its hair burning a fierce lime green.