Zaran Zimzabar: (b. 963, Caratha) Terrorist. Leader and self-styled Supreme Commander of the People's Army of the New Glorious Order (PANGO).
The goals of PANGO are an incomprehensible, incoherent, often self-contradicting mess and vary depending on Zaran's latest rant. He is much prone to ranting. In general, it seems he wants to liberate the "oppressed masses" of the Eleven Kingdoms by overthrowing all monarchies and other existing governments, replacing them with the New Glorious Order of universal brotherhood under Zaran's presumably enlightened direction.
Zaran's PANGO followers are sometimes fanatical, sometimes cowardly, sometimes merely hired mercenaries. He goes through a lot of followers, spending their lives freely in pursuit of his goals and abandoning them without compunction whenever things go against him.
His chief enforcer is Yezgar the Half-Ogre. Yezgar appears to be Zaran's most loyal follower, probably because he is too dumb to know any better.
Zaran is often backed by and a pawn of the Dark Magic Society. How the Society's aims fit with his New Glorious Order is unknown.
Appearance
Zaran has dark olive skin and short black hair. Zaran has a long white scar on his left cheek, as yet unexplained. He favors garish clothing. For example, yellow boots, baggy purple and white striped pantaloons, a red waist sash and a loose green shirt, worn with numerous gold bracelets, arm bands, rings, necklaces and earrings.
Ancestry
Zaran is a member of the House of Zab, one of the Seven Princely Houses of Caratha, and a cousin of the insane Carathan senator Zimzar Zab who is suspected of helping finance Zaran's operations. Zaran apparently shares that house's known propensity for madness. His looks also suggest some Xornite ancestry.
His favored weapons are a scimitar and a hooked dagger, often coated with poison.
Career
Zaran has planned and executed many terror actions, including political murders, kidnappings, hijackings, robberies, and massacres. While he particulary targets royals, nobles, and their officers, he is indiscriminate in his depredations, equally happy to kill servants, peasants, villagers, livestock, and even children on some pretext or the other.
In 990 AH, Zaran and some of his followers, including Yezgar, captured the city of Offal in Darnk by entering the city disguised as merchants, then knocking out all of the inhabitants with DormaDose. The apparent plan was to rename the city Zaranopolis and use it as a base for training PANGO forces and spreading the New Glorious Order. These plans were disrupted by the arrival of Jason Cosmo and Mercury Boltblaster, soon followed by Natalia Slash, who had been hired by Prince Ronaldo of Caratha (or, more likely, his spymaster Count Telos) to capture Zaran and bring him back to Caratha for trial. Zaran's forces were defeated and Zaran himself was tossed off a fourth-story balcony by Boltblaster. Natalia Slash captured him soon thereafter.
Appears in:
Hero Wanted
Royal Crush
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