Thakorr

Thakorr's History

Emperor Thakorr was the ruler of Atlantis for many generations, he was married to Queen Korra and birthed a daughter named Fen and a son named Daka.

1920s

In 1920, Atlantis was rocked by ice demolitions above their Antarctic home by the SS Oracle under the command of Captain Leonard McKenzie. Preparing to send a war party up to investigate, Thakorr forbade his daughter Fen from going up to the surface to investigate alone. She disobeyed his orders and eventually earned the humans trust, learning their language. Allowing her to continue her observations, Thakorr was unaware that Fen eventually fell in love with Captain McKenzie and the two were married. During her long absences, Thakorr feared the worst and sent an Atlantean war party to the surface where they attacked and recovered Fen, unaware that Fen was now pregnant with her and Leonard's son.

In one account, Thakorr left the kingdom on business and returned to find that Fen had brought McKenzie to her domain. Furious of this, and that ice blasting continued, Thakorr ordered that Leonard be forced away from their kingdom. Upon learning that Fen was pregnant, he allowed her to give birth to her son Namor but ordered her into exile for the next ten years in order to prepare the boy to grow up to be the next emperor of Atlantis.

Eventually, Namor was allowed back into the kingdom, but Thakorr was worried about if the boy could grow up to be the next emperor due to his hybrid nature. But when Namor began manifesting abilities beyond that of the normal Atlantean, Thakorr soon began to grow to favour him. Shortly after Namor's 10th birthday, Thakorr exiled scientist Vyrra for his illegal cloning experiments.[8] When Namor became curious about the surface world, Emperor Thakorr decided to teach the boy a lesson in humility by telling him that the highest spire in Atlantis was exposed to the surface at the lowest ebb of the tide and suggested that the boy tie himself there. Namor did as instructed and spent the entire day tied to the spire. When the water failed to lower enough for Namor to breach the surface he became a laughing stock among his peers.

By the time that Namor was a teenager, Thakorr had his kingdom moved to the Pacific Northwest where they began building a new home located above a deposit of oil which threatened to pollute their ecosystem, although they knew not what it was. During this period, Thakorr was active as a member of the Tri-Team, a trio of warriors who hunted for fish and kept Atlantis safe from undersea predators. Soon after, Namor began a romance with surface girl Sandy Pierce, whom Thakorr welcomed to Atlantis openly. When Namor realized Sandy's father Henry was going broke and was desperately seeking a fortune in oil, Namor convinced Thakorr to allow a meeting with Henry to discuss the drilling of the oil around Atlantis as it would be mutually beneficial to both Atlantis and Sandy's family.

1930s

In the early 1930s a meeting was set up between Thakorr and Henry Pierce and the two met in Atlantis to discuss the drilling of oil. Pierce insisted to Thakorr that the drilling was safe and no harm would come to the people of Atlantis. Convinced, Thakorr accepted the proposal and offered his hand in friendship to Henry. However, the drilling caused only leaks to increase, dirtying the waters around Atlantis. Thakorr led his people to try and clean up the operation however opposition from Thakorr's sister Zarina and her son Beemer who were sowing descent among the people of Atlantis. Relations soon soured after Henry went back down to investigate the leaks and was attacked by Beemer. Brought back to Atlantis to be healed, tempers got the best of them and Henry, in a fit of anger, called Thakorr and his people savages. Despite this, because Beemer still had Sandy prisoner, Thakorr sent out a searching party for the girl, and Namor rescued her before Beemer could use the oil derrick's drill to slay her. Thakorr prevented Namor from killing Beemer and soon Sandy was returned and relations between Henry and Thakorr mended. However, later that night Zarina had Beemer destroy the oil derrick flooding Atlantis with oil, devastating their home. After the crisis was averted, and their Pacific home uninhabitable, Thakorr led his people back to their original home in Antarctica.