Nakja-Mur (High Chief)

Warning Spoilers through Maelstrom. Nakja-Mur was the high chief of Baalkpan. He is described as being enormously fat, but with powerful arms. He eased the acceptance of the Americans by the land-based Lemurians.

The stress of preparations for the defence of Baalkpan, the knowledge of the hideous nature of the Grik foe & fear for his people weighed heavily upon Nakja-Mur, causing a visible wasting of his body.

During the denouement & climax of Maelstrom, he suffered a fatal heart attack, dying at about the same time as his Sky Priest Naga, & the Sacred Tree of Baalkpan.