Doctor Polezah

Doctor Polezah

Name	Doctor Polezah
First	Tribal: Bloody Beginnings
Creator	Tony James Nelson II
Alias	The Doctor; Polezah
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Age	42
Title	Doctor
Occupation	Scientist; Experimenter; Creator of Deathwave
Affiliation	Nebu; Alpha’s inner circle; Family of Alpha and Utrea
Family	Family of Alpha and Utrea
Relatives	The Dark Alpha / Conri (father); Utrea (mother); Knargz (uncle); Zuberi (uncle); Kavumo (uncle); Rimitorry (sister); Eshari (sister); Zafira (sister); Sakori (brother); Khalembo (brother); Reonniz (brother)
Nationality	Nebu
Status	Alive

Doctor Polezah, often referred to simply as the Doctor, is a fictional character in Tribal: Bloody Beginnings by Tony James Nelson II. He is one of the most important scientific and medical figures in the Book, serving as the master of the lab beneath Alpha’s domain and the principal architect behind some of the story’s most grotesque experimental systems. His work includes failed Harpy repurposing, neurological experimentation, knowledge transfer research, and the creation of Deathwave.

Polezah is not presented as a healer in any ordinary sense. He is a surgeon of power, a designer of human utility, and one of the clearest embodiments of the Book’s theme that intelligence without restraint becomes its own species of monstrosity. The story makes plain that his résumé is extraordinary — two PhDs, four PsyDs, and an MD — but treats those credentials less as prestige and more as proof that a brilliant mind can be turned into an industrial tool of horror.

He is also identified as the oldest non-warrior son of The Dark Alpha and Utrea, making him one of the strangest branches of the Family of Alpha and Utrea: not a conqueror through battle, but through experimentation, alteration, and engineered violence.

Overview

Doctor Polezah governs the laboratory space beneath Nebu like a private kingdom. Thirty-Two explicitly calls it “Doctor Polezah’s kingdom,” and the lab itself is described as sterile, bright, chemically sharp, and full of sealed bodies, organs in jars, and experimental remnants.

Within the story, Polezah serves as:

• creator of Project Deathwave
• experimenter on failed Harpy candidates
• researcher into brain transplants and knowledge transfer
• keeper of the past Alpha’s brain
• one of the few people trusted to operate at the intimate biological edge of Alpha’s power structure

Biography

Role in Nebu

Polezah functions as the scientific arm of Nebu’s darker systems. He is not a battlefield conqueror like Alpha, Utrea, or Khalembo, but his influence reaches into bodies, minds, and bloodlines. Where others kill openly, Polezah alters what killing can become.

By the time Thirty-Two first enters the lab, Polezah is already established enough that Alpha brings the new proctor directly into his domain as part of the inner tour of power. This tells the reader something important: the lab is not peripheral. It is central.

The lab

Thirty-Two’s first impression of Polezah’s lab is a perfect little horror postcard: bright white light, chemical air, decay under the surface, upright glass cases containing women in green liquid, shelves of organs, and a suspended brain labeled like inventory. The room is described as sterile and wrong, which is exactly what it should be.

Polezah himself behaves with eerie composure inside it. His hands are described as steady in a way that only comes when screaming has become routine rather than meaningful. That detail tells you nearly everything about him. He is not squeamish. He is not conflicted. He is professionally at home in a place most people would flee.

Failed Harpy experimentation

One of the first things Polezah shows Thirty-Two is a set of women floating in sealed glass cases. He explains casually that they were once meant to become Harpies but “didn’t make the cut,” so he found “better uses” for them.

That line is one of the most efficient windows into his worldview. People fail their intended category, so he finds another technical use for their bodies.

Brain transplants and knowledge transfer

Polezah also reveals one of the Book’s nastier conceptual horrors: he is working on brain transplants and at minimum the transfer of knowledge from one Alpha to the next. He shows Thirty-Two the preserved brain of the past Alpha and explains his theory in chillingly simple terms: “Memories are data, and data can be moved. Copied. Rewritten.”

This research matters far beyond gore value. It implies that rulership in Nebu may not merely be inherited politically or spiritually, but potentially preserved through the engineered carrying-forward of memory and knowledge. In other words: the throne can become a biological archive.

Project Deathwave

Polezah’s greatest known achievement is Project Deathwave. He presents it with the pride of an artist unveiling a masterpiece, but the Book carefully makes that pride feel wrong. He claims there were 203 failed experiments before the current result — failures that “burned out, ruptured, convulsed, screamed themselves empty.”

Once inside the Deathwave chamber, Polezah describes the young Deathwave with reverence: “perfect form,” “perfect in every way,” “one of the greatest treasures the Tribe has ever possessed.” He explains that he infused the senses of the grey wolf directly into the boy, giving him superhuman smell, sight, hearing, and taste resistance to poison. He is monstrously proud of this work.

Polezah therefore stands as the primary human architect of the Deathwave line, including the completed benchmark later identified as Deathwave 47.

Relationship to Utrea

Polezah’s role is important enough that even Utrea addresses him directly on advanced lab work. When she wakes in the lab, he wraps her in a robe, checks her vitals like a craftsman inspecting a finished piece, and later answers her questions about his brain-transplant work. Her command to “refine it” makes clear that Polezah is not independent; he is brilliant, but still answerable to greater powers.

This relationship gives him an unusual place in the hierarchy: valued for his mind, but not sovereign.

Place in the family bloodline

Unlike many members of the Family of Alpha and Utrea, Polezah is not defined primarily through direct combat. He is instead the family’s most explicit representative of knowledge weaponized into horror. As the oldest non-warrior son, he extends the bloodline’s influence away from battlefield conquest and into experimentation, memory manipulation, engineered killers, and bodily redesign.

In that sense, Polezah is one of the clearest examples of how this family produces not only rulers and warriors, but system-builders.

Personality

Polezah is clinical, gleeful, vain about his intellect, and emotionally deformed by proximity to his own work. He speaks less like a doctor with patients and more like a collector with specimens. His laughter is described as wrong for the room, the kind of sound made by someone who has spent too long where screaming is ordinary.

He is also deeply proud. He wants people to see his work, fear it, and understand its elegance. Fear, to Polezah, is proof that the lesson landed. Thirty-Two explicitly notes that Polezah enjoyed his fear near the Deathwave door because fear meant the subject understood.

His defining trait is not simple sadism, though that is certainly in the room. It is instrumental intelligence without moral brakes.

Abilities and expertise

• Advanced medical and scientific training: two PhDs, four PsyDs, and an MD
• Brain preservation and neurological experimentation
• Research into memory transfer and brain transplantation
• Genetic and biological enhancement work, including wolf-sense infusion in Deathwave units
• Long-term experimental asset management
• Harpy candidate repurposing and bodily suspension systems

Polezah’s genius is not abstract. It is horrifyingly practical. He doesn’t just theorize. He modifies bodies, archives minds, builds killers, and refines systems meant to extend or intensify power.

Relationships

The Dark Alpha / Conri

Conri is both Polezah’s father and one of the central powers he serves. Alpha brings Thirty-Two into Polezah’s kingdom personally and allows the Doctor to display the machinery of Nebu’s future. This implies strong trust or, at minimum, necessity. Polezah is too useful to be ornamental.

Utrea

Utrea is Polezah’s mother and one of the few people who can still speak to him with direct command authority. She knows exactly what he is working on and presses him for progress on brain transplants. He responds with nervous respect, suggesting she is one of the few figures capable of making him feel like a subordinate rather than a mad god in a lab coat.

Thirty-Two

Thirty-Two is one of Polezah’s most important observers in the Book. Polezah first greets him as “the interesting replacement,” immediately framing him not as a person but as a functional substitution. Thirty-Two’s horror at the lab gives the reader the clearest lens into how abnormal Polezah really is.

Deathwave

Polezah’s proudest achievement is Deathwave. He treats the project as art, science, and triumph all at once. He is the line’s creator and chief evangelist inside the text.

Deathwave 47 and Deathwave 201

Deathwave 47 and Deathwave 201 embody the outcomes of Polezah’s work at different levels of completion. Through them, his ideas become living weapons rather than laboratory concepts.

Failed Harpies

The failed Harpy candidates in suspended cases are among Polezah’s most disturbing “patients.” He refers to them as women who did not make the cut and were reassigned to better uses, underscoring his total reduction of human life to technical outcome.

His siblings

Polezah is part of the same bloodline as Rimitorry, Eshari, Zafira, Sakori, Khalembo, and Reonniz. Where many of them represent the bloodline’s violent, royal, or hidden-heir branches, Polezah represents its scientific and experimental branch.

Role in the story

Doctor Polezah serves several major functions in Tribal: Bloody Beginnings:

• He personifies the scientific side of Nebu’s brutality.
• He expands the world from tribal violence into engineered body horror.
• He creates the Deathwave line.
• He introduces the possibility of brain-based succession and memory transfer.
• He helps explain how power in the story is preserved, weaponized, and biologically manipulated.
• He shows how the family of Alpha and Utrea extends into laboratory horror rather than only battlefield power.

If First Conri Tora is the ancient supernatural corruption beneath the throne, Polezah is the modern technical corruption trying to optimize it.

Themes

Doctor Polezah is closely tied to several of the Book’s major themes:

• Science without ethics
• The body as laboratory material
• Manufactured monstrosity
• Knowledge as control
• People reduced to assets
• Medical skill turned into domination
• Bloodline expressed through experimentation

Trivia

• Thirty-Two calls the lab “Doctor Polezah’s kingdom.”
• Polezah’s listed credentials are two PhDs, four PsyDs, and an MD.
• He keeps the past Alpha’s brain in suspension while working on brain-transfer theory.
• He says there were 203 failed experiments before his Deathwave success.
• He claims to have infused the senses of the grey wolf directly into Deathwave.
• Utrea orders him to refine his brain-transplant work after waking in the lab.
• He is identified as the oldest non-warrior son of the Dark Alpha and Utrea.

See also

• Deathwave
• Deathwave 47
• Deathwave 201
• The Dark Alpha
• Utrea
• Thirty-Two
• First Conri Tora
• Nebu
• Family of Alpha and Utrea
• Tribal Bloody Beginnings (novel)