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  • Complete Monster: Bar-Atu is the High Priest of the Atu tribe of Skull Island, and a charlatan claiming to communicate with the Gods, including the monstrous Gaw, using fear to engineer human sacrifices. Bar-Atu slathers the sacrifices with a scent that attracts Gaw, using this method to exterminate the rival Tagu tribe after having pitted the tribes against each other. When Europeans become shipwrecked on the island, Bar-Atu convinces their captain to help kill his rival, Kublai, in exchange for the island's treasure; Bar-Atu later abandons the expedition to be butchered by Gaw, who is then killed by Kong. Taking credit for summoning Kong, Bar-Atu has Kublai killed, along with the island's elderly Storyteller, and begins sacrificing people to Kong, plotting to exterminate loyalists to Kublai's widow, Ishara. When Carl Denham's crew arrives on Skull Island, Bar offers to sell five of his tribe's women in exchange for Ann Darrow; when Denham refuses the trade, Bar has Ann abducted to be a sacrifice to Kong.

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