Dar is the last survivor of his tribe. He wanders the lands seeking his lost loved one, Kyra, protecting the oppressed and the animals. His ...
Dar is the last survivor of his tribe. He wanders the lands seeking his lost loved one, Kyra, protecting the oppressed and the animals. His friend Tao — a fearful, psychology-attracted young man — helps him in his quest; Tao is a scholar and a medicine man. Dar also meets another orphaned warrior named Arina who first joins his quest for her own reasons, but eventually becomes a faithful companion. The world of the Beastmaster is full of lost tribes, genocide appears to be common and all three of these characters are the survivors or last survivors of lost tribes. The series also featured a Sorceress, apprentice to the Ancient One, a Forest Demon named Curupira and Iara the Demon of Water and Serpent. The regular human enemy of Dar, King Zad. Marc Singer, the original Beastmaster, appears in the third season as Dartanus, the Spirit Warrior who helps Dar on his quest. The series also included many celebrity guest appearances, such as the appearance of Grace Jones as the Umpatra Warrior, Isla Fisher as the Demon Mannaka, Peta Sergeant as the Demon Yamira, Leah Purcell as the Black Apparition, Keith Hamilton Cobb as a Terron defector who is also in love with Kyra and King Voden, played by Dai Paterson throughout the second season. The general story arc of the series is that the world is changing, civilization is advancing, technology is gaining ground slowly, the old orders of magic and sorcery are fading and the world is threatened by the supernatural being Balcifer, the Dark One, played by Jeremy Callaghan. Dar is the son of King Eldar, who was destroyed by Balcifer and must locate and reunite his entire family, who have been turned into animals to hide them from Balcifer, in the Crystal Arc, to defeat Balcifer. Balcifer's agent on Earth is King Zad, who is first King of the Terrons, a savage tribe that enslaves and pillages at will and later, when the tribe is destroyed by King Voden leading a group of Viking-like northerners, Zad re-emerges as the King of... Less