Ekkletos

Ekkletos is the spiritual leader of the Tantaror and resides in the Tantaragor dimension. He resembles a giant, red, ghostly, elephant-headed man with a third eye in the middle of his forehead. He also has white markings of unknown significance around his eyes. He is incredibly powerful, like all Tantaror, and is the only known being shown to be capable of activating the teleportation powers of Tantaragor Idol remotely, even across dimensional boundaries. He was able to easily subdue the three heretic Tantaror followers of Orkym-Ro, who had previously easily defeated Knuckles the Echidna and an entire crew of Sky Pirates.

Ekkletos enforces the Tantaror laws that forbid capturing creatures from other worlds, but still seems to consider himself superior to such creatures. He had no qualms about using Knuckles as bait to capture three heretic Tantaror, although he later (brusquely) apologised and claimed that it was "by far the easiest solution".

History
In attempting to capture three heretic Tantaror, who were followers of the evil priest Orkym-Ro and had captured many slaves on Mobius, Ekkletos remotely activated the Tantaragor Idol and brought it back to Tantaragor. However, the Idol had been stolen by Captain Plunder, and thus instead of the heretics Ekkletos summoned Knuckles the Echidna and a group of pirates from Scourge Bay.

Ekkletos explained the mistake, and Knuckles insisted that he be allowed to go back to the heretics' Ghost Ship to rescue the slaves, to which Ekkletos agreed. However, Ekkletos was merely using Knuckles as a distraction so that he could once again remotely activate the Idol and bring the entire Ghost Ship and its passengers into Tantaragor. Having captured the heretics, he returned Knuckles, the pirates and the slaves back to Mobius, but kept the Idol behind in Tantaragor. He claimed that the heretics' punishent would be "most severe".