Vant Zan

Vant Zan is an antagonist in the Oltanis Zeta series. He debuts some time in the middle seasons, and becomes duo with Haoku Miroku when working with Nitrider.

Bio
Vant Zan is a bird of prey living in Southeast Asia. He professed in a career of assassinations and is a very skilled martial artist, and has adept use of throwing weapons. From an unknown time in his history, he was able to control wind energy, and can power up his speed and fighting with wind.

It is unknown how he got his powers, but it's learned that it was learned and trained from a master in his life that taught him fighting. After leaving his home temple, he seemed to gain notoriety in killing former enemies that targeted his village and fellow temple denizens. He turned his blade against his local military and flew into hiding.

Sometime later Tanor learns of him as a person of interest for his training to get stronger after his defeat by Mecha Tanor and getting revived had made him weaker, and struggling with control over Blackout Tanor (Teiden)'s influence growing. Tanor starts making contact with the former military and helps them out in tracking down Vant Zan.

It turns out the bird had known Haoku Miroku prior to joining Nitrider's Metalis Kingdom. Haoku informed him about the Oltanis Team due to having a hatred for Maru, but noting his teammates being equally dangerous for their plans. It was planned they had a way of taking Tanor down, and contacted Mecha Tanor 2.0 for ideas. This surprises Mecha Tanor to know that he was alive and gave Vant a special item to use on Tanor.

Tanor finally was able to track him down and clashed with him. Thinking he would have an easy time, Tanor was overconfident in fighting him and didn't know he was being traced and in big trouble. Vant's speed and wind powers seemed to have a strong resistance in blowing away Tanor's abilities. Then Tanor was given a sneaky jab of a vial to give him a specially made virus by Mecha Tanor. Hoping to shut down Tanor's electrical veins and make it dangerous to use his powers as it would burn his own flesh if he used it.

This forces him to get rescued and get worked on by a special doctor to deal with it.

Vant would join up with Mecha Tanor later after this, along with Eis, and Haoku would be the earliest members, being the prelude to the Nitrider Era.

Appearance
Vant Zan is an anthropomorphic bird of prey reminiscent of a falcon & eagle. He's mostly green with red and white patterns throughout his body. With a green-white-red pattern on his wings that end in sharp silvery feathers on his wing tips. His head has a striking mohawk styling with green hair with red tips. He has a yellow-black tipped beak. His eyes are black, and white sclera, has red lining around his eyes. His arms and legs have black-ish talons with dark claws.

His usual outfits include armor similar to that of Gadgetron's. His normal clothes can range from tank tops to leather studded jackets, and leather pants or jeans. If he wears any footwear, he has specially designed boots for his feetclaws.