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Kinnara Clan

Clan Attribute: Wind

The Kinnara Clan in General

• Blow You Away: Their element.
• Enemy Mine: Briefly allied with the gods in season three in an emergencial status to keep the Tarakas at bay. It seems Vayu, the God of Wind, helped them by creating an environment more suited to their needs. Later developments imply this alliance doesn't stand anymore.
  • This too happened at the very beginning of the universe, when Kinnara having made a deal with the gods to remain as King of the clan, put an end to the alliance the original Airavata had with the Ancient Human Race and was the sura clan who first joined in the annhilation of them.
• Good Is Not Dumb: Being unwilling to bother humans and other suras just for kicks on the most part, the Kinnaras are the closest the sura realm has to outright good. However, like Shess himself states, that doesn't mean they have to take shit from anyone.
• Little Bit Beastly: They take after horned/hooved animals.
• Martial Pacifist: As a neutral clan, the Kinnaras don't have feuds with anyone, and are often sought after by other clans in times of need. That doesn't mean they don't know how to defend themselves, or that they won't if they feel necessary.
• Neutral No Longer: Seems to be the case in season three, as Chatan was a Kinnara rakshasa sent to help Sagara with her plans. This should tell you how dire is the situation in the sura realm.
  • Subverted, as Chatan went to the human realm against his clan's will. However, double subverted in the sense that things have gotten so bad that there is no way for any clan to be neutral anymore: the Kinnaras have allied themselves with the Yakshas and Vritras against a coalition composed mostly by Asuras and surviving Gandharvas. Along the Asura clan, they have emerged as one of the two dominant factions in the sura realm.
• Opportunistic Bastard: They are often in the receiving end of this insult by other clans, and while it seems underserved at first, numerous reveals hint that there is a very great deal of truth in it. for example, that they were the first ones to support the gods in the annahilation of the ancient humans.
• Status Quo Is God: Shess makes it understood that the Kinnara clan strives to keep balance between factions, which often means interfering in conflicts that are too one-sided to cooperate with the losing side.
• Team Switzerland: Once their alliance with the Vritra clan ended, they decided to withdraw from the other clans entirely and rarely get involved in others' conflicts. This seems to extend to their relationship with humans as well; out of all the clans, Leez notes she's never seen a Kinnara sura, implying that they're rare.
• Token Heroic Orc: They, the Vritra clan, and the Yaksha clan were the only ones not to retaliate against humans during the fiend magic incidents. Thanks to that, the gods come to their aid when the Taraka clan becomes a threat.

Kinnara/Airavata

Kinnara/Airavata

Nastika, Source Attribute: Unknown

First and current king of the clan. She obtained her current name of Airavata under certain circumstances.

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• Abusive Parents: She was one to Shess, going by flashbacks. Recent memories of Leny's indicate that she hasn't gotten any better, either. As she herself puts it to Leny in chapter 3-114/399:
  Kinnara/Airavata: I have countless children. Why should I care about the hopes of one?
• Action Mom: She's Shess's mother and powerful enough that (albeit thanks to elemental advantage) she can consistently beat Taksaka.
• Birds of a Feather: What initially attracted her to Vritra was that they're both introverts who found it difficult to keep up with more outgoing company.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She puts up a kind face around other suras, as noted by Leny, and in the finite, Hanuman, after praising Shess for his niceness, says that Shess takes after Airavata. It could very well be sincere, but even if you disregard her being an Abusive Parent, the way she treats Leny in private makes it clear she's far more cold-hearted than her son. It's possible that some of her niceness is not hers actually, but inherited from the original Airavata.
• Chekhov M.I.A.: Of sorts. As far as the reader could tell, Airavata has been the acting leader of the clan for a long time and yet Kinnara, who's never mentioned until the reveal (aside from in The Finite), is noted to be alive according to the author. Thus, it's clear that something is going on with the clan's nastika. Turns she wasn't missing at all: the one we know as "Airavata" was the original Kinnara all along.
• The Corruptible: She may very well have never killed Airavata had Ravana not deliberately dug his claws into her insecurities and fears of being erased as an "error".
• Curb-Stomp Battle: To drive home the point of how spine-chillingly powerful the first generation kings are, we are shown the results of a battle she had with Kubera, Yama, Akasha and Vinata a thousand years before the current time. She wrecked them. At the time, none of the involved parties were under the handicaps we came to expect from gods and nastikas: none were summoned, all could take sura form. And Kubera had the spear to boot. It didn't matter: Airavata, all by herself, prevailed without difficulty despite being at a weakened state, and the four only walked out of it alive because of Garuda's last second intervention. Had he not appeared, she might have very well have killed them and walked out of it none the worse for wear.
• Evil Former Friend: She considers the original Airavata to be one to her, given that they used to have a good relationship before Shess was born. However, given that she killed Airavata and stole her name, it can be argued that she was the one filling this role at the end.
• The Ghost: She's mentioned a few times early on, but doesn't start making appearances until Season 3.
• Green Thumb: An extra chapter showed she's able to control plant life, even in a place as toxic as the sura realm (although flashbacks indicate that the Kinnara territory isn't nearly as barren as the Ananta one). Given that Currygom confirmed that this was not due to her clan Wind attribute, it's speculated her source attribute may be Earth.
• Heartbroken Badass: She wanted to believe that, even after losing his emotions, Vritra would still love her. Unfortunately for her, that didn't turn out to be the case.
• Hypercompetent Sidekick: Lover, actually, but she's the one who finds Vritra's cue cards for him when he's trying to make a speech.
• Hypocrite: She criticizes the gods for wrapping up their atrocities as "justice" unlike the suras who can at least own up to their slaughters being for fun, to which the gods point out she's even more blind to her faults than they are. She's remained convinced that killing Airavata was for the good of the Kinnara Clan, but they reveal this wasn't the case, and it's clear even to the reader that she's deluding herself because she doesn't want to acknowledge she murdered a friend for nothing.
• Insane Troll Logic: Oh no! Her Number Two gets so embittered towards her that she leaves the clan with a faction of her own and takes the king's badly abused son along? The kid must be to blame.
• Jerkass: Let's see, abusing Shess so badly he ran away from her? Telling Leny to die to for him? Killing a very dear person to him right in front of his eyes? Taking her form to abuse him further? By no means, she's a sweetheart.
• Lethal Chef: Implied. She gives candy to Ananta that he offers to his clanmates... but they're all wary when they hear it's from Kinnara. (And make a face while eating it.)
• My God, What Have I Done?: Implied in Between First and Second, which mentions that long after the original Airavata's death, Kinnara/Airavata was struck with a sudden realization and broke down crying for three days.
• Noodle Incident: An extra flashback chapter indicates that she and Leez are not on good terms. Given Airavata's personality and what Leez thinks of suras that don't value life, it's not hard to imagine why.
• Oblivious to Love: One side story all but says that the original Airavata was in love with her, which she only realized after killing her and taking her name.
• Only Friend: To Taksaka, alongside Vasuki. The two of them are stated to be the only ones who would care to avenge him if he ever died.
• The Usurper: A very convoluted and self-inflicted example; She is the original first king of the clan, but at some point after stealing Airavata'a name, she started to suffer from having to carry two names, and just before the Fiendish Magic Incident she tricked a girl into taking the Kinnara name, so she would only keep the Airavata name, presumably for being more powerful and because once the girl was killed because of her berserk attack she would remain the king anyway. However later we are told that God Kubera took said girl away and is now living in hiding in the human world, meaning that the current Airavata is no longer the king of the Kinnara, and there are already rumors and suspicions about it among other clans.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: It's suggested she and Taksaka fight often. And due to her attributes that she stole from the original Airavata alongside her name, she wins whenever things get physical.
• Walking Spoiler: It's difficult to talk about "Kinnara" without revealing that she's actually Airavata.
• Tough Leader Façade: What Yaksha advised her to be. After Vritra dumped her, she got terribly saddened and went to him for consolation; he gave it, but also told her to be careful with her feelings, as it would affect the whole clan. Besides, the Kinnara clan was now completely lacking in allies, and thus vulnerable; as ruler, Kinnara should neglect her own pain to not cause her clanmates any.
• Would Hurt a Child: As she implies to a very young Leny, there's nothing stopping her from killing the half whenever she wants, as not even Shess would dare to defy her. The only reason she's keeping Leny alive is because she hopes she will be the key to Shess' development into 5th stage - in other words, because she's waiting for the right moment for Leny to die.
• World's Most Beautiful Woman: Of the three great beauties among the sura, alongside Shuri and Urvasi. Downplayed in that while she's beautiful, her looks aren't discussed as much as theirs are/were, and when she participated in their beauty contest with various dragon nastikas as the intended judge, the author suggests that she wasn't counting on her appearance to get the vote...

Airavata

Airavata

Nastika, Source Attribute: Fire

^SPOILER 

The Number Two Nastika of the Kinnara clan.

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• Badass and Child Duo: Used to have this dynamic with Shess, being the badass.
• Cannot Spit It Out: It's heavily implied that she was in love with Kinnara but never said a word, even after Kinnara broke up with Vritra.
• Died in Your Arms Tonight: In Shess's, which triggered the development to his current stage.
• The Gadfly: That, or Agni just made an unusually good target.
• Gender Bender: She was exclusively in her male form at the start of the universe, but then, essentially permanently, changed to female after Kinnara entered a relationship with Vritra.
• Hypercompetent Sidekick: Deconstructed. Despite being the Number Two, she became more powerful than Kinnara, dividing their clan between those who followed Kinnara and those who treated Airavata as the king instead; as a result, Kinnara feared that she would become The Usurper.
• The Lad-ette: Was rather tomboyish in nature. Amusingly, it was Hanuman of all people who called her out on it.
• Mama Bear: Towards Shess. She was a better parent to him than his actual mother.
• Nice Girl: Yes, very much. She took Shess in to protect him from his mother's abuse, and agreed to help humanity in creating a defense system against hostile nastikas. If only her kind were the same...
• Playing with Fire: Her attribute, which she seemed to favour in battle. Her Wind + Fire combination allowed her to, as Menaka stated, "beat dragons with her bare hands". It's in fact her strengths that allow the current Kinnara/Airavata to do the same.
• Poor Communication Kills: She actually intended to discuss with Kinnara about their respective positions and go to the Primeval Gods to fix the situation, meaning that Kinnara never had anything to fear from Airavata. Unfortunately, she put this off to after helping out with humanity's defence system... at which point, as the reader knows, it would be too late.
• Retgone: Brahma wrote her out of people's memories after Kinnara took her Name.
• Sorry That I'm Dying: Her last words were apologizing to Shess for leaving him all alone.
• Walking Spoiler: There's initially no reason to think there was another Airavata at all.

Shess

Shess

Rakshasa, Hereditary Attributes: Light + Unknown

The son of Airavata, a Nastika of the Kinnara Clan. He was born shortly after the universe was created, making him one of the oldest Rakshasa alive. Due to circumstances, he hasn't been able to reach 5th stage.

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• Badass and Child Duo: With Leny. He may not seems much of a badass on first glance, but he is one. In the past, he used to be the child to the original Airavata's badass.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Very polite and calm, and would rather avoid killing... but he also makes it clear that really, he's doing you a favour by acting peacefully, so don't push him.
• Brutal Honesty: As far as suras go, Shess is one of the nicest you'll meet. With that said, he has no qualms about calling people out on their bullshit.
• Curtains Match the Windows: Pink hair and pink eyes (as well as pink everything, really).
• Establishing Character Moment: In his proper debut, he calmly tells (a very moody) Gandharva that he doesn't care what Gandharva thinks of him, but asks that if he wants to discuss something, then if he could do so with more cordiality. After all, the Kinnara clan may be neutral, but that doesn't mean they're obliged to welcome hostility.
• Foil: To Maruna, as becomes evident whenever they interact. Though both are in similar positions as prominent fourth stage rakshasas, their views on the world (in particular, humans) couldn't be more different. And though, strictly speaking, mental and physical age correspond to stage, Shess's millions of years of experience over Maruna are very apparent when it comes to maturity levels, no matter how adult Maruna pretends he is.
• Friend to All Children: Helped look after/played with both Kasak and Agwen during their respective childhoods, has adopted Leny, and goes out of his way to rescue Ran's sons when they're swept out to sea.
• Healing Hands: He's able to transfer his vigour, which essentially heals when it comes to beings with less vigour (i.e. humans).
• Heroic Neutral: Technically, as per his clan's way, he's neutral. While many of his actions are meant to help Sagara and co. (given his ideology of helping the weak and Sagara's status as a Villainous Underdog, and his mother's secret orders to be on God Kubera's "side"), he also likes humans, is well-liked in return, works towards a greater good, and all in all tends to act as the universe's errand boy, even if not always happily.
• Holy Hand Grenade: At the start of Season 3, he blows up a group of sura with a presumably light-aligned transcendental (given that it's one of his known attributes).
• Horned Humanoid: He has a pair of dark horns poking out of his hair.
• Martial Pacifist: When he can, he'll settle things with words first, a fight second. If you've reached the latter step, you're about to get your ass kicked.
• Nerves of Steel: As Agni notes, Shess seems to have a stronger mind than even most gods and nastikas, and fittingly, he's mentioned to have a high resistance to psychological transcendentals. Thus, that Shess falls to Frozen Tears as easily as he does is a sign that something fishy is going on.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished:
  • When he and Agni swapped favours, the one Shess was meant to do increased exponentially, and yet Shess agreed to carry it out (what he wanted from Agni wasn't even for himself!). In return, he gets Mind Raped and ends up Brainwashed and Crazy thanks to a mixture of Frozen Tears and Taraka.
  • His whole damn life, actually. he went along with the original Airavata to test weaponry that would allow the original humans to defend themselves against even nastikas. What did he got out of it, you ask? Getting abused by his mother for the rest of his long-as-fuck life after seeing her kill the person he loved the most, as punishment for the crime of running away from her abuse. Oh, and she likes to torment him further by taking said person's appearance while she does it.
• Older Than They Look: Aside from standard sura fare, he was this in the past. During his third stage, he was still small and young-looking enough to easily be mistaken for a second stage rakshasa. Ironically, he's tall and mature-looking enough as a fourth stage that he doesn't look much younger than the likes of Samphati and Chatan.
• Papa Wolf: Towards Leny. This puts everyone in an awkward position when she's the only one who can save him, but in a way that endangers her: they know that if Shess wakes up and she's dead, they're in trouble.
• Parental Substitute: To Leny, whose father was killed during the Cataclysm. He had one in the form of the original Airavata.
• Please, Don't Leave Me: Begged this of a dying Airavata, as she was the only person in the world who cared about him and he felt he hadn't repaid that debt to her.
• Real Men Wear Pink: Has pink hair and eyes, and wears pink clothes. And, love kids! Sura, half, quarter or human, Shess is a kid-magnet.
• Secret-Keeper: Played for Laughs. Ran needs transportation to Kaliboom, thanks to a request from Chandra that he's not allowed to tell anyone else about, so...
  Shess: You think it's okay to tell a sura what you're not allowed to tell any other human?
• Seen It All: Why he's unable to advance to his fifth stage. He needs an experience more intense than anything he's been through... which isn't easy when he's been alive for so long and gone through so much that almost nothing fazes him anymore.
• Super-Speed: In sura form, he's as fast as some Garuda clan members, though not as fast as Maruna. Even in human form, he can run halfway across the planet and back within a single night.
• Time Abyss: He was born near the beginning of the universe, and is in fact older than the entire current human race. He has Fifth Stage rakshasa siblings that are younger than him. That's probably why even the likes of Taksaka and Gandharva allow him to speak to them as an equal.
• Token Heroic Orc: He and Yuta are the only suras whose presences on Willarv are sanctioned by the gods. He's not without shades of Blue-and-Orange Morality, but he's much better in this regard than Yuta.
• Took a Level in Badass: Nowadays, he's one of the strongest rakshasa around with Nerves of Steel and, according to Taksaka, famous for his combat skill. You'd never guess that he used to be a Shrinking Violet, the weakest of his mother's children, and below average in general.
• The Unfavorite: His mother's. She blames him for her loss of power following his birth, and was abusive enough towards him that he left her to be with the original Airavata. After stealing her name, Kinnara even used the original Airavata's appearance to torment him. Poor Shess.
  • It seems to be the other way around nowadays—he's noted to be "favoured" by Airavata. With that said, given the sort of parent she is, that doesn't necessarily mean what one thinks it would.
• Vegetarian Carnivore: Among a species that frequently eats one another to replenish their vigour, Shess is the only known strict vegetarian, due to an unspecified trauma according to his profile on the author's blog.
• Wild Card: Thanks to his clan's well-known neutral stance. Neither side can count on him as an ally, but as he's not in the habit of screwing people over and is open about his motivations, they'll also rely on his help when he gives it.
• Would Hurt a Child: When he interrupts Kasak and Maruna's fight, he mentions having beaten a young Kasak. Considering how nearly everyone save for the nastikas and the oldest gods are younger than him, this applies to most people.

Chatan

Chatan

Rakshasa, Hereditary Attributes: Unknown

A Kinnara rakshasa that debuts in season three.

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• An Arm and a Leg: One of his arms is badly injured during the confrontation in Mistyshore.
• Badass and Child Duo: Briefly pretends to be Sagara's older brother when she takes on a child form in Mistyshore.
• Bad with the Bone: His sura trait is something that looks a lot like a horned skull covering his head.
• Big Brother Bully: Somehow implied, although inverted in the sense that Chatan is the younger one. Chatan is, like Shess, one of Airavata's children. When Hura asked him if he worried about his brother, Chatan answered that he wished he would simply die.
• Big Little Brother: Fifth stage, but younger than his brother, Shess.
• Body Horror: Lorraine is certainly creative with Bhavati Brahma.
• Jerkass: Not the nicest guy around, although his rudeness could simply be because he's focused on solving the matter at hand and has no time for pleasantries. That being said, his comment about his sibling imply he's like this in other situations as well.
• Master of Illusion: Seems to possess a transcendental that allows him to impose his will on other's minds. It seems, however, that the target retains a certain level of pre-existing personality.
• Psychotic Smirk: Briefly in chapter 3-139/424.
• Stronger Sibling: Shess's, as he is a Fifth Stage rakshasa. Ran, however, claims he's not that strong for a Fifth Stage.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Completely averted. Chatan and Shess look absolutely nothing alike, which makes the revelation of the relationship between them surprising.
• Undying Loyalty: Implied and then subverted. He claims to hate Shess, but leaves him alone because their mother is fond of him. The subverted part comes with the revelation that Chatan, like Sona and Tatia, came independently and against the will of their clans, which means that he must have disobeyed Airavata's orders.

Leny

Leny

Half, Hereditary Attributes: Earth + Water

A Kinnara Half adopted by Shess.

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• Bad Liar: She quickly tries to backtrack on her comment about the sura realm being unpleasant, which Shess calls her on.
• Curtains Match the Window: Unusually for a half, she has purple hair and eyes.
• Half-Human Hybrid: Half Kinnara.
• Happily Adopted: She's doesn't like the Sura realm very much, but she's happy under Shess's care.
• Horned Humanoid: She's depicted with short, blunt horns on the sides of her head in Season 3.
• Interspecies Adoption: While not officially Shess's daughter—she's referred to as his follower instead—he's pretty much been raising her since the Cataclysm, despite the language barrier.
• I Owe You My Life: Airavata invokes this for her, citing that because she'd be dead if it weren't for Shess, she must repay the favour. On Leny's end, she's willing to die to save Shess's life, but not so much for other purposes.
• An Offer You Can't Refuse: Undergo a suicidal task to save Shess, or Chandra will kill him because he's too much of a threat to leave Brainwashed and Crazy. Chandra, when Laila said to get Leny's consent, guilt-tripping the little girl was not what she meant.
• Reincarnation: It's all but said that she's this of the original Airavata.
• Satellite Character: Both in-universe and out. She's an ordinary Half, and thus inconsequential in the grand scheme of things. On the other hand, Shess is a fourth stage rakshasa, and one of the only ones who's willing to protect humanity to boot. Thus, Airavata and Chandra primarily view Leny as a potential key to trigger Shess's development to fifth stage, with the former explicitly telling her that to die for Shess is her sole purpose now.

Vritra Clan

Clan Attribute: Fire

The Vritra Clan in General

• Amicable Exes: A (sort of) platonic version with the Kinnara clan. While it's unknown how Kinnara feels about Vritra now, their clans still seem to be on good terms with each other even after the dissolution of their alliance, as they're seen cooperating in Season 3 and Airavata and Taksaka are still good friends.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: Individually, Vritras are in average the strongest suras. However, their emotionlessness makes them completely uninterested in nearly everything aside from sleeping. Most sura clans are in a constant battle for supremacy; the dragons couldn't care less.
• Driven to Suicide: Yuta mentions that the Vritra clan has a particularly high number of suicides in their history, likely because their lack of emotions makes living feel futile to them.
• Dying Race: Vritras are considered to be this due to the fact that they cannot reproduce if not by fathering halfs, and most dragons have no interest whatsoever in having kids. They number the smallest of the eight sura clans. However, the fact that most Vritra nastikas are far stronger than the average of other clans makes up for their lack of numbers.
• Foil: To the Asura clan, just like their kings are this to each other. The average Asura is weaker than the average sura; the average Vritra is stronger than the average nastika. Due to their weakness, the Asuras tend to move in groups. The Vritra clan, on the other hand, scattered after they lost their emotions. The Asuras are Explosive Breeders, while the Vritras can't have children between them, and may only enlarge their numbers by fathering halfs. Thus, the Asura clan is the largest of the eight, while the Vritra clan is the smallest of them. Even their animal motifs are contrasting. When you think of large, strong, powerful creatures, you think of dragons. When you think of small, numerous, weak creatures, you think of insects.
• Inhumanly Beautiful Race: Subverted, although it's true for most nastikas in other clans- making the Vritra clan the odd one of the bunch, as most of the nastikas in this clan are said to have below average looks.
• I Work Alone: Vritras only fight solo. In fact, they are a clan almost in name only, as they scattered after their emotions were lost and their king has zero interest in ruling them.
• The Needs of the Many: Why they took the deal that stripped them of their emotions and forced them all into their male form. Sure, it sucked for those who liked having feelings or preferred their female forms, but it was for the good of the clan as a whole. (That Utpala couldn't accept this marked her as unique.)
• Our Dragons Are Different: They are Sura and share most Sura abilities and attributes, including shapeshifting; in dragon form, they appear somewhere midway between Eastern and Western dragons.
• One-Gender Race: The power of the dragon's breath was balanced out by the unexplained but highly consistent deaths of any two dragons that fell in love. Due to that, the dragon clan was dying out very, very quickly at the beginning of the universe. Since the Primeval Gods didn't want the clan to go extinct, they agreed to fiddle with the laws of reality a bit. In exchange for dragon Halves having the full power of rakshasa, the clan all lost their female forms and became almost entirely emotionless.
• Playing with Fire: Their clan attribute. Well, they are dragons.
• Power at a Price/Equivalent Exchange: At the beginning of the universe, the Vritra made a deal with Visnu. Because the dragons had such powerful breath weapons, they couldn't have children and would die if they tried. Visnu fixed this for them, but at a price: All the dragons had to become male permanently, and any Half that lives past a hundred years would have the power of a 5th stage Rakshasa. The catch here is that along with losing their gender-bender ability, the dragons also lost their emotions and thus no longer had much interest in expanding their dominance, preferring to sleep in their nests. Even worse is that the mothers of Halfs would have to lose eighty years of their life to give birth, deceasing the dragons' desire to have children even more.
• Star-Crossed Lovers: Whenever a couple of nastikas fell in love and got pregnant, both would die not long before the delivery. Due to this, most Vritras looked for lovers in other clans. Vritra and Kinnara are an example.
• The Stoic: In addition to being made a single-gender race, dragons were stripped of most of their emotions so they wouldn't reproduce. Some of them kept one emotion very strongly, though, like Taksaka's anger or Vritra's obsession with fighting Taksaka.
• Team Switzerland: They're not as explicitly neutral as the Kinnara clan, but they presumably have no alliances either (given their last one was said clan), prefer sleeping over conquering, and didn't take part in the fiendish magic incidents likely out of, again, laziness.
• Winged Humanoid: Kasak, Taksaka and Kadru have all been shown to have wings in human form.

Vritra

Vritra

Nastika, Source Attribute: Unknown

First and current king of the clan. Also the strongest being in the universe after Ananta's death.

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• Always Someone Better: Ananta is this to him. Even now that Ananta is dead, Vritra's title is only "strongest in the world without Ananta."
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Vritra is easily distracted. In The Finite, he can't finish giving a speech without Kinnara's help.
• Birds of a Feather: Before Vritra lost his emotions, he and Kinnara bonded over their introverted tendencies.
• Blood Knight: To strip the dragons' of their emotions, Brahma created a spell that ended up being imperfect. Their emotions were numbed, except for the most prominent one, that was strengthened instead. Vritra's sole remaining emotion in life is his love of fighting Taksaka.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: Even by the standards of his clan. Vritra is the strongest being in the universe nowadays, but so lazy that Agni complains about how even Taksaka put more effort in their fights than Vritra does.^note Which is saying a lot—Taksaka's strongest transcendentals require mutual killing intent to activate, which Agni lacks towards him, and so Taksaka doesn't bother to go all out against Agni either. Vritra literally just hands over his strongest transcendental to Agni so that he'll leave him alone to sleep in peace.
• The Faceless: He's the last of the kings whose face is shown, not being properly revealed until the side story Between the First and Second—long after everyone else's appearances have been established.
• Karma Houdini: To this day, Taksaka is still unaware that he, and not Utpala, was the one that destroyed Ian's village while impersonating him.
• The Quiet One: People were shocked that Kinnara managed to hold lengthy conversations with him.
• Reluctant Ruler: Vritra never liked to be king, and tried to find loopholes to pass Taksaka the throne on many occasions. Unlike Gandharva, however, he didn't suck at the job despite hating it, and always tried to do the best for his clan (such as sacrificing their female forms, even though his was stronger than his male form, because the opposite was true for most Vritras).
• Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Knowing that dragons in love hide and avoid fighting, he did what he could to avoid Visnu's prophecy about Taksaka falling in love with a child of Utpala's line becoming reality, such as destroying Ian's village, which forced her to move to Mistyshore. Guess who she met there.
• Space Master: seemingly able of teleporting instantly to anywhere he wishes, can return to his nest from any dimension, and is capable of transporting enemies to the 0th dimension which can kill any non-Astika beings. It seems he holds a fundamental control over space much like Ananta has over time.
• Story-Breaker Power: He has a transcendental that could kill any sura, no matter how powerful. Only Ananta was exempt, by virtue of being too large. However, he'd rather sleep than fight. Seeing him shake off 5th stage Maruna's strongest attack while only feeling a light tickle frightened the otherwise proud Maruna to the point of making their best to keep him on their side, and constant use of honorifics.
• Willfully Weak: Even though he is the strongest person in the universe, he was even stronger in his female form - enough to give Ananta a run for his money. He gave it up (agreeing for all dragons to be made male when it was necessary for them to become a One-Gender Race) because most other dragons are stronger in their male forms, so it was better that way for the clan as a whole.
• World's Strongest Man: Now that Ananta is dead, he's the strongest sura alive, and possibly the strongest being alive, too.

Taksaka

Taksaka

Nastika, Source Attribute: Destruction

The Destruction Dragon, second-in-command of the clan. Kasak's father and Agwen's grandfather. His only emotion is anger. He is one of the two protagonists of The Finite, a side-novel.

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• Abusive Parents: He was one to Kasak, who recalls being beat by him frequently.
• Affectionate Nickname: Tak, to the extent that only those closest to him are allowed to use it. If anyone else tries, they should expect to be dead very soon.
• The Anti-Nihilist: In a sense. At first, it sounds as if he sees no reason to try and protect Agwen; whether it's a natural or unnatural death, all humans die in the blink of an eye from a long-lived being's perspective, after all. However, he then does just that, citing that even if they all die in the end, the memories they leave behind differ.
• Anti-Regeneration: One of his transcendentals prevents everyone within a certain radius from healing. It's one of the powers Agni copied for his "to kill Gandharva, if needed" plan.
• Big Brother Instinct: Towards Utpala, in the past (especially since she usually looked like a child). She approached him during the early days of the universe and monopolized his attention since.
• Bullying a Dragon: Literally! After Ian's death and Taksaka's return to the sura realm, Ravana got the great idea of mocking him over it. It went about as well one might expect.
• Bystander Syndrome:
  • The Vritra clan was the only clan aside from the Gandharva clan who was in a position to lend aid to the Ananta clan when Ananta was in danger. They did send Taksaka... who was only there to watch the show. Subverted when it turns out that he did rescue Vasuki, however.
  • In general, as Kasak points out, Taksaka isn't one to be moved by justice or a greater good and acts only if his loved ones are involved. When he goes to Willarv to save Kasak (and then, as per Kasak's desires, to check up on Agwen), he ignores every single incident that doesn't have to do with either.
• Conflicting Loyalty: He faces this in the finite, upon realizing Utpala is likely responsible for Ian's Dark and Troubled Past. To clear his name, he needs to give her the true culprit, but he can't just ask her to forgive them—at the same time Taksaka doesn't want to kill Utpala either. Ultimately, when Utpala seemingly threatens Ian, he makes his decision.
• Crazy Jealous Guy: He is VERY possessive of Ian and gets jealous of almost any guy near Ian - even his own son who was endangered of getting killed almost everyday.
• Dark Is Not Evil: He's the Destruction Dragon, but as much as he's feared for his temper (and rightfully so), he's actually one of the better nastika to run into, if you must. Though Utpala ruined his reputation, he's rarely killed humans (no one who knows him believed that he wiped out Ian's village), and while not nearly as heroic as his son, he has some partiality towards humanity, having married one and left behind descendants.
• Deal with the Devil: It's heavily implied that the price for him to be sent through one of Taraka's portals is highly disadvantageous to him in some way - after all, as another nastika pointed out, out of their kind, only Kadru had agreed to it before Taksaka. It's unclear whether that's because of the process itself or because Yuta asked something else of him; it appears he believes in the latter at least a little bit ("How like Kali's son").
• Destructive Savior: Like Father, Like Son. Chandra knows he can't afford to let Taksaka fight unsupervised, as he thinks nothing of the collateral damage he causes (and being what he is, that's a lot of potential damage).
• Disproportionate Retribution: "If something happens to him, I'll blame you. I don't care if the universe is destroyed. None of it matters if my son dies."
• Does Not Know His Own Strength: He accidentally breaks Ian's arm in one of their first encounters.
• The Dreaded: Kasak claims the only thing he fears is his father, aka Taksaka. Chandra tells him that's understandable. It should tell you quite enough about his reputation that Riagara simply mentioning the possibility of a connection between him and Kasak is enough to make several rakshasas give up on fighting the half.
• Endearingly Dorky: Though he has a long list of flaws, Ian finds Taksaka's clumsy nature to be endearing.
• Happily Married: Despite all the obstacles, he ended up as this with Ian, even without his earrings.
• Hidden Depths: He's a good gardener. Of all things!
• Hidden Heart of Gold: The irony of his Papa Wolf side is that no one ever bothered with using his loved ones as a hostage against him because they thought he wouldn't care.
• How Do I Shot Web?: How do I deal with emotions far stronger than what I'm used to? Visnu's earrings allow him to feel just like any other creature, which confuses the poor guy a lot. After all, even before Vritra sealed the deal with the primeval gods that stripped the dragons of their emotions, the clan as a whole was less emotional than others.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Ian's small, Taksaka is very much not. When he goes off to rescue Ian in adult form—which Ian has yet to see—Shess actually recommends he switches to a younger appearance, knowing Ian might be intimidated by the significant difference in stature.
• Innocently Insensitive: Thanks to his inclination towards Brutal Honesty. He doesn't mean anything by it when he tells Ian that her dreams are unrealistic (only afterwards does he realize why that upset her), and though telling Kasak, after Ian's death, that he still blames him comes off as rather cruel, Taksaka wasn't actually trying to rub it in—to him, it was merely a statement of how he felt. (And with the earrings off, Kasak didn't exactly care either way.)
• Interspecies Romance: With Ian, a Quarter.
• Jerkass Has a Point: When Kasak asked to keep Taksaka's earrings so that he could court his future wife, Taksaka bluntly suggested that meant Kasak didn't think he could love her without them. Ian smoothed the situation over, pointing out that Kasak could have other reasons for wanting to present his best self—but the aftermath of the Cataclysm would vindicate Taksaka's suspicions.
• Likes Older Women: Subverted. Ian is a myriad of years younger then Tak and he only has eyes for her.

• Love at First Sight: He tells Ian that this was how it was when he confesses to her. It also shows in how, after meeting Ian in the sea, he immediately shows a possessive nature to her - making her stay by his side while he sleeps. He then let's her call him by his nickname, starts following her around afterwards, and is already talking about the aspect of kids with her to Visnu shortly after he meets her.
  Tak: Whether these are because of the earrings, or are my real feelings, it's just fooling around and passing time. Since the beginning, Halfs have been born between Dragon clan Nastika and humans, so in retrospect it isn't really surprising. There's no reason for me to be an exception.
  Visnu: Oh? So Tak is thinking about Dragon Halfs now...
  Tak [angrily roars]: What are you implying!?
• The Mentor: To Riagara who stayed in his nest. He taught her how to fight, and thus she moves more like a dragon than a snake.
• The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: Though physical age generally doesn't change mental age, Taksaka claims that the age he takes on appearance-wise influences his personality. Fittingly, as an adult, he's better at restraining his temper than he is in his child form.
• Mistaken for Gay: With Vasuki. See his section.
• Morality Pet:
  • Deliberately invoked by Vasuki, who chose to live with him to try and control Taksaka's Unstoppable Rage.
  • Played straight with Ian Rajof, who calmed his anger and made him promise not to get into too many fights.
• My God, What Have I Done?: His reaction to killing Utpala without ever reconciling with her, once he had his earrings back on.
• No Social Skills: In the finite, where he's not used to dealing with human society—or people in general when he has functioning emotions. Nard has his hands full with keeping Taksaka from accidentally breaking every law there is, and Ian, who thought he was some sort of Wild Child at first, has to inform him that people don't usually appreciate surprise visits in the morning.
• One True Love: Ian was this for him, being the first and only woman he's ever loved. The author's stated that any protective feelings towards Kasak is a reflection of his love for Ian... so the fact that he's a full-blown Papa Wolf speaks volumes, given that Ian's long dead and he shouldn't even be capable of that sort of emotion (compare him to Kasak who, despite being less stunted, can't muster up any love for his late wife without the earrings on).
• Papa Wolf: Believe it or not. In season three chapter 3-125/410, he nearly flips his shit when he senses Taraka approaching Kasak (who was using his powers at the time) near Kalibloom. He even goes as far as to state that he doesn't care about the state of the universe if his son dies. One wonders if the two of them managed to fix things between them during the seven years Kasak spent living in the sura realm; Taksaka was the first Vritra to agree to lend him his powers through his new earring, after all.
  • In a much more limited sense, it appears he also worries (at least a little bit) about Agwen's safety, as shown in chapter 3-132/417 when he agrees to fight another Vritra nastika to protect the city of Atera where she is. If this is because of Kasak or out of concern for Agwen herself wasn't specified, but his speech about protecting humans regardless of how short-lived they are indicates the latter.
• Pet the Dog:
  • Despite being in an earring-less and pissed off state, when he takes off from a field and decimates the area (by virtue of being him), he leaves one spot untouched: where Shess is standing. Shess silently thanks him for this bit of consideration.
  • An implied instance happened in chapter 3-143/428. Despite it being heavily implied that he did indeed see through Hura's concealment, he chose to ignore the rakshasas, including Riagara who lived on his nest during the early stages of her life.
• The Promise:
  • When Utpala vowed that after the dragons lost their emotions, she'd do whatever it took to get his attention again, he promised that he'd forgive whatever she did. It didn't take long before he regretted that decision. In the end, he broke it, though she was also counting on that.
  • He made one with Ian—complete with removing his earrings to ensure full sincerity and writing it down—to look after both himself and Kasak after her death. Understandably, she was concerned about what would happen if she was no longer there to mediate. With that said, they actually seemed to get along better once she was gone, though largely because of said promise.
• The Quiet One: People notice when he says more than a few curt sentences at once, and it weirds Agni out how Kasak is so much more talkative in comparison (and mind you, Kasak's hardly a chatterbox himself).
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Taksaka isn't evil per se (he doesn't care enough for it), but he is in the universal top five in terms of strength, and has red eyes. Angering him is a bad idea - and an easy task, too.
• Rejection Affection: At first with Ian for many good reasons. It's even stated multiple times how lucky he is to be a relationship with someone like Ian given how he is.
• The Resenter: Hated Kasak both for costing Ian 80 years of her life and for getting her attention after being born. They've reconciled somewhat, as Taksaka would occasionally visit him and Agwen before the Cataclysm.
• Single-Target Sexuality: Shows no interest in any girl besides Ian - not even Shuri, who is known as one of the great beauties. Visnu even lampshades this is one of their conversations.
  Visnu [to Tak about following Ian]: Oh dear, you're trying to enter the city. Just half a day ago, you were still the boy who'd even address the beautiful Shuri as just "female", without any interest. How marvelous you are!
• Signature Move: His invisible fire, which Kasak inherited.
• Stalker with a Crush: To Ian, much to her dismay. At one point he even lampshades it himself to Ian.
  Ian: What are your plans for now?
  Tak: Huh? Uh...? Well I was thinking that even if I spent the whole day here just watching you...
• Trademark Favorite Food: The second-ranked nastika of the notoriously powerful Vritra clan, the guy that can make primeval gods rethink their opposition of him has as his favorite drink... milk.
• Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Downplayed, but it's worth noting that Ruche, regarding Kasak's not-drop-dead-gorgeous looks, comments that a nastika wouldn't have been unattractive, so his mother must have been ugly. In reality, it was the other way around: Taksaka is average-looking, while Ian was considered to be pretty.
• Ungrateful Bastard: At the beginning of the universe, not long after the dragons lost their emotions, Taksaka, unable to cope with the change, went into a rampage around the Ananta clan. Ananta could have easily killed him, but sent Vasuki in to calm his anger, thus sparing his life. When Ananta himself was in danger, however, Taksaka, who was sent by his clan to help, didn't move a muscle.
• Unstoppable Rage: Constantly and with almost no need for provocation. His only emotion is anger.
• The Usurper: Averted, Taksaka has no desire for the Vritra throne whatsoever. Vritra himself hoped he would someday defy his rule and take over, but he never tried, not even when they were discussing the conditions proposed by Brahma to allow their clan to keep their Breath. Asura even offered him an alliance if he ever wished to become this, but Taksaka promptly refused.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With any of his friends, aka Vasuki and Airavata.
• Who Wants to Live Forever?: Hinted. Ian asks him if he feels old, given how long he's lived, and he replies by telling her that at this point, there's nothing interesting about the world.
• World's Strongest Man: Downplayed. Taksaka is easily the strongest among the clans' second-in-commands, as well as powerful enough to give his own clan's king a run for his money. While he's technically still weaker than the original kings and can be countered by nastikas with an elemental advantage, he's one of the very few nastikas left to possess the Destruction attribute, meaning there are certain qualities essentially unique to him relating to, well, sheer destruction.

Utpala

Utpala

Nastika, Source Attribute: Water

At the beginning of the universe, Utpala was female and in love with Taksaka; she protested the strongest at the demand that all the dragons become male, and retained more emotions than most afterwards. Her strongest emotion, however, was envy, leading to constant conflict with anyone else who Taksaka got close to. She's a major character in The Finite, but is dead in the main timeline and does not appear in the webtoon proper.

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• All Love Is Unrequited: She knew that Taksaka couldn't return her feelings due to the circumstances of the Vritra clan, but was satisfied with the promise that she would always be "the dragon closest to him."
• Exact Words: When Taksaka starts living with Vasuki (who was the only one who could stop him if he went on a rampage) she is extremely upset because he promised that she would always be the one closest to him; he, however, points out that he said she'd always be the dragon closest to him, and Vasuki is not a dragon. This leads to their falling out.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Her driving emotion; she is bitterly envious of anyone else who gets close to Taksaka. Or not. In reality, she managed to get over her envy generations ago when she realized she had sired a half-dragon.
• Incompatible Orientation: In addition to suffering from being forced to become permanently male, she found that Taksaka no longer tolerated her in that form.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Contrary to the envy we're initially led to believe, seeing Taksaka with Ian actually makes her happy, since Ian is her descendant; and she ultimately chooses to die without revealing the truth of the attack on Ian's village to Taksaka, in order to protect him from the person who is really responsible.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: She is actually Ian's ancestor.
• Peaceful in Death: In her last moments, her hair returns to its original blue, indicating that she dies free from the negativity that'd plagued her entire life.
• Posthumous Character: She's dead by the time the main story takes place.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: Visnu once warned her that as her heart grew uglier, her beautiful blue hair would turn black (and red).
• Reformed, but Rejected: This is mostly self-inflicted by the time of the Finite (see Taking the Heat), but despite her reputation as Taksaka-obsessed, she had actually gotten over her envy years ago and hadn't caused trouble for generations. Despite this, she is still framed as the one who tried to destroy Ian's village, meaning her atonement has been ignored or is unknown.
• The Scrappy: In-Universe. Nobody, within the Vritra clan or outside of it, liked her due to her behaving as a Spoiled Brat for Taksaka (which, in turn, just made her cling to him even more). After losing all his emotions but anger (therefore finding Utpala annoying as well), Taksaka had to publicly announce that people still weren't allowed to kill her, knowing that they'd jump at the chance otherwise.
• Spoiled Brat: How she (previously) behaved. Fittingly, before being forced into her male form, she usually took the appearance of a young girl.
• Taking the Heat: She allows Taksaka to believe that she was responsible for destroying Ian Rajof's village, and lets him kill her so she can die with the knowledge of who is actually responsible, because if she found out who really did it he would seek revenge on them and she believes he'd get killed in the process..
• Walking Spoiler: Her actions, backstory, and motivations in The Finite are key to the story.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Her backstory gives her a lot of reasons to act the way she does; she was forcibly assigned to the wrong gender when the Dragon clan was made a One-Gender Race, her beloved had his emotions stripped away and later rejected her, and she eventually dies, hated by him, after letting him believe she was responsible for destroying Ian's village. Only Ian knows the truth, and Utpala specifically asks her to never tell anyone. Worse, by the time of The Finite, she's not actually causing trouble anymore and hasn't for generations; but nobody will ever know.

Kadru

Kadru

Nastika, Source Attribute: ?

^{Click to see Kadru's adult form} 

A Vritra nastika seen in Season Three as one of the new members of Sagara's alliance. His goals are in so far unknown, but he seems to have some sort of past with one of the gods in Willarv.

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• Assimilation Backfire: Tries to devour Chandra via a mental contest, only to learn that the enlightenment of a Fifth Zen God is a bigger deal than he thought, leading him to get devoured himself instead.
• Badass Longcoat: Wears one in his older human form.
• Blood Knight: Implied in his first appearance in chapter 3-121/406. The Slasher Smile entry below happened after he concluded that Atera should be hosting a god. In chapter 3-131/416, he even laments the fact that Atera isn't much of a challenge.
• A Day in the Limelight: The bonus chapter Ever-changing focuses on him.
• Deal with the Devil: He was the first nastika sent through the portals to the human realm. If the price he paid is the same Taksaka paid, then it means that he will disappear from the universe at some point in the future. It's up in the air as to why he agreed to such a thing, but it seems that involves a "wish" related to a god.
  Kadru: If it's going to end anyway... I want to fulfill my wish.
• Eldritch Abomination: He's capable of assuming the form of something that looks a lot like the lovechild of a dragon and a tapeworm... that is able to grow tentacles. All nastikas are capable of this, but Kadru is special because Taksaka's words suggest this is not simple suralization, but some other transcendental, as he does not recognizes it as Kadru's sura form.
  • Given Kadru's abnormal surafication and the new skills that come with it, Chandra theorizes that Kadru is actually a new type of Taraka sura. Notably, his human form looks exactly like it did before.
• Hoist by Their Own Petard: He devours Chandra, resulting in a mental struggle between the two. It seems, at first, that Kadru has the upper hand... only to discover that in a mental battle, there's absolutely no contest between a sura and an enlightened being.
• Light Is Not Good: Judging by their transcendentals, his source attribute is either Light or Sky; one of his attacks looks remarkably like Asha's Indra spell cast with help from the vajra item. He's first seen attacking Atera, and, if Chandra's words are anything to judge by, are not of the very loyal kind. Also, he's cooperating with Sagara for some nebulous reason.
• Pintsized Powerhouse: His first human form, which seem to be on the younger side appearance-wise, is shorter than even Ari. Subverted later on as he takes an older form. As for their power, well:
  Sagara: It's one in a different class, after all.
• Pride: Oooh, boy. He did not like it when he thought that the god and humans in Atera weren't taking him seriously as a threat.
• Slasher Smile: Within less than ten panels since he first showed up.
• Undying Loyalty: Subverted according to Chandra. According to him, in the past Kadru used to go from clan to clan "without a shred of loyalty". He doesn't disagree (but doesn't agree either, so who knows what are their thoughts on the matter).
• Ungrateful Bastard: Ari, mistaking him for a lost human being, leads him to the safety of a department store in Atera. His response is to wipe out everyone inside with a single transcendental attack. Subverted from his perspective, as he let Ari live for "easing [their] boredom for a moment"; he was never there to protect the city, after all.
• Wham Line: Wham Dialogue, essentially. Up until that point, those working with Sagara had only been rakshasa. Then, Kadru speaks, and in that moment, the reader knows things have gone From Bad to Worse, as a nastika has appeared on the scene.

Yaksha Clan

Clan Attribute: Light

The Yaksha Clan in General

• The Alliance: With the Gandharva and Garuda clans. Despite Shuri's disappearance, they still take it seriously enough, as Hanuman helps defend the Gandharva clan from the Taraka clan and the inferior sura left on Willarv assist Maruna as needed.
  • As of season 3, the alliance has completely broken down. The Yakshas, led by Hanuman, have allied themselves with the Kinnaras and the Vritras, whereas the remaining Gandharvas, under Makara's leadership, entered an alliance with the Asura clan. The Garuda forces have been so depleted that they don't even factor into the political dealings of the sura realm anymore.
• Blood Knight: Famously so. Apparently, the Yaksha clan is the most warlike of the eight.
• Hourglass Plot: With the Asura clan. Yaksha was famous for having a fierce rivalry with Asura for billions of years, coming out on top of their fights most of the time. Then Yaksha died, and Shuri became king; and then Shuri died, and Hanuman took over the role. According to Ravana's words by the time of Ian Rajof's death, Hanuman, by then the clan's Number Two, is the weakest of the two (Ravana claimed to be the weaker only than Taksaka and the kings at the time). So, as of Shuri's death, the Asura clan not only have kept their strength, they are also no longer the underdog of the two. According to Sampathi, the Asura and the Kinnara clans came out on top after things calmed down with the Tarakas, whereas the Yakshas, once part of the sura realm's most prominent coalitions, have lost their alliances and had to side with Airavata.
• Light 'em Up: Their clan attribute.
• Little Bit Beastly: They take after non-hooved mammals.
• Riches to Rags: Kinda. They haven't suffered as much as the Garudas under the hands of the Taraka clan, but have become weakened enough that they can no longer claim independence: they have allied themselves with the Kinnara and Vritra clans in an alliance that was explicitly stated by Samphati to have Airavata at the pinnacle, a far cry from the equal three-sided alliance they once shared with the Garuda and the Gandharva clans.
• Super-Strength: Yakshas are physically gifted, to the point that their partially human offspring are considered to be the strongest among halfs and quarters.
• Token Heroic Orc: As with the Kinnara clan and Vritra clan, they didn't retaliate against humans for forsaking fiendish magic. They are generally pacifistic and look down on eating humans; halfs and quarters of Yaksha ancestry are thus the most common types. Although Yaksha sura are among the sura attacking cities in the present, it's because of their alliance with the Garuda (and Gandharva) clan.

Yaksha

Yaksha

Nastika, Source Attribute: Water

First king of the clan.

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• Arch-Enemy: With Asura. They fought often, and Yaksha came to the brink of killing the other king not once, but several times. In the end, Asura got so fed up with Yaksha that he conspired to kill him, and succeeded.
• Bad with the Bone: Zig-zagged, as it wasn't Yaksha exactly. Rather, his bones, that were scattered throughout Willarv, are commonly used as Power Nullifiers.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Perhaps the nicest nastika among the first generation kings, but still involved in a violent rivalry with Asura. When pushed to his absolute brink in an alternate timeline, he killed several of his own clanmates in a rage so bloodthirsty the other first generation kings dared not approach. Ananta, the only one who dared, was faced with possibly the only time his life was in unintentional danger.
• Cool Old Guy: While he usually took on the form of a preteen, it's stated that his mental age was that of an old man, and accordingly he acted rather grandfatherly.
• Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: Became detached from life ever since the death of his first mate. Ran's appearance in Yaksha's era was pretty much the main reason he could keep on living. So much so that he was willing to die in order to ensure the past where he meets Ran remains intact, just so that the past Yaksha will have something to look foward to, even if it never actually comes to pass.
• Et Tu, Brute?: Yaksha was kind and considerate towards humans, but they still allied with Asura to kill him in Willarv. Very much downplayed in the sense that their only option was obliteration, as pointed out by one of Yaksha's own clan members that was with him at the time.
• Fatal Flaw: It seems Yaksha was far too trusting for his own good. The humans he liked so much ended up playing a key role in his downfall, even if they were forced to. However, it's unknown if Yaksha was aware of it.
• Friend to All Children: He loved to play with children.
• The Good King: Subverted. As far as nastikas go, Yaksha is one of the kindest and most compassionate you'll meet, beloved by most who meet him as an individual—but he was notoriously a terrible ruler who spent most of his time hanging out with Ananta, Airavata, and humans rather than ruling. It's not hard to see why, as it's likely he never truly forgave his clan for killing his mate, but he was so uninvolved and uninterested in their matters that Yaksha nastikas learned not to bother him with anything again, including whether or not to participate in humanity's destruction.
• Intrigued by Humanity: He (and the rest of his clan) is friendlier to humans than most sura clans. As a result, Yaksha Halfs are the most common type of Half.
• Nice Guy: By reputation, Yaksha was a pretty chill guy. He even comforted Kinnara after she got heartbroken by Vritra's newly gained emotionlessness. Deconstructed, as his kindness eventually got Yaksha killed.
• Not So Above It All: Nice, grandfatherly Yaksha loved humans so much it caused his demise. This did not stop him from joining the coalition to destroy the ancient human race. While there are mentions that there were several suras who personally refused to take part in it, the only ones who kept out as a clan was the Vritra clan. It's not known if he took part in it personally, but he certainly didn't forbid his clanmates from doing it.
  • It's eventually suggested that he actually had no idea it was happening... which highlights a different flaw altogether—see The Good King.
• Posthumous Character: Died long before the story began because he was too good to humans. Specifically, he gave away his heart to a human who needed it for health reasons and allowed it to be continuously passed down, but refused to take it back—crippling his strength greatly—in the fight that would kill him when he realized that doing so would erase the history where he and Ran met.
• Power Nullifier: His bones nullify Half transcendentals, and are used by Half hunters. Agwen, as an activist for Half rights, has destroyed most of them by the present.It foreshadows his biggest ace in the sleeve, the King of the Land unique transcedental. Capable of weakening enemies the less disadvantaged they are on the earth, its full power, when pushed to its limit, was able to allow him to threaten Ananta.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: When Vritra and Kinnara's alliance dissolved, he advised Kinnara to do what she could to protect her clan, now that they were ally-less, and promised to try and keep his own clan members from attacking hers. He's also considerate and kind to those weaker than him, and treats everyone with equal respect as long as they don't threaten others.
• Shipper on Deck: He apparently shipped Ananta and Vritra, for whatever reason, and was left pretty disappointed after learning about Vritra's deal with the primeval gods that made his whole clan emotionless (and Vritra in particular the most of them all).
• Single-Target Sexuality: Only ever had one mate, to the point of even being immune to Shuri's charm, and never loved anyone else after her death.
• Super-Strength: A notable example. All Nastikas have absurd levels of power by human standards, but Yaksha is the king of a clan specialized in it. Without his heart, he flicks away a fellow nastika through a mountain range, casually destroying those in the proccess. He also blocks, though with difficulty, a strike of Asura that cracked an entire planet. When his and thus full power are returned to him, that same Asura is helpless before Yaksha's speed and power, seemingly defeated with just the slices of a single finger. This despite Asura being a fellow first-generation king. It's possible Ananta and Vritra are even more physically imposing, but Yaksha demonstrated the most notable feats onscreen.

Shuri

Shuri

Nastika, Source Attribute: Unknown

Second king of the clan. Garuda entrusted her with Yuta.

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• The Alliance: She was the king of the Yaksha clan that sealed an alliance with the Gandharva and Garuda clans, because of the friendship between the their three kings.
• All-Loving Hero: She gave Yuta a chance even after witnessing his Horror Hunger, and she encouraged him not to eat humans.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Though she's introduced as a gentle mother figure, history reveals that her wrath is quite vindictive, as she tried to go on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against her clanmates who killed Yaksha's mate and Shuri's friend.
• Cannot Spit It Out: It was clear to everyone else that she was in love with Yaksha, but she never dared to say so.
• Charm Person: Unintentional on Shuri's part, but her power causes those around her to act on her desires, including ones she doesn't even acknowledge such as her love for Yaksha, which drove the other nastikas to kill his lover on her behalf.
• First Love: She was this to Chandra, according to Currygom, but he, in Shuri's POV, is ranked behind 1000 others on her list.
• Foil: To Taraka.
  • Both are kings, but unlike Shuri, Taraka and was never the true king, only a figurehead.
  • Both served as Yuta's mother figures - however, Shuri chose to do so and kept the role despite opposition, while Taraka was created to fulfill said purpose and fell in despair every time she learned about it. They tried to instill their own philosophies regarding kingship in Yuta, with not much success; Taraka told him that kings could do whatever they wanted, Shuri taught him that kings must never waver, lest it affect their whole clan. They also tried to do the same in regards to his diet: Taraka defended that he could eat whatever he wanted, while Shuri told him not to eat humans and to only eat suras that attacked him first. Again, in both instances said beliefs were not completely absorbed.
  • Both are remarkably beautiful women; Shuri was deemed one of the greatest beauties of the sura, but Taraka's beauty is fake.
  • Both were once close to Gandharva: Shuri was one of his closest friends before she went missing, while Taraka was originally Menaka, his wife.
• The High Queen: Shuri fell squarely in this trope.
• Hopeless Suitor: Although she never made a move, Shuri was secretly in love with Yaksha but he was already long involved and deeply in love with his mate Jambavan. Even after the death of Jambavan in which a choice was given to Yaksha, on if he would then take Shuri as his mate, he essentially refused. He later partially confirms his reasons to Tatia in that he thought of Shuri, and the rest of the clanmates, as children since the beginning.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: simultaneously played straight and unintentionally subverted. While she was "secretly" in love with Yaksha, in which even Hanuman was able to notice that she made "flirty eyes" towards him, she buried her desire and never made a move to make him hers as she was fine with how he was happily in love with his wife, Jambavan, who she was also fond of and good friends with. Unfortunately, her power to lure others to her had an unknown aspect that she never knew about in which it also led her innermost desire to leak out to her followers and make them want to carry out that desire. This eventually led to Jambavans death because Shuri's followers wanted her at Yaksha's side. She then makes the decsion to stay away from Yaksha so she wouldn't indirectly cause anymore problems should he ever want another mate.
• Love Redeems: Of the familial/platonic variety. She loved Yuta, despite his ingrained eating habits, as she believed he could change with the proper guidance (and affection).
• Missing Mom: She was a mother figure to Yuta until she vanished in N0. Hanuman claims she's "no longer in this world", which implies Shuri died, but it was never confirmed.
• Odd Friendship: Refined, regal, kind, understanding Shuri was good friends with... Gandharva, the one who killed the most humans out of all suras. She was also friends with Garuda, which is why he entrusted her with taking care of Yuta.
• Parental Substitute: For Yuta.
• Rose-Haired Sweetie: Hair was very pink, heart was very kind (maybe the kindest nastika seen in the series, alongside Menaka).
• So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Her charm has led to people doing things on her behalf that she never wanted them to, such as killing Yaksha's mate out of a misguided belief that Shuri is better suited for him.
• Statuesque Stunner: One of the beauties of the sura realm, and stood at 179 cm.
• Workaholic: Not by choice, mind you. After she became king, Hanuman became the number two, but due to her preference to stay away from her clan's affairs, she left all the work to Shuri.
• World's Most Beautiful Woman: Is said to be one of the great beauties of the sura.

Hanuman

Hanuman

Nastika, Source Attribute: Wind

Third and current king of the clan. Lutz and Ran's grandmother.

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• Amazonian Beauty: She's muscular and described as beautiful.
• The Berserker: In the dawn of the universe at least. According to Yaksha, whenever Hanuman got emotionally agitated, she'd go on a rampage and would only stop after she had exhausted herself. Yaksha mentions having had to "clean up her mess" (read: beat her up) countless times.
• Blind and the Beast: She jokes in The Finite that Nard only loves her since he's blind and doesn't use hoti surya to take a look at her. However, she's an Amazonian Beauty.
• Fantastic Racism: Doesn't mind losing to Yaksha, since they are both nastikas, but is incensed at being defeated by a surafied Ran, since he's just a lowly being and not like them.
• Gender Bender: She's one of the nastika most frequently seen in different genders, though she seems to have stuck largely with her female form in recent years as she got used to it during her long relationship with Petupan.
• Green-Skinned Space Babe: Has blue skin.
• Heavy Sleeper: When she appears during Ran's travel to the past, she complains about being woken up, since she had "only" been asleep for 200 years.
• Interspecies Romance: With Nard Lehn, Ran and Lutz's grandfather.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's crude, brash, and at times unempathetic—tellingly, she doesn't have many friends—but she can also be a loyal and supportive companion, such as defending Petupan and not worrying about her Chaos attribute.
• Large and in Charge: Her male form is huge and muscular (it towers over Ran), and, ever since the Cataclysm, she has occupied the Yaksha throne.
• Living Emotional Crutch: She was one to Petupan without realizing it, as she gave Petupan a reason to endure when Petupan was painfully aware of her inevitable fate as the last Chaos nastika alive.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Averted, Hana doesn't look like her (aside from the white hair). Hanuman is glad about it, as she considers herself ugly.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Over the years, Petupan helped Hanuman mellow out, to the point that Hanuman even apologizes to Yaksha for not having been a better supporter to him in their early years.

Sona

Sona

Rakshasa, Hereditary Attributes: Chaos

One of the Yaksha rakshasas seen in season three. Partnered with Tatia. Is a fifth stage heavily implied to be the son of Hanhuman and Petupan.

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• Ax-Crazy: Oh hell yes. He seems completely willing to wipe out Rindhallow for something the city had absolutely nothing to do with, with a crazy look in his eyes to boot. Not to mention how he casually threatened to eat Cloche just because of a thing she said. Boy has problems.
• Body Horror: His sura form has mouths in its hands.
• Brutal Honesty: Doesn't tend to hold his tongue. He casually dismisses Riagara as incompetent right in front of Cloche, and even tells Hura - who seems somewhat amused by it - that he "is tired of putting up with [her]''.
• Combat Compliment: Very mildly, but he tells Tatia that Leez isn't "too bad" after he survived a direct blow of one of her transcendentals. He was smiling, even.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Asura forced humans to help him kill Yaksha? Both humanity and the Asura clan deserve to be slaughtered for it.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: Due to Sona's appearance and fashion—like Petupan before him—it's easy to mistake him for a girl, but he's a male form rakshasa.
• Enemy Mine: Not at all fond of Asuras, but he doesn't seem to have any trouble cooperating with Hura.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: He has it, doesn't he, Cloche?
• It's Personal: What isn't in Kubera? But Sona may actually take the trophy for this. Yaksha has been long dead by the time of the webtoon, but he still has not forgiven his death. Even after spending 10,000 years imprisoned. This all point out to him having been very devoted to him when he was alive.
  • However, it seems that Yaksha had died only after Sona was imprisoned, which means that Sona had only recently (for a sura) learned of his death, after his sealing was undone, and thus his explosive reaction is more reasonable in this context.
• Locked Out of the Loop: As Tatia tells Leez, Sona probably knows less about recent history than Leez herself. He doesn't even recognize the current human alphabet used in Willarv.
• Misplaced Retribution: Rindhallow didn't even exist back when Yaksha died, but he wants to destroy it anyway.
• Nonchalant Dodge: To avoid being hit by the Sword of Return's transcendental.
• Noodle Incident: For some reason, he spent the last 10,000 years locked up somewhere. This is why he's Locked Out of the Loop as described above. He's also seems to be familiar with Rao Leez.
• Odd Friendship: Sona is impatient, has a temper, is unbelievably blunt and wants Willarv razed. Tatia is pretty much the female version of Shess. And yet, they seem to cooperate well enough to be sent on a mission together.
• Revenge Before Reason: Invoked, almost. In episode 3-119/404, he outright tells Tatia that he's not willing to think about the nuances of the situation that led to Yaksha's death. He hates humans and wants them dead; end of story.
  • Also averted. He's still cooperating with Hura despite his hatred of the Asura clan, doesn't follow through with his suggestion to destroy Rindhallow after Tatia refuses it, and even justifies his attack on Leez by saying he was attacked first (which he was). He even mildly compliments Leez' ability to survive a direct hit. He's not sane by any measure, but doesn't go to Unstoppable Rage extremes, either.
• Revenge Myopia: Doesn't give a damn about the fact that Asura threatened Willarv's humans in order to have their cooperation to kill Yaksha. As Tatia explains, they were pretty much between a rock and a hard place, but see if Sona cares.
• Sins of Our Fathers: Well, not directly, but in a way. Yaksha died a long, long time ago; the humans that cooperated with Asura to have him killed are long dead by now, and Willarv is mostly inhabited by their distant descendants. He wants them killed either way.
• Tragic Dream: Sona is notably a case of someone who wished on the Eye of Perishment... whose wish didn't come true (namely due to, as Tatia theorizes, Kali's misjudgment). He wished to die protecting Yaksha, which clearly failed to happen. As a result, Sona's dubious sanity is the likely result of his obsession being twisted into protecting Yaksha's honor rather than his life.
• Vengeance Denied: Suggests to Tatia that they should lay waste over Rindhallow over what happened to Yaksha, but the other rakshasa refuses to. He doesn't seem that bothered by it, accepting it without much resistance.

Tatia

Sona

Rakshasa, Hereditary Attributes: Unknown

One of the Yaksha rakshasas seen in season three. Partnered with Sona.

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• Action Girl: Like any female sura that wants to live past childhood, but Tatia is an special case because she was able to inflict significant damage to Rindhallow's closed space with a single attack. If Sona's words are anything to go by, the two of them are capable of wiping out the city all on their own.
• Big Damn Heroes: Is saved by Maruna while fighting Asha.
• Bifauxnen: It's not hard to think she's a guy at first glance. Tatia's more handsome than pretty.
• Blood Knight: Averted; Samphati states Tatia despises the Yaksha clan's warlike nature, and thus seldom takes sura form.
• Good Is Not Nice: Double subverted. Tatia is introduced as a rakshasa allied with Sagara, sent to attack Rindhallow - unlike her partner Sona, however, she tries to do the least damage possible, and is nice enough to even help Erin Florussi carry her bagage. However, it's later revealed that she went to Willarv not while following orders, but against the Yaksha clan's decision to abstain from cooperating with Sagara. And while she's nice enough to Leez and even tells Sona not to kill her, she's implied to be among the Yakshas who resents Leez for refusing to kill Yuta.
• The Golden Rule: Seems to be a believer in it:
  Tatia: Violence for violence, kindness for kindness.
• I Did What I Had to Do: She's implied to have this attitude towards Sagara, as Tatia dislikes killing humans and went to Willarv against the Yaksha's clan's order.
• Massively Numbered Siblings: According to Leez she has hundreds of brothers and sisters. And those are just the ones who are alive.
• Nice Girl: Yes. Unlike Sona who's a murderous maniac, Tatia is gentle and empathetic. She wishes to cause as little harm as possible to Rindhallow, calmly takes her time to talk to Leez after they meet outside the city, and even helped Erin Florussi with her luggage. Unlike her partner, she understands the role Willarv's humans played in Yaksha's death and doesn't seem to hold a grudge over it, despite having been there when it all happened. Sona even lampshades it:
  Sona: Hmph... You're too nice.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Lampshaded by Sagara. When Tatia decides to simply make Asha unable to cast spells instead of going for the killing, Sagara points out that this sort of behaviour will do no good for anybody, as their conflict is not one that allows for such mercy. It appears Sagara deliberately set her up to be hurt, in part to teach her this trope, and in part because of her personal ressentment against the Yakshas.
• Noodle Incident: Apparently, she and Sona are familiar with Rao.
• Odd Friendship: Tatia is about as kind as Shess, Sona is pretty Ax-Crazy. Yet, they went together to Willarv.
• Revenge Before Reason: On the receiving end of this, although in a rather downplayed manner. Sona went to Willarv against her clan's orders, and is a simple rakshasa with no decisionmaking power in the clan; Sagara sent her against Asha but deliberately neglected to warn her about her opponent's capabilities, simply because the Yaksha clan allied with the gods agains Ananta.
• Revenge Myopia: Averted in every possible sense of the word, which makes her a clear contrast with Sona. She doesn't blame Willarv's humans for the role they played with Yaksha's death, despite having been there when it all happened. She understands that Yaksha loved them and that they had no choice if they wanted to survive.
• The Right of a Superior Species: Absolutely not; Tatia doesn't believe in harming humans unnecessarily and doesn't seem to hold the usual sura justification of "the right of the strongest" in high regard. She even looks honestly disapproving of Cloche's suggestion that they kill another Kubera just because it is easier.
• Strong Family Resemblance: According to herself, she looks so similar to her siblings that it'd be hard to take them apart if you're not from the same clan. Leez manages it, however.
• Time Abyss: She's implied to be very old; she was with Yaksha when he died, and it was long, long before Rindhallow was even created.

Petupan

Petupan

Nastika, Hereditary Attributes: Chaos

A Yaksha nastika; deceased by the present time. Sona's parent.

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• A Day in the Limelight: The bonus chapter Appetite focuses on her.
• Gender Bender: Petupan identified as female, but switched to male form out of necessity to protect herself due to being drastically stronger in that form (the biggest gap in strength between gender forms, in fact); notably, however, she actively made the decision to still wear women's clothing and maintain a feminine appearance.
• Horror Hunger: She struggled with this all her life, before she left Hanuman out of fear that she'd devour her and instead went berserk alone at the edge of the universe.
• Last of Her Kind: She was the last Chaos attribute nastika, outlasting the others due to enduring her hunger until even she couldn't take it.
• Lonely Together: To some extent, this seemed to be the basis of her relationship with Hanuman, as Petupan feared that without her, Hanuman would live and die as a solitary existence—to which Hanuman pointed out that Petupan had no real friends either, and was one of the few to see her for who she truly was.
• Morality Pet: Her presence in Hanuman's life caused the other nastika to mellow out and take on a more empathetic approach. It might have gone both ways, as Petupan endured the terrifying Horror Hunger of Chaos suras for ages in order to stay near Hanuman's side.
• Stepford Smiler: Hanuman called her out on forcing her smiles to please others, despite actually being quite fearful and depressed.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Sona is a dead ringer for her.
• Wham Shot: She serves as the series' introduction to Chaos suras outside of the Taraka clan—namely, when Ran is training with her and she suddenly surafies partially, shocking Ran when she looks akin to Tarakas.

Taraka Clan

Clan Attribute: Chaos

The Taraka Clan in General

• Anti-Magic: The Taraka can seal off all mortal magic and the vast majority of sura magic with their open eyes.
• Conflict Killer: Suras from different clans generally do not see eye to eye, and it's even worse with the gods. The Taraka attack is so bad that they have put aside their differences, because otherwise (and even then, actually) the literal end of the universe is very, very possible.
• The Dreaded: While physically weak (although they are getting stronger now that their King has developed), their Zerg Rush tendencies and the fact that Nastika transformations into sura form are considered transcendentals (therefore, sealed by the Chaos eyes and handicapping the strongest fighters of any clan) makes them dangerous when they get serious.
• The Horde: The Tarakas have no minds or culture to speak of, but their actions - overrunning a relatively more civilized group, coming seemingly out of nowhere, the brutality of their attacks - fit the bill.
• Horde of Alien Locusts: Downplayed, as they don't devour anything indiscriminately, but rather go after prey they find more attractive (stronger than them, but weakened at the moment for some reason). However, that's all they do. The Taraka clan eats, eats, and keeps on eating.

Kali

See her entry under God Realm for more information.

Taraka

Taraka

???, Source Attribute: Unknown

^{Click to see her true appearance} 

Yuta's mother and the 2nd king of the clan.

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• Abusive Parents: Played with. She's initially painted in a rather negative light in regards to Yuta, but in the end, she isn't the one with power in their relationship—he is, because he knows the full truth and sees her more as pitiful than anything. He's not all that upset about her attitude in itself, but more that every time, it forces him to raise his hand against her, as well as tell her the Awful Truth.
• Berserk Button: Separating her from Yuta is... not recommended. Including when he's done it himself. Justified: she was built to be this way.
• Combat Tentacles: Her true form is an enormous, monstrous-looking, vaguely-female black outline descending into countless tentacles.
• The Dreaded: To her own people and everyone else.
• Foil: To Shuri. See her entry.
• Healing Factor: She can regenerate indefinitely even after death, although she loses her memories in the process. Combine this with her Anti-Magic, and she is an extremely dangerous opponent.
• Hidden Depths: While she initially seems to just be Yuta's antagonistic mother, not only is their relationship more complicated than that, but Taraka has quite a few secrets even she doesn't know. First, that she's just a creation by Kali who serves no other purpose, and second, revealed to the audience much later, that her soul is Menaka's.
  • Taken a step further later on when it turns out that after Taraka was killed by Kasak on his way to Kalibloom, Menaka's soul was freed from the burden of serving as Yuta's surrogate mother. Unfortunately, the new soul placed in the body was that of Teo Rakan.
• Lie to the Beholder: She appears to Yuta as looking just like Kali, but to everyone else is a tentacled Eldritch Abomination.
• My Beloved Smother: She wanted to groom Yuta into the image of a king, and a king by the twisted standards of the Chaos Clan at that. She constantly insisted that he shouldn't have friends or stay in his human form. She also claimed that he should view everyone and everything as food, and those who taught him otherwise (like Shuri) would just weaken him. She even followed him into the human realm to take him back home.
• Power Limiter: Her eyes can temporarily seal the transcendentals and magic of anyone within her range of vision; and she is able to permanently (or at least, for as long as she lives) seal the transcendentals of even a Nastika.
• Proud Beauty: She's well aware that she's beautiful and doesn't realize why why no one else thinks so.
• Resurrective Immortality: When Taraka is killed, she comes back to life, if missing a few key memories.
• The Scapegoat: Yuta has blamed her for certain traumas he himself caused, while Taraka lets him turn her into the bad guy if it helps him cope.
• Weak, but Skilled: She is weaker than a Rakshasa, but her other abilities make up for it.

Yuta/Jatayu

Yuta/Jatayu

Rakshasa, Clan Attributes: Chaos + Sky, Hereditary Attributes: Light + Unknown

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^{Click to see his second stage appearance} 

A Half-Garuda-Half-Chaos Rakshasa. He was stranded in the human realm during the Cataclysm and is looking for his siblings. He joins the party on their way to Mistyshore after developing a crush on Leez and learning that they too are going to Kalibloom to try to draw the Sword of Return.

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• Annoying Younger Sibling: For all Yuta can be very sweet, he can be really stubborn and, when he is, he can become quite obnoxious when he puts his mind to it. Just ask Maruna (not that he's one to talk about being a pain). Ran, however, doesn't find Yuta to be annoying, and acts something like an older sibling despite being over 200 years years his junior.
• Astral Projection: How he returns in Season 3, while his real body is Bound and Gagged.
• Beware the Nice Ones: He is a perfectly nice and gentle young boy...until he gets hungry and/or angry. He's fond of torturing and killing his prey slowly (usually by eating them alive and forcing the others to watch) and taunting his enemies about it.
• Big Eater: Unlike other sura, who eat mainly to replenish vigor and don't need to otherwise, Yuta must eat regularly to survive.
• Big Good: He takes on this role of sorts in Season 3, being the one in most direct opposition to Kali. All the more so because he's forced to be stationary, he's responsible for giving info and guidance to the other characters.
• Bigotry Exception: Downplayed in one case and subverted in another. The downplayed instance happened among humans: they don't like him, but they want his help because they feel he might help protect them. The fact that they very clearly want to use him bothers Yuta to no end.
  • Subverted when it comes to Leez. Asha at first chastises Leez for her hypocrisy (oh, the irony) in being friends with Yuta despite her absolute hatred of high-rank suras. However, Ran is quick to point out that the only one Leez knew as "high-rank sura" was Maruna, the one that destroyed her village, and that she would have no problem with being Yuta's friend. She later confirms this while talking to Yuta himself, and fully accepts him regardless of what he is.
  • ...Or maybe not. When he sees the memories she recovered in Season Three, Yuta remarks that there are other reasons for Leez to hate Garuda rakshasas so much. If, like with Maruna, this applies to a single individual or to the group as a whole is yet to be seen. Regardless, this fact in specific doesn't seem to have changed her relationship with Yuta all that much.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: To an extent after reaching third stage, where he still tries to play nice with humans, but Asha (his confidant) and Kasak (who can hear sura speech) know that he's not quite empathetic or benevolent as he pretends to be.
• Bizarre Alien Biology: Even compared to the already outlandish Suras, Yuta is an abnormality. His sura form is based on tentacles and maws, not any recognizable animal. He has far too many teeth in far too many places, and his mouth can open far far wider then it has any right to. And even putting physical biology aside, he seemingly has four attributes (Sky, Destruction and Light from his parents, and Chaos seemingly from being Kali's son). He is by far the strongest Rakshasa shown, wildly eclipsing most fifth stages even at his fourth stage. Much of this seems to be a byproduct of his Rakshasa body being a vessel for his true form, a universe destroying monster.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: Even compared to other sura, his mind is very alien. He has no concept of clan loyalty and will eat "allies" if he feels hungry and doesn't know them personally. He also treats humans like sura, only with the caveat that he can't eat them.
  • Even more pronounced in his Third Stage.
• Bound and Gagged: Deliberately has this done to himself in Season 3, due to his Horror Hunger and to weaken the rest of the Taraka clan.
• Bratty Half-Pint: Mainly to Kasak.
• Can't Have Sex, Ever: He and Leez tried. It went about as well as one would expect.
• Category Traitor: Maruna isn't exactly happy that Yuta's helping humans instead of his own clan, and thus considers him to be this. Downplayed, though.
• Child of Two Worlds: Taraka mother, Garuda father. Notably, by definition, Yuta shouldn't exist - suras from different clans can't produce children between them, so the method of his conception remains a mystery. It might be somewhat explained by the fact that Kali is a primeval goddess even if she adopted a nastika name. Much of Yuta's inner conflict stems from his attempts to conciliate his two halfs: he does love Taraka in his own way, but despises the part of himself that wants to eat others. As a kid, he even ran away from Taraka to live with his Garuda siblings. There is the not-so-subtle implication that his conflicting loyalties between Leez and Maruna embody those two sides: when he grew up to third stage, it was basically out of a choice he was forced to make between the two of them, and it was framed a him choosing between his Garuda and Taraka halves.
• Creepy Good: His Horror Hunger is usually a detriment, but he's also willing to use it to freak out the enemy.
• The Confidant: To Asha, Leez, and Ran to varying degrees.
• Cool Mask: In his sura form, he has a domino mask like Garuda's. In his third stage, it covers his face.
• Cute Mute: To humans.
• Does Not Know His Own Strength: Played with. Yuta is well aware of his own strength and has fine control over it. However, he can be careless at times, and can break a man's arm by bumping into him. He also overestimates the strength of humans. If Leez weren't Made of Iron, he could've killed her with a hug.
• Eaten Alive: His preferred way of eating.
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: His skin is so pale it can look gray at times.
• Eye Color Change: His eyes are normally grey, but they turn red with black sclera when he's using his eye-based Anti-Magic ability, and teal when he's using insight.
• Fisher King: The strongest yet, in terms of how much he influences the rest of his clan. It seems to be the point behind his birth, as his rise in power means the Taraka clan's rise as well, whether Yuta himself likes it or not.
• Friend-or-Idol Decision: Yuta realizes he will have to choose between his brother and Leez when he finds out that the latter wants to kill the former for destroying her village. He chooses Leez... at least for now, although he still hasn't told her the Sura she's hunting is his brother.
• Full-Frontal Assault: He's completely naked in his 3rd stage sura form. It wasn't played for fanservice or horror however.
• The Gadfly: When he occasionally lets his mischievous side out, it's usually fairly benign and often cute. Once he hits Stage 3... Let's just say he starts to take after his mother's Black Comedy It Amused Me attitude a bit more frequently. It's more prominent in his interactions with Kasak, who's ability to speak and understand the sura tongue means there's no filter in their interactions.
• Hates Being Alone: A trait he shares with Leez. He was on his own for a long time, and he's blatantly terrified of returning to that life again. At one point, he breaks into Ran's room even just to watch him sleep (as he at least had the sense to realize better Ran than one of the women).
• He Is All Grown Up: Once he reached his 3rd stage.
• Heinz Hybrid: He appears to be an odd mix between Garuda and Chaos. Then he displays abilities only gods' should have.
• Horror Hunger: For pretty much anything that moves.
• How Do I Shot Web?: How do I use insight? Even after the timeskip he has yet to completely master this skill.
• It Gets Easier: He admits that he's not unfeeling over having to feed on other sura—they are his own kind, after all—but that he's had to do it so many times that he had no choice but to get desensitized.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: After he loses control of himself and bites Leez, he vows to stay away from her and only protect her from afar so that it never happens again. It doesn't last, as he returns in order to give her the newly modified Hide of Bondage, and decides to stay with her at her request.
• Known Only by Their Nickname: Yuta nor Jatayu are his real name. He has a name of power bequeathed by Kali, possibly her very own name, seeing he demonstrates many qualities similar to a primerval god, but even that may not be his original identity.
• Lack of Empathy: He doesn't really care about anybody he doesn't know personally. This is one of reasons he wasn't bothered by Asha's past.
• Loophole Abuse: He made a promise with Shuri that he would never eat humans. When he saw the Half-hunters strike down the woman he was helping, he decided that he would just chew them up and spit them out. Similarly, he's not to eat sura who don't attack him first, meaning he goes around deliberately provoking sura into targeting him and at one point almost justifies Elwin tripping into him as an attack.
• Male Gaze: To Leez on multiple occasions.
• Missing Mom: His mother Kali left him under the care of his fake mother, Taraka. Shuri is also this to him, of the adoptive mother type, as she vanished during the Cataclysm.
• More Teeth than the Osmond Family: And their cousins, and their neighbours. Right behind his first set of fangs are more sets, and behind those there are more still, even on his tongue.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: While he doesn't act particularly stupid, his childish behavior and crush on Leez makes it hard to tell how much he knows. Even those who know full well how old he is, such as Asha, can forget his age and experience.
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: If Yuta is getting too stubborn, Kasak is happy to remind Yuta that he accidentally destroyed Kasak's extremely important earrings.
• Out of Focus: Hasn't shown up much in season three so far, and was possessed by Kali for the much of the duration of the sole arc in which he's a major player.
• Pet the Dog: In-Universe, others take his kindness towards Leez as this. The primary reason Kasak didn't kill him where he stood was because Yuta cared enough to protect Leez's reputation, and among Lutz's reasons for trusting Yuta even after realizing he's Kali's son, the deciding factor was that Yuta chose Leez's safety over his own hunger.
• Plot-Relevant Age-Up: As standard for sura. To his intense annoyance, he's been stuck in 2nd stage for a couple hundred years. He finally advances into 3rd stage to prevent Maruna from killing Leez.
• Power Incontinence: He can't control when he's using insight and can't seem to recognize when it activates.
• Power Nullifier: Part of the reason he's so powerful is because his eyes nullify any magic or transcendentals in his range of vision; even in his second stage, he says he would have no trouble defeating a fourth-stage Raksaka if they were transcendental-focused. When he faced the Ananta rakshasas, his use of this resulted in a curbstomping for the history books.
• Prefers Raw Meat: In fact, he prefers live meat, but raw meat is a close second.
• The Promise: He promised Shuri that he wouldn't eat humans, and that he would only eat sura who attack him. He's serious about keeping these promises, but more of the letter than the spirit - when he wants to kill humans, he will chew them up and spit them out.
• Really 700 Years Old: As a Sura, he doesn't age the way humans do, and has lived for hundreds of years.
• Resurrective Immortality: It's eventually revealed he has this, though no one wants to confirm it as losing his memories of this life will likely turn him into the monster Kali wants.
• Sdrawkcab Name: His alias is "Yuta", which is similar to the name given to him by his Garuda family (Jatayu). Considering that the person who gave him the alias (Leez) had no way of knowing his real name, he was pretty surprised.
• Secret-Keeper: Asha eventually spills everything she could to him.
• Single-Target Sexuality: For Leez. The narration even describes him as "the Rakshasa who only has eyes for one girl".
• Spanner in the Works: He severs the connection between the Taraka node and its host, allowing Shakuntala's consciousness to return and ultimately saving Gandharva from Agni.
• Star-Crossed Lovers: The whole "wants to eat her" thing has thrown a giant wrench in any romantic prospects with Leez, suffice to say. As of season three, they have given up on it entirely.
• That Came Out Wrong: Usually he's able to avoid this since he needs to write it out. However, he at one point tells Leez he doesn't like to wear clothing... (He's referring to human clothing rather than sura, which is actually altered body parts)
• Tom the Dark Lord: Kali's son, the true king of the Taraka clan is named... Yuta.
  • Not actually, as Yuta is an alias created by Leez. His true name hasn't been revealed yet.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: His third stage comes with an increased Lack of Empathy, and he admits to Asha that all of his previous lessons in restraint seem utterly pointless now. Though...
• Took a Level in Kindness: ... by Season 3, it's less pronounced, whether because he's mellowed out, the situation's gotten more serious, or because he's trying to not be what Kali wants, or some combination of the above, etc.
• Vengeance Feels Empty: In volume 2, Yuta unexpectedly reveals he would not seek revenge if someone were to kill Leez. He would just leave without a single regret. A pretty stark contrast to Leez and Asha, who are both strongly motivated by revenge.
  • However, God Kubera implies this might not be exactly the truth.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: After he develops to third stage. Leez is eventually able to get him to wear shirts that she buys for him. He doesn't really likes the clothes she gives him, but wears them because they are a gift from her.
• Willfully Weak: This is how he hunts. He suppresses his transcendental value to appear weak, then when other sura attack him he takes sura form and eats them.
• Yandere: After his Plot-Relevant Age-Up, he starts thinking things like how he wants to be the one to kill Leez, though this trait calms down after he tries to leave for her own safety. He also admits to himself (and to Asha) that he has no problem in absolute with her decision to leave Leez, not because Asha is as abusive as they come towards her, but because it allows him to have Leez all to himself.
  • It should be noted that Yuta goes out of his way to refrain said tendencies when he believes they might harm Leez or maker her unhappy. As he admits at the end of season two, he thought several times about abduc - huh, running away from it all with her to the sura realm, but never did so because he believed she would never forgive him.
• Younger Than They Look: Not in terms of years, but rather his growth stage. He looks older than most Rakshasa do.