As a Fridge subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.
Fridge Brilliance
- The sura tongue: The sura language exist because the sura are a species capable of interplanetary travel. Since sound doesn't travel in space, it needs to be based on something other than sound. Also, their sura forms don't have mouths that are suited for making the sound patterns for human speech.
- Kali is a goddess of chaos, but there is no god of order, despite many other attributes having opposing attributes. However, looking from a "natural" standpoint this makes sense; chaos is randomness, and randomness is entropy. There is no god of order because "order" isn't an actual phenomenon! Kali's opposite is Visnu; while most people treat him as the god of time, his attribute is actually resurrection, which opposes Kali's attribute of entropy in that he directly reverses it.
- Brilith and Teo are both are both kind, generous women who are dedicated to their people. But why can Teo use silent magic and not Brilith? Agni lists these qualities needed to use silent magic: a desire for strength, lack of compassion for the enemy, and a cold-hearted willingness to sacrifice everything for the sake of one's objectives. Brilith doesn't exhibit any of these traits, but Teo does. Teo doesn't care about her enemies' motives, she doesn't hesitate to break the status quo of her relationship with Gandharva, and will do anything to protect her city. Doubles as Fridge Horror in that it's implied you need to have killed someone to use silent magic. The reason it's so common nowadays is because most magicians have done so during the cataclysm; besides that, killing Halfs has been considered destruction of property since then, making it ridiculously easy for magicians to reach that requirement.
- Lorraine's behavior during Asha's trial. The two most important people in her life are at odds, and one could even die. She's desperate to find a way to fix things.
- Word of God in Season Three mentions that 100 million is considered a high planetary population. If all the planets are like Willarv (several protected cities and numerous villages), this makes sense. Humans aren't the top predators, sura are. Exploring is dangerous with all the Lesser Sura who would be more than happy to snack on any human they come across, and look how easily villages are destroyed once Maruna makes the effort. The barriers that protect cities can't even be made without Brahma.
- According to Riagara in the special chapter News, it is quite rare for nastikas to raise their kids, as more often than not rakshasas end up being raised by guardians who are often their elder siblings. In the next special chapter, Ideal, set 372 years before N23, Akasha mentions having more than 500 daughters. Having this in mind, it makes perfect sense for Jatayu's death to have hurt Samphati so much - she probably raised her.
- The reason Taraka attacked the Gandharva clan in N5 is initially explained by her as the special hunger of the clan: the stronger the prey the more they want to eat them, but not when they are at their strongest, instead, they go when they are weakened enough to be eaten. While she is telling this to Yuta we can see that she is remembering Gandharva running away from her as an example of the ideal prey; she uses this to make clear that his so-called love for Leez is just a suppressed form hunger and for the season 2 this seems to be true, but then come season 3, when it's revealed that: 1.- the soul Kali used to create Taraka was originally Menaka's as "payment" for striking what essentially was a Deal with the Devil with her; at that moment Menaka doesn't remember anything not even her name the only word she remembers is "Gandharva" and she doesn't even know why and 2.- Yuta really does love Leez but because Kali is... Kali and she believes love is evil and in order to rid her son of the "evils" of love, she made it so that everything he loves he will devour. Taking this into account is not so far-fetched to conclude the real reason Taraka attacked the Gandharva clan: she or rather Menaka still loved him and because she was remade into a Chaos sura, he was the one she wanted to eat the most. For obvious reasons it also doubles as Tear Jerker.
Fridge Horror
- All those spells Asha "jokingly" casts at Leez? They're lethal. And she wasn't joking.
- Gandharva, Agni, Sagara, and Chandra are all weakened and their transcendentals are limited. They are throwing around incredible destructive power and are more than any human can hope to fight, and it's nothing to them.
- Lorraine probably led Asha to Saha believing that if Asha just explained her reasoning in private, Saha would understand and drop the charges. It's foolhardy, unlikely, and backfired in the worst way possible, but it is exactly the kind of thing someone feeling desperate would do.
- Lorraine has lost everything. Her student murdered her fiancé, and her friends consider her an accomplice for a time.
- The reason none of the Chaos Sura have opened their eyes yet? Yuta has destroyed his to hinder them with Emotional Resonance. As long as he remains blind and bound, they will have trouble moving and will remain blind, making them possible to defeat. Despite this, the sura realm appears to be losing the battle, even though gods and suras have put their differences aside to deal with the crisis.
- In chapter #129, there's a description of Gandharva as a sura king. While that was given by Varuna, a known sura-hater, and should probably be taken with a grain of salt, one thing that stands out it's the description of Gandharva's family. It says he had only one daughter with his wife Menaka, but many others in the beginning of the universe when the clans were trying to enlarge their numbers. It's known that Shess, a rakshasa born around that time that's still around, is a rare occurrence. Maybe one of the reasons Gandharva's so hell-bent on getting Shakuntala back is because he doesn't want to experience the death of yet another child.
- This is more on the sad end of the scale, but Shakuntala's actual death and the circumstances that lead to it are this, full stop. Let's see how it all begun. She was taken over by a Taraka sura, and was heavily implied to be conscious all the time. While this by itself is horrific enough, it gets more depressing. Gandharva was known among suras for being a doting dad, and we don't have any indication that Menaka was any different. The thing is... they were directly responsible for their daughter's horrible fate. While Yuta may be the true king of the Taraka clan, it's Taraka herself who leads them most of the time. But who's Taraka? Menaka herself. How, you ask? Well, she had made a deal with Kali, which lead to her death, and, directly following it, to her being turned into an entity that would take care of Kali's son. But wait, there's more: The reason behind said deal? She only did this to save Gandharva from his own sins, and that was even before they got together. So, basically, she was the one behind the Taraka attack that victimized Shakuntala, and she didn't even know. But that's not the end of it. Who was the one who actually killed Shakuntala once and for all? Gandharva himself. That's right, he killed his own daughter, whose salvation was the single most important thing for him in the entire universe, and did not know it was actually her. But she did, and goaded him into into finally doing it. And finally the cherry of this despair cake: HE DID IT TO SAVE AGNI. The whole thing is simply depressing, but when one thinks about everything that lead to it... it somehow becomes worse.
- Non-nastika suras develop in a series of five stages, that are reached by accumulating enough of a certain kind of experience and then experiencing something even stronger as a key. Shess' key to develop into Fourth Stage was losing someone he loved, the original Airavata. Just what kind of abuse did Kinnara inflict upon him?
