To bring a bit new life, and jumps in thoughts, to a very interesting topic: Here is a wall of text.
The Power of the Name. Topic for much speculation, but I think, we should first look at the main players in the war that is raging since the beginning of this universe: the Primeval Gods. Or more precisely: Visnu and Kali.
This theory will have some Hindu theology/legends in it (since Kubera has many characters inspired by Hindu gods and persons), so proceed at own risk of possible spoilers.
Now let's start with why Kali and Visnu are at war. To make it short: they fight for continuation or discontinuation of the universe. To understand why, we have to look at their origins in the real world.
In the tradition of Trimurti the main gods are Brahma, Vis(h)nu and Shiva. Their roles are Creation (Brahma), Preservation (Visnu) and Destruction of the universe. Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
How does Kali come into this? To understand the importance of chaos in the universe, let's look at our own universe. Chaos is all present, not only in your room. Since the beginning of our universe the Entropy, measurement for the chaos in a system, is increasing, possibly resulting in the ripping apart of all matter in the end. Too abstract? Let's look at how chemistry works. Reactions betweens substances are often preferred if the Entropy, the Chaos, rises in the system as a result. There are a few examples in Chemistry, but i can't to seem a suitable one. Some of you will know what i mean.^^
But the point is: chaos naturally becomes stronger with time and, possibly, ends the univerese.
But what about the universe in Kubera? We know that Brahma created the universe, Visnu does everything possible for it to continue as long as possible and Shiva "erases" the mistakes and in the end destroys the universe, but we will comes back to that. But what is Kali's role in all this? We know that in our universe the chaos increases naturally, but what about Kubera, where we have the embodiment of it in Kali? It's simple: Kali is to increase the chaos and through that increase the mistakes in the universe which Shiva has to eliminate until Shiva hast to destroy the universe alltogether, what also explains why there were past universes. To back this up, let's take a look at one of her Hindu legends: In the battle against the demon Raktabija Durga summons Kali, so that she can lick away the drops of blood of the demon which he uses to create clones of himself, thus allowing the victory of Durga over Raktabija. In this legend Kali is "used" in order to kill a demon. In fact Kali is the very reason why Durga was able to win.
To top that the Hindu Kali has some attributes, we know from Kubera's Kali: Change, Destruction, Time, and motherly love. She even is portait as the consort of Shiva or his Shakti (often thought of as the ones that give the their husbands the power to fulfill their roles). Which is pretty big if we think about her possibly enabling Shiva to destroy the universe or even the "correcting" of errors through creating these via increased Chaos.
So Visnu wants to preserve the universe while Kali wants to destroy it. It also makes sense if we are looking at their Insight ability.
We know that Visnu sees the consequences of all possible choices. He then makes certain people aware of critical choices and through this manupilates the universe. Best example is Kasak. If Kasak didn't know about the choice concerning whether or not to kill Yuta in his 2nd stage, Kasak would have just ignored him and his plea. This would also have altered the course of the universe, but not in the way killing Yuta or getting closer to Leez would have. Visnu even manupilated Kasak to help Yuta through his choice of words and Kasak's inability to deal with him, if Kasak lets Yuta live. Kasak himself said that he heard too much about Yuta to not be curious about him. But as far we know this was the only mention Visnu gave of Yuta to Kasak. So it was too much through the way Visnu said it, not the amount of information directly given. Visnu, you sneeky...
Then what about Kali? We know that she has Insight on par with Visnu's, bestowed it onto Taraka though distorted (or is it) and even gave Yuta the ability, though we don't know if he has it because he is her son. My theory is that Kali has the same kind of Insight Visnu has, but under the bias that she sees the choices that will create the most chaos. And it even makes sense. Why else make a child the true King of the Clan of Chaos? Why else try to kill Shiva, the one that makes her efforts naught till the end, where he has no other choice? Why disappear, "erasing" her attribute which results in many, many babies that will never lead the life that was in hold for them, never to affect other people and their choices? All to create chaos. Literally.
But let's take a small look at Visnu again. Or better his magic. Why is his magic time related if he is to preserve the universe and has Ressurection as a source attribute? His magic is time related because that is the best way to preserve the universe. Ressurecting people to affect others through turning back their time and possibly seeing the future choices of the spells target. Hoti and bhavati Visnu. It is all to preserve through time manupilation.
Kali on the other hand wants to destroy in a roundabout way. Meaning her magic may effect past/current choices (hoti) and make sure that a future choice is done differently than it normally would. This part is pure speculation though.
This also explains why only Visnu is able to remember the past universes. He needs the memories in order to decide what choices will yield the best results for the universe as a whole while the others don't need it in order to fulfill their roles.
Now let's take a look at Kali and her Masterpiece, Yuta.
As we know and can assume, Kali bore Garuda's child while masking as a Nastika. But why? Out of an honest wish for a child? Hardly, though her real counterpart is associated with motherly love. But how in the name of Visnu does this create Chaos? And why create a Sura Clan with dangerous and faulty names? As we now, in order to create Chaos.
A Clan full of Suras with defective Names and the ability to nullify trancendentals is completly unpredictable and will do whatever they please, unconcerned about the consequences and will be hard to counter.
And the child? Yuta has the divinity of the Primeval God Kali, the embodiment of Chaos itself. Which means that even if Kali disappears Chaos will be still there and it will become stronger as Yuta becomes stronger. Plus Yuta is still technically a child, acting like he wants whenever he wants to without any way to predict his actions fueled by Chaos at times and by his desires at other. Remember how Chaos silent magic is coming back? That is probably thanks to Yutas developement as he acts as Kalis substitute in the matters of Chaos since her disappearence. The attribute didn`t become nonexistent, but it became too weak to have any influence. Which is also why Taraka wanted to keep Kasak from reaching Kalibloom when he wanted to kill Yuta as he was about to develope. We even have other evidence that Yuta is linked to the Chaos attribute. Remember that Kaz is triple Nil as well? How is he able to survive punches from Leez that can kill ordinary people when other humans with triple Nil are known to be weak and unable to perform magic? It is because Yuta came closer and closer to the planet, reaching it and through this strengthening all with Nil attributes. And we know how resilent triple Nil humans/quarters can be thanks to Teos almost immunity to trancendentals. Teo is probably less affected by this since she is already an adult, so her body doesn`t change as much as a child`s or teenager`s would.
And finally the Names. Let`s start with the Name itself. And let us stop thinking of Names as names when talking about Nastika and Gods. Let us think of Names as the very essence of the being that is named. Thanks to this everything that the being experiences it tied to it, resulting in letting Gods retain their memories when they resurrect after they died. But it also ties a destiny or certain events to a being. As Visnu said to Gandhvara, if Gandhvara had another Name, he would not have Menaka as his wife as she is destined to be the wife of Gandhvara. But the name also allows to transfer things tied to the name. Wonder how Kali was able to bear Garuda`s child without being a Sura herself and how she transfered her love for Yuta and memories to Taraka? She assumed the Name Taraka, which was a Nastika name with dangerous elements not used by Visnu, enabling herself to act like a Nastika, thus being able to conceive Garuda's child. After Yuta`s birth she created Taraka, gave her the Name she had used to give birth to Yuta and so transfered everything tied to that name, the memories of conquering Garuda and giving birth to his Child and all of her motherly love. Since Kali gave up one of her Names, it is thinkable that he had to abandon her physical existance. Which also explains Garuda's comment that Kali is now somewhere his voice can't reach as he would have been able to reach any destination in the universe with relative ease.
When we think about abandoning a Name God Kubera comes into mind, as he probably used his own Name in order to weaken/kill Ananta. In that he forsake his very existence, leaving him with a physical body as it is still tied to the earth he symbolizes, but leading to his leaving of the Realm of Gods. With all of his physical abilities he was able to draw the Sword of Re, but it didn't get tied to him as it is tied to the Essence of the wielder which he had forsaken. So he could easily give it to Leez who holds part of his Name and no problems what so ever.
I think the Cataclysm was something unrelated to the Power of the Name. More like the breaking of a great Taboo or breaking a fundamental rule. We know that in the beginning humans could borrow the Gods' power and the Suras' power. But that changed sometime in the universe (D0?) and humans only burrowed the Gods' power afterwards. But there were still followers of Suras, heretics, but still. I think that they maybe tried to summon a sura or even tried to bring it back to life using maybe even hoti visnu. The worst possibility would be Ananta. Not because he is the strongest, but because he is dead/nonexistent. I find it curious that a bloodied Asha asked Kubera for power. But why was Kubera even there? In a destroyed village nonetheless. Maybe he wanted revenge for the destroyed village, but at that time he had already lost all ties to the Gods. Maybe it was even him who destroyed the village because they still followed Sura. And somewhere there must be the source of Asha's heretic knowledge. High Ranking Mages may have access to it, but Asha was on everyones list as soon as she got her license, especially the high ranks because she wanted to use the Human Search System. How did she gain access? Probably she knew it before she became a Magician. That only leaves some library or her home village. A library with heretic knowledge would be hard to find in a world where everyone is "picky" about it. Maybe Asha's true Name is a Sura Name. But I digress.
Now I ask you: what is the last requirement to summon a god? My opinion is that when you want to summon the source of your magic, you need to have a part of it in order to get the summon to work. But how? An item? Could be helpful, but too hard to come by. The "easiest" way to have a part of a God, is to be a part of the God yourself, meaning you have to be a decendant of the god. Although it would now be very diluted in pretty all cases, so that they would be considered purebloods since centuries, I don't think it would be too strange. Sura halves are one reason. Depending on the Sura, halves are a good and easy way to expand your forces and/or followship. Why shouldn't Gods, as far we now there are no Children in the God Realm, have tried it for themselves. Though most probably did it for romantic reasons. Best example, because we have actual clues, is Agni. Brahma speaks of Agni's most recent courtship not going too peaceful when she notices that his sword is gone. And the way Agni behaves with Brilith is actually showing that he has some kind of romantic feelings for her. He surely isn't concerned about her vigor. His revelation to the Magicians is a very good example. Why would he use the ruse of him and Brilith being lovers to reveal himself? To embarras Brilith? I don't think so. And why go through all the trouble of beating up Yama and risking his defeat and being unable to help Brilith and the humans if he thinks lowly of her? And notice his expression when he finally reveals himself? That isn't the expression of someone fooling around, even though he said it like that.
The Power of the Name refers to the Essence of a Sura or even the Clan as a whole and Gods. They set certain events for the named in stone and also determine the personality to some extent. Misusing the Power of the Name has serious repercussions such as losing the existence or disappearing completely. It is possible to use Names against each other and transfer them to another person. Doing so will have consequences like the aforementioned. If someone loses his/her Name their essence gets transfered and inherited by humans with the Name. It will then become stronger if the other holders should die. Should the source of the Name (like Kubera) die when there is only one holder left it is possible that the God will either resurrect with his/her full power when the last holder dies or the last holder will become the successor of the God and will carry on the Name. In case the Name was used to cancel another Name and thus linking the Names, the killing of holders can serve to accumulate the Power of both Names and maybe even ressurecting the victim of the used Name, as it seems to be the goal of Sagara and Kubera.
Defective Names holds elements of danger. How this affects the named beings, we can only guess, but we know that Taraka and Yuta have defective names. In Taraka's case it could explain the complete fixation on Yuta beyond the pupose that she was created by Kali for, while Yuta could have the problem of uncontrollable hunger, especially when he was younger, as a result of his defective Name.
There is still more I could write, but it is late and I need to sleep. And who finds any mistakes can keep them. 
Edited by Nestrior, 01 July 2015 - 07:39 PM.
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