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[Mizura]

Oookay, originally this thread was named "List of Kubera characters and plot points" and had some brief character descriptions. They were quite out of date and there's better information on the wiki now, so I'm making this thread focus on chronological events instead.

Ages (for reference):

Spoiler

- Maruna: 1000+
- Yuta: 300+
- Kalavinka: older than Kasak, younger than Yuta
- Kasak: 132
- Huan Sairofe: 65
- Agwen: 62
- Eline Haias: 61
- Leny: 37
- Ran Sairofe: 36
- Lorraine Rartia: 36
- Ruche Seiran: 34 (Quarter)
- Airi Rui: 27
- Rana: 26
- Brilith: 21
- Asha: 20
- Leez: 15

Kubera Relationship Chart

Basic Plotline overview

For those who don't know: somewhere along the line I learned to type Korean, and so I typed out bits of text, sent them through Google Translate, and tried to descipher the result. So far, I can't guarantee a 100% accuracy, but I do seem to get it at least 80% right when I compare with translations that have since come out (also because I simply skip out on the parts that I don't get "at all", so you're left with more or less accurate stuff).

This thread is Full of spoilers. Beware. More information in posts below.

Edited by Mizura, 23 August 2012 - 02:10 AM.

[powha]

Nice. Good job putting all the info together. ^^
I should re-read it too.. kinda forgot few things =_=

[Mizura]

Current events:

Spoiler

N15 / October - Leez' Village and Atera

• On Leez' 15th birthday, her village is destroyed (along with several others).
• Kazu and Hazu are still alive, as they went to buy a birthday present for Leez in Atera, where they're still staying.
• Asha brings Leez to Atera.
• Gandharva infiltrates Atera to attempt to trick Agni, while Maruna attacks. In the end, the attack is fended off, and Gandharva promises not to fight Atera.

N15 / November - Atera and outside Atera

• Asha recovers from powering the defense barrier.
• Leez goes to find a present for Asha's birthday, and gets sidetracked by running after thieves, chasing them outside the city.
• God Kubera follows along. Eventually, Leez acquires the Golden Knight (Kubera's divine bracelet that allows her to use spells, and that she can't take off lol), and God Kubera brings her back to the city. God Kubera tells her that he came here to kill her, and gives her the choice between living or dying (Leez prefers to live, duh)
• Reports from Rindhallow show that a group of Garuda, Gandharva and Yaksha-type Suras, rather than the Ananta and Asura-type Sura more common to Willarv, are gathering outside Rindhallow as if about to attack. Also, the group investigating Leez' village shows that the number of deaths in Leez' village is "0" (in fact, we see later that Kazu and Hazu are still alive). However, Asha tells Leez that she is the only survivor, and asks if she wants revenge. Asha tells her to get the Sword of Regression, created by the Goddess of Chaos Kali to fight against Shiva. The Sword of Regression nullifies a God or a Sura's regenerative abilities, however it didn't work against Shiva, so Kali kind of threw it away. Leez agrees, so they leave and head towards Mistyshore (instead of going through Rindhallow) to get to Kalibloom.
• Maruna is discussing attack plans.
• Kubera opens a gate to the Sura realm. Instead of letting Gandharva through, he brings in the Ananta clan, led by Sagara, to continue the attacks on Atera, much to Gandharva's objections. We learn that Kubera had promised to help Gandharva find Shakuntala in exchange for doing whatever Kubera tells him. Maruna is supposed to attack Rindhallow, though it will be difficult because of the high number of mages. Sagara shows up an proposes an alliance, though Maruna rejects at first.

N15 / November - December

• Leez and Asha come across Yuta (not his real name), chasing away the hunters that were after him and the Half he had just saved. Asha suspects that he's not a Half, and orders strictly vegetarian dishes to test him. As Yuta is strictly carnivorous, he later throws everything up. Asha theorizes that he's an Upani 3rd step since more Advanced Suras aren't supposed to be around, only to be told that Yuta's a Rakshasa.
• Since Yuta can't speak human language, Asha gives him a pen and a notebook, and tells him to pretend to be a half, guaranteeing a safe journey for him as long as they're traveling together. Yuta reveals that he's going to Mistyshore to find the Sword of Regression, to open a portal to the Sura realm, since he was abnormally left behind after the Upheaval. Asha is really surprised.
• Since the Half saved by Yuta can't reveal the location of her village to pureblood humans, Yuta accompanies her instead. In the meantime, Asha asks Leez if she could consider becoming friends with Sura taking human shape, only to be answered " D: ". Yuta catches up with them, and Asha notes that he's much faster than them. She asks if he wouldn't be better off traveling alone since Leez hates Suras and he's faster by himself. Yuta tells her not to worry about him.
• Leez is thinking up names for Yuta, and that's how Yuta got his current name (I think we Still don't know what his real name is?).

N15 / December - Mistyshore

• Leez and Co. arrive at Mistyshore.
• Yuta sneaks off. A bunch of humans killed a Half in the forest, so Yuta wounds them but on purpose didn't kill them. Agwen and Kasak Rajof come across him. Kasak recognizes Yuta as half-Garuda and half-"Chaos" and holds a discussion with him. In the end, he decides that Yuta's okay. He particularly approves of his self-control (a member of the Chaos tribe would have simply pounced on him)
• Asha needs to find a person with Varuna (water) properties to travel the caves near Mistyshores, and Ran is it. However, when Asha tells the person that Yuta is a half, she notes that Asha would either have to find another magician, or separate from Yuta, because Ran's a quarter whose Half mother tried to kill him during the N0 Cataclysm, which left some mental issues.
• During the same event, Agwen receives an urgent request to go to Atera. After Agni had returned to the human world, the defense barrier, now powered by just Brilith, had considerably weakened, so Atera needed a triple-fire mage like Agwen.
• Asha tells Yuta that he'll need to hide the fact that he's a half (his sharp teeth aren't very helpful). Yuta goes to find Kasak, who lends him the earrings that make him look temporarily human.
• Leez, Asha, Ran and now a human-looking Yuta form a group and move on, despite Ran's outrage at having to travel with a little kid (Yuta: Hello, I'm Yuta, I'm 13!). xD They enter this huge maze-like cave.

N15 / December - Atera

• Atera's sky turns red, signaling that it's under attack. Everybody is evacuated to safety. Hazu and Kazu talk about Leez, thinking she died while they lived because they went to Atera to buy her a present.
• Elsewhere, in Kalibloom, Gandharva felt the presence of Shess, a Kinnara Rakshasa, and thought it means that the Kinnara clan became allies with the Ananta clan. In fact, Shess only came to Willarv because Leny, a Half he's taking care of, whose mother died long ago and whose father was killed during the Cataclysm, missed the human world (she seems downright afraid of staying in the Sura world, poor thing). Shess tells Gandharva that he's not allied with Sagara, but that Maruna joined Sagara in attacking Atera, making Gandharva really angry.
• Sagara infiltrates the fire temple. I think she's aware of the deal between Gandharva and Agni, so she avoids threatening Brilith directly at first.
• Maruna attacks the barrier. Although he dislikes the Ananta clan, he joins the war to help the search for Shakuntala. Brilith barely holds up, and when Sagara attacks her directly, the barrier breaks.
• Brilith asks Sagara why the Advanced Sura are attacking humans, since eating one Sura is more efficient than eating a hundred humans. Sagara reveals that they're looking for the human with the name Kubera, though that person is likely using a pseudonym. Since Brilith has no idea what she's talking about, the Anantas launch their attack.
• On the ground, the other human mages are protecting the civilians.
• At this point Kasak and Agwen show up and start attacking. Riagara recognizes him as Taksaka's son, since she and Vasuki spent a lot of time with Taksaka. In order to avoid angering Taksaka (and also because despite being just over 100 years-old, Kasak is as strong as a Rakshasa 5-step), Riagara orders the other Ananta not to attack. Instead she plans to lure him away by revealing to Maruna (who after breaking the barrier was no longer joining the fight) that Taksaka knew Visnu and probably knows something about his sister Kalavinka.
• Maruna catches Agwen to get Kasak to talk. To the shock of both, Kasak attacks both of them instead. Maruna hides Agwen in the woods, and asks him about Kalavinka. However, Kasak judges Maruna to be a rotten person, so refuses to say anything (also because Kalavinka made him promise not to tell anyone about her), so Maruna attacks him. Kasak's counter-attack may have hit his daughter too, but Shess shows up and blocks the attack in time. After Shess says a few words to Maruna, Maruna leaves.
• Brilith summons Agni, who brought with him his weapon from hell. At this point Brilith remembers that Asha had someone with her and realizes who the Sura are looking for.
• Agni has pushed back the Ananta. Sagara wants to trick him, but Maruna shows up to take her to flee, and Maruna makes the mistake of looking into Agni's eyes (allowing Agni to use his insight ability on him), so the plan fails.
• Gandharva shows up to allow Maruna and Sagara to flee. Agni wants to catch them, but Gandharva pleads with him to not go against "him", at which point Agni senses Kubera, who tells him not to look for him.
• Shess heals Agwen and the battle ends.
• We also see a flashback between Agni and Kubera, where Agni brags about his strength in fighting an army of Sura. Kubera says that Agni does not deserve his praise, and regrets the fact that "Caught up in merit, I overlooked the importance of the Power of the Name". Kubera then thinks that he'll soon be gone from the world of Gods, so all this is a precursor to the current events.

N15 / December - Near Mistyshore, in some maze-like cave:

• When everybody's asleep (though Yuta left for somewhere), Leez goes to find somewhere to take a bath. She hears some noises and worries about Yuta, so she runs after the source.
• In fact, Yuta, in Sura form, was eating a giant fish alive (while eating, he keeps his prey alive as long as possible :S ). He hides when he hears Leez calling out to him. God Kubera shows up and tells him that he'll distract Leez for him.
• Kubera shows up in kid form in front of Leez. Annoyed Leez tries to find her way back. Eventually the conversation shifts to Kubera telling Leez that he can see her future and that she'll regret living. Leez asks him if he can see his own future then. At this point, Kubera sees himself talking back to him, noting that he's no longer called Kubera, and noting that he won't be forgiven and that he did not want to commit so many sins, but that the opponent already knows the outcome of this battle (so we know that everything Kubera is doing is to counter a specific opponent, no idea who though). Anyway, Lees says that she'll just enjoy living right now (at this point, Kubera is surprised that the insight changed, and now Leez is voying to kill "him"). Leez tries to get a name out of him but he says he doesn't have a name. Leez tries to think up a name for him but gets rejected.
• Leez joins up with Asha and co. again. Asha is mad at her, obviously.
• Yuta tells Asha in private that the earrings aren't working anymore. Asha can't figure out the reason either. Later, they come across a group of alarmed magicians who note that there's a strong monster (whom they initially thought to be a Gandharva-type sura, but turned out not to be the case), and that all magic in several sections have stopped working. Leez and co have no choice but to go around them. Yuta thinks of his "mother" Taraka telling him that it's futile to run away from her, and that Gandharva, Shuri and Vishnu can't stop her, so he should just return to work for her.
• Ran explains magic to Leez. Calculations are important to get the shape etc. right, but Ran says that it's also possible to practice until you get it right. Asha interjects that you can't be a magician without calculations. Ran tells Leez to ignore her, and proposes for her to learn magic, like say... Hoti Kubera.
• They come across Taraka. Her race can nullify magic, so Ran's Hoti Varuna stopped working (note: Asha's Hoti Brahma still works because, and it seems confirmed by her musings, Brahma is one of the four God of Origins, so the nullifying magic doesn't work against his magic). Yuta tells everybody to ignore him and to charge ahead, while he goes towards his mother.
• Well obviously, Leez went after Yuta. Ran and Asha go after her.
• Taraka is lecturing Yuta. Since she has insight, she figured out that Yuta has a crush on Leez. However she says that it's actually a form of appetite, and brings him to Leez to let him confirm his feelings. Taraka summons a number of Sura around Leez, knowing that she was strong enough to defeat them.
• In the meantime, Ran and Asha got separated. Asha gets confronted by one of the Taraka races and casts Hoti Visnu.
• Ran sees Leez. Leez sees Yuta and attacks Taraka, only to be knocked away. Yuta takes Sura form to fight against Taraka. He saves Leez and Ran as the space started to crumble. Ran realizes that it's Yuta, and that he's hiding his true nature from Leez (who's unconcious right now), who hates Suras.
• Yuta reveals that in fact, Taraka's memory is faulty, and that Yuta's true mother is Kali. Kali made her that way for Taraka to raise Yuta. In the past, Yuta had told Taraka the truth, but each time she couldn't stand the truth and made Yuta kill her, except she would just regenerate, her memory forgotten. Yuta asks Taraka if she wants him to kill her again, but Taraka realizes how much he suffered because of it, so she decides to keep her memories this time. Before leaving for the Sura world, Taraka warns Yuta that her insight showed her that he would fight Leez in the future, unless he parts from her.
• Ran, Asha and Leez successfully escaped the waterways. When Leez wakes up, she goes looking for Yuta, who decided to stay with her party after all.
• Leez and co. make their way to Kalibloom.

Edited by Mizura, 16 April 2012 - 10:53 AM.

[Mizura]

Past events

Spoiler

Beginning of the Universe (Chapter 99)

• The four Primeval Gods are Visnu, Shiva, Brahma and Kali. They preside over 8 notions, but are more commonly known by only 4 (Visnu: Recovery, Shiva: Destruction, Brahma: Creation and Kali: Chaos). The novel also reveals that Visnu can manipulate time, though doing so too much caused him to lose his body in the last Universe, and he couldn't get it back until the end of the Universe. These four are those who have the authority to manage "Names."
• Visnu alternatively created the Nastika and the Astika (Gods), accounting for all the best names. When that was done, the new space was born. Note: Although Primeval Gods are Gods, the other Gods consider them as something like outsiders.
• The Nastika are "those who are strong, but when they die, they die for good." The Astika are "Those who are weak, but they endlessly regenerate": the Gods are much weaker than Nastika, but they preside over a "jurisdiction" (example: fire). As long as the jurisdiction still remains, the corresponding God will forever regenerate, though it may take a while. In the case of the strongest 5-zen Gods for example, they won't die until the Universe itself dies (to destroy Agni for example, you'd have to destroy all the Suns for example: not happening).
• Although Shiva and Brahma were not jealous of Visnu's power over names, Kali didn't want the creations to surpass her in power, so she took the remaining Nastika names (that were either dangerous or faulty) and left. She thus created the "Chaos" race (Taraka). It is impossible to borrow power from that name, so even the humans never say the name of that race.
• All Primeval Gods have insight into everything that has eyes (Gods, Suras and humans, as well as their past, present, future and sub-consciousness). But only Visnu seem to remember -everything- from before the beginning of the Universe, so his insight is strongest (limited insight into the other 3 Primeval Gods too apparently?).

Near the beginning of the Universe (novel events)

• The Vritra clan could not have Rakshasa children, as price for having their powerful dragon breath. Falling in love within the race even seemed to cause them to die mysteriously. However, this led it to become the weakest Sura clan while the other clans increased their powers thanks to Rakshasa (the Asura clan for example had 100 times more Rakshasa than Nastika). Visnu predicted that as a result, the Vritra clan would become the first extinct, a result Visnu did not wish for.
• In order to preserve the Vritra clan, Brahma agreed to enhance their racial characteristic to virtually eliminate all their emotions, in particular love (though the measure wouldn't be perfect). They were also all forced to take male form. Utpala, who was close to Taksaka and was in love with him, strongly protested the measure to no avail.
• Once all Vritra took on male form, Utpala first tried to stay with Taksaka only to get ignored. Eventually he started impersonating him, causing trouble and increasing his notoriety.

Over 1000 years ago

• Maruna was born. Later on he got stuck a very long time in Step 2, which he had a big complex about.

D 0? (mix of comic and novel events)

• In the past, humans could borrow power from both the Gods and the Nastika. However, because humans had lost a lot because of the Sura, they swore to side only with the Gods. Although there is no indication as to when this occured exactly, D0 would seem like a date that "makes sense."
• The humans feared retaliation by the Sura. Visnu had Brahma create a defense system to protect human cities, however Brahma, being absolutely neutral, did not want to favor the humans and made the system faulty: a strong opponent like a Nastika would still have no trouble breaking the barrier. However, by the time of the events of the novel, the defense system was perfect, because Gods powered them instead. Back then, it was not unusual for a city to have 2 Gods or more.

Over 300 years ago

• Yuta was born (Yuta is not his real name but the one Leez gave him) as the son of Garuda and of the Primeval Goddess of Chaos, Kali.
• Kali left him with Taraka, a substitute mother, who in Yuta's eyes alone would take the image of his mother. Because of Kali's brainwashing, Taraka believed that she really is Yuta's mother. However, every time Yuta told her the truth, the shock led her to ask Yuta to kill her to free her from the role, but she just regenerates, having forgotten again.
• Unable to stand having to kill Taraka over and over again, Yuta eventually escaped to join up with the Garuda clan instead.

???

• Kalavinka was born as the youngest of the Garuda siblings
• Shakuntala was born? When very young, Shakuntala was kidnapped once by the Gods, only to be saved by Agni. then She made Gandharva promise never to fight Agni.

??? (Novel events)

• To ease the pain of jealousy, Utpala had a relationship with a human and had a Half child. Once he learned that the Half was being worshipped by humans, he felt pride. This was significant because he thought he couldn't feel anything beyond jealousy anymore. So he protected the descendents of this Half in secret. Ian Rajof, a quarter born in D845, is Utpala's descendent.
• Eventually Utpala learned from a prophecy from Visnu that Taksaka would fall in love with his descendent.

Around D 865 (Novel events)

• Ian Rajof belonged to a village of "Heretics" that worships dragons. A dragon demands a sacrifice out of the village. Ian was hidden by her parents, but her whole village was destroyed. Ian believed that Taksaka was responsible, and vowed revenge against him. Taksaka believed that Utpala, who had impersonated him in the past, was responsible.
• In fact, the true culprit is Vritra, and Utpala just couldn't do anything to stop him. Utpala suspected that Vritra knew of Visnu's prophecy: Vritra wanted to fight Taksaka, but a dragon in love would go into hiding, and may avoid fighting even after the mate had died. Utpala suspected that Visnu was the one who told Vritra and wanted to warn Taksaka, but as Visnu had a flawless reputation, he worried that Taksaka wouldn't believe him.

Before D 873 i.e. 142 years ago - The Power of the Name

Ananta clan:

• Ananta died mysteriously after a celebration. According to the blog, some suspect it was either murder or suicide.
• However, a flashback in Chapter 84 revealed that God Kubera was responsible, and that it was tied to the Power of the Name: "I have committed a terrible wrong. Bent upon the conquest before my eyes, I overlooked the importance of the "Power of the Name."
• Ananta used to be the strongest head of clan, and his death severely weakened his clan, causing it to lose its top position and putting it at the mercy of the Garuda clan.
• Vasuki, the next in line, dodged the succession issue by changing his gender into female (Nastika are weaker in female form except for Shuri) and by hanging out with Taksaka. Vasuki did this for Sagara's sake (Sagara hates Vasuki). (The novel confirms that by D 873, Vasuki had already taken female form)
• Manasvin became the next King, with Sagara as his wife.(Ch. 51)

Garuda clan:

• To hide the Power of the Name (Ch. 74 and Ch. 82), the three Garuda siblings were all separated for their own safety.
• Kalavinka went to planet Willarv with Visnu. The novel confirmed the time of arrival at around D 873.
• Yuta went to planet Isholy with Shuri. From flashbacks, we see that the Yaksha clan at first objected to his presence and wanted to kill him because his half-chaos side made him want to eat everybody, even humans (I guess there's a taboo against eating humans?). Shuri made him promise to never eat humans (not even attack them, because they're too weak to harm him anyway) and only eat Sura that attack him first. She taught him how to control himself, and the "way of a King."
• Maruna went to planet Carte with Gandharva, who put him through a hellish training. Back then, Gandharva was much more powerful.
• We have no other clues as to how the Garuda siblings are connected to the Power of the Name.

D 873 i.e. 142 years ago (novel)

• Visnu arrived around this time at Willarv. He gived Taksaka the Destruction Dragon (#2 in the Vritra clan) a pair of earrings allowing him to pretend to be a human and even experience emotions, as the Dragon kind are normally emotionless (but he can get angry).
• After a chance (?) meeting, Taksaka fell in love with Ian Rajof, and eventually managed to get into Mistyshore by pretending to be a Half. Nard Lehn, who is Ran's grandfather, is his patron. Unknown to Taksaka, Nard was in a relationship with the then #2 of the Yaksha clan (but didn't realize at first who Taksaka was).
• Utpala eventually showed up, hoping to die by Taksaka's hands, and the two took the battle to space. When Utpala found out that Ian was there, he revealed to her in a dreamscape that he wasn't the culprit who destroyed the village, but said that he couldn't reveal who the real culprit is or the ensuing battle would endanger Taksaka and cause too many lives to be lost. After that, Utpala died while taking all the blame.
• Eventually Ian and Tak end up together. It was the first time Tak forms a relationship.
• It was eventually revealed in the novel that unknown to Taksaka, Visnu had planned the whole event to "soften" Taksaka's anger: his Name was normally not this dangerous, but his strength plus the fact that he only knew anger made him excessively dangerous. Ian and her descendents were meant to control this anger, even if they had to suffer in the process.

???

• Hana Lehn is born. Eventually Nard Lehn and Hana's mother separate, and Nard start wandering around.

D 883 i.e. 132 years ago

• ​Kasak is born as the son of Taksaka and Ian Rajof. As price for giving birth to a dragon Half, Ian lost 80 years of her life. She accepted this, but Taksaka hated Kasak as a result, more so since Kasak looked nothing like his mother. Kasak thus grew up in fear of his father.
• Kasak and Kalavinka also played together.

D 925 i.e. 90 years ago (Ch. 82)

• We see a third stage Kalavinka tell Kasak never to tell anyone about her whereabouts. She mentioned the Power of the Name but did not reveal more.

???

• After Ian died, Taksaka returned to the Sura realm, leaving Kasak behind. Ravana, the #2 of the Asura clan, wanted to prove himself as the strongest among #2s in all clans, so decided to taunt Taksaka about Ian. Taksaka got mad and would have killed Ravana if Asura didn't intervene. Asura promised that in exchange, if Taksaka ever decides to topple Vritra, the Asura clan would side with him.

D995

• The finite reveals that Taksaka continued to visit Kasak from time to time. An entry in Airi's diary suggests that Taksaka came in D995 as well.
• Rao Leez wins the Fighter Tournament.
• Brilith Ruin is born.

D 1000 / N0 i.e. 15 years ago - N0 Cataclysm

• N0 Cataclysm: Entire planets were being destroyed. The Gods fought the Superior Sura in space, while human magicians fought the Lower Suras on the ground.

Humans and Halfs:

• The humans counted on the Halfs to help them, but as the result of the strongest case of Emotional Resonance ever recorded in history, the Halfs went berserk, sided with the Suras and attacked humans instead. Ran's mother tried to kill him, leaving him traumatized when it comes to Halfs. It's probably since then that human laws stopped protecting Halfs, leaving them open to persecution.
• Kasak killed Agwen's mother, best friend and lover. Although Agwen forgave him and still actively campaigns for the rights of Halfs, she was traumatized by the realization that without his earrings, Kasak didn't love her mother, or even Agwen herself. Agwen remains afraid of her father whenever he's in non-100% human form, which actually upsets Kasak (which is why the earrings are very important to him).
• Leny went berserk too. Her father died trying to protect her from magicians. By the time she came to, Shess had already taken her to the Sura world.
• Leez was born around this time.

Primeval Gods:

• Visnu stopped the Cataclysm, but as a result both he and Shiva disappeared from the world. Two 4-Zen generational Gods, Asvin and Marut, became responsible for the fields of Recovery and Destruction instead.
• Before Visnu left, he separated the races into different dimensions. Humans got the most beautiful world, the Gods got a bleak but habitable world, but Superior Suras (Nastika, Rakshasa, Upani over stage 3 and probably Stage 5 Mara) were sent to a hostile poisonous world.

Sura:

• Visnu also instructed the Gods to create an Ocean for the Gandharva clan before leaving, but God Varuna ignored the request.
• Garuda fell into a coma. Since he's not completely dead, the matter of succession becomes rather complicated. Maruna acts as temporary King.
• Nastika can no longer take on Sura form in the human world, so Rakshasa in the human world can be even more powerful than Nastika.
• Shuri apparently disappeared with Visnu.

Gods:

• The link between Humans and Gods was also severely weakened, so humans can only borrow power from the 11 most powerful Gods, and can no longer summon them in person without risking their life.
• God Kubera uses his physical power to break the barrier between dimensions and enter the human world.

Aftermath of the N0 Cataclysm

Ananta clan:

• After N0 Cataclysm: Manasvin visited Gandharva to propose a plan, but got rejected. He was also rejected by the Asura clan.
• While trying to form alliances, he disappeared. (Ch. 55)
• Sagara becomes the next King of the clan, skipping proper procedures and much to the objection of other Ananta, as they consider her weak (the strength of the King influences the strength of the clan). However, they don't dare do anything against her because she's backed by Vasuki. Fortunately, as the Garuda clan was also without leadership (with Garuda in a coma), the Ananta clan didn't get massacred by the Garuda clan as they feared. Still, the other Nastika of the Ananta clan refused to follow Sagara, though she still has a very powerful army of Rakshasas and inferior Sura.

Gandharva clan: (Ch. 38)

• Gandharva exhausted nearly all his powers to clear part of the toxic fumes from his area to allow the non-Nastika of his tribe to live, but was also too weakened to create a sea, and would have died if he tried. He is now weaker than the average Nastika. According to a conversation with Manasvin, Visnu had promised Gandharva to get an ocean created for his race.
• Manasvin pointed out that Varuna is the God who killed the most Sura, and the fact that she still hasn't shown up shows that she likely refused. Manasvin proposes a plan.
• Although Gandharva rejected the plan, Manasvin notes before leaving that Shakuntala was slowly getting poisoned.
• Eventually the Gandharva clan was attacked, apparently by the Chaos clan, and the Gandharva clan decides to take refuge with the Garuda clan. It was decided that only the strong would go. Shakuntala decides to stay behind with the children. Her whereabouts are unknown, but Gandharva blames everything on the Gods.

Yuta was somehow left behind in the human world, so he travelled from Isholy to Willarv to use Kali's Sword of Re to open a portal to the Sura world.

Note:

• The Garuda and Ananta clans are enemies: the Garuda eat Ananta.
• The Asura clan is allied with the Ananta clan.
• The Garuda, Gandharva and Yaksha clans are allies (thanks to the friendship between Garuda, Gandharva and Shuri).
• The Kinnara and Vritra clans are neutral. The Vritra clan is considered something like an endangered species.
• Everybody hates the Taraka clan, which apparently eats everything that moves (Leny's Kinnara mother was apparently eaten by one of the Taraka tribe D: ).

N5

• On Planet Carte, Asha's mother (chapter 4) is killed. Asha swears revenge at any cost.The culprit may be God Kubera (Chapter 2-21). Asha borrows Visnu's power, though using it will eat at her existence (Chapter 2-10).
• Both Asha and Rao Leez appear to have taken the last transport from Carte to Willarv. Planet Carte is completely destroyed (Chapter 94). However, Rao Leez is not onboard when the transport arrives. Rao Leez' weapon, the Neutral Bow, falls from the sky and creates a huge crater.
• Brilith summons Agni.

Edited by Mizura, 01 April 2013 - 06:22 AM.

[InstantPig]

Just a question about Kubera the God. When did it say that Kubera was the dude who owned the bracelet thingy? I think I missed that part

[Mizura]

Isn't that in the latest scanlated chapter? Here Lots of things happening in the current arc!

Maybe it isn't clear yet, but that guy there is the real God Kubera. He made the bracelet to control his strength so that he wouldn't cause destruction by accident.

By the way, hahah, apparently in Hindu mythology Kubera is the God of Wealth. It's kind of ironic that Leez-who-has-his-name is poor as dirt instead. ^^;

[NothingSpecial]

Hmmm. Now I feel like I keep missing things when I read.... But thanks A LOT for gathering the information I've learnt more about Kubera!
I also follow the 'raw' release even through I don't understand what they say... but I readedsom of your 'spoiler' So I began to wonder if you had info Futher into the story than what has been released in the raws? It just seemed like it.

Kubera my favorite Manwha! xD

[Mizura]

^ Ah that, more like, I learned how to type Korean so I could put everything through Google Translate, though a lot of it is gibberish. ^^;;

But some of that information may be from the blog: http://currygom.blog.me
Naver blogs don't allow straightforward copy/pastes. But you can still access the source this way:

- See the links on the right? The ones relating to Kubera are under the 쿠베라 (which stands for Kubera). They are roughly: Locations, Races, Magic, Transcendent magic, Major Characers and Minor Characters in that order, which are what you want to click
- In Firefox (I don't know about other browsers, sorry), Ctrl-click the link in the menu you want to open in a new tab. This step is necessary to access the source code of that frame, and not the entire site
- With the page you want open, choose whatever you want and open the page source (Ctrl + U in Firefox). You get a whole lot of code and very little text. The bunch of Korean text you want is located at about 2/3 downwards, you can also do a Ctrl+F and try to find a specific term (there are a few terms in English you can try to find to locate the right bunch of text, for example)
- Copy the bunch of text you want into a text editor. This step is optional but will Really make the reading more pleasant. Now copy the most common of those html tags and replace them with nothing. Repeating this just 5 or 6 times will get rid of 70% of the junk. Remove the big chunks of codes (which normally point to images) manually and you'll have a mostly "clean" text with under a minute of work.
- Now paste all that into Google Translate.

There's a trick to google-translating Korean, and that's knowing that in Korean, grammar particles are often tagged to the end of a word. These particles aren't always recognized by Google Translate, so if something isn't translating correctly, you can try separating the last character or two of the culprit word to see if it gives something that makes sense. You'll also want to separate bits of sentences in case the grammar translation screws up too much. You may also want to replace some of the names and terms before, or you'll get screwy translations like Mathematica instead of Nastika (now that is scary!). I have such a list made for myself, I can share if anybody finds it useful, though since the blog often has the English name besides the Korean ones, it's easy to just copy/replace from there.

Or you could, well, read all of Zero Breaker's threads. He's already shared the most interesting elements in the blogs. x)

Anyway, is there something specific you want to know? I'm not too sure what some of the revelations in the newest chapters are about, but here's some:

Spoiler

- When Ran was teaching Leez magic, Yuta asked Asha why she isn't teaching Asha magic, and I think Asha replied that Leez shouldn't go down the same path as her. At that moment, Asha hears Leez yelling "Hoti Kubera", and suddenly has a flashback, first of a woman giggling and comment on how Asha made something "useful", then another person seems to be saying that she's living for the dead but should be living for the living, and that he wishes for Kubera to be happy? (edit: it turns out that this person is probably Leez' father Rao Leez, and he's probably referring to his daughter, since of course he'd want his daughter to be happy >_<) Then Asha runs back thinking "I'm sorry, I'm sorry." But eh, Leez completely failed to perform any magic. xD
- Later on the boat, Ran was wondering about the monster in the cave and how it can nullify magic, and Asha mentions that there's a race of Sura whose name is taboo and who's known as the Clan of Chaos, but that little is known about it. Ran asks her how the heck she knows all this.
- In the latest chapters, we come across Yuta's mom! Ran initially thought of distracting the huge monster, but Yuta said not to worry about him and to head straight for the exit, and with that he ran towards his mom on his own. His mom is basically saying "Oooh, I missed you. That damn Vishnu prevented me from finding you! Oh, does my embrace hurt you? You're weak in human form!" (I think she's trying to force him into Sura form. However, Yuta remembered that Leez hates humans, so he stayed in human form). His mother is confused by this and decides to just take him away for now. Obviously, Leez is none too happy about this and runs after him (apparently the Golden Knight responds to feelings rather than calculations).

I think these few chapters were very interesting for several reasons:

1. More about Asha! We know that she lost a lot, and that she's living for the dead, and that she's using Leez as a tool of revenge. But it seems she feels really, really guilty about it: apart from this, the only time she seemed really upset was when she lied to Leez about there being no survivors in her village. I don't think she was pretending to be sad (she seems pretty unemotional when it comes to others, usually, and wouldn't need to pretend to be upset for Leez' sake), but she was struggling with her decision to send Leez down a path that, as we see in Agni and Kubera's insights, will lead Leez to suffer a lot. She doesn't want Leez to learn magic because then she'd be going down the same path of revenge as Asha.

It seems Asha knew Leez' father Rao (though... he seemed pretty well-known). In chapter 93, we learn that Rao disappeared at N5, which corresponds to the date Asha supposedly lost everything. Obviously, Rao wished for his daughter to be happy.

2. We're seeing a bit more about the whole plotline about the Suras. Now, in the timeline, I mentioned that Kalavinka said that everything was her fault, but it Could have meant that the fact all the Suras have to go to another dimension is her fault, not that the whole thing regarding the Power of the Name was her fault. So, here's how it seems to me:
- Something occured regarding the Power of the Name (note that all this didn't start with Leez), and the Garuda siblings are involved. For their own safety, they were sent to different planets under the care of Shuri, Gandharva and Vishnu. The current arc suggests that in fact, they were hiding Yuta from his mother thanks to Vishnu's power. I think Yuta's mother wants to use him for some reason, but Garuda, Shuri, Gandharva and Vishnu are the ones standing in her way. In Currygom's blog, the author states that Vishnu is a trump card among Gods of Origin because he has insight into All living beings because he remembers what it was like before the Universe was born (the insight of Gods only work on those younger than them, which is why it doesn't work on Nastika, which are also born at the beginning of the Universe).
- I think Yuta's mother came to Willarv in search of him, and Kalavinka may have accidently revealed something, so Vishnu sent the whole Sura race to another dimension to hide them from Yuta's mother. Of course, the Suras (most of whom are unaware of what's really going on) weren't too happy with the arrangement and ended up attacking the human realm. Vishnu's disappearance sure didn't help (though I'm not sure if he disappeared right before or during). I wonder if the clan of Chaos was actually pulling some strings? You know all those bones that prevent a Half from using its powers? Maybe they belong to someone from the clan of Chaos, since they can stop magic from occuring, though I'm not sure why it doesn't prevent magic users from using magic.

3. We also learned a few things from Kubera himself. He says that he no longer has a name, so in fact, the name really does "belong" to Leez now. I'm not sure why it doesn't seem to affect his power though. He's not exactly happy with all the bad things he's doing, but he seems to be fighting a specific opponent. Yuta's mom or another high-level god are the likely candidates.

Anyway, I also went to look up the various Hindu gods and terms out of curiosity. Currygom says that the characters are only loosely based on Hindu mythology, and that's really the case, but there's still some interesting parallels with the Kubera world:

Spoiler

Gods

Ganesha: Lord of Beginnings and Lord of Obstacles, and God of Wisdom and Prudence.
Trimurti:
- Brahma = Creator. God of wisdom. His female partner is Saraswati, Goddess of wisdom and learning, whom he created and with whom he gave birth to the human race.
- Vishnu = Preserver. Master of past, present and future, one who supports, sustains and governs the Universe and originates and develops all elements within. Associated with the primeval waters that are believed to have been omnipresent before the creation of the universe.
- Shiva = Destroyer. God of Destruction and Transformation. Married to Parvati, the Goddess of Power, whose wrathful incarnation is Kali.

Kali: the Goddess of time and change, who creates and destroys worlds in union with Shiva. Often shown stomping on Shiva (who lay there to calm her down after she went through a battle frenzy).

Kubera: Lord of wealth and the god-king of the semi-divine Yakshas. Overlord of numerous semi-divine species and the owner of the treasures of the world.

Agni: God of fire and the acceptor of sacrifices. With Varuna and Indra he is one of the supreme gods in the Rig Veda. Messenger between mortals and gods.

Varuna: God of the sky, of water and of the celestial ocean, as well as a god of law and of the underworld.

Indra: Lord of Heaven, God of War, Storms, and Rainfall. Slays Vritra.

Maruts: Storm deities and sons of Rudra and Diti and attendants of Indra. They are very violent and aggressive.

Surya: Chief solar deity.

Chandra: Lunar deity. In Vedic astrology Chandra represents brain and mind, emotions, sensitivity, softness, imagination, queen and mother.

Vayu: Lord of the Winds.

Asvins: Doctors of gods and are devas of Ayurvedic medicine. Vedic gods symbolising the shining of sunrise and sunset, appearing in the sky before the dawn in a golden chariot, bringing treasures to men and averting misfortune and sickness.

Yama: In Vedic tradition Yama was considered to have been the first mortal who died and espied the way to the celestial abodes, and in virtue of precedence he became the ruler of the departed.

Asura and co.

Garuda: large mythical bird or bird-like creature, lesser Hindu divinity, usually the mount of the God Vishnu. Sworn enemy of the Nāga serpent race and known for feeding exclusively on snakes.

Gandharva: Male nature spirits, husbands of the Apsaras. Some are part animal, usually a bird or horse. They have superb musical skills. They guarded the Soma and made beautiful music for the gods in their palaces. A gandharva means a singer in the court of Gods. (lol that had No similarity with Kubera's Gandharva clan xD)

Yaksha: Broad class of nature-spirits, usually benevolent, who are caretakers of the natural treasures hidden in the earth and tree roots.

Ananta: Incarnation of Vishnu or the snake Vishnu lies on, more commonly known as Shesha, also known as father of the Nagas. Nagas and Garuda are sworn enemies. Vasuki and Sagara are both one of the 8 great king of Nagas. Manasa is Vasuki's sister.

Asura: Group of power-seeking deities, sometimes considered sinful and materialistic. Opposed to the Devas.

Kinnara: Paradigmatic lover, a celestial musician, half-human and half-horse (India) or half-bird (south-east Asia).

Vritra: Asura and also a serpent or dragon, the personification of drought and enemy of Indra.

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So we see that Suras in the Kubera world don't really correspond with the mythology, but we do see some interesting ties like the relation between Garudas and Vishnu and how Garudas and Nagas are indeed enemies in Hindu mythology. What I'm also curious about is who exactly are the two other Gods of Origin. It seems that Vishnu and Shiva were originally in the human calendar system, so Gods of Origin can also be in the calendar. To me, it seems Brahma and Kali are good candidates. Note how Kali created the Sword of Regression to seal the regenerative powers of Gods and Suras (though it didn't work against Shiva). Yuta can use this sword, and we know Leez will take possession of this sword. Her true opponent probably isn't Gandharva and Maruna.

In hindu mythology, Kali is out to destroy worlds, and since Yuta can use her sword there may be a link between Kali and the Clan of Chaos. I wouldn't be surprised if the Clan of Chaos is out to destroy the world or something, and Leez' ultimate mission is to stop it, and perhaps the other Suras there are just pawns to get her moving and to get her some practice? D: (how depressing)

By the way, Ran is funny. From what I could figure out, he thinks that:
1. Asha is a guy
2. Ran's childhood crush Rana has a crush on Asha
3. Leez is Asha's girlfriend
4. So Ran decides to help Rana by checking up her "opponent." So far he's concluded that Asha's a mean scary guy who doesn't care about whether the face looks nice or not as long as there's boobs. x'D
In the meantime, because Ran is always worried for the safety of Leez and Yuta, and because he's afraid they'd be cold, Asha and Leez interpreted that as Ran being scared and cold and made fun of him! At one point Ran got mad and declared that he'll take everything off to show that he's not cold at all, only to be glared at by Asha (he concludes that it was stupid of him to declare that he'd strip in front of Asha's girlfriend, ahahaha!)

Edited by Mizura, 10 December 2011 - 06:39 PM.

[Mizura]

I spent quite some time last week to finish this. I love this series, the way the characters are inter-connected is just so complicated. xD

Just completed! Spoilers:
Kubera Relationship Chart

I'm still missing a few arrows, but I think the chart is messy enough. :S Anyway, a person who has no idea what this series is about will not understand this chart at all. xD I think it's more to show how awesome the relations are. Hoho!

Edit: Now in the first post.

Edited by Mizura, 16 April 2012 - 10:54 AM.

[Ivy]

The charter is great! It's really helpful to understand the relationships among the characters.

[Mizura]

Okay, as some of you may notice I've done a major overhaul of this thread. The major information is in my first 3 posts of this thread. The other posts are blabla, so I've left them as they were.

Content-wise, I've made a few updates to Current and Past events.

Spoiler

In particular, we now know that Ananta died in fact before D873, as Vasuki had already taken female form by then (he only did so to avoid the matter of succession after Ananta died). A flashback in Chapter 84 suggests that in fact, his death may be related to God Kubera and the Power of the Name.

The fact that this occured before the Garuda siblings were separate is significant, as they were separated specifically to hide the Power of the Name. It is currently unknown how they got their hands on it, and whether God Kubera is aware that they hid it for a while.

Edited by Mizura, 16 April 2012 - 11:02 AM.

[aeonstorm]

so the name kubera is completely leez's now, am curious as to what that makes her (demigod, dormant new god? etc) and what sort of potential she possesses.

and i find it very suspicious that leez was born at the same time as NO CATACLYSM was it somehow caused by the birth of a human with a gods name?

[bumblebee310]

that's quite a helpful chart!

and speaking of relationships, I'm kinda excited on the Leez-Yuta development that might[?] come... If that was really the two of them back in the prologue

[Mizura]

Glad you found the chart helpful! It's missing a few arrows, I should update it...

Spoiler

Namely:
- Taksaka and Visnu are friends
- Kasak and Kalavinka are friends
- Kasak's mother is Ian Rajof, a quarter, who initially wanted to get revenge against Taksaka because she thought he destroyed her village. In fact, the one who did destroy her village is Utpala, who used to be close to Taksaka and was in love with him and started impersonating him causing trouble to get his attention.
- Kinnara and Vritra appear to be together (lovers?)
- Airavata is the mother of Shess. It's quite possible that since Kinnara is hanging out with Vritra, Airavata is the one stuck taking care of the rest of the clan.
- Both Airavata and Shess knew Taksaka already, and Shess likely knew Kasak from before too.
- Sagara is very likely to be the mother of Riagara (father: Vasuki), Pingara (father: Manasvin) and Cloche + Clophe (father: unidentified Rakshasa of Water + Light attributes). This is based on attributes. This parenthood hasn't been explicitly stated, but it's likely based on their inherited attributes, and Currygom didn't reveal that Shess is Airavata's son until the novel either.

I could also add the earrings in there (Visnu -> Taksaka -> Kasak -> Yuta), but damn it's hard fitting all those arrows into that chart, Kubera relationships are complicated... D:

About Leez, her role isn't clear yet, but I do suspect she might become immortal. After all, God Kubera said that she won't be allowed to die unless he says so. Leez wouldn't have such a hard time if she can just wait to die of old age.

As for whether her birth Caused the N0 Cataclysm, I'm not sure if it was the cause. There is a lot of mystery surrounding her name, because think about it: even though God Kubera himself is one of the major Gods, he's not a Primeval God who can change the rules of the entire Universe. So, his name Shouldn't be holding that much disruptive power, either. But, the reason he lost the name may be holding some clues.

Edited by Mizura, 18 April 2012 - 02:54 AM.

[Myki]

Wow, such impressive work! I don't think I'd have the patience to do what you've done Mizura! I have the Naver app on my iPad, and there are so many manhwa, that are either untranslated or, like Kubera, way behind. But, I find the whole scrolling art style fascinating. Like manga, the Asian POV makes everything seem fresh and exciting.
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[Mizura]

Glad you found it useful! A lot of other people are also contributing to providing more information, like those doing the hard and tedious job of filling up the wiki. Compared to that, I consider what I do to be more for fun. >.>;;

Speaking of fun stuff:

Spoiler

.... whoa. The recent chapter of the finite made me realize a bunch of things. For starters, Nard Lehn there is Very likely Ran Sairofe's grandfather, the timeline fits:
- Ran is 36 and has an older brother, Lutz. Let's say his brother is 46.
- Let's Ran's mother had her first son when she was at least 20 physically, so she was born 20 x 4 +46 = at least 126 years ago. The finite occurred 142 years ago, and Kasak was born 132 years ago. So Ran's grandmother probably met Nard Lehn during the time of the finite. Now, Nastika apparently show very little interest in humans. From here the logical deduction is: Ran's grandmother showed up in the first place because Taksaka was there.

Taksaka was confused as to why Utpala would destroy Ian's village. But if we look further enough, the destruction of Ian's village resulted in 2 characters that were important to the story:
- Kasak Rajof, who will at least meet Yuta twice
- Ran Sairofe, who joined Leez' party.

Big coincidence huh? .... but wait, Visnu can see the future. This is not a coincidence at all. From there I made this plotline chart (also added it to the first post):



... whoa, I don't know about you, but the structure of the story suddenly became much clearer to me after I made that.

Kubera is like a giant chess game:
- By players who can see the future, as well as the deepest desires and subconscious of the living
- Occuring over several generations
- Making use of the feelings most important to the characters (love, family, friendship etc.)

A lot of the things we see as coincidence are actually pieces planned several generations in advance. I'm sure of it: Visnu KNEW that he'd disappear, so he made sure to place characters in advance. And they're very powerful pieces:
- Kasak is the son of the #2 of the Vritra clan
- Ran is the grandson of either Airavata (#2 of the Kinnara clan) or the #3 of the Yaksha clan (currently King)
- Someone probably "saw" in advance that Yuta would get a crush on Leez, and thus just had them be in the same general location, knowing that they'd start traveling together then.

God Kubera is playing a similar game of manipulation. Though he can't use his insight against Nastika, he knows their weaknesses well enough to manipulate them regardless. I think he even knew that Sagara would go overboard, causing Agni to come back, as Agni himself will probably be a pawn for later.

Another thing that puzzled me until now in the story is why both Maruna and Yuta don't seem too surprised by God Kubera's presence when the Garuda siblings are responsible for hiding his name in the first place. Looking at the chart, it occured to me that perhaps God Kubera was the one who entrusted it to them in the first place. Rather, he had Visnu entrust it to them. Perhaps after what he did, he could no longer look after the name himself, so instead, he had Visnu come up with a plan. Visnu's plan was to hide it with the Garuda siblings, and have each sibling entrusted to some of the most powerful beings in existence: the King of the Gandharva clan, the #2 of the Yaksha clan and Visnu himself. That way, the name would be safe.

However, something happened, and the Power of the Name was lost again. That may have been the cause or the result of the N0 Cataclysm. As a result, Leez came into possession of the Name. Thus, God Kubera showed up again, basically ordering Gandharva and Maruna to recover his name again for him since they were unable to look after it in his place. Somehow, though, he may have decided that Leez was suitable to hold it instead.

This is all speculation, but it makes some sense. On the other hand, a lot of things still Don't make sense. Why will Leez be pitted against the Suras? How much of the future did God Kubera, Visnu and whoever else is playing this game see? This is in fact a very cruel game. Instead of something like fame and honor, the things most dear to the characters are being used against them. In fact, one horrible realization I had was that perhaps, Visnu knew that Varuna would not create an ocean, and like God Kubera, he told that to Gandharva in order to give him false hope, so that driven into a corner, he'd lose his mind and come to Willarv, thus playing out the current events.

You have to feel sorry for the Suras, who are strong but who can't see the future and are thus being manipulated.

... by the way, poor Ran. It was perhaps his destiny to constantly fail the graduation exam and thus end up as the perfect victim for Asha's group. D:

Ah, finally updated the Relationship chart (oh wow, so glad to get that out of the way).

Edited by Mizura, 25 April 2012 - 03:33 PM.

[Jirachier]

Mizura, how did you figure out Yuta is at least 300 years old ? And more importantly, Ananta died after Yuta's birth for sure ?

[Mizura]

Sorry, the stuff here is super old, so some of it isn't accurate. Back then, nobody knew when Ananta had died. xP

For Yuta however, in Chapter 49, Yuta is telling Maruna that he's envious of him for being perfect, at which point Maruna retorts that he's been stuck in 2nd stage for 700 years. In Chapter 38, Urvasi makes fun of Maruna for not growing to 4th stage even after 1000 years. I had deduced this from the webtoon, but his blog profile outright states that he's at least 300 years-old.

[Pandorally]

Glad you found it useful! A lot of other people are also contributing to providing more information, like those doing the hard and tedious job of filling up the wiki. Compared to that, I consider what I do to be more for fun. >.>;;

Speaking of fun stuff:

Spoiler

.... whoa. The recent chapter of the finite made me realize a bunch of things. For starters, Nard Lehn there is Very likely Ran Sairofe's grandfather, the timeline fits:
- Ran is 36 and has an older brother, Lutz. Let's say his brother is 46.
- Let's Ran's mother had her first son when she was at least 20 physically, so she was born 20 x 4 +46 = at least 126 years ago. The finite occurred 142 years ago, and Kasak was born 132 years ago. So Ran's grandmother probably met Nard Lehn during the time of the finite. Now, Nastika apparently show very little interest in humans. From here the logical deduction is: Ran's grandmother showed up in the first place because Taksaka was there.

Taksaka was confused as to why Utpala would destroy Ian's village. But if we look further enough, the destruction of Ian's village resulted in 2 characters that were important to the story:
- Kasak Rajof, who will at least meet Yuta twice
- Ran Sairofe, who joined Leez' party.

Big coincidence huh? .... but wait, Visnu can see the future. This is not a coincidence at all. From there I made this plotline chart (also added it to the first post):



... whoa, I don't know about you, but the structure of the story suddenly became much clearer to me after I made that.

Kubera is like a giant chess game:
- By players who can see the future, as well as the deepest desires and subconscious of the living
- Occuring over several generations
- Making use of the feelings most important to the characters (love, family, friendship etc.)

A lot of the things we see as coincidence are actually pieces planned several generations in advance. I'm sure of it: Visnu KNEW that he'd disappear, so he made sure to place characters in advance. And they're very powerful pieces:
- Kasak is the son of the #2 of the Vritra clan
- Ran is the grandson of either Airavata (#2 of the Kinnara clan) or the #3 of the Yaksha clan (currently King)
- Someone probably "saw" in advance that Yuta would get a crush on Leez, and thus just had them be in the same general location, knowing that they'd start traveling together then.

God Kubera is playing a similar game of manipulation. Though he can't use his insight against Nastika, he knows their weaknesses well enough to manipulate them regardless. I think he even knew that Sagara would go overboard, causing Agni to come back, as Agni himself will probably be a pawn for later.

Another thing that puzzled me until now in the story is why both Maruna and Yuta don't seem too surprised by God Kubera's presence when the Garuda siblings are responsible for hiding his name in the first place. Looking at the chart, it occured to me that perhaps God Kubera was the one who entrusted it to them in the first place. Rather, he had Visnu entrust it to them. Perhaps after what he did, he could no longer look after the name himself, so instead, he had Visnu come up with a plan. Visnu's plan was to hide it with the Garuda siblings, and have each sibling entrusted to some of the most powerful beings in existence: the King of the Gandharva clan, the #2 of the Yaksha clan and Visnu himself. That way, the name would be safe.

However, something happened, and the Power of the Name was lost again. That may have been the cause or the result of the N0 Cataclysm. As a result, Leez came into possession of the Name. Thus, God Kubera showed up again, basically ordering Gandharva and Maruna to recover his name again for him since they were unable to look after it in his place. Somehow, though, he may have decided that Leez was suitable to hold it instead.

This is all speculation, but it makes some sense. On the other hand, a lot of things still Don't make sense. Why will Leez be pitted against the Suras? How much of the future did God Kubera, Visnu and whoever else is playing this game see? This is in fact a very cruel game. Instead of something like fame and honor, the things most dear to the characters are being used against them. In fact, one horrible realization I had was that perhaps, Visnu knew that Varuna would not create an ocean, and like God Kubera, he told that to Gandharva in order to give him false hope, so that driven into a corner, he'd lose his mind and come to Willarv, thus playing out the current events.

You have to feel sorry for the Suras, who are strong but who can't see the future and are thus being manipulated.

... by the way, poor Ran. It was perhaps his destiny to constantly fail the graduation exam and thus end up as the perfect victim for Asha's group. D:

 

 

so...

 

Major Chessmaster

1. Visnu

2. Kali (she must've had a reason to have a son)

3. Shiva (there must be a reason he dissapeared.)

 

Chessmaster

1. God Kubera

 

Major Player

1. Asha

2. Saha

3. Sagara & co

4. Claude

5. Rao Leez (yes, I suspect he is)

6. Maruna

 

Powerful Pawn

1.Leez

2.Yuta

3.Gandharva

4.Ran

5.Kasak

 

 

....Good Grief, Leez need all the luck she can.