Kroha

Kroha is a famous half of Vritra heritage that lived on the planet Taitalika.

Appearance

Human Form

In D997, Kroha appears to be an old man with blond hairs, a blond beard and blue eyes. He has four curved horns on his head. He is almost 300 years old and so, because he is a half, he appears to be in his 70s. He wars a long black cape with a hood.

Sura Form

In his sura form, Kroha is a white dragon with yellow hairs and four horns.

Personality

Surprisingly, while being of Vritra heritage, Kroha seems to show a considerable amount of emotion. He often demonstrates compassion even towards his enemies and wants to abolish the human sacrifice tradition in Taitalika. He seems to genuinely care for the royal children he raises, offering to help Rana escape several times, with the Taitalika scholar stating that Kroha raised him like he was his own son.

He has shown many selfless traits, as he faced the Time Shedding for Rana and he was willing to sacrifice his own lifespan in order to protect Taitalika. He was concerned for Rao, worried a promising fighter could get into trouble by being seen with him.

Skills and Abilities

As a Vritra half, Kroha can take sura form and use a wide panel of transcendentals. Because he is older than 100, he has the abilities of a 5th stage Rakshasa. He was shown to be strong enough to face 'Time', and was able to use some of his lifespan to burry it.

Dragon Breath: His breath transcendental has light attribute and paralyses its targets. Its color is a luminous white and yellow.

Plot

History

Kroha was 150 years old in D873 and the oldest half-dragon in existence.^[1]

In D998, Kroha is a retired General serving the royal family. He has loyally worked as a General for 100 years. ^[2]

Season 2

Chapter 15 : The Weapon of a God

(2) Leez and Yuta get to see a picture of Kroha when they visit the sura exhibition in Kalibloom. The picture was taken on Taitalika in approximately D820.

Season 3

Chapter 53 : Ananta

(1)(2) Kroha is seen escorting Rana Reimia to the Temple of Time on the last day of D997. At their arrival at the temple, Kroha questions Rana on whether she should run away, as the temple is dangerous and she might die, but the young girl refuses as there is no one to replace her. As Rana wonders who is the owner of the temple, Kroha tells her not to limit her thinking to the primeval gods, and that the temple might not belong to a god at all. Kroha reveals that Nastikas used to be viewed as evil gods by scholars, and temples were built in their names. He then realizes this is heretic knowledge he shouldn't share with someone from the royal family, to Rana's discontent.

He worries as Rana talks about the royal family being nothing but sacrificial material, once again offering her to escape as she is young and not a real princess anyway. As Rana refuses, Kroha leaves her alone and returns to the castle. There, he is questioned by a scholar who asks him how it felt to bring Rana to the temple, as Kroha is fond of the young royals as they remind him of his children he was separated from long ago. The scholar then admits that he wonders if a creature such as Kroha can feel guilt. Later, as the Time Snake appears and attacks Rana, Kroha returns and protects her begging the entity to spare her as she is young and innocent.

(3) 'Time' realizes that Rana is not the true sacrifice, and is angered that they tried to deceive him with a fake sacrifice. Kroha approaches 'Time' stating he understand it's anger, but that the sacrifice of the royal family is meaningless and they do not hold memories of their previous lives, and 'Time' is not appeased by these meaningless sacrifices either. 'Time' gets angrier, forcing Kroha to take on Sura Form to block the attack, begging the being to return to their original nature. To stop 'Time', Kroha uses up some of his lifespan to burry it in the hopes of buying some peace for Taitalika. He then regains human form, before picking Rana up and telling her they must now flee Taitalika, telling her the truth of what the royal family had done a thousand years ago.

(23) Kroha reveals that the 'Time' they met is often referred to as the Shedding, with the sculptures around the temple representing it. He further reveals that the royal family had received resurrection as a reward from the gods for rejecting fiendish magic for all humanity, however, most died young used as sacrifices to appease the Shedding. Kroha reveals this is often the case, the 'transcendental ones' often play tricks where those weaker than them get punished.

(26) As Maruna throws Rao through a time portal, he lands in front of Kroha and Parr in D988. Kroha is surprised to see Rao as it was said he had been sent on a mission recently.

(27) With Rao's arrival, Ran who was hiding is discovered, and Kroha comments on the number of people in the group growing. Parr gets worried that the dragon half will leave Rao behind, so she insists that he must come along. Kroha agrees, but warns them that his own situation is precarious so they should be careful about appearing as a party, and the group heads towards the water channel.

As the entrances of the water channels on Taitalika can only be used by a single person a month, Kroha ensures that Rana is given the easiest one while he agrees to take a long and dangerous route so he can meet her halfway. Excitedly Rana thanks him and calls him 'Gramps' at the discomfort of the halves around them, Kroha states that it does not bother him but Rana apologizes. As she prepares to enter the water channel, Kroha encourages her and promises to meet up with her soon before parting ways. Before the others have time to enter the water channels, the scholar from Taitalika's castle arrives with an army of dragons asking for the location of the sacrifice.

(28) Kroha and the scholar begin debating as Kroha states he is simply a retired general going to visit is family on Willarv and that if the sacrifice ran away he is not responsible. He continues by stating that the disaster could be better prevented by offering a real sacrifice instead of chasing a fake one with their whereabouts unknown, with Kroha accusing the scholar of being a royal family member raising fake sacrifices to protect his own life. In response, the scholar decrees that all halves present will be executed, with the dragons preparing to breathe fire. Kroha takes sura form to stop them, but the scholar uses one of Yaksha's bones to weaken him.

(29) Rao steps in a breaks Yaksha's bone, allowing Kroha to regain his strength. He uses a low output of his breath to avoid killing the humans and dragons. The scholar taunts them, thinking that there is no way for Kroha and Rao to escape from this mess, to which Kroha disagrees as he has not killed anyone here.

The scholar proceeds to stab himself to make it look like someone had been killed. Kroha quickly reaches out to him stating that he would take him to a doctor, however, as he reaches him the scholar uses Bhavati Yama on him, exchanging their bodies. The scholar wishes to use Kroha sura form to attack the halves around him, but Raltara steps in a defeats him using latent force. Meanwhile, as the mortal human body is fatally wounded, Kroha passes out in the scholar's body thinking back to younger versions of himself and the young scholar.

Notes

• Praul Ajes is rumored to be his son, but denies it.^[3]

• It has been theorised that his dad was the Vritra Nastika accompanying Kadru at the beginning of the universe who later had a human lover and died after invading the god's realm after her death. Indeed, this Nastika had curved horns and his only emotion left was compassion. However, Currygom refuted this theory in a blogpost. ^[4]

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