Yuta/History

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History

Yuta is the son of Garuda and Kali and the only known child of a god. One of his earliest memories is of his mother, Kali, telling him she has to go and that she must leave him, her masterpiece. To fill the maternal void she was leaving behind, she created a stepmother, Taraka, to replace her. Taraka was the ideal mother who always put Yuta first and was willing to do anything for him. She was also granted immortality by Kali so that Yuta would always be able to see his "mother," even though they would never see each other again.^[1]

After Kali's departure, as a young Yuta slept in Taraka's arms, Garuda saw her presence as a sign that he was allowed to finally leave.^[2]

Taraka often referred to Yuta as her successor as head of the Chaos clan and encouraged him to eat as much as he wanted.

Sometime around the year D700 (300 years before the Cataclysm), Yuta cried and blamed his stepmother for killing his friend, a black-feathered Garuda clan sura. Taraka denied killing her, but told her son that he can believe whatever he wants.^[3] He did, in fact, eat his friend, but made himself forget. He then insisted that Taraka call him "Jatayu" (his Garuda friend's name).^[4] The original Jatayu's death has led to her sister Samphati's desire for revenge.^[5]

Not long after, Yuta ran away from Taraka and joined the Garuda clan under his new name. According to Taraka, Garuda ignored him and Vinata only cared for her own children.^[7] But Yuta learned and lived with his siblings Maruna and Kalavinka. When he was learning to fly, he felt embarrassed by his wings; it was Maruna who cheered Yuta on and convinced him that he might have been born of two clans, but he belonged to the Garuda clan.^[8]

The three siblings were separated by their father to hide the Power of the Name, but they promised to reunite one day. Garuda's best friends (Gandharva, Shuri, and Visnu) took them in, and raised and trained them. Yuta was left in Shuri's charge, to the envy of many suras. Due his large apetite and chaotic tendencies, he was feared in the Yaksha clan. When he ate a Garuda sura, Shuri was advised to kill him while he was still small and weak. She refused and suggested they give him more time, since he could not quite manage his chaos impulses yet.^[9] Shuri taught Yuta the "Way of a King" and her patient teachings formed and reinforced his self-control.

Shuri disappeared along with Visnu in N0 and Yuta was left stranded in the human realm on the planet Isholy. He traveled for an undetermined length of time from there to Willarv, where he met Leez and Asha in the year N15.