Yama Garan

Yama Garan
Shadow Hearts: Covenant
HP	5100
MP	600
Element	Dark
Weight	Light
Abilities
Mind Assault Poison Rock Strike Hail Crash Red Cradle Gale Spike Evil Summoning Bright Banish
Location	Purgatory
Immunities
Poison Deadly Poison Paralysis Seal Petrify Slow Delay Instant Death HP Down P-ATK Down Sp-ATK Down P-DEF Down Sp-DEF Down Evade Down Magic Immunity
EXP Gained	32500
Cash	45000
Souls Gained	250
Item Drops	Marbas Crest Poison
NOTE	Garan is Immune to Magic

Garan's transformed form in Shadow Hearts: Covenant. He is fought in the second and final forced trip to Purgatory and a spectral form of him is fought in a sidequest later in the game.

Bestiary Entry

Garan possessed with the awesome power of Yama, King of Demons. This radical transformation of Garan's can only exist inside the boundary.

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Etymology

Tibetan depiction of Yama - in his aspect as Protector.

Yamarāja (also as "Yama" - "-rāja" is an honourific suffix denoting "king", or "lord") is the demigod of death, in early Hinduism, where he is charged with punishing the sinful.

Some tales state that he was the first man ever to die, while others maintain that he has always been a god of death.

Despite his origins in Hindu myth, his worship and customs spread across Asia, where he perfoms a similar role - directing souls to Naraka (Buddhist purgatory) to be punished, or renewed in the cycle of Karma.

He also, however, is a protector figure, and deliverer of justice in his aspect of a Dharmapala ("Wrathful God").