Isla Yura's Cult is an organization from Jun Mochizuki's Pandora Hearts. It is a minor religious group or cult led by Isla Yura, the son of the most powerful family in the Barma Homeland. The cult is centered around worshipping the Abyss and its otherworldly power, believing that the dimension is the origin of everything in their world and the solution to all their suffering.
It is discovered that Isla Yura and his cult are in possession of a Stone Seal that binds the soul of Glen Baskerville. As his followers intend to find and destroy the Seal to free their master, Pandora's goal is to be the first to obtain it and protect it from harm. Thus, Oz Vessalius and his friends are tasked with using Isla Yura and his cult as a foothold to get to the Stone Seal.
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It was by mere chance that Isla Yura came to own the mansion housing the Stone Seal. It had belonged to the mage from Jack Vessalius's time period who was tasked with protecting the Seal, but lost sight of his duties and began pursuing the incredible power of the Abyss. Isla Yura discovered the mage's research on the Abyss and became obsessed, similarly lusting for that knowledge and power, and his dream becomes to recreate the Tragedy of Sablier where the Abyss's power was felt the most strongly.
It is to this end that Isla Yura did everything that he'd done. He created his cult to increase his political power, inviting Bernice Nightray to join after the first Headhunter incident nearly drove her mad with grief. He approached Duke Bernard Nightray and offered to help with the Nightray Dukedom's Chain research, and together the two would spread the Illegal Contract of the Chain Humpty Dumpty among the orphans of the House of Fianna, with the Chain's nucleus being Bernard's own son Elliot. And finally Isla Yura carefully manipulates Oz Vessalius, his friends, and Pandora to come to his mansion.
All in service of Isla Yura having the perfect setting, players, and conditions for his "Feast"—the second coming of the Tragedy of Sablier.
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History[]
Isla Yura's Cult is made up of many wealthy people who had been manipulated into believing Isla Yura's word. He has disillusioned all of them into believing that The Abyss is a Paradise and that by following his lead, they can bring themselves and the entirety of his country into this Paradise, though Yura himself knows that The Abyss is a prison of danger and chaos and he is only telling them what they want to hear so he can receive the donations that the members are required to produce.
Some time after the assassinations of Fred, Claude and Ernest Nightray, Isla Yura, being in the country at the time, saw Duchess Nightray as a wreck. She was beginning to lose her sanity as she mourned the loss of her sons, so Isla Yura told her that his Cult's goal is to plunge the world into The Abyss so everyone can enjoy what it has to offer them, a Paradise where families can reunite with their lost loved ones, like Fred, Claude and Ernest. Even though Duchess Nightray was a part of Pandora, her current state lead her to believe every word Isla Yura had said, and so she joined him. Isla Yura had such a good grip of Duchess Nightray that he was able to make her believe that he was right and that the arguments raised by Duke Nightray were wrong.
Isla Yura had also recently come into partnership with the Nightrays over at the House of Fianna, where he was to overlook the experimentation on Abyss-sensitive Orphans. Humpty Dumpty was a chain which in particular stuck out to Isla Yura. Yura knew of Eliot Nightray's contract to Humpty Dumpty and used the close connection to contract the Orphans as well. Yura tricked the Orphans into believing that the special potion that hthey had been given would banish all their bad memories after drinking it. This was in fact Humpty Dumpty's blood, and using a "song" that Yura had made for the children, they uttered Humpty Dumpty's name and completed an illegal contract.
Isla Yura could now manipulate the Orphans through Humpty Dumpty, and upon visiting Duchess Nightray and Rufus Barma, Yura was given the perfect situation to complete his goal of casting his country into the Abyss. Yura, being a fan of Jack Vessalius, invited Oz Vessalius to his estate to complete his Coming of Age Ceremony, which was an excuse for Pandora to look for the Third Seal of Glen Baskerville that Yura was known to have.
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The Feast Arc[]
Befrore the Ceremony's start, Yura prepared the Seal for his Ceremony of recreating the Tragedy of Sablier by drawing the necessary symbols and readying the area. The Orphans were also brought to the Ceremony, posing as actors in a play the had prepared.
Part way through the ceremony Cult members lead the Orphans through the mansion to start sacrificing the guests by cutting off their heads. Chaos ensued and The Cult members set the mansion on fire as another key part of the ceremony.
Yura kidnapped Alice after she and Oz were brought to the Seal by Phillipe and Leo after he had left Vanessa and Eliot. He planned to sacrifice both in his ceremony at exactly midnight, due to Yura knowing Alice was the same Alice from 100 years ago and for Leo's connection to Oz.
Oz, Eliot, Vincent and Echo later stormed the Seal Area, as Oz was meant to for his role as Jack. Oz went insane from his hatred of Yura and for what he's done to Alice and so he summons the power of B-Rabbit through the scythe and the chains, and Oz begins to kill every member of Isla Yura's Cult and every visible Humpty Dumpty, nullifying at least 3 contracts, one of which was Phillipe's.
The Setup for the Second Tragedy
Oz's rampage was stopped by Alice, which lead to Yura's last ditch effort to follow through with his ceremony, as Yura went to stab and shatter The Seal. Jack projects himself through Oz and sends one of B-Rabbit's Chains through Yura, which stops him from shattering The Seal, then Jack picks up a sword and prepares to stab Yura, whether or not he did is unknown.
Meanwhile, Duchess Nightray was just about to sacrifice Leo, but the fact that Leo's life was in danger caused Eliot's Humpty Dumpty to emerge and make Eliot fatally wound his mother. Humpty Dumpty then proceeded to decapitate her leading to Eliot's discovery of himself being the Head Hunter.
Powers and Abilities[]
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Appearances[]
- Retrace XLVII: Unbirthday
- Retrace XLVIII: Isla Yura
- Retrace XLIX: Night in gale
- Retrace LI: Lily&Reim
- Retrace LII: Bloody Rites
- Retrace LIII: Humpty Dumpty Sat On A Wall
- Retrace LIV: Blank Smile
- Retrace LV: Back To Back
- Retrace LVI: Rabbit Eyes
- Retrace LVII: Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
- Retrace LIX: Couldn't put Humpty together again
- Retrace LX: Egg Shell
- Retrace LXI: Demios
- Retrace LXIII: Purpose
Trivia[]
- The symbol used for the Cult is similar to the Rod of Asclepius used to symbolize medicine across the globe. Isla Yura's inspiration for the symbol of his Cult was the first part of the Guardians of the Sealing Stones' pledge, "A snake coiled around a silver stake."