Tae Katasung

Tae Katasung is the undefeated leader of Team Katasung, a name now synonymous with perfect cohesion and unshaken dominance in the Yuvaar Hunting Games. After early losses in youth leagues to the once-unbeaten champions of their era, Katasung has never again been defeated, nor lost a single team member in decades of elite-tier competition. Their team moves with precision that transcends instruction, often described as a living system rather than a group.

Katasung is never seen in hubs or circuits between games. They appear only to compete. Yet sightings across Geba, alone, in extreme climates, training with no gear but relay trackers and wraps, have been captured from afar. Snow peaks, desert storms, tide-broken cliffs: all witness to their silent preparations. It is said that when he stops moving, even the air waits for him to begin again.

The exact figure of Tae's wealth is unclear, but the massive realms of land he owns for training and family suggest he is close to Lux Notera. He publicly states he is not worth as much. If accurate, this would place him among the top ten wealthiest public individuals on Geba, though this represents a fraction of the private wealth held by those who operate in the underworld. Numbers at this scale are difficult for even the most wealthy citizens to comprehend.

His estate, like Lux's, was a gift from Yelidra Veykar, including staff housing and training halls. He did not ask for it. There is a running joke that Tae does not know his home is his. It is so vast that his staff and their families live there full-time, while he has never been found inside. Yelidra once tried assigning him security. Most could not keep up. Some were injured. Others died. She never tried again.

Lux and Tae speak mostly in transit and remain close despite their different worlds. Lux has never performed at a Yuvaar tournament Tae competed in. The reason remains unknown.

Lux once described their conversations: "I tell him, 'When are you going to slow down? We need more of you.' And he says, 'When someone does to me what I did to the last champion. Otherwise never. I will be defeated, or I will die to a creature. But if I am not defeated, it means I have not inspired enough minds and bodies to train hard to surpass me. If I am never defeated, that means I have ultimately failed where my predecessors were successful.' I want to tell him to slow down, but then I look at my own life and realize what a hypocrite I'd be. There's nothing I could give him. He already has everything I would offer, and he'd never use it anyway."

They have only been seen together once.

Together, they represent the twin ideals of Yelidra's world: Tae, the perfection of restraint. Lux, the perfection of expression. Both are living proof of her single law: worth is proven through obsession.