Ga'ran Sigatar Khura'in

Garan Shigataal Khura'in was the former Queen of the Kingdom of Khura'in, the current wife of Inga Karukul Khura'in, and the aunt of Rayfa Padma Khura'in. Unlike most of her family, she doesn't have spiritual powers; a fact which she hides to keep her rule legitimate.

The fire

 * Main article: Assassination Attempt of Amara Shigataal Khura'in

Prior to Amara Shigataal Khura'in's assassination attempt, Garan served as a prosecutor and the Khura'in Minister of Justice while her sister, Amara, ruled as Queen of Khura'in. This caused her to develop a deep jealousy and towards her sister, culminating into a plan to replace her sister and discredit all defense attorneys, effectively giving her and her loyal Ministry of Justice absolute power over Khura'in's legal system.

She set her plan into motion, starting a fire at the Amara's residence during Sousuke Odoroki's performance. To the public, this seemingly killed Amara, allowing Garan to take her place as queen. However, the truth of the matter is that Amara survived, and Garan blackmailed Amara into staying hidden and help her when needed, using Amara's daughter's, Rayfa, safety. In the process, defense attorney and Amara's husband Druk Sahdmadhi was accused of causing the fire. Garan prosecuted the case, causing an unjust guilty verdict, leading Druk, his son Nahyuta Sahdmadhi and foster son Apollo Justice to go into hiding, and eventually causing a widespread discrediting of defense attorneys, leading to the occupation to become dangerous and borderline illegal via the Defense Culpability Act.

The foreign attorney

 * Main article: Turnabout Ritual

For the next twenty-three years, Garan ruled over the country, with Amara taking her place when spiritual powers are needed.

Downfall

 * Main article: Turnabout Revolution

Personality
When first encountered, Garan seems to be a wise, kindly queen, if a bit rigid and cold towards defense attorneys, which she pretends to be because of her sister's death at the hands of one. In reality, she only dislikes lawyers because of the obstacle they present between her and greater power. She is a vain, conniving, and utterly amoral bully who cannot resist flaunting her power and mocking her opponents, especially when serving as a prosecutor. She has no sense of ethics when winning a case or shoring up her political influence, even resorting to manipulating her sister into hiding or entering a loveless marriage (and later murdering) Inga to tighten her stranglehold on her country. She is also somewhat cowardly, immediately losing her nerve when she realized she was not able to fake being able to summon the Holy Mother and actively begging Rayfa (to whom she had spitefully revealed that she was not her real mother and only raised her as a way to avoid Amara's suspicions) to "help her mother" (to which Rayfa angrily replied she was a fraud in more than one way).

Appearance
In her duties as Queen, she seemed to dress with the intention of seeming regal and harmless. Garan wore a heavy white robe with red and gold trim, along with a golden ministerial hat and her hair styled in extremely tight buns. As with her kindly persona, this was a mask-underneath her robes, she wore a far more revealing, skintight purple dress and a necklace of Magatamas, with a bindi head jewel, large hair clips and mascara to give herself a seemingly perpetual sneer. When removing her royal robes to reveal her dress, she would also undo her buns, allowing her hair to fan out to into stiff coils and bangs. She grew her nails long and painted red, and carried a large red and purple fan, as well as carried around a book about Khura'inese law that she would slam the desk with as a prosecutor.

Name

 * "Garan" most likely comes from 伽藍 (Japanese: Garan, from Chinese: Jiā Lán), which is short for 僧伽藍摩 (Japanese: Sōgyaranma, from Chinese: Sēng Jiā Lán Mó), which comes from Sanskrit सँघाराम (saṁghārāma) meaning "temple".

Trivia

 * Garan uses the unique speech bubble "Hirefuse!" (ひれ伏せ！), which roughly translates to "Bow down!" This fits her status as the Khura'inese queen and arrogant personality.