Warning: contains major spoilers for Wonder Girl #4!
The Amazons in DC Comics have a lengthy history and Yara Flor's story is just beginning as Wonder Girl #4 has now revealed the origin of Yara and explained more about the roots of a lost tribe. The third tribe of Amazons now officially has an origin.
DC's Amazons are known to have split into two major factions. There are the Amazons of Themyscira and those in Bana-Mighdall. However, the arrival of Yara Flor in DC's universe during Future State and Infinite Frontier introduced a third faction that lives in the actual Amazon in South America. Not much is known about them yet, but new details have been revealed about their history. Wonder Girl #4 comes from the creative team of Joëlle Jones, Adriana Melo, Jordie Bellaire, and Pat Brosseau.
In this issue, Yara's time training on Mount Olympus is revealed. The issue also presented a major choice that she will have to make, one which will impact every group of Amazons in the near future. Yara's decision may already be known, but the history of this lost tribe is likely going to be the driving factor for it. After all, she now knows who her mother is and where she came from. Yara Flor's mother has been revealed to be Aella - one of the Amazon's greatest ever generals. When the Amazons split into factions, Aella did not pledge herself to either side. Instead, she decided to explore man's world on her own. While doing so, she fell in love with a deity who is unnamed as of yet. In Brazil, a group of warrior women was drawn to Aella and they collectively formed their own tribe. This is a new lost Amazon tribe DC recently introduced - which Yara was seen leading in DC's Future State event. Aella eventually had a child with the deity: Yara. However, Yara previously had very little knowledge of her family history and lineage. She may very well be DC's newest demigod and therefore be immensely powerful, like Diana.
Aella first debuted in Wonder Woman #1 in 1987 and was created by Greg Potter and George Pérez. She has been seen in the DCEU and during her New Earth years, she died in the Amazon Civil War. She returned recently in Dark Nights: Death Metal The Last 52: War of the Multiverses #1, where her life story and death were recounted. This re-established her as a great Amazon general, though one with regrets who inspired Diana's life.
Now, Aella's story is being re-imagined, giving her more connections to DC's universe and tying her history together with the current canon. Aella may be one of DC's most important Amazons - especially now that her legacy includes Yara Flor as her daughter, a character who has the potential to be a future member of DC's Justice League, taking up the mantle of Wonder Woman alongside fellow Amazons Diana and Nubia.