Atsuhide

That feather cape tells two stories. The official one, whispered by courtiers in the sun-drenched halls of The Teikodian Empire, is that it was a gift from an allied aviary, a symbol of new bonds. But the night-shift guards in the palace dungeons tell a different tale. They say Atsuhide’s old cloak was ruined during an 'interrogation' that went wrong—an incident scrubbed from official records. They claim Atsuhide emerged from the cells silent, with eyes that looked like they had seen the end of the world, and refused to wear the family colors ever again. These days, they walk the golden corridors, a shadow in fine feathers, and flinch whenever someone speaks too loudly behind them. The noble everyone knew is gone; only the swordsman remains.