Atsuka

If a target of the Teikodian Empire were to see the world melt into screaming colors just before the end, they would know they were looking through Atsuka’s eyes. This is the last mercy the Empire offers its enemies: a final, beautiful, terrifying vision of their own life force unraveling. Atsuka was not always this way. They were once a mortal agent, sharp and silent, until a mission to capture a rogue spirit ended in a magical backlash that tore their soul from its moorings. They died, but did not pass on. In the echoing void, they met Yurei, another failed soul lingering in hatred. Yurei taught them not how to live, but how to haunt. The Empire found their body and now deploys it. They carry bamboo on their back, a fragmented memory of a forest they can no longer truly see.