Tatsuru

The lucky plant that grows from Tatsuru's brow is not their own. It is a debt. Legend in The Crystal Highlands of Armaria speaks of a merchant who tried to barter with mortality itself, using forbidden crystal resonance to shatter the cycle of life and death. The price was their soul, which splintered into dust, leaving only a hollow vessel. They would have faded into nothingness, a ghost haunting the monoliths, had Raitarou not found them. Instead of a sword, Raitarou offered a seed, a living thing to anchor the fading spirit. That seed sprouted, binding Tatsuru to the world. They still wear the formal attire of their past life, but the mask hides the crystalline scars of their failure, forever a merchant who made the worst trade imaginable.