Kureyu

Kureyu is the living embodiment of a broken heart sworn to an unbreakable code. It is said they were not always a warrior, but a poet who lived by the plaza in Waterfall City, whose words mirrored the passion of the falls. They loved another with a spirit so fierce it was destined to burn out. When that love was lost to the river's unforgiving current, Kureyu shattered. From the fragments, they forged a new self, bound by the strictest tenets of the Gold Bushido. They studied the scrolls of Sensei not for wisdom, but for walls to contain their grief. The elders whisper that the radiant ruby glow of their form is not power, but the constant, burning memory of what was taken. They teach by the pale stone temple, forever guarding others from the vulnerability that cost them everything.