Taneyo

Don't ask about the sabre unless you want a two-hour lecture on its merits as a vegetable chopper, their sibling Rakuko often warns visitors. "They once challenged a river for flowing with 'insufficient discipline.'" Taneyo was a prodigious student of an ancient sword style, so focused they considered blinking a moral failure. Their fall from grace came not in battle, but at a diplomatic dinner, where they challenged a dignitary to a duel of honor over the improper slicing of a pickled radish. After the deeply embarrassing skirmish, they retreated to The Heart of the Forest to meditate on their failure. Instead, they discovered cooking. They found their true calling applying warrior-level intensity to perfecting noodle broth, their quest for redemption now smelling faintly of garlic and ginger.