Hohona

The bamboo merchants in The Great Panda City will tell you Hohona’s shades were a gift from the Panda Council, a tool to focus their power. This is a kind lie. The truth is etched in the scar beneath the dark lenses. Hohona was a light channeler whose warmth was their greatest gift, until a surge of grief made it a weapon. The resulting blast of pure energy left them marked and their home scorched. They forged the shades themself from obsidian and regret, a dam to hold back the sun raging within. In self-imposed exile, they learned to navigate by the stars, finding a kindred spirit in the tales of Sutaraito. The shades are not a mask; they are a cage for a power that loves too fiercely.