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Title: Izanami's Spite
Author: ...
A powerful mage in life
and a lich in death, Kana
Kurokawa wished to avoid
his own destruction and
decay. He became
obsessed with the story
of Izanagi and Izanami.
In the story, Izanagi and Izanami created the islands of Tokuno and everything contained on the islands. During this creation, Izanimi gave birth to fire and died from the burns. Izanagi, tormented by grief, traveled into the underworld to see her. Sadly, she had already eaten the food of the underworld and could not return normally. Izanagi desired to sneak her out while she was sleeping, but when he light a torch of hair to look at her, he saw she was rotting and twisted. Crying out in shock, he fled the waking Izanami. Unable to capture her fleeing husband, filled with rage and shame, Izanami promised she would kill a thousand of Izanagi’s people every day. In reply, he promised to give life to a thousand and a half.
Kurokawa took this story to heart, believing his first death and slow decay were Izanami’s hand at work. He created several powerful magical items to prevent his destruction. With one experiment he toyed with the magics of time and prophecy, invoking a great spell “Kal Vas Wis Tym Sanct Corp” and binding the spell into a skull. The spell, roughly meaning “the summoning of great future knowledge to protect against death,” gave whoever looked into the skull’s eyes the ability to learn of a threat to their life and limb.
The item did not work entirely as the lich had planned. He had made a mistake, and the item was cursed. While knowledge of the future was learned, so also was a taste of that future manifested in the present. A taste of the valor, belonging to a samurai who was fated to fight against the lich materialized and struck the creature down. All others who have chosen willingly to look into the skull have faced similar fates. The skull came to be called “Izanami's Spite” because of this. Only one monk who guarded the skull ever escaped its magic unharmed. A thief at the temple who wished to escape in the chaos used the skull on the monk. The monk, wishing to protect his fellows, threw him will against dark spell, chanting “In Vas Zu An Tym.”
While the item's power may be fading with time, we do not know if it will ever be safe to use, so we protect it here hidden from all.
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