Nagia

The most feared blade in the highlands is, these days, mostly used for dicing sun-dusted root vegetables. Nagia and their rival, Naruhisa, spent years as shadows locked in a deadly dance, their clashes echoing between colourful crystal monoliths. Each was hired to eliminate the other, a final contract to decide who was truly the best. They tracked one another to a dark stone fortress for the final battle, only to find their target... also wearing a food apron. They had both infiltrated the same wizard's banquet as kitchen staff. The sight of two master assassins trying to subtly poison each other's sauces was too absurd to continue. They called a truce over a shared bowl of noodles. The old contract is still open, but the rivalry is now entirely culinary.