Aburiru

Aburiru pulled themself over the final gilded roof tile, high above the blinding gold of The Teikodian Empire. They sought not treasure but the edge of the world, a place the Emperor's maps insisted did not exist. At the spire's pinnacle, where the air was thin and sharp, they found Eirian—a being not of the earth but of the cosmos, channeling raw, silent energy. Legend claims Eirian showed Aburiru the true map: an endless tapestry of stars. When Aburiru descended, their lanterns, once dim, blazed with an impossible cosmic light. The patterns on their face were no longer mere paint, but a star-chart of worlds beyond reckoning. They say the lanterns Aburiru carries no longer burn with simple oil, but with a captured piece of the night sky, a light that reveals paths the Emperor's maps can never show.