Shachihiko

The rock wizards of The Crystal Highlands of Armaria will tell you that Shachihiko gazed too long into a monolith and something else gazed back, nesting behind their eyes. That story is easier than the truth. Shachihiko was an augur, but the future they saw wasn't one of glory or ruin—it was one of silent replacement. They saw things wearing the faces of chimps, moving through the fortresses with perfect mimicry. When they tried to warn their peers, they were called touched, possessed, and were swiftly exiled for their heresy. Only Mesuokami, who knows the scent of the unnatural, recognized the terror in their gaze as genuine. They now hunt together, a lone wolf and a cursed seer, bound by a secret that gets heavier with every familiar face they see in the distance.