Toshihito

One false vision, two disgraced families, and a thousand bamboo stalks to carry as penance. Toshihito was once the jewel of The Crystal Highlands of Armaria, a psychic whose prophecies were delivered as grand kabuki theatre. They saw futures in the spinning monoliths and painted them on their face for the court. But ambition tainted their sight. For a taste of greater influence, they twisted a minor vision into a grand tragedy, ruining a rival house. When the truth emerged, the fallout was absolute. Stripped of their titles and haunted by their actions, Toshihito now wanders the lower highlands. They plant the bamboo along barren slopes, a slow, quiet act of creation to atone for their loud, ruinous one. The facepaint stays, a permanent reminder of the mask that consumed them.