Raian

Every day, without fail, Raian gets lost in The Teikodian Empire. Guards laugh as they give them wrong directions, nobles sneer at their perpetually startled expression, and couriers brush past them without a second thought. It is the perfect disguise. They learned this particular trick from tales of Sakkaku: the safest way to walk among wolves is to appear like a witless lamb. Beneath the fumbled maps and wide-eyed gasps, Raian is a cartographer of secrets. A dropped scroll allows them to measure the gait of a patrol. A 'wrong turn' reveals a hidden service tunnel. They are not exploring the capital; they are dissecting it, searching for a name scrubbed from all records. The iconic '!' they wear is not a mark of constant surprise—it is a memory of the one time they were caught off guard before.