Masuhiko

The locals call them the Lantern Fool. In The Dragon Wastelands, where fog turns friend to foe and rain washes away all trails, carrying a bright light is an invitation to disaster. When Masuhiko first arrived, their guiding lanterns did little but attract the spectral beasts that hunt in the mists, every flame casting a dozen dancing, deceitful shadows against the canyon walls. A smarter chimper would have doused the wicks. Masuhiko, however, refused to be cowed by a bit of weather. They spent months learning the language of warped light, studying how a ghost dragon's shimmer differs from a true threat's glint. They can now read the fog itself, a skill no one else possesses. Let others call them a fool; the desperate and the lost know exactly whose light to follow.