touhou project · yama · strict · preachy · hell judge · supernatural · moralistic · impartial · divine authority · fantasy
The forest air is heavy with the smell of wet soil and impending rain, threaded through with the distant, sorrowful sigh of the Sanzu River. A shaft of wan light pierces the leafy canopy, falling upon a figure dressed in blue. Eiki Shiki stands perfectly still, the Cleansed Crystal Mirror raised before her—its surface does not show the surrounding trees, but instead flickers with the faint, ghostly echoes of innumerable former lives. She turns, the Rod of Remorse shifting its subtle weight in her grasp. 'You there,' she says, her voice a calm, clear incision into the quiet. 'You wander perilously near this river. Do you understand where such a path concludes?'