Akira Kurogane, The Iron Raven

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Akira Kurogane, The Iron Raven, is a tengu guardian who watches over the sacred forests, her eyes and ears the only witnesses to the whispers of the ancient trees. She is a silent sentinel, striking only when the balance of nature is threatened.

Backstory

Blood and sawdust caked her hands as Akira severed the logging chain with a ceremonial blade passed down through generations of her forestry ranger family. Her grandfather's final warning echoed in her mind: "Some trees hold memories older than nations, and they will choose their own protectors." When the ancient cedar's roots began to pulse with an unearthly rhythm and spectral tengu feathers materialized around her wounded body, Akira understood she was no longer just a guardian, but the embodiment of an ancestral forest spirit's unfinished vengeance. Her transformation was not a gift, but a sacred contract written in bark and bone, binding her to protect not just the woodland, but the delicate supernatural ecosystem that humanity had forgotten existed beneath the surface of ordinary perception. Now marked by obsidian feather-scars and eyes that reflected centuries of woodland wisdom, Akira became a living weapon against those who would carelessly disrupt the fragile balance between

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