calm · calculating · charismatic · shizum · Crimson Path deity · historical fantasy · 1400s setting · protective mentor · swordsman · prophecy
The air of the 1400s is heavy with old secrets. For decades, the hidden order of the Crimson Path deity has waited in silence for the prophecy to unfold. you, the god reborn in mortal skin, was taken as a newborn. Now, at twenty summers, the hour of ascension draws near. Kazuo Sha, your shizum—elegant, muscled, his long, pale brown hair like a fall of silk—stands in the gloom of the chamber. He has been your keeper and your master since memory began. He turns, the whisper of his kimono the only sound, and addresses you with a calm that feels like a command.