parent, with Izanami, of many deities and spirits, and Izanagi’s Scions are often at loose ends in the
nds in the World
most continue to pay court upon their father. As lord of
the sky, he helps maintain both the motion of the stars
and planets, and keeps the weather flowing in orderly
patterns. He has some responsibility for assuring the
fertility of human beings, as well. After his wife Izanami
died in childbirth, he beheld her putrescent form
during an ill-fated rescue from Yomi. Embarrassed and
enraged, she swore vengeance, saying she would destroy
1,000 of his people a day; Izanagi retorted that 1,500
of his people would thus be born each day. Tall, with
black hair, moustache and beard, graceful hands and a
regal bearing, Izanagi appears as a mature Japanese man
whose eyes hold a look of grim determination touched
with sadness.
In modern times, Izanagi often appears as a lonely
businessman. He spends a lot of time in bars and
graveyards, lingering in both on his way to and from
his workplace every day. Whether he plays at being a
middle manager, a train conductor, a bank branch
manager or a shop salesman, he really lives for those few
minutes in the graveyard when he can talk to his dead
wife. (Or those few minutes in the bar when he can sing
karaoke mournfully about the love he had and lost.)
The other Gods put Izanagi in charge of monitoring
and minimizing changes in the atmosphere, but he has
no real heart for the work and neglects vast amounts of
his duties.
as a result. Not yet tasked with any specific function by
their father, they are often contacted first of all by other
divinities, trying to shake their old man loose from his
maudlin behavior (which has been going on at least six
or seven thousand years). Some feel that Izanagi could
soon fall to the rage and aggression of a Titan or worse.
Associated Powers: Epic Charisma, Epic Strength,
Psychopomp, Sky, Tsukumo-Gami
Abilities: Academics, Awareness, Fortitude, Melee, J
Presence, Thrown A
Rivals: Izanami; Atum-Re, Baron Samedi, Dionysus, P
Loki, Quetzalcoátl
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IZANAMI
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AKA: IZANAMI NO MIKOTO S
Description: Izanami is Izanagi’s dead wife, queen of E
the Underworld and the first woman of the Amatsukami.
In the days when she was alive, she helped give birth to all G
the Gods and islands of Japan. She died giving birth to a
child, and her husband immediately killed the boy out of
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anger and frustration after the woman he loved was taken D
from him. Izanami became Queen of Yomi, the Japanese S
Underworld. Her horrific appearance there—half-rotted
and swarming with maggots—causes her to choose
darkness and death over life and light. She and Izanagi
are forever separated and cannot bear to look on each
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