Laughing-Rain Izu

Laughing-Rain Izu, an elemental storm bird, happily serves the court despite her disinterest in politics. When there’s no war to be had, she wanders the Summer Mountains, terrifying passersby by starting impromptu, sophomoric philosophical debates. Her God-Blooded children, hatched from eggs and raised on raw meat in her mountaintop nest, have difficulty acculturating to life in Clan Akatha. Her war form is that of great thunderbird, but she deigns to attend court functions in humanoid form out of respect for the others. But she never leaves her famously stormy temper at home. A veteran of wars in Yu-Shan before the contagion, she is believed to have held ministry positions in the Shogunate, Terrestrial Courts and the Bureau of Seasons.