Izanagi-no-Okami

伊邪那岐

Imagine, a time before the clear distinction of the Near and Far Shores. Imagine, if you will, a time when Gods were few and far between, where he and his love were the true beginning of the great country that would soon follow. And oh how history was fruitful on his hands, with gods upon gods being born and named, similarly to how he took his first regalia, but with so much more nuance. He never considered the names he bestowed upon his offspring to be leashes, didn't once consider it as a restraint, but trouble began to brew and idyllic life proved to not be so kind as to be eternal.

Izanami dies in a pile of ash and bone, and Izanagi is forced to kill his child, Kagu-tsuchi, despite knowing he'd return in due time. There's no logic to his actions as he swings his beloved spear the first time, simply grief and distress and panic - but Kagu-tsuchi retaliates and Seiki clatters to his side, forgotten. Sometimes, his eyes seem infinite, where the Father-God can see all but at that moment he sees nothing but darkness as the primal instincts of his progeny aim clawed hand towards his chest.

And Seiki breaks.

But a hafuri is born from the shards of a not-yet-deceased name. "Seiki," he calls again and from the broken weapon rises a new one, double-bladed and gilded, the one to take the life of Kagu-tsuchi once and for all. But Izanagi's worries do not end there.

Izanami is dragged down to Yomi where her betrothed would follow with the headstrong recklessness of youth. The battle outside had taken time, surely, had nearly ended in his own demise and subsequent reincarnation, but he lived and had reached the deepest parts of Yomi to find his partner.
Click. Click. Click.
Only to find her covered in bones and tattered rags and insects.

She shrieks, incensed at his audacity of seeing her in this state. And he ran. Ran like a coward and unlike the warrior he prided himself to be. With fruit to distract the countless ayakashi being sent his way, he managed to escape the border of Yomi and seal his beloved inside once and for all. His only reprieve was the last three children he'd had with Izanami before her death. His beloved Amaterasu, Tsukuyomi and Susano'o.

Only, his stay wasn't meant to be. Izanami still had her sights on his head, still enraged by his abandomnent and betrayal, leading him to repeat the same sin one last time with his children. To protect them from harm, that was his excuse. He left retainers to care for his daughter and sons, parted with them with his last gift of a kiss on the forehead, and took to wandering with Narumi at his side and the breaking heart of a father trailing behind him.

It's said he can sometimes be found at his shrine in Awaji, though it's also a known fact that the regalia he enhouses are quick to hide his presence, or hold off visitors enough for him to disappear.