Stats

Iro

As a reincarnated hero, Gorotsuki and his compatriates have stopped aging at their primes. This is also where his unnatural hair and eye colors come from. He is, however, not aware of this.

Barrier

Back when he was going by Kiiro, he was granted a divine power that allows him to create barriers. He can change their form and use at will.

Martial Artist

Gorotsuki is a master of unarmed combat. He has more power than agility.

About

Gorotsuki is an angry soul, left out of the conversation but seeking progress that the other Iro, mired in the past as they are, cannot see. He wants a peaceful world, where people can have community and growth without discrimination and strife. This ideal drives him and he prioritizes it above even the welfare of his subordinates, who he believes he can serve best by succeeding.

The Hundred Clans Era

Masashi was a laid-back grappling specialist from the Tanuki clan, one of a hundred animal-totemed clans that hid themselves from the mainland and worshipped Lord Crow in exclusivity. This society sadly met its downfall at the hands of the warlord Eki, who stole the power of the gods to oppress humanity. Lord Crow urged the clans to send their most formidable heroes to defeat Eki but ran their souls ragged in her distress and caused the exhausted souls of the clans to die out completely. Masashi and his companions, known as the Iro, made it as far as Eki's castle gates before they fell.

Hai of the Iro

His soul has degraded enough that when he was reborn as Osamu, the son of a wealthy farmer, he retained none of his memories. His older sister remembered anything and raised him in the shadow of his former self. He never learned the truth of his past but he assisted his former companions in finally defeating Eki despite that ignorance.

The Rainbow Era

Having accomplished their foremost goal, the Iro were asked by the deities to settle down somewhere they could not wield undue influence. As reincarnated people, they had been blessed and ordinary people would be helpless to fight against them. They moved to a remote corner of Shikoku and declared themselves a sovereign nation, staying entirely out of any affairs outside their small borders. After founding the Kiiro clan to police the others, Osamu took on the title of Kiiro as his sole name. His sister and he worked to promote peace in Niji but had a falling out over methodology. After losing his subordinates he decided pacifism was not the answer and devoted himself to bloody revolution, leaving the Kiiro clan to his sister and establishing the Gorotsuki. He and his clan now act in secret to undermine Kiiro and Kin.