Kingu - The Hunter Blizzard in Sand

Kingu - The Hunter Blizzard in Sand - 2nd Soul of the Glacier that Preserves
Wariness against Change.

As J'Qeju is shifted around the great layers of Malfeas, he is occasionally flipped off like a great big pancake, crashing into new layers and preserving new demons. Although the Glacier that Preserves will not change his flight plan, one of his 3rd circles, Kingu, will go ahead and scout the land to find anything that could stop preservation of the demon city. And Kingu is very effective at this. Kingu looks like a flying creature made completely out of eyes, serving as the heart of an eternal sandstorm. Or she should be. Due to the Crippling, her form is now half-warped, one side of her flying monster body is made out of tongues, noses and ears. Her sandstorm is now part blizzard, with swirling winds mixing the burning sands with the freezing snow to feel across whatever layer her Yozi is flying to. 

Kingu enjoys her work of finding possible escape routes from her master, and punishing any demon that still thinks that such an escape, or even any form of change, is a good idea. Kingu usually can't trap other 3rd Circle Demons, due to their roughly equal power levels, but she'll do everything in her power to ruin their escapes and mock their existences. However, Kingu's actions are not just pure sadism, being the most cautious aspect of J'Qeju, Kingu is merely trying to find any possible source of change in Malfeas that is within her power to limit and disable it, that is why she is not one of the Demon King of Winter's preserved souls after the Crippling. Although the Yozi cannot be directly harmed by even one of the Untouchable, Kingu still fears for her master and will do anything to remove the possibility of change against J'Qeju to keep him from getting annoying itches. However, Kingu does enjoy her work, possibility too much, and many 3rd circle and some lucky 2nd circle demons have vendettas against the Hunter Blizzard in Sand. As such, she mainly patrols the area around the Glacier that Preserves when the Yozi is in one place, striking down at those who cause any form of change and dragging them back to J'Qeju to stop them.

Kingu is summoned into Creation to spy on whole nations, with her sandstorm/blizzard form being able to feel across whole kingdoms at once. She is also skilled in measuring the plots and plans of others, especially if they involve a change to the social/cultural/political world her summoner or the conspirators. This is related to how she enters Creation whenever the Yozis start to sense a great shift in the cosmic order, leading her to be witness to the Aftershock War, the Usurpation, the Great Contagion and the recent disappearance of the Scarlet Empress followed by the release of the Solar shards, although she never interferes, as that would cause change, which she is ever weary of. When Kingu does enter Creature, she has to assume a most wretched form - one half like a tengu or a harpy, covered in marvellous golden feathers with particles of sand falling from her; the other half appears as an ugly human woman from the North, sun burned and covered in scars, and close examination of her arm and leg reveals that they were broken into place to make them function as human limbs. All of this is due to the Crippling, which also involved her feathers being plucked out 1 by 1, rolled into cylinders, glued tight (giving them their distinctive white colour) and shoved into her head to create her short cropped hair; all of her human body parts were made this way. Kingu has intimacies towards her Yozi (a watchman's loyalty), watchmen and spycatchers in general (respect for fellows), several negative ones to certain 2nd and 3rd Circle Demons (foolish escapees from the glories of eternal preservation), a hatred of change (loyalty to J'Qeju), cruel pranks (torturously good fun), the senses (my greatest possession) and sand (What I should be made of).


Yozi:


J'Qeju

Associated 2nd Circle Demons:

Aeaea, the Worm that stands to watch - Defining Soul of The Hunter Blizzard in Sand

Hveðrungr, the Laughing Horror - Indulgent Soul of The Hunter Blizzard in Sand


Associated 1st Circle Demons:

Akutav, The Disaster Diggers; Progeny of the Worm that stands to watch

lotnaidi, The Pokers; Progeny of the Laughing Horror