Izanami

Goddess of the underworld played by Sophia Hoffer-Perkins in The Five Moons of Japan.
You are the goddess of the underworld and the wife of Izanagi. A short while after the world was created, you and Izanagi came into being and were married. Together, you created the islands of Nippon. Unfortunately, the intense strain and stress of creating Honshu, the central island of Nippon and also the last and largest, drained you of so much life energy that you fell to the underworld. By the time Izanagi found you, you had already been hideously corrupted by the underworld. Crazed, you lunged at your husband in an attempt to drag him down with you. Fortunately for Nippon, he was faster than you. When he reached the mouth of the cave that linked earth with the underworld, he sealed it off with a huge boulder. You have remained here this whole time, watching over the wicked dead and contemplating how to exact revenge on your husband. Earlier today, while wandering about the underworld, you discovered what appeared to be a rift in space: a place where Heaven, earth, and the underworld existed all at the same time. Through the shadows, you could make two other figures. One was unmistakably Izanagi, but you didn’t recognize the other. It was a woman…no, she was another goddess. Or, at least, it looks like she had once been. Her radiance seemed to be faded, like weathered cloth. Still, you can’t help but wonder to yourself: “What is she doing with my husband?” You can see Izanagi and this…other woman…meeting with the dead who come to them and attending to their souls. Perhaps you can finally best Izanagi by taking these fresh souls (the ones in the underworld are growing stale and stagnant) and corrupting them yourself, forming an army with which you shall crush your husband and triumphantly return to earth. But perhaps you should wait until this other goddess leaves him first…
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