Izanami

**Izanami** or **She-Who-Invites** is the Second-Generation Shinto Primordial Goddess of Creation, Death, Decay, Motherhood and Fertility and former member of the Kamiyonanayo. She is the daughter of Kuninotokotachi and Toyokumono, as well as twin sister and ex-wife of Izanagi.

She's the niece of Uhijini, Suhijini, Tsunugi, Ikugui, Otonoji, Otonobe, Omodaru, Ayaka Shikone, Nihil and Nihilion. She's also the granddaughter of Amenominakanushi and Benzaiten, succeeding the latter at one point as the supreme female of Takamagahara.

After Shinigami's betrayal and disappearance, She is also the mother of most Amatsukami, the Japanese counterparts of the Olympians, and the queen of Yomi, the Shinto Underworld and the New Grim Reaper of Shinto. She's under the tutelage of Amenominakanushi and Benzaiten.

She also became the student of Maveth. She's responsible for all the souls that go in Yomi, but also works as a hired assassin and a patron of curses and destruction. She also possesses a strange relationship with Carmilla, the Blood Countess and founder of the Carmilla faction of vampires.

## Overview

The first gods Kunitokotachi and Amenominakanushi summoned two divine beings into existence, the male Izanagi and the female Izanami, and charged them with creating the first land. To help them do this, Izanagi and Izanami were given a spear decorated with jewels, named *Amenonuhoko* (heavenly spear). The two deities then went to the bridge between heaven and earth, *Ame-no-ukihashi* ("floating bridge of heaven"), and churned the sea below with the spear. When drops of salty water fell from the spear, Onogoroshima was created. They descended from the bridge of heaven and made their home on the island.

Eventually they wished to be mated, so they built a pillar called *Ame-no-mihashira* ("pillar of heaven"; the *mi-* is an honorific prefix) and around it they built a palace called *Yahiro-dono* (one *hiro* is approximately 1.82 m, so the "eight-*hiro*-palace" would have been 14.56 m). Izanagi and Izanami circled the pillar in opposite directions and, when they met on the other side, Izanami spoke first in greeting. Izanagi did not think that this was proper, but they mated anyhow. They had two children, Hiruko ("leech-child"), who later came to be known in Shintoism as the god Ebisu, and Awashima, but they were born deformed and were not considered deities.

They put the children into a boat and set them out to sea, then petitioned the other gods for an answer as to what they did wrong. They were told that the male deity should have spoken first in greeting during the marriage ceremony. So Izanagi and Izanami went around the pillar again, this time Izanagi speaking first when they met, and their marriage was finally successful.

## Appearance

Initially, Izanami-no-Mikoto had the appearance of an unearthly beautiful woman with pale skin and short black hair, with a long strand of frayed hair that laid across her face. She also possessed soft eyes that were colored purple with a hint of blue within them.

With the wounds she received from birthing the fiery Kagutsuchi and later being violated by the vultures of the realm of Yomi, Izanami was disfigured to the point where her appearance horrified Izanagi so much he fled from her. She is a pale, rotten corpse with empty eye sockets, ghastly burns on the stomach and pelvis area and worms crawl out of holes in her body.

Later, with training from Maveth, Izanami learned how to exceed physical limits of her body and can change her form at will to something that fits within the natural order of things. Currently, she prefers to appear as a very attractive young woman with lavender hair and scary crimson eyes, which can sometimes glow with such immense hatred that even Amatsu-Mikaboshi felt nervous to provoke her. When either her husband or Amaterasu are mentioned in front of her, her hair flows up and her aura is purplish-black.

While using Power of the Archreaper, she is dressed in a tattered, casual white kimono with what seems to be a long-collared red cape on her back. Her eyes have become cat-like and lavender, as well as her hair. She is barefoot and wears a golden cloth around her waist.

## Personality

Izanami is a morally grey goddess. She was very kind in the past, but after becoming the Ruler of Yomi, she turned bitter, cold, spiteful and vengeful - her heart forever broken by Izanagi's betrayal. However, despite her heart being shrouded in darkness there are still slivers of her original personality left. Even though she has many opportunities to kill Izanagi, she never goes beyond severely injuring him. Another reason for why she spares Izanagi is because she can see the guilt and regret on Izanagi's eyes when he looks at her.

Izanami detests the Amatsukami as a group, most of all hating Izanagi and Amaterasu who not only shun her away, but portray her as a horrible monster. She takes immense pleasure in watching both of them suffer or fail. When Izanagi was ready to take Amenonuhoko, Izanami sneaked up on him and almost strangled him, all the while grinning sweetly. She also enjoys insulting Amaterasu, disrespecting and defacing her whenever she can. In contrast to the usually, Izanami treats Ebisu and Susanoo with vastly more respect, with Ebisu being her favourite child.

According to Benzaiten, Izanami is a deeply grieving woman who is confused and lost, with her statement later being confirmed by Izanami herself who says that if not for Amenominakanushi and Benzaiten, she may have turned into the very monster the Amatsukami see her as.

Izanami has learnt to ignore insults and mockeries thrown at her, but if someone were to joke about Kagutsuchi's birth or disrespect Amenominakanushi and Benzaiten, Izanami will not hesitate to hurt them until she has deemed that they have learned their lesson.

Izanami is shown to be a gentle, sweet and kind goddess when she's in a genuinely good mood and around people she actually likes: Amenominakanushi, Benzaiten, Ebisu, Susanoo and Thanatos. Her loyalty towards her masters is unquestionable and even though she sympathized with Amatsu-Mikaboshi, she remained loyal to Amenominakanushi.

Izanami has also shown to be an apt actress, capable of putting on many convincing facades to fool those around her or creep them out. She does this as a joke, but sometimes utilizes it in battle or while she's gathering intel for Amenominakanushi. She managed to temporarily gain a position in Spriggan using this method, by pretending to be making plans to invade Takamagahara.

Despite her cruel and chaotic nature, Izanami never does anything out of line or something that Amenominakanushi or Benzaiten would be disappointed with. Izanami has said a few times that she wishes to become the greatest Grim Reaper there ever was. When Thanatos and Kami-Musubi were asking her about it, she replied that there was no deeper context to her goal and she had nothing much to strive for in her existence anyways.

Thanatos says that Izanami reminds him of Nyx in a lot of aspect, most of all her intolerance towards self-entitled brats of high status.

## History

### Takamagahara Tragedy

After the war with the Yamikami and the disappearance of Kuninotokotachi, Toyokumono and Uhijini, as the only present Kamiyonanayo, Izanagi and Izanami were tasked with inheriting the broken Takamagahara.

### Children

She helped stir the oceans on the Bridge of the Heavens, and settled down with Izanagi on Earth on their island Onogoro. On their first marriage ceremony she made the mistake of speaking to Izanagi first, so the ritual had to be repeated. After the second ceremony she gave birth to various deities.

### Death and Undeath

Izanami birthed many children. However, one child of hers (Hi-no-Kagutsuchi, goddess of fire) would prove to be too destructive for her body to handle and thus she died during childbirth.

Izanami awoke in Yomi, alone and weak. Tempted by the shinigami, she ate a fruit of the furnace of Hell, which bound her soul to the realm. Later, when Izanagi came to save her, she gave him specific instructions on how to do so. Her visage had to be hidden from him while inside Yomi to not disturb the Shinigami - a technical loop which Kami-Musubi invented in case someone important had to be brought back. Howeverer, as Izanagi was impatient to see his beloved once more, he shone light in her direction, unveiling her decaying state to him.

While horrified by both her appearance and startled by her burst of frustration, Izanagi stool his ground and even walked towards her. However, Izanami sent her ungodly hags and other creatures of Yomi to capture him which made him retreat. While the demons of Yomi gave chase, her husband was able to escape in time and seal her in by blocking the entrance with a divine boulder in the mouth of the Yomotsuhirasaka to create a separation between the world of the living and the world of the dead, as well as separating Izanagi from Izanami, much to the former's distate.

Izanami screamed from behind this impenetrable barricade and told Izanagi that if he left her she would destroy 1,000 residents of the living every day. He replied he would give life to 1,500 residents. From that point on the two became estranged.

### Meeting with the Great Kami

Shortly after her imprisonment, Izanami's first visitors were the supreme masters Amenominakanushi and Benzaiten. Sympathetic towards her fate, the two gave her two individual blessings. By Ameno, she was given lordship over the realm of Yomi. By Benzaiten, she was given a beautiful rose that would allow her to freely leave Yomi if she wished. Thankful for their kindness, Izanami gladly decided to take on the role of Shinto's Reaper (after Shinigami disappeared), even if simply to distract herself from her own sorrow.

### Meeting with Death

While hunting a powerful demon who often cheated death, Izanami was encountered by its personification. Taking a slight interest in her, Maveth persuaded Izanami to become their student (to replaced Shinigami). The goddess accepted if only for her own amusement. To this day, she is still on her way to complete Maveth's training.

## Powers and Abilities

**Immense Divine Power**: Izanami was said to be one of the greatest Kami of Shinto alongside Izanagi and her divine power was comperable to his. After training with Maveth, Izanami's divine power in her base form is said to be twice as bigger as that of an average Second-Generation Primordial God or Buddha and is above any of her children, as well as her husband. Amenotokotachi mentioned how Izanami has grown a lot and her power is likely close to that of Shinigami, the original Ruler of Yomi.

**Immense Strength**: When she was born, Izanami was already comparable to Izanagi who was able to create all of Japan. After becoming the Ruler of Yomi, her prowess increased greatly and it continuously sours to new heights while under Maveth's guidance. She is arguably the strongest, not only amongst the Kamiyonanayo, but the Second-Generation Primordial Deities, as well. She was shown to be able to easily defeat Diyu Lords and other underworld deities, with Xinwang even calling her 'the Strongest Underworld Deity'.

**Immense Speed**: Izanami has shown to be extremely nimble and agile in battle, a skill displayed during her fight with Yama, where she was easily capable of dodging his mass area attacks and could seamlessly read through the movements of a hundred of his corpse-puppets. She was also able to easily weasel her way through a blockade of ten thousand corpse puppets while cutting them to smitterins and it took her less than 0.001 seconds to do it. She could also move so fast that to Yama she appeared to have multiplied a thousand times.

**Immense Durability**: Izanami's durability and stamina are great, as even when 10 Higher Diyu Lords stabbed her in the back, she barely flinched, even smiling. Even a powerful attack from Tartarus's Avatar, which made the realm of Yomi rumble didn't faze her that much, with Izanami even calling the avatar's power pathetic. She was also capable of easily enduring hits from Izanagi, Amaterasu and Fujin.

**Afterlife Lordship**: Izanami has authority and duty in the Afterlife, a place where the souls of the all recently departed go.

* **Underworld Authority**: After years of adapting (and being unknowingly blessed by Chaos herself), Izanami became one of the only underworld deities capable of challenging Tartarus' control over these kinds of realms and was even capable of completely over-ruling his influence in Yomi, Diyu and Naraka.

**Soul Manipulation**: As Izanami herself is technically undead, she is out of Death's reach. Izanami herself can forcibly assert a control over someone's non-corporeal essence. She used it against Takanashi Hikari to alleviate Aforgomon's curse by sharing it with herself. Later, she was able to weaken Amaterasu by siphooning her soul.

**Darkness Manipulation**: Izanami has displayed the ability to manipulate darkness and shadows, able to cloak herself in darkness or darken an entire room with her mere thought. During her battle with Amaterasu she was able to create sickles of darkness that were equal in power to her solar flares.

**Rot Inducement**: Izanami can cause anything organic to wither, rot, decay and eventually disintegrate, whether living or deceased.

**Disease Generation**: Izanami can generate diseases and viruses, including mixing illnesses together or creating completely new ones, whether by drawing them from already existing sources or by manifesting them anywhere they want.

**Filth Manipulation**: Izanami can create, manipulate, shape, transform, etc. any matter that is rotten or filthy (grime, dirtiness, stains, grunge, etc.), ranging from generation and manipulation of pus/ichor, mucus, slime (mucous secretions of animals), earwax, sweat and saliva, to full-out control over dead and decomposed matter; the user can also control moldy and mildewed matter, spoiled, rancid food, fetid water, polluted air, urine, vomit and feces.

**Necrosis**: Izanami can cause necrosis, or premature cell death, in others, causing the rapid decay of the victim's flesh.

**Cold Manipulation**: Izanami can create, shape and manipulate cold by reducing the kinetic energy of atoms and thus making things colder, ranging from subjective feeling of cool to absolute zero.

**Creation**: As a primeval goddess of Creartion, Izanami has great control over the elements of existence and substance and can create almost anything she desires as long as it fits with the natural order of things. As her powers are more thoroughly refined in the art of Death and Decay nowadays, Izanami has trouble conjuring up anything that won't crumble to dust. So far, she has been shown to be able to craft things from already rotten materials, such as corpses, rusted metal, tattered clothes, etc. When fighting Thanatos in an abandoned building estate in Tokyo, she was able to use the corpse of a worker who had died on accident during work and infuse him with much of the rusty materials left there, creating a sort of 'mega zombie soldier'.

**Life-Force Transferal**: Izanami can transfer life-force from one being to the next, a method could be to absorb the life-force, then implant it into the targeted being, healing them and even resurrecting them. This may require physical contact, or just being in the same area, just thinking of transferring the life-force. However, this may kill the one the user took it from.

**Wound Transferal**: Izanami can shift damage between individuals, regardless of whether it is physical, mental, spiritual or supernatural. She was seen using this for Takanashi Hikari to alleveite the pain from Aforgomon's Curse and later with Thanatos. The process requires close body contact, so in some cases Izanami has to deeply kiss her patient.

**Supreme Goddess Physiology**: Izanami was a Supreme Deity, a god/goddess who unquestionably upheld sovereignty between her pantheon, so it is associated with higher divine abilities and considered far more powerful by reason of being controller of the universe. Supreme Deities are commonly seen in mythology, and were important among ancient and current civilizations for its impact. Supreme Deities are characterized as the leader of its respective pantheon, ruling them. They're also not absolutely perfect as a Monotheistic God is said to be, considering there are stories detailing their misadventures.

**Reaper Physiology**: Izanami, with this ability either is or can transform into a Reaper or other personification of Death (Psychopomp, Angel/Demon/God of Death, Shinigami, etc.), gaining all the powers and responsibilities that come with the position which may range from simply guiding the dead to the next world to actively causing the death, possibly somewhat both.

* **Death Sense**: Izanami can sense the coming of death, determining when someone is dead or dying or if others have died in a specific location. This may extend to seeing the names and lifespans of those whose faces the user sees.

**Possession**: Izanami can inhabit or take over the body of any living being, whether sentient or not, by stealing their motor functions and senses.

**Curse Inducement**: Izanami was shown to be capable of inciting curses at others, darkening their future and causing unfortunate events for the mortals of Japan by having 1,500 of them die each day. However, Benzaiten and Amenominakanushi convinced her to lift her curse as the rest of Japan didn't need to suffer, because of Izanagi.

**Nether Manipulation**: Izanami can create, shape and manipulate Nether, the "Chthonian Element" that flows through the realms of the living, and the Dead. Nether is most known as the substance that makes up the Underworld, a subterranean dimension where all souls go when they pass on. Nether is very similar to Aether "the Celestial Element" in that it is from a Plane that exists between the planes of both matter, and energy.

* **Netherkinetic Combat**: Izanami can combine Nether with physical combat, possessing undead or spiritual abilities when wielding the underworld element.

**Death Manipulation**: As the student of Maveth, Izanami has nearly as much control over the concept as its personification. Only a few gods of death even come close to her position, which is surprising for an underworld goddess.

* **Death Field Manipulation**: Izanami can emit a field around herself that kills every living thing that is in it (Animals, humans, plants, etc.). She may be able to decide what dies and what lives, or at least train to do so.
* **Death Element Manipulation**: Izanami can create, shape and manipulate deathly elements; elemental forces capable of destroying/weakening/removing life. This allows her to not only destroy and erase life with the elements, but it also allows her to possibly mutilate or even destroy the souls of any living person.
* **Death Negation**: Izanami can negate/cancel out some or even all kinds of deaths from herself and others, truly making her ensuring that the living stays alive, even in death she can potentially resurrect herself for as long as she so desires, potentially defeating Death itself no matter how strong or impossible the odds may be.
* **Kiss of Death**: Izanami can kill with a single kiss, using varying means. She used this against Zeref Niberus, seducing and then kissing him. Upon kissing him, he died on the spot, his body bursting apart seconds later.
* **Zombie Army**: Izanami is able to raise an army of undead to aid her in battle.
	+ **Zombie Deification**: An ability only Izanami knows how to use. By siphooning the souls of lesser gods and implanting them in her zombies, Izanami can turn them into monsters with God-Class strength.
* **Shitdigma**: Izanami can also summon the corrupted wraiths of Soku, mortals of the Shinto Faction who were so vile their evil nature corrupted their Ki, turning them into wraiths of non-existence. After witnessing Amatsu-Mikaboshi control them, Izanami was able to copy this technique and improve upon it. The true strength of these wraiths is their ability to wear out divinities. Even just by sending ten precent of the Shitdigma forces under her control, she was able to dampen Amaterasu's power to the point where she could barely stand.
* **Death Draws Near**: The more damage Izanami sustains, the quicker her attacks will become and she will also begin to regenerate correspondant to the damage she deals to her enemies. During her fight with Yama and the Higher Diyu Lords, she quickly began overwhelming them after sustaining major injuries.
* **Sickle Storm**: Using darkness and death power Izanami sends out spectral sickles that move insanely fast. Anyone hit by the sickles is marked by a dark glow, which bursts in a decay-inducing explosion once Izanami's weapon touches them.
* **Spectral Death Projection**: Izanami sends forth a demonic visage of herself to strike down her enemies, damaging and slowing all enemies in a column.
* **Fade Away**: Izanami descends into the underworld, becoming stealthed, and leaps into an area of her chosing.
* **Destruction of Yomotsu Hirasaka**: A technique that Izanai originally intended for the destruction of the Entrance of Yomi. Bringing her hands forth and summoning large quantities of Yomi's energy, as well as her own, Izanami emits a concentrated, invisible dark wave that disintigrates anything in its path. A weaker version was first seen against Izanagi, which caused intense pain in his chest.

**Supernatural World Manipulation**: In one of the timelines, Izanami completely took over a universe by fusing her consciousness with that world. This however lead to the world becoming corrupted by paradoxes and imploding.

**Bone Manipulation**: Izanami has complete control over the bones of others, bare skeletons or separate bones, including growing, shaping, manipulating density/weight, creating constructs, etc.

* **Bone Bridge**: Izanami can gather bones to create a bridge that allows passage even to the steepest and widest of gorges.
* **Bone Wings**: Izanami can force the shoulder blades of a person to protrude and extend into wings, causing severe pain to the person in the process. Izanami can then command the bone wings to take the target away, usually using the common laws of physics and biology to kill the target.
* **Bone Massacre**: Izanami can manipulate the bones in a person's body, growing, breaking, extending or replicating them rapidly inside the target's body, completely destroying and disfiguring it from the inside out.
* **Bone Life Creation**: Izanami can also give life to bones. The state of the target's fossils will determine how much of their original persona is kept in tact.
* **Gashadakuro**: After defeating Emperor Sutoku, Izanami is able to summon a Gashadakuro, specifically their king - Lord Gasha, by her side. She draws 'SHI' in the air which then expands to enormous size, creating a portal that summons the bony behemoth. Its might is incredible and can easily overwhelm even an Elder Amatsukami.
	+ **Yomotsugami**: Izanami can fuse with Lord Gasha, creating a sturdy armored body comprised of darkness-infused bones, which are heavily resistant towards divine power. She was first seen using this against Tartarus's Avatar to defeat him.

**Power of the Archreaper**: Also known as **Power of the Primordial Death**. Izanami inherits it from her predecessor Shinigami. She has great mastery over Power of the Primordial Death, which originally belonged to the creator of the Grim Reaper race Maveth, that allows her to preform whatever action she desires. However, Izanami is unable to fully utilize it as controlling it very hard and puts a lethal strain on her body. Izanami was trained by Maveth to utilize Power of the Primordial Death. During her fight with Xinwang, she was able to use Power of the Primordial Death by using Thanatos essence which he gave to her as a proxy.

* **Lower-Tier Omnipotence**: Izanami becomes completely superior to all other Grim Reapers in existence and even rivals Maveth himself in power and even Xinwang and Yama were shown to be scared of her, the former of which possessed immense power. Sephira who played the role of her final test, has admitted that Izanami is a special-class Grim Reaper unlike any other and had the potential to overrule Vishnu and Ayaka Shikone if she perfected her new powers. Upon sensing her energy Yama received a flashback to when he first made a contract with Maveth and for an instant, he saw the image of Maveth overlapping with that of **Izanami**.
* **Absolute Death Manipulation**: Izanami can create, shape, and manipulate the death/cause of death of any/all things, including mortals, amortals, undetermined beings, eldritch horrors, inanimate objects, concepts/conceptual beings, phenomena, nonexistent beings, transcendent beings, formless/omnipresent entities, and/or even supreme beings.
* **Extinction Manipulation**: Izanami can decide, determine and manipulate the causes(s) of of a species' extinction, allowing them to determine and control when, how, where, and why a species goes extinct and even induce the circumstances/events that will lead to the species' appointed extinction.
* **Death Embodiment**: The user of this power can become the embodiment of death itself. This means that they can easily kill others, collect their souls when they die and take their souls to the afterlife. They could also bring about the apocalypse, causing deaths by the millions, possibly even billions. They can decide where a soul will go after death.
* **Nigh-Omniscience** (Limited to Death): Like Maveth, Izanami could be whollly aware of what's going on in most of the multiverse and has great chrono senses across the timelines related to death, who would die, when and how. She even predicted that Xinwang would die 'like a worm without water, crawling on the ground and withering', inciting paranoia in him, though she later admitted that she couldn't really see what led to his death, so she couldn't be sure if she would be the victor.

**Master Swordsman/Scythe Wielder**: Thanks to Ameno and Maveth, Izanami became very skilled in the way of the sword and the scythe, which is why she chose to have a hybrid weapon that can switch between both. Her skills are great enough to put her on the Top 50 Strongest Beings list. Amenominakanushi has said that Izanami is even the 'second best weapon master' in Shintoism, making her a superior swordmaster to Amaterasu, Izanagi and Amenotokotachi.

**Master Hand-To-Hand Combatant**: Izanami has been shown to outmatch Izanagi in physical fights, who himself outclasses all other Second-Generation Primordial Deities with his skills, with the exception of the Trimurti and Jesus Christ himself. She can preform many eastern martial arts without fail and even combines her own style, which includes visual tricking and beastly ferocity. During her fight with Amaterasu, she was able to see through all her techniques and promptly counter-attack with ease.

**Master Stealth**: As an Agent of Death, Izanami is a stealthy genius, peerless in the act of sneaking up on someone and scaring the ever living daylights out of them. In a hitmen list of the 'Top 10 Stealth Masters', Izanami was ranked second. She is an expert at jumpscaring people, even terrifying Benzaiten at one point. While cloaked, she could not be sensed by anyone, except Xinwang, who only mentioned to sense her because she was close to him at that time.

**Ability Imprinting**: Izanami can copy other abilities/powers and then imprint them into herself or others, allowing her to make the powers a natural part of them. This makes it near impossible for her to forget or lose the powers after she have learned them, as trying to erase/remove an imprinted power would be the same as trying to remove or erase an arm or a leg.

**Reaper Contract**: Maveth has taught Izanami the ability to create new Reapers, steal other's or enforce her will on ultimate-class Grim Reapers such as the God Thanatos. She writes down the 'TRUE NAME' of the entity she targets on her 'Death Journal' and that entity will immediately be summoned to Izanami's location, where upon she kisses them to seal the contract.

**Mind's Eye** ("Eye of the Mind")": is a natural talent to foresee/sense and avoid danger on the basis of an innate 6th sense, intuition, or prescience. The accuracy of this instinct can be augmented by experience. The ability also grants an effect of offering resistance against penalties caused by visual obstructions.

**Genius-Level Intellect**: Izanami has a vast understanding of Creation and how everything functions. She is known as 'The Goddess Who Unlocked Death's Secrets'.

* **Master Inventor**: Izanami invented the Death Notes.

## Equipment

**Fushigiri** (不死斬り lit. “To cut the immortality”): After being thrown into the depths of the Phantasm Abyss, Izanami found a crimson gem radiating with near-immeasurable power. As Maveth explained to her, the gem was really a crystallization of cursed souls which the Cycle of Life and Death rejected. With help from Amenominakanushi, Benzaiten and Umashiashikabihikoji, Izanami was able to turn it into a supreme-class Regalia under her command.

Fushigiri enacts death on those who cannot be slain through conventional means, consuming their immortality, alongside their energy. The weapon also can emit a massive dark aura that Izanami can use as cover or to poison her opponents. When she swings it at full power, a trail of dark death energy is released from the weapon, allowing for far greater range than normal. Maveth has claimed that other than his own weapons, the Fushigiri is the most lethal death-affiliated weapon in existence. Shinigami has said that Izanami still hasn't unlocked its true potential.

* **Vijñaptimātratā: Mystic Eyes of Death Perception** (・の, *Yuishiki - Chokushi no Magan***?**) is the True Power of Izanami. An attack that opens the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception to maximum and severs the target's "*lines of death.*" Regardless of possessing a life-span of some millions, recovery powers that resuscitate you from an interrupted state or a stock of lives of some hundreds, because it exposes "*the concept of death in regards to that specimen*", it gives a fatal wound while disregarding such qualities of immortality.

**Death Notes** (*Desu Nōto*), also known as the **Precious Seeds of Yomi**, are the magical notebooks created by **Izanami** by shaping her divine power, which itself carries within the essence of death and unlife and using the remnants of a passed shinigami, into a notebook.

While appearing as your typical black notebook, shinigami are able to choose what adorns their notebooks' covers, if anything. Most notes, however, such as Shikome-Hime's, are plain black and lack writing on their covers, but shinigami occasionally write their name on it as a joke. Death Notes can also be red or white, though these types are rare.

Depending on the era, Death Notes change their appearance to match said era. They will be a scroll in Old Japan or appear similar to the Old Testament in medieval Europe. The inside of a Death Note looks like that of a school notebook and contains ruled white pages. The notebook is activated when a human's name is written in it. Regardless of how many names are written in it, the notebook will never run out of pages. Death Notes are made from a material unknown to human science; however, they nevertheless feel and look like regular notebooks, and it is possible to rip and burn the pages.

Shinigami normally use Death Notes to kill humans that they see through the observation hole in the Yomi realm, thereby adding each human's remaining years of life to their own out of fear of dying themselves. Rogue shinigami occasionally drop extra Death Notes from the Yomi realm down to the human world, allowing a human the use of their spare killer notebooks. It is unknown how many notebooks exist in the Yomi realm currently.

A Death Note can be used by a human, although their lifespans do not increase by doing so. Historically, humans have either killed other humans with the Death Notes or ended up burning and therefore destroying the Death Note for any number of reasons. The Death Notes have virtually no offensive abilities, except for the fact that they are capable of instantly killing mortal beings once their name is written on them.

The **Death Journal** also known as the **Notes of Absolute Death**, is Izanami's second Regalia. It is a journal that allows Izanami to summon anyone's name she writes down. It can also alter reality to a certain extend: If for example she is targeted by an Erasure or Unavoidable Death-type attack, she can write the attacker's name and the attack's effect will be inflicted on them instead.

**Mystic Eyes of Death Perception** (直死の魔眼, *Chokushi no Magan***?**) are one of the highest grade among the many superpowers designated as Mystic Eyes. A superpower among superpowers, a rare item among rare items. Regardless of being organic or inorganic, it reads into the primary factor of death in "*living*" things and visualizes it as a phenomenon that can be interfered with. The world observed from the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception is a landscape of endings filled with "*lines of death*", and a proper mental structure would have difficulties in daily life while facing this.

**Death Wires**: Izanami has been shown to be able to replicate Death's wires, though she cannot use them as expertly as them.

**Yomi**: Izanami has absolute control over Yomi, uninfluenced and unlimited by anyone else but Amenominakanushi who is an expert in dealing with rule-breaking entities. Even Tartarus, who personifies the concept of an underworld, has only a mild control over the realm.

## Quotes

* *"A great calamity which has plagued this world since the beginning of time. Even the gods themselves cannot stop the passage of Izanami."* - A passage about Izanami.

* *"I told you not to look, and yet you ignored me! You will pay for the shame you have caused me!"* - Izanami to Izanagi after the latter disobey instructions.

* *"You really thought you could beat me in my own domain with just a feeble avatar? How cute."* - Izanami to Tartarus.

* *"Knowledge of the truth is not everything. Yet drunk with truth, you exceeded your role and became too involved... Now, learn for yourselves whose wrath you have brought down!"* - Izanami to the DxD.

* *"What? You're just a bitch with fangs who wants to fuck girls. Like hell am I going to be intimidated by the likes of you." -* Izanami to Carmilla.

* *"Oh, Susanoo. Did you make 'Daddy' angry again?" -* Izanami to Susanoo.
	+ *"Oh, come on. Can't a son visit his mom from time to time?" -* Susanoo.
		- *"Oh, and where was that 'caring son' during Mother's Day? \*Silence\* That's what I thought. Now tell me how you screwed up." -* Izanami to Susanoo.
* *"So this is the power of the Sun...I must say, it's impressive. You're impressive, 'Ama-chan'. Impressively pathetic, that is. Tsk...Should've known that fool wouldn't be able to raise you properly. Why did mortals even worship a pathetic goddess such as yourself evades me. You shouldn't even be considered a minor Kami."* - Izanami to Amaterasu.

* *"I really could care less about the babblings of a spoiled ungrateful princess who hasn't suffered one real hardship in her entire life. Tell me when Susanoo hurts your feelings again so I can 'sympathize'."* - Izanami to Amaterasu.
* *"I understand your pain, but he showed me kindness when no one else would. You can keep hating him, but don't force these emotions onto me. They're yours, not mine." -* Izanami refusing to let Amatsu-Mikaboshi shake her loyalty.
* *"Ah, Auntie Shikone. Right on que. I was practicing how to slowly disembowel vermins." -* Izanami to Ayaka Shikone.
* *"I don't care what your problems are or whatever your agenda is against Master. All I know is that all your angsty nonsense is really getting on my nerves. Here's my suggestion: Fuck. Off." -* Izanami to Shishioka Yukine.
* *"I respect your siblings for the simple reason that they are just following your Mommy's orders. But you? A pitiful primordial god who cries like a kid for his lost toys and nags others? I mean all the disrespect when I say go back to your little shit-stained man-cave that you call a realm. Anymore attempts to mess with me or my Shinigami and I will make sure you get to experience ten times the suffering you enact on those vermin you keep locked in your belly." -* Izanami's warning to Tartarus's Avatar.
* *"Shut your trap. That guy may be a buffoon, a no-good asshat and a backstabbing piece of shit, but he is MY backstabbing piece of shit. And if anyone is sacrificing him for some juvenile ritual, IT'S GOING TO BE ME!" -* Izanami to Xinwang.
* *"Please be careful, Lord of Darkness. If you get anymore edgy than this you'll be cutting yourself before you can destroy anyone."* - Izanami roasting Erebus for Thanatos.

* *"I won't let you lay a hand on Ebisu. You no longer have the right to do that. I am the Japanese Death now!"* - Izanami to Shinigami.

## Gallery

Izanami*Cover**Izanami and Ebisu**Izanami design**Izanami in Takamagahara**Izanami wielding Fushigiri**Izanami unsheating Fushigiri**A picture of Izanami**Izanami stretching**Izanami appears in front of Amenominakanushi and Benzaiten**Izanami throws Toshizo**Izanami in Takamagahara**Izanagi seeing Izanami**Izanami manifesting her power**Izanami intimidating Izanagi**Izanami beating Amaterasu in rage**Izanami summons Lord Gasha against Amaterasu**Izanami fighting off her hatred****Izanami** embraces Thanatos while crying**Izanami bites Thanatos**Izanami desperately tries to regenerate Thanatos's arm**Izanami and Thanatos falling**Izanami asks Thanatos if he has one of her Death Notes**Izanami testing Thanatos**Izanami losing herself to desire**Izanami is teased by Thanatos**Izanami crying out of joy**Izanami 'holding hostage' Thanatos**Izanami and Thanatos with animal ears**Izanami tries out Power of the Archreaper on Thanatos**Izanami is hugged by Thanatos from behind**Izanami feeds Thanatos some Dango**Izanami likes Thanatos's present**Izanami's first meeting with Carmilla**Izanami laughs at Carmilla for her complaints**Izanami and Yama clash**Izanami learns how to summons an ayakashi**Izanami kill Heidi**Izanami strikes Xinwang**Izanami putting on a sweet girl act**Izanami and Xinwang clash**Izanami appears behind Xinwang**Izanami protecting her shinigami**Izanami charging into battle**Izanami and her shinigami restrain possessed Ebisu**Izanami catches Ebisu**Izanami and her daughter Ebisu**Izanami comforting Ebisu**Izanami is reminscing while looking at the Moon**Izanami's first meeting with Izanagi**Izanami and Izanagi wedding ceremony**Izanami playing with Ebisu**Izanami fixing Ebisu's hairstyle**Izanami presenting herself to Tokyo Academy**Izanami causing explosions with Power of Archreaper**Izanami activates Power of the Archreaper**Izanami attacks Xinwang**Izanami manifesting Power of the Archreaper**Izanami Shinigami Dress**Izanami sustaining injuries from Xinwang**Izanami's aura of Power of the Archreaper**Izanami lets Heidi hit her**Izanami dodged Heidi's attack**Izanami uses Death's Scythe**Izanami stops Ebisu's attack*

## Trivia

* Izanami likes to watch Halloween movies with Thanatos and Maveth.
* Izanami likes Sakuramochis.
* Her appearance is based on Mahiru Hiragi from **Seraph of the End**.
* Izanami's savagery against those who annoy her is born out of a jaded feeling of depression. Since her death, Izanami's always been either insulted by her fellow Yomi dwellers, mistreated by her own husband, misinterpreted and demonized by her own children and harassed by Tartarus and other Primordial Entities. Because of this, regardless of how powerful the Primordial Entities are, Izanami will always find a way to wound their pride and ego.
	+ Erebus says that 50% of the time Tartarus and all the other underworld gods are throwing a tantrum, it is because of Izanami's antics.
* Izanami's role as a protagonist is similar to Akana Hiyamaand Shiki Ryougi.
* Her theme is **Fate/Grand Order OST. The Garden Of Order -Thanatos.**
* Her body height is [167cm] and body weight [40kg].
* Izanami​ is included amongst the developing list of​ the​ **Top​ 50 Strongest Begins of​ Draconic Deus**:
	+ For now, she is placed as the 32nd strongest being.
* She is one of Antydeth's favourite characters.