Kotan-kar

### Aliases

Kotan-Kar, Kotan-kar-kamui, Kamui, Head of the Kamui, the original Kamui, the Cosmic Trout, The One Who Covers, Demiurge

## Physical Description

### Spirit of

Creation, Life, Death, the Supernatural, the Spiritual

## Relatives

### Offspring

Kandakoro, Cikap, Chironnup, Hasinaw-uk, Hoyau, Huci, Kunnecup, Tokapcup, Yushkep, Repun, Pauchi

**Kotan-kar** is the creator god venerated in the Ainu religion.

## Overview

Kotan-kar is the original Kamui who helped create the Megaverse. Kotan-kar is a mysterious god, as not much is known about them. However Kotan-kar still watches over world through the other Kamui, as all other Kamuy are intermediaries of Kotan-kar.

Kotan-kar was a Kamui that was sparsely worshipped by the Ainu people of Japan. However due to the Japanese suppression efforts on the Ainu, most of the Ainu's people and culture were lost.

## Appearance

Kotan-kar's appearance is unknown due to the lack of information on them.

## Personality

Kotan-kar's exact personality cannot be pinned down, as they're rarely seen. However as the other Kamui speak for them its known that Kotan-Kar cares for the Ainu and the people of the Earth.

By the way other Kamui treat him, it can be extrapolated that Kotan-kar views the Kamui as a father would see his children. Often times doting on them and giving them wisdom. This extends to the life on earth, who the Kamui claim he calls his grandchildren.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Nigh-Omniscience:** Kotan-kar is aware of almost all of the events that have transpired in the infinite chronicles of creation, this ability however was countered by Cupray, who being on a similar power level as Kotan-kar was able to hide its presence from it.
* **Nigh-Omnipotence:** Kotan-kar serves as the pinnacle of power among its pantheon, none (bar Cupray) come even close. Its pool of energy and strength is limitless, being incapable of being phased by anything physical.
* **Nigh-Omnipresence:** Kotan-kar's being exists across all of its creations, as it is the original source of all things.
* **Kamui Physiology:** As the foremost member of the Kamui, Kotan-kar holds the grandest power of nature.
* **Creation:** Kotan-kar is able to manifest anything it so desires, with there being no limits to what or how much it can create. This is seen through it effortlessly creating an infinite number of universes and multiverses without an ounce of effort.
* **Stellar Manipulation:** As his main mode of attack, Kotan-kar manipulates the cosmos and its energies. Often times firing off stars and other planetoids as bullets.
* **Black hole manipulation:** Kotan-kar is able to perfectly control and generate black holes to use as projectiles.

## History

### Creation

In the beginning Kotan-kar birthed its self from nothing. Alone in the void of nothingness Kotan-kar remained formless without a body to call their own, so from its own being Kotan-kar created a body for its sentience to inhabit; a great trout whose size stretched on for infinity. Sprouting from its back flowed Time and Space, forming the infinite cosmos. Despite attaining what it set out to do, Kotan-kar still felt the bitter touch of loneliness. In a single mighty act Kotan-kar birthed the very first of the heavenly Kamui, great beings of light who embodied the very thoughts of Kotan-kar. However the light casted from the Kamui's souls casted dastardly shadows down into the lowest depths of the Cosmic trout, coalescing into the Kunne-Kamui, not even Kotan-kar was safe from this as the darkness within itself from the endless Eons of being alone created the most evil and vile being: Cupray.

The world at first was only a mix of mud and water in a primordial sludge. Eventually Kotan-kar had a flash of inspiration, so he had the Kamui of the sky; Kandakoro send the wagtail Kamui Mosir-kara to form the earth. Mosir-kara then stomped the sludge of the earth with its tail and feet, creating the land and the seas. With that Kotan-kar named the world Moshiri.

However after Mosir-kara was finished the Kunne-kamui rose from their depths and challenged the heavenly Kamui's claim to the world. The debate would be settled with a competition: whoever saw the sun Kamui Tokapcup rise above the horizon would rule the newly created world. Despite Kotan-kar's cries for cohabitation and companionship both sides agreed to the terms, gathering into a great group all staring into the horizon trying to become the first to lay claim to the world. Right before the sun rose one of the heavenly Kamui; Chironnup loudly exclaimed "I see the sun" causing both sides of the Kamui to look over to where he was pointing, causing all of them except Chironnup to miss the true first sunrise. With this the Heavenly Kamui's rule was cemented and the Kunne-Kamui bitterly returned beneath the earth.

Upon the first dawn of the world all the Kamui gathered near Kotan-kar, who gave them the mission of populating the newly created world with life. Each Kamui descended down to the earth and gave life to their own forms of life, populating the world with animals, plants, rivers and mountains.

### Okikurumi and the battle with Cupray

After the death of Okikurumi's biological parents, Kotan-kar asked the sun Kamui Tokapcup and the moon Kamui Kunnecup to parent the orphaned child. Seeing greatness in the young Okikurumi, Kotan-kar watched Okikurumi's exploits in the mortal world.

When the sun and moon dissappeared from the sky, Okikurumi came to heaven to look for Tokapcup and Kunnecup, Kotan-kar informed Okikurumi that a mysterious evil Kamui named Cupray kidnapped both of the luminaries. Kotan-kar summises that since the luminary Kamui both hold up the Spiritual world Cupray's motive was to destroy both the Mortal world and the Spiritual world by crashing them together. When Cikap decided to call the Kamui for all out war against Cupray, Kotan-kar refused to join not wanting to hurt the evil Kamui still believing they could change.

Despite refusing to take part in the war, Kotan-kar watched the battle intensely. They watched as several of their Kamui good and bad die, deciding that enough of their children had died Kotan-kar warped themself to the battlefield, Their arrival caused the army of evil Kamui to sumbit and drop hostilities. Cupray angered by the Evil Kamui losing the will to fight, consumes each one. Kotan-kar then fuses with Okikurumi and battles Cupray, the grand battle ends with Kotan-kar beating Cupray and freeing luminary Kamui and the Evil Kamui.

After the war Kotan-kar returned to the Spiritual world. Despite destroying Cupray in the war, Cupray was reborn in the Underworld, and everday at sunrise Cupray attempted to swallow Tokapcup. Every morning however, Kotan-kar would go down in the form of a flock of crows and banish Cupray back to the underworld.

## Trivia

* The name Kotan-kar can translate to Creator in the Ainu language, directly translating to home maker. adding the title of Kamuy its full name would translate roughly to Creator/Home Maker spirit.