Tower of Mourning

The **Tower of Mourning** (弔いの塔, *Tomurai no Tō*?) is a mysterious group made up of dozens of Choujin, which follows Zora and resides inside the Omega Tower.

## Description

The group is led by Zora, a Choujin X from the past who is revered by the group members as 'Holy Mother'. To carry out her plans, she uses dozens of powerful and experienced Choujins under her orders, but she has no problem hiring even mercenary Choujins who are handsomely rewarded. Also inside the Tower, there are dozens of acolytes, Hyena Choujins who venerate the woman like a deity, spending their time addressing their prayers to her and following her orders without hesitation.

Zora seems to have taught to some of the members that the Choujin are made in the image of god and pushes them to become gods themselves, wreaking havoc and indulging their desires to the limit. According to the group, in fact, Choujin are a conduit to god and the state of **Chaos** represents the path to enlightenment and the divine, thus pushing the Choujins to use this power which gradually leads them to lose their humanity and become out of control anomalies.

Even though they share very different ideals and mentalities, the various members seem to be united by the fact that they are outcasts, finding refuge thanks to Zora and now wishing to help protect their new haven, which would be lost if Yamato Mori defeated the woman.

They reside in the Omega Tower, a huge leaning tower in the center of Yamato Prefecture. The facility is effectively a fortress that serves as a base for their operations, experiments, and secrets. It also represents a church for followers of the Zora faith, where they can gather to pray to the Holy Mother.

The also possess ample resources and money, managed by their leading members, allowing them to hire several mercenaries, free their members from prison and cover their tracks without problems. The group has no problem employing means that cause destruction and civilian casualties, all in the name of their leader's cause or for their own self-interest.

The group's symbol, worn by their leader and her acolytes, represents a Christian cross joined with an X, merging Sora Siruha's faith with her being a powerful Choujin X.

* The creature at the heart of the Tower
* The lair of Zora
* The cult of Zora
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## History

At the end of The Great Choujin War, Sora Siruha led Yamato Mori, the organization she had founded, thanks to her powers of foresight. However, another individual capable of making predictions, with greater accuracy than her, appeared, gaining the trust of the Choujins. Even though their most important visions always aligned, Mado didn't see the **Black Calamity**: the prophecy of an out-of-control Choujin who would reduce Yamato Prefecture to a pile of rubble and decay, that the nun received in 1959. After ten years, these differences created divisions within his organization that grew until her faction lost power and was expelled in 1969.

The group was thus effectively born when Sora Siruha, now calling herself Zora, and her followers found refuge at the Omega Tower, a massive leaning tower that defines the landscape of Yamato. After their leader spent decades in despair, having lost the means to prevent the **Black Calamity**, suddenly in 1994 she had a new vision that guided her to get back into action.
Their goal became to find a powerful **Beast Choujin**, capable of receiving Zora's mark, thus preventing the region from being destroyed by the Calamity.

To achieve this they started producing the XEMBER serum, using the blood of Zora, which allows a normal human to turn into a Choujin through infection, guaranteeing them part of Sora's powers, based on their individuality. They would thus begin spreading the drug among Yamato's low-level criminals, causing chaos and instability and hoping for the emergence of an ideal candidate. Another method employed to find the **Beast of Prophecy** was to kill as many humans as possible to force the awakening of any potential Choujins. This method often took the form of hijacking of commercial airliners that are then blown up or crashed, perhaps inspired by the prophecy itself featuring a smoking plane.

However, when it came time to impart Zora's mark to **Beast Choujin**s strong enough, none could handle it and died, accumulating into a pile of dozens of bodies that represented the continued failures of their plan which had been going on for four years without success.
Meanwhile Zora herself continued to lose strength, being forced to divide her power. Finally one day this changed, when Zora was able to sense the awakening of one of her Beasts.

This was indeed Tokio Kurohara, which after being the subject of Noh Mask's experiment through Nari Tsumuji, became the target of the Tower group. After confirming his potential as a **Beast**, the Tower sent Ririka Umezawa and Ricardo Terror, two Choujin mercenaries, to kidnap him but were unsuccessful.

A second attempt took place on the Beast Isles, with a joint action by Noh Mask and Chandra Hume supported by two other Choujin mercenary. This attempt proved better, they managed to trap Tokio and his friends and take them to the Omega Tower. However, when Zora's attempt to convince the boy to take the **Mark** failed, he managed to escape from their clutches. In desperation at not being able to transfer her powers and prevent the impending calamity, Zora even went so far as to attempt to mark her acolytes, with the predictable result of dozens of them perishing.