Cikap

> Father you know I love our creations, but can't you see what they're doing to our people, our loyal followers are being slaughtered! I know violence should be avoided but at this point how're the Ainu supposed to survive?
>
> Cikap.

**Cikap** is the leader of the Kamui venerated in the Ainu religion.

## Overview

Cikap is an Owl god of the Ainu religion. Representing material success, Cikap is the overseer of both the Kamui and Humanity, being the **right hand** of Kotan-kar. Cikap is also regarded as the god of the land or earth as well, watching over the humans who live on it.

Cikap was a Kamui that was predominately worshipped by the Ainu people of Japan.

## Appearance

Cikap is said to be a japanese Ural owl, though its mainly depicted in art as a horned owl. CIkap is also depicted as crying tears of silver from his left eye and crying tears of gold from his right.

## Personality

Cikap is a born leader, respectfully listening to any who need his ear. He's caring to those close to him, however that doesn't stop him from dealing out punishments when needed.

Cikap is known to talk in long winded sentences, much to the chagrin of his subordinates and siblings.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Manipulation of Owls:** he is able to control owls and order them to attack Adversaries or simply fly into enemies causing mortal wounds.
* **Ancestor Physiology:** As the originator of the Owl Species, Cikap is capable of giving life to an inexhaustible number of owls, Cikap can use these Owls as his eyes and ears Extending the reach of his senses.
* **Geokinesis:** Capable of Manipulating the very earth to use several different attacks and abilities such as the ability to create and manipulate islands and Golem creation.

## History

Cikap was created by Kotan-kar at the beginning of creation, his role was to be the leader of the Kamui and overseer of humanity. He would make sure that humanity followed the rituals to pay respect for the gods, and he watched over both parties and punished them for their misdeeds.

After the Virtuous Kamui's rule was cemented Kotan-kar asked the Kamui populate the world. However Cikap only created one species; the Horned Owl. However in order to trick humanity, many of the Evil Kamui attempted to disguise themselves in the visage of a Horned Owl, failing to recreate the regal form of the species the Evil Kamui created the other kinds of Owls that populate the world, becoming omens of evil rather than the protective omen of the Horned Owl.

One day a famine broke out across the world, worrying Cikap. In response the god decided to send a message to the heavens to inquire the origin of the famine. However his message was long, which caused the first messenger; the crow to fall asleep on the 3rd day of transcribing the message. Cikap then tried a mountain jay, however the mountain jay fell asleep too on the 4th day. Cikap then tried with the dipper bird, who successfully transcribed the entire six days of messages. The dipper bird returned swiftly with a relatively short answer to Cikap's question. It turns out that humanity had hunted a deer or fish without giving it the proper respect it needed. Cikap then had them preform a ritual for the slain animal, causing the Kamui's famine to disperse.

## Trivia

* The word Cikap means bird in the Ainu language.