Tsukuyomi (Dragalia Lost)

Necromancy

Manipulation

Brainwashing

Complete control over the Yomi

Yomi chi manipulation

Summoning

Regeneration

Flight

### Goals

Take over the entire world by corrupting all humanoids into zombiesDefeat her sister Amaterasu(both failed)

### Crimes

MurderConspiracy

Usurpation

Tyranny

Mass destruction

Brainwashing

Assault

Attempted mass murder

Attempted omnicide

Malefic

**Tsukuyomi** is a minor antagonist in *Dragalia Lost*, being the overarching main antagonist of the entire Hinomoto arc, as well as the main antagonist of the *Celestial Showdown* event. Unlike her mostly kind and compassionate brethren, Tsukoyomi is a bloodthirsty and power-hungry dragon who is willing to do anything needed to achieve total domination.

She was voiced in Japanese and English by two uncredited voice actresses.

## Appearance

Tsukuyomi is a dragon resembling a giant, voluptuous woman with pointed ears with earrings, four purple horns with piercings as well as long purple hair tied into two braids. She has a long, white tail with black markings and wears a black and white kimono held with a red obi. Behind her floats a giant, jewelled moon made of gold and she is often seen carrying a miniature manifestation of the full moon which is shrouded in shadow.

## Personality

Tsukuyomi is a haughty and arrogant dragon who looks down on people as nothing more than pawns to serve her, and is surprised when they manage to injure her. She is shown to be quite sadistic, using yomi mana to manipulate people which, as seen from Shingen, seems to be a painful process in which she puppets them while they remain fully conscious. She is also very power-hungry, so much so that she committed suicide just to gain full control over the Underworld and spread her influence. Tsukuyomi is incredibly selfish as while she desired a dragon-ruled world, this was only so that she could rule over all dragons and humanoids alone and she showed no gratitude towards her minions the Mukuroshu, planning to kill them off anyways.

## Biography

### Background

Tsukuyomi was born to the ancestral dragons Izanami and Izanagi along with her twin sister Amaterasu. The two ruled over Hinomoto: the island realm their parents created, but in time Amaterasu sought peace with the humans, while Tsukuyomi desired complete draconic rule, and the two, unable to agree, started the War of Heaven and Earth, with Amaterasu emerging victorious and sealing her sister away in a dark and desolate cave, though in regret, she would vow never to interact with humans again.

However, a hundred years from the present, during a great war, a man by the name of Benkei arrived at Tsukuyomi's cave, seeking her to grant his dying mistress and Rooster clan leader, Yoshitsune some water enriched with her mana, which would not only fully restore Yoshitsune's wounds but grant her immortality. Tsukuyomi accepts, but as payment she demands that Benkei fetch her an Underworld Key, which he agrees to and grants her. However, to open the gates to the Yomi Tsukuyomi needed vast amounts of mana, or chi, with its flow being blocked by the cave surrounding her, so, by committing suicide, she used her own chi to use the Underworld key, with her own mana mixing with the Yomi chi, reviving her and allowing her complete control of the underworld.

The shogunate would search for Tsukuyomi for the next century, but to no avail, with Amaterasu also being unable to intervene due to her body being destroyed from forming a soul pact with the shogun, breaking her promise. Meanwhile, Tsukuyomi would lie in wait in the Yomi, forming the organisation Mukuroshu to serve her in the mortal realm and find a way to open the gates of the underworld. The Wyrmclan leader Yoshitsune also joins in the Mukuroshu to help release her, although she still helps the shogunate track Tsukuyomi as she wishes to finally die after living for a century.

### Celestial Showdown

With preparations complete, the Mukuroshu open rifts to the Yomi, with zombies pouring out of them and the Yomi chi flowing throughout Hinomoto through mana streams. Amaterasu orders her emissary Izumo, the Tiger clan leader Shingen and his apprentice and Monkey clan leader Yukimura to travel to Alberia whilst giving New Year's gifts and close off the Yomi chi's flow in the mana founts there, whilst the other Wyrmclan leaders anticipate the attacks of the Mukuroshu. Together with Euden and his friends, they stop the flow and travel back to Hinomoto to combat the root of the problem, setting up a stealth barrier and camping in the bamboo forest. However, the barrier is removed somehow and the Mukuroshu kidnap the party, bringing them to a place where they intend to free her, intending on sacrificing them as an offering.

Tsukuyomi reveals herself, remarking about how much she missed the moon of the living world. Shingen explains the story of her imprisonment, but as Izumo is confused by how she escaped, she tells him the story of her suicide and escape to the Yomi. She declares herself new ruler of the world, and that with the Mukuroshu, she will overthrow the shogunate and kill all humanoids, reviving them as her undead puppets while lording over all dragonkind. Shingen argues back, stating that without a true people, her kingdom is no kingdom at all, causing her to angrily lash at him. Fortunately, Fudo Myo-o, Shingen's pactwyrm, arrives and frees the gang, who ready to attack Tsukuyomi.

Despite their efforts, the gang are unable to defeat the wicked dragon so they retreat, with Shingen protecting their rear and stalling Tsukoyomi. However, he is badly beaten and she corrupts him into a puppet using her Yomi chi, making him attack Fudo Myo-o when she arrives to back him up. In the meantime, Izumo's split personality, Oki takes over him when he talks to his reflection in the Eight-Span Mirror after getting in an argument with Yukimura. Oki reveals that he was the one who freed Tsukuyomi, with the Eight-Span Mirror also containing the Underworld Key, as well as that he was the one who let down the barrier and allowed them to get captured. However, when the party try to confront him, a mind-controlled Shingen arrives and attacks, forcing Yukimura to fight her master.

As she fights her master, Shingen manages to regain consciousness long enough to encourage Yukimura, telling her that her stubbornness is her true strength and that she has already surpassed him. Filled with determination, she thanks him for his encouragement and, filled with determination, enters a new state when empowered with the twin bloods of the Tiger and Monkey clans ands the final blow, seemingly killing Shingen. Yukimura also manages to console Izumo for feeling trapped and apologizes for calling him a coward, allowing him to break free of Oki's control. To everybody's surprise, Shingen gets back up on his feet, fully conscious. He initially assumes Yukimura missed his vital organs on purpose, but when she reveals that she hit them very hard, a healed Fudo Myo-o arrives and reveals that the numerous protection seals she stuck in Shingen's armor protected him, with Yukimura's powerful attack dispelling the Yomi chi.

Coming up with a plan to defeat Tsukuyomi, Izumo reveals that he has some knowledge of Oki's memories, and knows that the evil dragon restores herself with Yomi chi after every duel, ensuring her survival and thus to kill her, they must isolate her in a realm without access to it. Coming up with an idea, Izumo brings the party to the realm Amaterasu inhabits: Takamagahara, a realm created from the last remaining bits of chi she possesses. Together with Shingen, they plan to lure Tsukuyomi into this realm and trap her inside, where she is separated from her Yomi chi. Breaking into the overtaken shogun's palace, they head straight to Tsukuyomi and with Izumo activating his mirror, traps her inside Takamagahara. However, even without her chi, Tsukuyomi is still very powerful and manages to alter the realm to her desire, gloating over her victory until Amaterasu informs the party that all the Wyrmclan leaders and people of Hinomoto are rooting for them, empowering them with the combined will of both human and dragon before they charge into battle.

Despite repeatedly regenerating, Amaterasu reveals that Tsukuyomi's strength has been greatly drained and that from here on, she will take care of her. Declaring to put an end to the War of Heaven and Earth, she renounces Tsukuyomi as her sister and expresses her regret for allowing her mercy. Expelling the party from Takamagahara, she begins to collapse the realm made from the last of her power, killing Tsukuyomi as well as herself, ending the threat of the wicked moon dragon once and for all.

### Legacy

Despite her death, Tsukuyomi's influence would still echo greatly throughout the entirety of Hinomoto, with the Wyrmclan leaders and shogunate on high alert for Mukuroshu attacks, with their agents still on the loose. Yoshitsune is also granted her wish of finally becoming mortal again, with Tsukuyomi's immortality-granting chi dissipating once she dies, which means the Wyrmclan leader, thanks to bearing no heir, will soon pass away and her entire clan and territory shall be returned to the shogunate till a successor can be found to forge a pact with her pactwyrm Kurama.

## Trivia

* Tsukuyomi's sprite has apparently existed in-game since its launch, being hidden in one of the files. However, her old sprite has some differences to her more recently released sprite.