Izanami

The white dragon emperor, also known as the priestess Izanami in Japanese culture, is the first dragon created by Nidhogg. She is the *spirit* elemental dragon. Herzog managed to bring her back by transforming himself into a White Emperor.

#### Ancient history

She was said to be a ruthless leader, more people died under her rule than under Nidhogg's. She was also capable of resisting the controlling effect of the black king's words and organized a massive rebellion that turned one third of the dragons against him. To turn humanity to her side, Izanami made them a false promise of freedom.

The white empress ultimately lost the war and was imprisoned in the ice by her maker, who nailed her to a copper pillar. Nidhogg then made two one-hundred-kilometers-deep cracks at the bottom of the ocean, turning her prison into the coldest ocean in the world (presumably the north of Iceland). The pillars were visible from Europe, with black clouds making a permanent blizzard to reinforce the cage.

After six epochs, her power was finally exhausted, so Nidhogg sank her into a volcano at the bottom of the sea, turned her to ashes and swallowed them.

Contrary to the other dragons, she wasn't subject to the twins in the throne rule, and employed a parasitic technique to preserve her genes and ensure her rebirth. Before her death, she was found by a Japanese human named Izanagi. She gave him her blood and bones to provide him with power and immortality. In reality, this allowed Izanami to protect her genetic makeup in the young human. Her plan was to be reborn as an eight-headed snake and consume her hybrid descendants, recovering her full strength.

This plan was temporarily foiled when Izanagi decided to ignore her bones, hiding them at the bottom of a well. Through Izanami's blood alone, he obtained enough power to become the first Shadow Emperor, ultimately passing down the empress' blood to his three children: Susanoo, Tsukiyomi and Amaterasu. Izanami's remains were kept under the now called *Well of Bones* and the city of Takamagahara was built on top of it by Japanese hybrids, all of whom possessed her blood.

Izanagi ordered his three children to protect the world. In his deathbed, he remembered the white empres's promise of immortality and he went back to the well, coming into contact with her bones. He was finally caught in her trap and transformed into the *eight-headed snake,* a reborn, yet incomplete white king. In order to finish his transformation, he needed to consume those who shared the rest of its genes: Susanoo, Tsukiyomi and Amaterasu.

Izanagi brought chaos to his lands. His children took him to a Mercury alchemic field and Susanoo defeated him, only for the snake's bones to transform him into the snake as well. His siblings took him to the city of Takamagahara, where they defeated their brother using Shiva's dance and Guixu, sinking the city and burying his remains.

#### 2011 mission.

An Ace team sent by Cassell College, in collaboration with the Yamata no Orochi, attempted to locate her embryo at the bottom of the Japanese trench, finding the remains of Takamagahara.

They located the Lenin, a Russian missing ship that carried a dragon embryo, offered as a sacrifice to awaken the eight-headed snake. These events happened all according to Herzog's plans, the dragon blood also awakened an army of dragon corpses and they foiled Cassell's operation.

The eight-headed snake swam upstream through the Akagi River until it reached the water deposits under Mount Fuji, the gestation chamber built by Izanami thousands of years ago. This space called "The Well of Bones" was filled with chemicals and minerals that could be consumed by the snake to complement its growth, and it was guarded by thousands of dragon subspecies.

   Researchers and excavators of the Yamata no orochi discovered Ghost-toothed Dragon Vipers in the Akagi river and they were annihilated by the creatures. This event revealed the location of the snake and Shio Miyamoto devised a plan to kill it by pouring hundreds of tons of mercury into the water. The Mou Kishu attempted to stop this by financing their own secret excavation, and even came close to killing Miyamoto, but they were stopped by Zero, allowing Shio to finish his mission.
Herzog had to act quickly, he poured Death Servitor blood, as well as a few drops of Ruri Kazama's blood. The Eight-Headed Snake survived and covered the entirety of Mount Fuji in a spiderweb-like silk. Its awakening started a series of natural disasters, a tsunami flooded Tokyo and a storm engulfed the whole region. The Oni of the Mou Kishu attempted but failed to capture the snake, and it was killed by Ruri Kazama, who cut all of its heads.

    A small parasite was extracted from the snake's corpse but it failed to find a suitable host, since most of the Oni weren't strong enough. Ruri Kazama destroyed the parasite, which greatly angered Herzog, but its skeleton managed to move on its own and reach Erii Uesugi, (Herzog's recreation of Tsukiyomi). Erii got covered in a silk cocoon and Herzog sacrificed both Chime Gen, and Chisei Gen (recreations of Susanoo and Amaterasu) by throwing them at the silk to have their blood drained by Erii.

With Izanagi's genes now recovered and their toxicity reduced through Erii, Herzog exchanged his blood for hers and transformed into the new White King. Despite displaying great amounts of power, he was ultimately weakened by the fusion of Lu Mingfei and Lu Mingze, who placed him under the direct impact of the Scourge's projectiles, provided by the Gattuso family, which killed him for good.