Shiro Motoori

A diligent second-year student from Shinjuku Academy who is also the representative of his class. His full name is Shiro Motoori (本居シロウ). He shares his surname with Norinaga Motoori (本居 宣長), an 18th century scholar who was famous for his annotation of the Kojiki Shiro's Sacred Artifact, a magical tome, is a reference to a famous artifact in lovecraftian horror called the Necronomicon where the book contains accounts of the Great Old Ones, their history, and their means of summoning them. Though not in its original incarnations, popular depictions have caused it to garner the side effect of causing madness to whoever read it as well as being bound in leather with the appearance of a mutilated face. In the Lovecraftian universe, the book was written by the "Mad Arab" named Abdul Alhazred, which was the pen name Shiro used during his anonymous online conversations with another person with the pen name Cain. The design of the of the Necronomicon is based on it's incarnation from the movie, Evil Dead. Abdul was described as having worshipped Yog-Sothoth and as such, when Shiro caused an Exception, Yog-Sothoth was summoned. Shiro's summoning mark is on the palm of his right hand, it has the appearance of a semicircle with a face of the Evils he summons. His Role is "Gatekeeper" and his Rule is "Resurrection" Though there is a trend with the five Oath Akashic Records that uses the Rules of the respective character appearing in it in the title and that Shiro's is Oath of Pioneer suggesting that his Rule was changed to "Pioneer" from "Resurrection". The same Akashic Record describes Yog-Sothoth as the "Gatekeeper", which is a reference on the summoning of Yog-Sothoth text revealed in The Dunwich Horror written by Lovecraft, that describes Yog-Sothoth as "Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth." Shiro's Charge Skill "Five Books of Madness"