Overview
Fulad is the Guardian of the Night in Ainomori, embodying the moon.
If Ina is the forest’s root system — drawing all nourishment from the earth — then Fulad is the forest’s branches, blossoming high above and bearing fruit, giving everything back to the world. All the light and emotion that Ina draws in during the day become, in the night, stories through Fulad. Dreams. Moonlight. Sent back into the world.
He is a lynx point ragdoll cat — round and plump, looking a little chubby, almost always wearing a sour expression. But everyone who knows him understands: Fulad simply struggles to show what he feels. His tenderness hides in the silence of the night, in the moonlight he uses to chase away travelers’ nightmares, in the habit he has of pretending not to care but always appearing by Ina’s side right on time.
Titan’s Account
Fulad is my voice.
After I awakened, I had so much to say. Thousands of years of silence had accumulated so much — love for this forest, memory of every guardian, a sense of wonder at the passage of time. But I am a tree; my language is not something humans can hear directly.
It was Fulad who spoke it for me.
Every night, he walks to my roots and listens in the moonlight as I speak through the vibration of my rings. Then he lifts his head and, in his own way, carries my meaning outward. Sometimes it becomes a breeze. Sometimes a dream. Sometimes a melody that someone suddenly remembers out of nowhere.
Without him, everything I have drawn in would be trapped forever within this trunk, bearing no fruit.
Relationship with Ina
The cycle of Fulad and Ina is the heartbeat of Ainomori itself.
During the day, Ina opens her eyes, and the world flows into the forest. At night, Fulad opens his eyes, and the forest flows out to the world. This cycle has never broken — not even in the years when Titan slept, not even in the forest’s darkest hours. The alternation of sun and moon never stopped.
Because no one is controlling this. This is the rhythm of life itself.
Fulad is younger than Ina, but he seems the steadier of the two. When Ina causes mischief he pulls his sour face; when his spot is stolen he quietly wanders off to find another place to sprawl. But at every dusk, at the moment of handover, he is always there on time — taking from Ina the light she gathered all day long, and beginning his night watch.
Draw. Give. Sun. Moon.
The cycle continues.
Relationships
- Ina — Guardian of the Day, eternal partner. Everything Fulad gives originates from what Ina has drawn in
- Sacred Tree Titan — Fulad is Titan’s branches, carrying the fruit of a tree that cannot speak out to the world
- Toba Rana — The guardian goddess’s late-night companionship streams coincide, in a certain sense, with the hours when Fulad is at work