It is uncertain how the spread was contained and the Utsuwa stopped, another Rite of Decent might have been used to stop it, but the majority of the island's inhabitants died, and took with it their culture. Countless islanders died or blossomed themselves as looking on the Vessel drew them straight into death. The original Mask of the Lunar Eclipse disintegrated to ash during the rite, and the Vessel immediately blossomed, spreading to others through Resonance. When the Utsuwa wore this mask for the Rite of Descent, the ritual failed and caused the Day of Tranquility. She would then become a self-sustaining link to the other side, a living vessel overwritten with a song from the dead. Upon donning, the mask would completely wipe the Utsuwa of her entire sense of self, erasing her soul's song. Souetsu intended to substitute the mask because he wanted to create a portal or link to the "Hallowed Lands". Souetsu broke that taboo to create his Mask of the Lunar Eclipse with the face of a dead person corrupted by Getsuyuu Syndrome. While the traditional Utsuwa's Mask was lined with the tanned and purified face of a newly deceased person, it was forbidden for the face of a Budded person to be used. Little is known about it's appearance, except that the mask was black, and had strange, entrancing, affects on those who saw it, who all gave conflicting reports about its expression and appearance. On an unknown date in ancient times, the 7th head of the Yomotsuki clan, Soetsu Yomotsuki, considered an unparalleled genius in his art, created the original Mask of the Luna Eclipse. Rougetsu Island was home to the Yomotsuki clan of traditional mask makers, who used their craft to create the various ceremonial and death masks vital to the island's rites and beliefs.
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