The world forgot my name, but they remembered my sins. But of course they did. Nations fell, people were slaughtered, all in the name of the Darkened Moon. That's how they remember me, now, the monster under the bed of every naughty boy and girl in the Moon-Soaked Shore. But that was then, and this is now. Now, I'm finally free from that gods forsaken prison they locked me in, and I am never going back. If I have to fight every cultivator, yokai, and spirit beast to keep my freedom, so be it. Tainted though it may be, I will let my light shine once more. I am Tsuyuki Yoru, Avatar of the Moon. For a thousand thousand moons, Tsuyuki Yoru languished in a prison built by the cleverest minds of the cultivation world. As prisoner and power source, he held no hope of escaping the Labyrinth, and so resolved to waste away eternity within its tormenting walls. But, an unlikely ray of hope shone down upon him when a young cultivator happened upon his prison, giving him the chance to escape! Now, freed and bound to the young Tenri Lin, he must find his way in the world where time has left him behind, where his very name is a curse upon the land, and his vile deeds are carved into legend. With a target painted on his back, he must accept back the dark powers that forever scribed him in history's books, but can he turn his fate around? Can he help enough people to make up for the lives he slaughtered in a bygone era?  [participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge]