Shiinen Ra

The Shiinen Ra is a prestigious weapon belonging to the Ikaera family.

Appearance
The Shiinen Ra is a total of 31" from tip to tip. The hilt is 9" long, gold in color and engraved with an eleven-legged dragon rising up from the small guard and curling around the hilt.The blade is silver in color, not serrated and sharp only on a single side. The tapering blade is a total of 22" long.

Mythology
In the MRU, during the events that take place in Sura Naii, it is revealed that the Shiinen Ra is the mortal incarnation of the legendary prison of gods, Temperance.

In Miranen mythology, the thirteen Haltai banded together to create a perfect being. At the last moment, Haro, the god of justice, abstained from contributing. Following his example, his lover Delphai, goddess of love, also abstained. The resulting creature was the demon Sura Naii. Since Haro and Delphai had not contributed to its creation, the creature lacked any sense of right or wrong. Angered by its own imperfection, it overthrew the gods and destroyed them entirely.

Since gods cannot be destroyed, they were instead encompassed in an eternal prison, Temperance. The creation of this and the destruction of the gods took all the strength Sura Naii possessed, causing it to lie dormant within Temperance, which fell from the skies into the world of mortals.

Temperance, referred to as the Shiinen Ra in the MRU stories, is this particular prison.

Ownership
The Shiinen Ra is traditionally one of the weapons used by Hange-Runec Ikaera III. When his daughter, Kidari Shinem-Ikaera, Ura de, turned six, he gifted the knife to her. The weapons whereabouts were lost between the events of the Sura Naii timeline and that of Amnesia.