Ainu

The Ainu were the aboriginal people of Japan.

Remnants of their culture in Hokkaido suggested that during the Tokugawa shogunate, they hosted a powerful force that kept watch over The Gauntlet. The entry for the Gods of the Ainu in The Book of the War was missing. (PROSE: The Book of the War)

Philemon Smallcoate had studied the Ainu, Mayakai, and Hawaiians. (PROSE: T. memeticus: A Morphology)

During Michael Brookhaven's production of Mujun: The Ghost Kingdom, the plot was interrupted by Chris Cwej's appearance and Brookhaven's own entry into the story. Their battle was slowly surrounded by many ainu, depicted as generic Hollywood warrior-natives, before the manifestation of their god. (PROSE: The Book of the War)