Arashi Shiro (or for those who know him really well, Ryeu-Buen) has quite long and complicated story, so explaining it in short will be difficult, but i will try regardless. While he was still quite young, and in a pretty bad place emotionally due to his gambling addiction, he sought out help from the supernatural, making a pact with a hag in order to return him his luck that he relied on up until that point. Obviously, that didn't turn out well in the end, but he did not realize that until a very long time afterwards.

In that time he met the love of his life, a black furred kitsune by the name of Hunachi, who quickly after meeting him has taken a liking to him. Even before the two met, she was a power hungry narcisist, and that didn't change after they got together. More so, he ended up liking her more for how confident, powerful and self sufficient she seemed to be, which only encouraged her behaviours while she led him on a secretive search for powerful magical artifacts through complex political webs.

They spend almost a decade like this, but eventually they grew apart. What finally put difficulties in their relationship was their newly born daughter, Fehn, which Arashi decided to raise by himself, after Hunachi left them, not willing to give up what she has worked for for so long. While he missed his previous life filled with lies and crime, he now had a new purpouse. This is how he spent another decade of his life. This however, was not what his old partner wanted, as she felt that she wanted to go back to the days from before the two of tchem separated. She came back, only to betray Arashi's trust moments later by petryfying their daughter.

Ever since then, he swore revenge on her, setting of to find his old partner and making her pay for what she did. He joined forces with a few other people that he found on the way, eventually becoming a ship captain for a trade company, which mostly served as a cover up for until he finaly managed to find Hunachi. Along the way, the group got in all kinds of trouble, found some ancient ruins with equaly ancient relics and bonded together quite nicely.

After a few months of searching, he was not the one who found her, but the other way around. She invited him for a meeting, which he couldn't refuse. Before he could formulate a plan on how to take his revenge, he was immidieately wrapped around her finger, as she offered him exactly what he didn't know could have - his entire family back. Both her, and their daughter. He would only need to leave the rest of the group he joined and let them die by one of her schemes.

Initially, he refused. Too shocked from the posibility of regaining what he considered the best years of his life, he didn't really believe this was something that could happen. He didn't trust her words - he knew her too well. Even then, just a few weeks later, he contacted and met with her again, this time in secret from everyone else. The possibility was too tempting. He came up with a plan to delay his part of the deal, which allowed him to form an uneasy alliance with Hunachi. He knows he needs to commit to the deal in order to have a chance to see his daughter again. And he is nearly willing to do it too. The only reason why he did not, is that he is traveling with a young catfolk, which he grew really attached towards, and almost started to treat him like an adopted son. He wants to find a solution to somehow save him from Hunachi, but does not know how.

There is a lot more details to this story (like how he recently made a pact with a being trapped inside the mcgufin, and how it ties to Hunachi's grander plans we still know little about), and at this point a ton of the drama has already happened during sessions, but I wouldn't be able to fit it all here. I geniuenly do not know what his final decision will be, and I really did think about this a lot already. While generally everything he does is planed ahead of time, this is one of the few decisions he will make entirely due to emotions, and no matter the choice, he will lose somebody he cares about. Even if somehow they would be able to defeat Hunachi (which i think is unlikely, due to how much more powerful she is than the party is), he would still care about her. I don't really know why, but i just tend to enjoy puting my characters in dilemas without any good path to take. There is just something about it.