Talk:Yatagarasu's Feather/@comment-5782071-20161109020056/@comment-24588058-20161111144336

Here's the trouble we are faced with if we assume that this feather belonged to a three-legged crow of Emperor Jimmu: that bird helped him on his journey to become Japan's first emperor, and he never went insane (at least, no record I've seen says he did; he died at 126, according to some sources).

I can see as stated above that the effects are derived from the Chinese legend, but here's the problem I have with that (though, granted, one easily fixed): the names don't line up. Yatagarasu is the name of the three-legged crow in Japan, and it is a symbol of guidance, and also of rebirth and rejuvenation. On the other hand, the three-legged crow in the Chinese legends is called Yangwu. These crows (a total of ten at the beginning) were blinded because they loved to feast on two grasses of immortality. One day, all ten crows came out at the same time, causing the world to burn; all but one of the crows were killed. The Chinese legend, of course, makes more sense; shouldn't the name be changed to match?

Which brings us back around to Garr's above comment of the canon wiki calling this "Emperor Jimmu's feather". Based on everything we know about Japanese legends (and I refer in this case specifically to Jimmu), then this feather cannot belong to him. Now, he could have a feather to his name; however, in that case we need to clearly separate the two. Jimmu's feather is, most likely, not worthy of Dark Vault classification, either.