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==Background Information==
==Background Information==
===Name===
===Name===
''Okina'' is the name of a type of ritualized [[wikipedia:Noh]], derived from Shinto. ''Matara'' is from the first part of ''Matara-jin'', on whom Okina is based.
''Okina'' is the name of a type of ritualized [[wikipedia:Noh|Noh]], derived from Shinto. ''Matara'' is from the first part of ''Matara-jin'', on whom Okina is based.


===Origin===
===Origin===

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摩多羅 (またら) 隠岐奈 (おきな)
Okina Matara

Matara Okina
The Ultimate, Absolute Secret God
More Character Titles

Species

Secret God

Abilities

Creating doors on the back of anything

Location

Land of Rear Doors

Music Themes
Appearances
Official Games

Okina Matara (摩多羅 またら Matara Okina) is the main antagonist of Hidden Star in Four Seasons. She is a God and one of the Sages of Gensokyo.

General Information

Okina appeared as the Final Boss and Extra Stage Boss in Hidden Star in Four Seasons.

A God of many faces and roles, she has remained out of sight for some time. In the past, she was one of the Sages of Gensokyo behind its creation. Ever since, she has maintained its balance and protected it from the Outside World.

Personality

She is said to be a classic God, having no mercy for those who disrespect her, and blessings for those who revere her. Though "hidden", she is ostentatious, confident and prideful, wanting to stand out and make herself known to others. Seemingly dismissive and even insulting toward her servants, she also seems to pity them, wanting to free them of their servitude under her. However, she has also used many before in this role, and believes those she recruits have no right to refuse her.

Abilities

Creating doors on the backs of anything

An ability similar to Yukari Yakumo's Gaps. Plants and causes a door to appear on the back of anything, even living beings. This allows Okina to travel wherever she wishes, or to send something somewhere else, as long as a door is attached. For example, the door of the seasons that gives the player character their ability to use a season's ability allowed Okina to expel the player character away to where they gained their ability. Okina even steals the magic from the character that was gathered through the use of the season's door.

The doors connect to the extradimensional Land of Rear Doors (後戸の国 Ushirodo-no-Kuni), through which a number of other doors of Okina's creation is accessible.

Controlling vitality and mental energy

Entrusted to Satono Nishida (mental energy) and Mai Teireida (vitality), the two bring out the latent ability and potential of all things through their hectic background dance. Somehow, Okina also uses this ability to maintain Gensokyo's balance.

Background Information

Name

Okina is the name of a type of ritualized Noh, derived from Shinto. Matara is from the first part of Matara-jin, on whom Okina is based.

Origin

She is based on Matara-jin (摩多羅神), an obscure, multifaceted God primarily of the esoteric Tendai Buddhism sect, introduced by Ennin. Commonly seen with two servants, Teireita and Nishita, Matara-jin came to be called, associated, conflated with or the patron of many assorted things and deities.

Design

Okina's Appearances

Games

Hidden Star in Four Seasons

Okina emerges from obscurity, wanting to find new replacements for her servants, Satono and Mai. She orders her servants to plant doors on the backs of others and empower them, with the purpose of bringing out their best to see if they are worthy of being Okina's servant. Empowered fairies cause the seasons to go haywire, which causes the player characters to act. Deeming the player characters unworthy, she defeats them by taking the power they've gathered and expelling them to the beginning using the door of seasons planted on their backs. However, after gathering the boundary between seasons instead, the player then returns and defeats her. This is merely an excuse, though. Okina's true goal is to stand out and make a show of her power, to engrave herself in the hearts and minds of everyone in Gensokyo once again.

Relationships

Satono Nishida and Mai Teireida

Loyal servants of Okina. Vessels of her power, they act as extensions of her and unflinchingly obey her orders. They seemingly lack the free will to question otherwise. They are becoming less human due to Okina's influence and have little memory of their past, yet maintain their personalities. Whether because they're no longer useful or she pities them, Okina seeks to find replacements for them, as she does periodically. However, after failing to find any, she is fine with retaining them. Satono and Mai do not know they are searching for their own successors.

Minor Relationships

Yukari Yakumo

Another one of the youkai sages. It's implied in Reimu's extra stage in Hidden Star in Four Seasons that the two are familiar with each other.

Spell Cards

Additional Information

Fandom

Official Profiles

Hidden Star in Four Seasons - omake.txt (Stage 6)
name  ○6面ボス  究極の絶対秘神

  摩多羅 隠岐奈
  Matara Okina

  種族:秘神
  能力:あらゆるものの背中に扉を作る程度の能力

  万物の背中に潜む秘神。
  表の顔は、地母神、能楽の神、星の神、養蚕の神、障碍の神、被差別民の神、等多岐にわたる。

  本当の正体は誰も知らない。
  その正体を見てはいけない、聞いてはいけない、語ってはいけない、究極の秘神である。

  しかし、秘神とはいえ隠れている訳では無い。
  時として大々的に表に出てきて、存在を誇示するのである。

  今回の目的は、里乃と舞の後継者を探すためと言っているが、後継者など、見つから
  なければそのまま二人にやらせれば良いのだ。

  本当の目的は目立つことである。
  目立って、幻想郷の人間、妖怪、そして賢者達の記憶に刻み込むのである。
  後継者は見つからなかったようだが、そちらの目的は達成されたように見える。

  そして彼女は今の幻想郷を作った賢者の一人でもある。
  幻想郷を外の世界から守り、その何処にでも移動出来て、気付かないうちに生命力も
  精神力もコントロールしてしまう不思議な能力で、幻想郷のバランスを取る役目を
  負っている。
  普段の雑用は手足となる二童子(里乃と舞)に任せている。

  ぞんざいに扱うものには容赦無く、うやうやしく扱ってくれるものには恩恵を授ける。
  敵にすると恐ろしく、味方にすると頼もしい典型的な神様である。

Stage 6 Boss: The Ultimate, Absolute Secret God

Okina Matara

Species: Secret God
Ability: Capable of creating doors on the back of anything

A hidden god who lurks behind all things in creation.
She has a wide range of public faces-- an Earth mother goddess, a god of noh, a god of stars, a god of silkworm breeding, a god of hindrances, a god of discriminated peoples, et cetera.

Nobody knows what her true nature really is.
She's the ultimate secret god, whose true form must never be seen, heard, or spoken of.

Her status as a "secret god" doesn't mean she's hiding or anything, though.
At times, she makes ostentatious public appearances to show off her grand presence.

She claims that her objective was to find successors for Satono and Mai, but if she ended up unable to find any suitable successors, she'd be fine making the two servants continue to work for her.

Her true goal was to stand out.
To make a big show of herself, and engrave herself into the memories of every human, youkai, and sage in Gensokyo.
It seems she didn't find any successor servants in the end, but it appears that her latter goal was well and truly achieved.

She is also one of the sages who created the Gensokyo of today.
She protects Gensokyo from the outside world, can move anywhere she likes, and at some point without realizing it at first, she gained a mysterious power to control both vitality and mental energy, which she uses for her duty of keeping Gensokyo's balance intact.
Her menial tasks are usually entrusted to her two douji servants that wait upon her (ie. Satono and Mai).

She shows no mercy to those who act rudely to her, and grants blessings to those who treat her with reverence.
Fearsome as an enemy and reliable as an ally, she's the classic example of a god.

Hidden Star in Four Seasons - omake.txt (Extra Stage)
name  ○エキストラボス  究極の絶対秘神

  摩多羅 隠岐奈
  Matara Okina

  背中の季節は彼女の用意した罠であった。
  主人公は隠岐奈の用意した季節の罠を逆に利用して再戦に挑む。

  その事態に、季節の魔力で追い返すことは諦め、究極の秘神は真の正体を現した。
  それはまさに表の顔のままの、混沌とした神の姿の集合体であった。

  そういえば、秘神ではあるが彼女は隠れているわけでは無いのだ。
  最初から、全てを見せている秘神なのだ。

Extra Boss: The Ultimate, Absolute Secret God

Okina Matara

The seasons on our heroines' backs were a trap that Okina had arranged.
Our protagonist used Okina's season trap to her own advantage, and challenged her for a rematch.

At this, the ultimate secret god agreed to refrain from chasing the protagonist off with the seasons' magic power, and revealed her true form.
It was a chaotic fusion of many gods' forms, every bit the same as the face she shows publicly.

Speaking of which, she may be a "secret god," but she's not hiding.
From the very beginning, she was a secret god who put everything she has out in plain sight.

Official Sources

Official sources

References