Nird

Appearance
Nird is a Yokai based on the Japanese Tengu. He has a red body, with yellow eyes framed with black circles. His eyebrows are bushy and cover half his eyes, giving him a frowning look. His beak is partially hidden behind a olive-green book. He is dressed in a Japanese happi coat and white, baggy trousers. He squats and balances on traditional Japanese one-toothed geta sandals and appears to be peering at something behind his book. A pair of red wings stretch out from behind his back.

Origin
Nird is based on a tengu, a highly populated and diverse race of crow-like youkai. More specifically, they resemble the lower caste of tengu, called kotengu (small tengu) but sometimes also karasu-tengu (crow tengu) or konoha-tengu (foliage tengu). Kotengu are bird-like compared to their high-ranked brethren, which are instead humanoid (see Tengu), though they wear the same hermit garbs and tall tengu-geta (one-toothed wooden clogs named after them). They're also sometimes less intelligent and dignified, but they still have their species' proverbial arrogance.

Name Origin

 * "Nird" is a corruption of the word nerd, but also is a portmanteau of nerd and bird.
 * "Yomi Tengu" translates as "reading tengu". Based on its underworld-themed techniques, it's likely also a pun on Yomi, the land of the dead in Shintoism.