Queen Yakei

Yakei is the gluttonous and fearsome leader of the largest sarugami tribe in the Tekkanese islands, an expansive group of demonic macaques that ravage the mountain sides for human trinkets and flesh. When the previous patriarch was hunted by a samurai, causing an immense power vacuum within the troop. and ensued a civil war. Despite the title of leader of the Sarugami exclusively being a patriarch, Yakei pried herself through the ranks by adopting the same weapons and tools used by the samurai that felled the previous ruler. Becoming one of the few instances of yokai using human smithing and technology to their liking.