Day of Tranquility

This page contains spoilers for Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse.

Date of Event: First occurrence unknown; second occurrence September 17, 1970s
Location: Rogetsu Isle
Game: Fatal Frame IV

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The Day of Tranquility (called the Day Without Suffering in fan translations) was a disaster that occurred on two separate occasions on Rogetsu Isle. The first was during Soetsu Yomotsuki's era, and the second during Soya Yomotsuki's.

First Day of Tranquility and Aftermath

Soetsu Yomotsuki, at the time the head of the Yomotsuki family and master of their traditional mask-making methods, made a Mask of the Lunar Eclipse for the Rite of Descent. The ritual failed, and a disaster occurred, called the "Day of Tranquility." This disaster struck fear into the islanders, who blamed the unearthly mask. Soetsu disappeared and was never heard from again. His mask disintegrated into ash, and both the mask and ritual became taboo.

Welcoming outsiders to Rogetsu Isle was seen as an opportunity to acquire the resources needed to recover. Eventually, even the Kiraigou was partly resurrected in the form of the Rogetsu Kagura, a largely decorative performance, but certain superstitions about the Day of Tranquility remained.

Second Day of Tranquility

Generations later, in the 1970s, Shigeto Haibara sought out the help of Soya Yomotsuki in reviving the Ceremony. Using the Camera Obscura to reveal the past, they were able to restore old documents and obtain images of Soetsu's Mask of the Lunar Eclipse. Believing that something was missing from Soetsu's mask and that it was not truly "complete," Soya set about making the "true" Mask of the Lunar Eclipse. An artist hospitalized at Rogetsu Hall, Yuko Magaki, claimed to have had a vision of a woman in red with a blurred face bringing disaster to the island.

Soya gave the completed Mask of the Lunar Eclipse to Shigeto, saying he would pray that the ritual was a success. However, this Ceremony also failed, and Sakuya Haibara, the Vessel in the ritual, fell into a coma-like state between life and death. Soya realized that this was a repetition of the disaster caused by his ancestor, and waited for the end to come.

Two years after the failed Rite of Descent, Sakuya awoke and broke out of the basement shrine where she had been confined for two years, and the Day of Tranquility came again. Starting with Rogetsu Hall, she began making her way across the island, "cursing" anyone who saw her face with Blooming, and killing them in the process. Some islanders tried to flee to the tunnels, having heard a legend that those who hid there would be spared, but Sakuya followed them there, too.

While Soya awaited her in the Meditation Cave, he pondered the reason for the ritual's failure, and came to the conclusion that the mask was not to blame, but rather that some other element had been missing: a sound to calm the soul.

Later, a ship named Oboro-maru put in at Rogetsu Isle port, and found many islanders dead, with their hands covering their faces, and many more missing. After a two week investigation, the cause of death could still not be determined, and the only survivor died without revealing anything. The island was abandoned.