A huge castle on the peak of Mt. Erebus?, Simurgh is a village contained within the walls of an ancient Svargan fortress. This is where the Tseiqami clan lives, a reclusive avian Pasu tribe. Mysterious and furtive, the mystical Tseiqami send down their adolescents as a form of coming-of-age rite to prove themselves in the world, mirroring the nesting instinct of their wildlife counterparts.