Post by baha on Aug 16, 2006 17:22:59 GMT -5
Chapter 1 - Kitsune
A race native to Japan, Korea, and China though Kitsunes from each country have thier own respective traits. Korean Kitsunes are malevolent beings that are barely ever protrayed nicely Kitsunes in Japan are more kind and may work in shrines to the deity Inari- the Japanese god of rice and grain goods. Inari is often protrayed as a kitsune and he uses kitsunes as messengers.
Kitsunes also have a few sub races as well such as Genko, Kiko, Koryo, Kuko, Nogitsune, Reiko, Shakko, or Tenko. Not much is known on the defining factors of the different kitsune subraces but here are the basics:
Genko– black fox, usually seen as a good omen
Kiko – spirit fox, see Reiko
Koryo – haunting fox, see Reiko
Kuko – air fox, very bad kitsune, considered on the same level as Tengu (Japanese goblins)
Nogitsune – wild fox, used at one time to differ between good and bad foxes. At the time they used ‘kitsune’ to mean a good fox/messenger from Inari and nogitsune as all foxes who did mischief and tricked people. Not really considered evil, more like prankish.
Reiko – ghost fox, perhaps not on the ‘evil’ side but definitely a ‘bad’ fox.
Shakko – red fox, could be considered good or evil, the same as Kitsune really
Tenko – celestial fox, kitsune which have reached the age of 1,000 years, they are usually said to have 9 tails (and sometimes are said to have golden fur) but they are either considered very evil such as Tamamo-no-mae or benevolent and wise such as messengers to Inari
Kitsunes have many abilities as well which includes Fox Fire (Kitsune Bi), the ability to create illusions, and to shapesift into human form. Fox Fire is a trait given to someone of a kitsune bloodline and is completely and entirely impossible for someone of an outside race to obtain. The other two abilities are not specifically Kitsune traits but all kitsunes gain them at a certain point in thier lives more commonly when they are one hundred years of age, the next hundred years bring thier second tail the next thier third and so on and so forth until they have achieved thier ninth tail because it's impossible for a kitsune to get a tenth tail and there is only one who has achieved this and kitsunes know her as Mother Fox for she has started the Kitsune race in the beginning days and all kitsunes good and bad can be traced back to her. There is one other ability that kitsunes may have but only exceptionally powerful ones- this is the ability to posses a human's body, this is mostly used by mischevious foxes rather than benevolent foxes.
Kitsunes do not have all these abilities without any fatal flaws though, the illusions that Kitsunes make are strong but any break or tear in the illusion that was made could completrly destroy the kitsunes ability to distinguish reality from illusion and they may even lose control over thier illusions. Kitsunes also carry around a Hisho no Tama or star ball that may or may not carry a small bit of thier power, it isn't apparent whether or not it does.
A race native to Japan, Korea, and China though Kitsunes from each country have thier own respective traits. Korean Kitsunes are malevolent beings that are barely ever protrayed nicely Kitsunes in Japan are more kind and may work in shrines to the deity Inari- the Japanese god of rice and grain goods. Inari is often protrayed as a kitsune and he uses kitsunes as messengers.
Kitsunes also have a few sub races as well such as Genko, Kiko, Koryo, Kuko, Nogitsune, Reiko, Shakko, or Tenko. Not much is known on the defining factors of the different kitsune subraces but here are the basics:
Genko– black fox, usually seen as a good omen
Kiko – spirit fox, see Reiko
Koryo – haunting fox, see Reiko
Kuko – air fox, very bad kitsune, considered on the same level as Tengu (Japanese goblins)
Nogitsune – wild fox, used at one time to differ between good and bad foxes. At the time they used ‘kitsune’ to mean a good fox/messenger from Inari and nogitsune as all foxes who did mischief and tricked people. Not really considered evil, more like prankish.
Reiko – ghost fox, perhaps not on the ‘evil’ side but definitely a ‘bad’ fox.
Shakko – red fox, could be considered good or evil, the same as Kitsune really
Tenko – celestial fox, kitsune which have reached the age of 1,000 years, they are usually said to have 9 tails (and sometimes are said to have golden fur) but they are either considered very evil such as Tamamo-no-mae or benevolent and wise such as messengers to Inari
Kitsunes have many abilities as well which includes Fox Fire (Kitsune Bi), the ability to create illusions, and to shapesift into human form. Fox Fire is a trait given to someone of a kitsune bloodline and is completely and entirely impossible for someone of an outside race to obtain. The other two abilities are not specifically Kitsune traits but all kitsunes gain them at a certain point in thier lives more commonly when they are one hundred years of age, the next hundred years bring thier second tail the next thier third and so on and so forth until they have achieved thier ninth tail because it's impossible for a kitsune to get a tenth tail and there is only one who has achieved this and kitsunes know her as Mother Fox for she has started the Kitsune race in the beginning days and all kitsunes good and bad can be traced back to her. There is one other ability that kitsunes may have but only exceptionally powerful ones- this is the ability to posses a human's body, this is mostly used by mischevious foxes rather than benevolent foxes.
Kitsunes do not have all these abilities without any fatal flaws though, the illusions that Kitsunes make are strong but any break or tear in the illusion that was made could completrly destroy the kitsunes ability to distinguish reality from illusion and they may even lose control over thier illusions. Kitsunes also carry around a Hisho no Tama or star ball that may or may not carry a small bit of thier power, it isn't apparent whether or not it does.