Born five millenia ago into the Kitsune Clan as a one tail, he went out of his way to learn everythign he could while growing, with the ultimate aim to be hatamoto to the Lord of the Kitsune.

Since One Tailed Kitsune are very underpowered, he resolved to learn the Elements of Creation, Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Ice, Wood and Metal. Learning to master those took 2000 years, and mastering the magicks of the Kitsune, stealth and trickery, misdirection and silence took another.

After that point, he traveled. He had earned eight tails, one for each element and the magicks of the Kitsune. He was one short of reaching Nine-Tailed status, the highest a Kitsune could attain. He was skilled in everything a Kitsune could be, but there was still something missing. That lack of a tail irritated him.

So he left Kitsune society to adventure and extend his abilities. He wanted to understand the societies of others, to know what the Dragons were like, why the Toads interfered in Human life.

And he did learn. He was a loyal warrior and none that met him could say that he was anything other than respectful and disciplined. But while he was offered a permanent position many times, restlessness still drove him. He saw abuses by others, people taking advantage of each other and other rases.

Then in his 3350th year, he found the Samuari.

He studied them from a distance, quietly, as a woman servant in their employ. He watched how they were very restricted in their life, how their actions were totally and completely constrained in their actions by their honor, and he didn't understand that.

Honor wasn't a concept the Kitsune had much familiarity with. Most often promises would be made and broken almost as fast, simply because those promises were not important, they were a means to the end. But for the first time he started seeing the consequences of those broken promises. And he understood why keeping those promises were important.

So again he worked. He found a mercenary group to join, a set of ronin who were dedicated to training themselves and others to a pinacle of perfection. He started out in the Combat arm, the area he was most proficient at, but eventually the killing got old. He was good enough that there was little challenge taking on one or two enemies and defeating them, and taking on more by himself could have harmed those who were not involved in the fight.

His time with the Healers was interesting and he was able to use skills he aquired and had never used. Using his magick and spirit power to close wounds and save lives, while rewarding, was too much. It hurt him every time he did it. So after 258 years, he moved on to the Technology Squad.

That was a fun century. The discoveries of metal and electricity were very enlightning. Learning how to move lightning from one place to another was interesting. But despite being electrifying time, it wasn't satisfying deep in his soul.

Finally, with no other option, he joined the Defense squad. The first time he stepped in front of a ronin who was trying to take over a village and kicked the ever lovin' s**t out of him, it felt right, absolutely perfect. In his meditations that night, he discovered that he wanted to keep others safe from the ravages of those who would take advantage of them. Standing at the gate and keeping those behind him safe, THAT was important.

And when he fell down, off balance, when he finished his meditations, he realized that he had his last tail.

He has been doing this job for nearly a millenia at this point. It is his life, and it stretches his abilities to defend those who might not want to be protected by him. But it doesn't matter to him. A fight is a good fight if it saves others from death.

And someone looking at this history might wonder why he isn't a Sensi or a Shian. And the answer to that is that Kitsune by their natures are not leaders, they are advisors, those who stand in the shadows and manipulate the situations to their liking, without being the leader. There is more power in the background than being the obvious target for others attacks. So he stands as the second place, and helps others. To what end, not even he knows yet.