Foalen:
Age: 76
Race: Kistune
Sex: Male
Description: Foalen is of medium hight for a human but rather tall for one of his race. His face and features are very effeminate in an vlupine in nature. He has long silver hair wich he tends to wear unbound save for when he is working and luminous blue eyes. His hands are long and graceful and very dexterous.
Personality: Foalen is quiet and unassuming, but assirtive when he feels action is nessisary. He is friendly if not outgoing and tends to make friends quickly.
Skills: Foalen is a trained theif and has all the skills one would associate with a theif. Being quick of hand, silent of foot and able to blend into the shadows.
Special Abilities: Being a kitsune Foalen has the ability to shape and otherwise effect illusions. Also because Kitsune are born of spirit they can shape shift. The most common shape Foalen shape shifts into is that of a large red fox.
Other notes of importance: Because Foalen is less than a century old he only has one tail. This means that he is very young and quite weak as far as the ranking of kitsune goes. The more tails a kitune has the more powerful he or she is. A kitsune can have up to 9 tails. They grow an additional tail every hundred years.
Kitsune abilities, foxmagic, and foxtails.
Illusion
To a kitsune, their illusions are reality. What they make, for them, and for others, is as real as anything found or crafted in nature. Anything that a kitsune builds or transforms, becomes what the kitsune desired. A kitsune can make people, animals, and objects, which can't be distinguished from the real thing.
The more kitsune team up to make things, the more can be made. A handful of kitsune can build a city if they desired.
Realms
Kitsune, as spirits, have abilities that are hard to explain. One is the kitsune's domain. Kitsune are able to make small pockets in reality, folding space and time to suit their needs. They can turn a hole under a floorboard into a small estate, and turn a small field into a kingdom, complete with people, animals, and weather. Time seems to flow faster inside these realms. For every day in the real world, up to seven years can pass in the realm, for those who are in it.
Foxfire (Kitsune-bi)
By rubbing their tails together, a kitsune can make lightning or fire. The kitsune can also, to a small range, breathe out fire. Kitsune can also make small 'fox lanterns', by producing small balls of fire to float around them, and guide their way. This fire can be used as a weapon, or as a toy.
Possession
We went into detail about kitsune possession earlier, but to mention again... kitsune, being spirits, can possess things...
Shapeshifting
A kitsune can transform into anything found in nature. This means they can turn into trees, forests, rocks, water, or other people. The limits are that the transformation does not give them the innate abilities of the form they have taken, and they are vulnerable to what can harm that form. Kitsune who are possessing someone can not use this form of transformation, unless they are doing it through illusions.
The Kitsune's Ball
Kitsune have things called kitsune balls. What this is, is a small white ball. It doesn't glow, and doesn't appear to have any powers. The kitsune guard this ball closely, and if you can get your hands on one, you can have the kitsune promise to aid you.
Most kitsune use the ball just like it appears... a normal children's ball. One theory, though, is that the kitsune places a portion of their power into this item, while possessing mortals, or while in human form.
Kitsune tails
Kitsune are usually depicted as having more than one tail. The most commonly depicted are one-tails, five-tails, and nine-tails. For most kitsune, the number of tails shown is usually one. This could be for a number of reasons, though, including the idea that a kitsune could be in a human or fox, possessing it, or may have been born in a mortal body. In either case, why would the kitsune suddenly sprout more tails?
Some of the legends say a kitsune gains a tail every hundred years. Another myth says that a kitsune gains all nine tails when they reach nine hundred years old. When a kitsune becomes a nine-tail, their fur becomes either silver, white, or gold. This isn't a strong and fast rule, but it's what is seen most often.
To the kitsune, the number of tails they have are a show of prestige, skill, age, and rank. A kitsune may gain a tail for bringing honour to their family and clan, or could lose one for breaking kitsune law. A kitsune may also lose a tail, by dying, but this isn't always the case, considering Tamamo-no-mae was killed more than once, and was still a nine-tail.
Kitsune don't ask for extra tails. Instead, they are simply rewarded for their actions, or punished. Some kitsune train under others, hoping to gain wisdom and favour with their teachers. Some kitsune even take quests or go on journeys, to gain wisdom or power, hoping to find ways to gain in prestige and rank among the other kitsune, or with The Lady or Inari.
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