Kitsune

shapeshifter · Japan · East Asia and Pacific

ONE OF Japan'S 'BIG Three' yokai. Gain powers with AGE - more tails = older/wiser. Up to Nine tails after 1,000 years. TWO Classes: Zenko (善狐, 'good fox') = benevolent, serve Inari. Yako (野狐, 'field fox') = wild, sometimes malicious. Kitsune have supernatural intelligence. Can shapeshift into beautiful women, elderly men, other forms. FOX-Fire (kitsunebi): ghostly blue flames. Nine-Tailed: near-divine, omniscient, can see/hear anywhere. Celestial (tenko): turns white/golden after 1,000 years, flies to heaven. Famous: Tamamo-no-mae (nine-tailed vixen who destroyed dynasty). Inari connection: fo

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