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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Roseweave" data-source="post: 6932375" data-attributes="member: 6806914">I wanted to play a character with some sort of Spidery theme, and this seemed like the easiest thing to refluff, the idea of being able to turn into a small animal to conceal yourself was really cool for a character that used both magic and rogue-like abilities(Dagger-based Sorcerer) so I ended up going with this race, going with cat reskinned as Spider. The thing is that my character isn't actually a "Hengeyokai", which is something more specific to Japanese or at least Kara-Tur. My character's of a pretty mixed heritage, but part of it comes from Calimshan, so I thought it would be cool to instead refluff her as being part Jinn, as there are a lot of Jinn that are more fae-like in nature and not purely "elemental spirits". But since Djinn are associated with the Elemental planes it also helps explain where she gets her sorcerer "blood line". In particular the Si'lah seems to work for this, being a generally animal based shapeshifter. According to G Willow Wilson it may share an etymology with the English/Scottish "Seelie"(though goodness knows how that happened) so be intended to somewhat mirror western changeling type fairies. Unfortunately Hengeyokai never got any feats to work with. Their Hybrid forms while conceptually cool are practically useless outside of communicating with animals in combat, which is pretty Niche. There's a lot of questions too like, would a Fox Hengeyokai have a useful Bite attack? What stat would it be counted off? etc.</blockquote>

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