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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rechan" data-source="post: 4807942" data-attributes="member: 54846">Mm, not quite. The MM also points out that if they are insulted in some fashion, they will go to great lengths to plot elaborate vengeance. Something like that. I'm not clear whether it's an issue of Honor and Strict Manners (You have used the salad fork to eat your fish; this is a grave insult and I shall eat your children and destroy your life's work) or taking offense to someone's actual being (I shall punish you for your hubris or wickedness by unmaking you). Or they could be fickle (You have picked my pocket - I shall steal everything you come into possession of). But I imagine this is not their true purpose, but more their quirk, like making a faerie mad at you. Basically: Oni write the book on holding grudges. Although hmm. I'm still thinking of these as less a species, and more a supernatural result (I can't think of them as breeding). Sort of like how the Wendigo legend is related what happens when a man goes cannibal. Perhaps a cautionary tale of what happens when a person casts aside everything to pursue a single purpose; losing yourself in your calling and being consumed by it, resulting in the loss of your humanity and Wickedness/Other taking up residence in the emptiness you have left. Alternatively, they could be the male version of hags. But Hags are the embodiment of Nature's Ugliness, and that would make Oni more fey and less whatever else. Or one could just go back to the Djinn/Demon angle, filling the same role. Corrupters or holders of wicked irony. Or... something. I can't really decide on one idea. Bah.This is a cool idea for another monster, but I think it would be even more intriguing if it got more powerful as the moon waned. You could say it was linked to the Moon being a watchful eye in the night, and as its gaze looked elsewhere, the monster grew more bold. Or simply that the light of the moon is weakest, and thus the creature of darkness and night is the strongest.</blockquote>

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