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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tarchon" data-source="post: 1794206" data-attributes="member: 5990">It's the Japanese word for fox.  In a couple RPGs, they're essentially were-foxes, somewhat loosely based on Japanese fox mythology.  In Japan they were seen as something like fairies, somewhere between tricky and malevolent, often capable of minor magic and transformation.  If you're at all familiar with Chinese folktales involving sorcerous animal spirits (like the movie Green Snake), the basic themes are similar.There's the fox-bride that Alzrius mentioned (possibly the world's most widely distributed folkloric theme), and you also have the fox that aspires to humanity by magical means (a significant hubris in a Buddhist culture, which views ascension to humanity as something that must be earned via self improvement through repeated reincarnation), and the human witnessing the secret activities of the foxes (e.g.  Kurosawa's Dreams).  Take almost any western folktale about fairies and insert foxes.Just to make it easy, I think I'd do it as a were-fox with the hereditary form of "lycanthropy."  To be closer to the original, maybe slap on a Fey template on it if you have it, but that'd probably power the character up too much.  The third option is to create a new creature type - I think White Wolf has stats for them in one of the Werewolf supplements, part of the vast menagerie of were-whatevers.  There's a good chance that some Asianoid-setting d20 supplement has done something along these lines too.</blockquote>

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