[quote=@IncredibleBee]
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Actually a good number of traditional youkai are harmless or even beneficial. Many serve as guardian spirits and have temples.
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That's if we were to stay completely true to Japanese tradition, which in this kind of rp I highly doubt that would go very well. 

I do think [@Narcotic Dollie]'s idea is good with the whole renegade antiguild thing. But those are always really weird to rp and I've seen many of them die quickly.