Breeding

Kitsune breeding methods slightly differ depending on their genders.

Males tend to seek out pregnant females either by shape shifting into their lovers, husbands or desirable male the target finds sexually attractive. Females follow a similar route by shape shifting into a suitable form to become pregnant and seducing a male into bed where she drains him of a notable amount of vis, DNA, and produces a fetus within herself.

While the infant, in either form, is developing the Kitsune splits off half their soul core and infuse it into the growing life. The core eventually infects and overcomes the fetus’ life over the next nine months, the newborn Kitsune finally formed and busting out from its mother into the world. With a human woman this process usually kills her since their system isn’t use to the shock, but a Kitsune mother will simply shudder and apply her shape shifting ability to recover from the damage. The latter will often move on with their lives, not staying to raise the helpless kit.

Pact

Kitsune has developed the ability to cheat death in a unique way: though a pact created by another being and creating a shard. This tends to be either Licenti or human (usually a mage) as Prae tend to have racial tenancies against Licentia in general, but it is possible.

When a Kitsune creates a pact, they choose a being to become a keeper of sorts for their shard and also to help supply vis into the ritual. Using the supplied Vis from the would be pact holder, they split about 1/4th of their Soul Core off. It condenses down into a shard like item and holds the genetic blueprint to reconstruct them later. The pact holder, in order to retain the current contract, must protect and keep it safe or risk breaking the link between them.

Growth/Development

Birth to Childhood

After being born, Kitsune’s development is very unusual compared to most Licentia. Instead of going to and forth from a growth to trial stage, they are set within an extended growth stage until about 2 decades of their lives. They seem to grow much like human with occasional brief burst of rapid changes that cover numerous years and vary between individual Kitsune before falling back to a steady rate. It’s very similar to humans’ growth ‘spurts’ in theory. Usually 2-3 changes are the normal while beyond 3 are exceptionally rare. Since they gain no magical strength or additions during the first 20 years of their lives, they remain solid and able to interact with the world. This also makes them more likely to be killed and consumed by other Licentia or humans (mistaking them for normal foxes- see paragraph below).

When they bust from their mothers, the infant Kitsune’s shape is that of a fox with a single tail and one magic ability. This ability is to help them survive as they are most vulnerable during this time in their lives. Within the first two years, they develop like a normal fox would physically and their growing mentality would reach that of an eight year old.

At hitting this milestone, they tend to gain their first growth ‘spurt’ causing them to take on the appearance of a humanoid fox around eight years old. They return to a steady growing rate with a few ‘spurts’ here or there depending on the Kitsune’s individual growth until they reach the adult stage at age 20.

Adulthood

After age of twenty, their growth and trial stages alters again. Instead of an extended growth period, there’s two trial stages and one prolonged growth period in the middle. Most humans believed, even to this day, that a Kitsune gains magic based on their tail number but this is incorrect thinking and knowledge. In their first trial stage (tail 1 to 3) they gain a new spell for each new tail they grow, not counting the one they originally started off with.

When they hit the fourth tail, they enter a growth stage. It’s a lot like their extended growth stage in their youth where it last up to a few centuries but without the ‘spurts’. They remain solid, their bodies able to collect Vis from their environment and building it up over time to strengthen their magic.

During this time, they gain no more magic spells, but they will still continue to grow tails. This is believed to be a biological way for them to keep track of time until their growth stage is complete. Another thing to notice is that due their bodies hoarding Vis, all their magic is slightly weaker than prior stages and while this makes them more cautious, this doesn’t make them helpless. If a Kitsune reaches the required Vis amounts before they reach the seventh tail, they will gain full potential in magical power but will not gain another ability until they reach the seventh tail.

When they hit the seventh tail, another trial stage begins repeating the process with tails seven through nine. When hitting nineth tail, the Kitsune begins to edge into the Eximius stage and undergoes one final change to their physical form: enhanced physical traits. This means their speed, strength, durability and more reaches into notable levels making them formidable close combat fighters.

They are also no longer in need of their ability to create a pact with another being, but can retain one if they desire. The main difference between this stage and the ones before it is the fact the Eximius can break it without the holder’s permission at any time and without ever harming the individual. Allowing them to recreate a new one or not.

Nature

While each Kitsune is different in personality, their up bring being a primary fact in developing various traits, there’s always an under laying instinct to create a pact. It is how they survive and outwit death which means until it is fullfilled, they will feel that nagging for it in the back of their minds. Most who completely ignore this have been killed and unable to return to a shard, their fate sealed in death.

Shard Pact

*See Darius’ Shard ability for more details.

Tails

List of abilities and when they show up. Each tail appears within a range of ten years of the century mark, either five years before or after, depending on the Kitsune's development curve. Right after the tail’s appearance -unless it’s four to six- another magical ability will be gained and usable for the Kitsune’s lifetime.

   
• Tail 0 : Camouflage
• Tail 1 : Elemental Manipulation (pact related, fire by default)
• Tail 2 : Shape shifting
• Tail 3 : Barrier
• Tail 4-6 : Strengthen magic instead of gain new magic
• Tail 7 : Levitation/Flight
• Tail 8 : Illusions
• Tail 9 : Eximius

Kitsune are often considered tools by most Licentia that actually know about their true nature. They have evolved into Licentia that have adapted to depend on other Licentia in the form of a pact. Any independent culture of their own was long ago wiped out due to their ability to pact creating numerous Kitsune with various backgrounds, personalities, etc.

Dwindling Existence

In recent years, Kitsune have become more rare with the passing years. Their numbers now currently less than a hundred within Torqueo and still falling. The reason is unknown as most the surviving Kitsune are too young to realize this and any that have looked into it have simply vanished. Some believe it might be because their ability to cheat death is flawed or too old to continue the Kitsune’s existence into the future. It’s hard to tell which is true without additional information.

Nogitsune

While they look alike, it's commonly believed to be a variety of Kitsune or a completely different creature altogether. It is also called by numerous names: Void Fox, Dark Fox and much worse. So far, many Licentia believe them to be extinct and mere stories due to the lack of interaction with their kind for centuries. However there is a dark history to the reason of why…

For those that aren’t familiar with the words Succubus and Incubus (plural forms Succubi and Incubi respectively), these licentia were often portrayed as Lilin-demons in female or male form before they officially emerged into the light. They appeared in dreams, often in the form of an attractive human in order to seduce their victims, and gradually lead to sexual relationships. This isn’t fully true as Succubi and Incubi can absorb a sizable chunk of Vis from not just humans, but other Licentia and even Prae upon contact lasting much longer than a few moments. This is usually done in a gesture ranging from a handshake to a deep kiss. However, thanks to a few mischievous Licentia it is usually assumed by most humans that they require sexual activities to fed. Upon being asked this, it might draw a few baneful looks from the more conservative Succubi or Incubi that prefer some degrees of abstinence.

Succubi and Incubi are considered the beginning stages of Sirens and Cambions, often created after either one of these have procreated. Though they aren’t technically suppose to, they are able to procreate new Succubi and Incubi when they delay their ascension into their higher forms. There are even rare cases of some Succubi and Incubi reaching the Eximius stage though once they reach such a level their ability to become Sirens or Cambions is impossible and has its own pros and cons.

Breeding

Should a Succubi and Incubi reach the stage where they can breed, they use similar methods with only a slight variation based on gender. Succubi possess a unwitting human woman casting an illusion spell, twisting her features into something attractive and considered alluring for the type of male she’s intending to attract. Casually she proceeds to lure then seduce the male into bed where she steals a heavy amount of Vis over time and becomes pregnant. Over her existence in the human host, who is completely aware, the Succubus gradually begins to imbue the fetus with small shards of their soul core. Unlike Sirens or Cambions, they can only do this once in their lifetime.

After a month, the Succubus departs the host leaving the human to bear the offspring. Naturally this has created ‘demonic’ offspring in several myths and rarer still, hybrids of their kind. Unless the trait runs in the Licentia (much like humans), most births are single but there are exceptions.

On the other side of the spectrum, an Incubus would physical shift into an appealing form where they impregnate a female of their choice, adding shards of their soul core and Vis to the mix. When the child takes hold and settled in after a month, they seem to simply vanish.

Birth to Childhood

While going through their first official growth stage within the womb, these licentia store and consume vast amounts of Vis over a nine month period. Despite what the mother tries, she can’t abort, damage or get rid of the infected fetus without causing her own death. Based on the Succubus’ and Incubus’ choice of victim, this rarely happens. Whenever it has, the child’s own Vis has created ‘miracles’ through various methods: the rope snapped, someone was summoned, etc. This prevented its demise, most the time, and allowed it to develop into the world.

Upon birth, Succubi and Incubi are coated in the Vis they collected from their mothers. This coat creates a very realistic illusion purely as a defensive mechanism to prevent the infant from being killed on sight. Over the course of the Licentia’s growth, this coat wouldn’t be required and fades gradually. To anyone trained to look past illusion magic or the mother herself, the illusion doesn’t work. Instead of a crying, healthy infant, there’s a very ‘young’ succubus or incubus infant with horns, fragile wings and a prehensile tail.

In these cases, the child was often killed out of fear ending the Succubus’ or Incubus’ lineage.

Should the child live past their mother’s attempt to discard or kill them, these licentia grow at a steady rate within the environment they are given to. Most tend to be taken in by relatives of the ‘manic’ mother or placed into the orphanage until puberty when the Vis layer completely fades to relieve their actual nature. In a few cases, the parent might seek out and snatch them away to be raised in Torqueo among their own kind.

Adulthood

On reaching puberty, they are considered adults and the collected Vis layer has completely vanished now. Succubi and Incubi are very different from each other, much like how humans vary themselves, creating no fixed appearance to represent them all ideally. However, they all do have a set collection of traits that make identifying their race easy. Most Incubi and Succubi have horn growths upon their heads (often budded from the head sides or forehead), two bat like wings sprouted from their backs, a prehensile tail extended from their tailbone and often an allure that causes them to become appealing to multiple races. Including other Licentia. Don’t mistake this for flat out perfection or being irresistible to any individual, but rather an unmistakable draw and finding something attractive about the Succubi or Incubi. *See Irresistible Charm in Abilities

The Succubi and Incubi have the ability to gain Vis though subtle and steady touch, draining Vis over time though interaction with the individuals involved in their lives. However, upon reaching adulthood the instinctive desire to become a Siren or Cambion has grown notably. So much in fact that they will seek out ways to gain additional Vis over the course of their life time and when they finally collected enough, they will enter another growth stage before becoming a Siren or Cambion.

Irresistible Charm

While Succubi and Incubi have admirable traits naturally, they also posses a passive magic called Irresistible Charm. It combines both Vis and use of pheromones in order to create an appeal to almost any creature, ranging from an enjoyable personality to outright sexual appeal and completely dependent on the influenced party. This magical ability, while unable to affect everyone the same way, does try to aid in making the Succubi/Incubi more likable in order to obtain more Vis for its growing collection into a Siren.

However, this doesn’t prevent back lash should the Licenti become reckless or stupid. It isn’t mind control after all, but a method to create likability or attraction depending on the target.

Flight

A few things to note about Succubi and Incubi wings. Most are leathery and dragon like in appearance, giving them ability to control their movements in the middle of flight similar to how a bat might. Their range of flight, maneuverability, and more depends on the wing span and design over all. Larger wings tend to cover larger distances without continually flapping to rise higher while the smaller wings focus more on maneuverability and make navigating tight spaces easier.

Vis Drain

All Succubi and Incubi are able to gain Vis from humans, Licentia and even Prae if given the chance. They primarily do it through either touch or sexual activities, their unique biology making them nearly compatible with any sub race. However, they tend to prefer humans more because most are easily manipulated and have greater odds of not possibly being able to fight back.

It’s little surprise that the most Vis comes from more intimidate acts of lust which might explain their association and physical appeal. With touch, it varies mainly on how long the Succubi or Incubi can retain the contact with the target. However this comes with a notable and unwritten risk: Succubi and Incubi are known to become greedy and there are cases a few are known to drain more than their fair share. This is often driven by the primal need to evolve into the next stage.

Most well aged Succubi and Incubi know to avoid this… unless there’s little way to get caught or suffer back lash. They know killing the individual will result in only a fixed amount of Vis gain, instead of a steady source, and the word would spread lowering their chances to gain additional Vis from agreeable Licentia that might not kill them on sight.

Above Human Speed and Reaction Time

Succubi and Incubi aren’t known for being highly durable or offensive in a fight, but it doesn’t mean they don’t have other means to protect themselves. High speed and reaction time are a Succubi’s and Incubi’s forte as only a few Licentia are able to match and surpass it. This is because an attack is useless if it can’t hit and since the it won't take much to bring this sub race of Licentia crumbling to their knees, avoiding being damaged is rather important.

Dream Walking/Dream Manipulation

In most myths, Succubi and Incubi are known to be most dangerous in your dreams. They appear to be shapeshifters purely because they take on the appearance of what the dreamer most desires in another individual and shapes the dream into their favor. (see Lily’s CS)

Business like Practices

Due to a Succubi/Incubi’s need for large amounts of Vis, they often take up a trade or skill that some Licentia or Humans would find valuable. This often causes them to create a bartering system in order to obtain the required Vis levels for evolution in a shorter time than merely ‘stealing’ it from others. Many end up living in Medius, where they are often born, joining brothels or some other sexualized profession that allows them to get up close and personal with their targets. Others are more conservative and will become information brokers or wealthy individuals through subtle blackmailing means. Wherever their lives lead, one thing is certain: they will always have that need to evolve into the next stage and that’s the primary motivation.

Shapeshifting

Among humans, it’s commonly mistaken that Succubi and Incubi are able to shift and alter their shape like many other Licentia. This ability only achieved through dreams which is likely how this rumor and belief came into existence.

Name: Nabriales Taeryn
Nicknames: Magical Mister Mistoffelees
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Homosexual
Alias: N/A
Age: 350
Apparent Age: Late twenties
Race: Human
Sub-Race/Lineage or Nationality/Specialty: Precursor Descendant

Appearance: Nabriales stands at 5'9" and weighs 170 pounds, a mixture of lean muscle and a small amount of fat. Nabriales is particularly fond of his youthful and somewhat varied appearance - he is adorned with a cracked pair of blue horns as a result of his various alchemical tinkerings, and after the mishap that gave him the horns was resolved he elected to keep them as he enjoys the aesthetics of having horns. Through the cracks vis in varying shades of blue or purple can occasionally be seen flaring up, particularly when he brews potions - though also whenever emotions or tensions are high. Additionally, he has a marking just underneath his right eye that seems to indicate a guardian bond between himself and a Prae - though he is particularly reticent about any information regarding such, and merely states that he enjoys the way that the marking looks.

Nabriales can often be found with eccentric clothing, preferring to wear loose-fitting robe-like clothing that gives him maximum fluidity and breathing room. He is known to change the colour of his clothes, or even his entire ensemble, on a whim. His clothing choice is often woefully inadequate for his chosen profession - alchemy - and his colourful drapery is often made moreso by the spills of various reagents, and patches tend to be missing - Nabriales often does not notice this, and as soon as it is pointed out will either change entirely or repair his garment magically.

When channelling vis throughout his body, Nabriales' skin and horns take on various hues in a scintillating rainbow pattern.


Personality: Nabriales is part narcissist, part egotist, and part downright flirty - he is a man of great pleasure, and often finds it primarily in himself and his actions. Nabriales is, as most of his kind are, a prodigy in the magical arts - and this natural talent has shaped his perceptions of greatness for as long as he has been in this world. Everything always came easily to Nabriales, and he has internalised his easy successes as greatness - though he takes this far less seriously than he is like to let on. He does fundamentally believe that he is on another level, and that the majority of the people that he meets are beneath him, but does so in an endearing sort of way that leaves very little room for misinterpretation - prideful as he may be, he is well aware of his limits and is keenly perceptive of the capabilities of those around him.

Nabriales is also somewhat of a hedonist, preferring to play instead of work. In order to actually get anything done, he tries to mentally categorise as many activities as play as he physically can - and this is usually accomplished by doing everything he can with his whimsical and capricious nature and simultaneously trying to include physical relations in as many of his activities as he thinks he can get away with (which is an awful lot). As a result, Nabriales is an extremely tactile individual, and prefers hands-on contact in as many instances as possible. To many, this is a nuisance initially, but due to his fairly captivating beauty and generally intoxicating demeanour many simply learn that it is the way he works and accept it for what it is - a playful manner of going about what would otherwise be uninteresting.

Nabriales is a homosexual, and is fairly forward with it - even if it is not immediately obvious from sight alone, his interactions with any male that shows the slightest hint of interest very quickly confirm it. He is well-known for his habit of bedding people as often as possible, especially those that he has business dealings with, as he considers intimate relations the sign of a deal well-struck. If confronted about his behaviour, he is quick to apologise for any overstepped boundaries but will absolutely not tone down his flirtatious nature, and depending on the nature of the rejection will take it as a personal challenge to get what he wants. Due to his profession and innate alchemical skill, it is not usually out of the question that he gets precisely what he wants - a feat that amuses him to no end.

In general, Nabriales is a flirty, bubbly individual that delights in his own pleasure and the pleasure of others, and will seek to be the life of any party he happens to wander into. Fortunately, he considers life to be one big party.


History: To be revealed IC

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