Inari

Introduction

Tricksters who stole Seeming from the Boggarts, Inari survive by eating the livers of other races. They a troubled people who rarely reveal themselves to outsiders, feared the world over yet present and undetected within every city on Antarok.

Fast Facts

• Population: 20,000+
• Lifespan: Indefinite
• Height: Between 3 ft and 5 ft.
• Weight: Between 40 lbs and 80 lbs.

Note: Inari must eat livers from the living races which contain Saol to survive.

Racial Abilities:

Seeming Inari are born with the Glamour of Seeming. To Incite it, they must expend a Minor Merit

Liver Predation Inari can achieve another cast of up to Expert-tier Saol when eating the liver of another living being with a soul. However, they will eventually wither away and die if they do not, and must eat a liver once every month to survive. The compulsion to eat a liver is magically profound, leading to salivation when thinking about this.

Inari's Ball Inari are born with a small, white, and bouncy ball in their mouths that feels rubbery, but glows like Alkahest. An Inari will always know roughly where to find this ball, but cannot bring themselves to directly harm any who hold on to it. Over time their emotions will begin to soften towards this individual, and they will not feel a compulsion to eat the liver of whomever holds it - they use this to their advantage, if they worry they cannot control themselves. Often Inari will play with children and their own kin using these natural toy they are born with. They always keep this ball nearby, usually on their person, buried, or stashed in some bushes.

An Inari will pay to have someone killed if they do not give them back this ball, or ruin their life in other ways until they do.

Ten-Tail Ascendancy When mastering any form of Personal Arcana, an Inari will grow an additional tail. Each tail provides an additional benefit.

Two Tails: The two-tailed Inari can Syphon anyone they kiss or wrap in their tails. Three Tails: The tails of a three-tail become prehensile and as strong as a limb, capable of picking things up or performing acrobatic feats. Three Tails: The Inari may Apparate into Miasmata. Four Tails: The Inari may lengthen their tails when they Apparate Tethers through them, as far as their Tether may stretch. Five Tails: The five-tail Inari has hardened Tethers extended through their tails at all times without the need to Cast. Six Tails: The Inari can attempt to Apparate into and Possess anyone they have their tail wrapped around. Seven Tails: With eight tails, an Inari can now speak their thoughts into the minds of others by locking eyes with them. Eight Tails: The eight-tail Inari may begin to learn Remnant. Nine Tails: The Inari may now wield Foxfire, creating orbs of light that instantly transfix and hypnotize the minds of those who stare directly at them - they will walk towards these orbs without realizing it, unless they possess Mastery in Meditation. Ten Tails: After mastering their ninth Personal Arcana, an Inari may spend a Major Merit to attain their tenth tail, wielding half again as much Miasmata as another.

Biology

Inari are small, bipedal semi-humanoid foxes standing on two legs. They are between three and five feet tall, rarely growing taller than this on their own. They have poseable thumbs on their paws, and their tails are laced with a subtle magic. How they appear varies, as every Inari possesses Seeming; most of them use it to look like the race they are talking to, and others prefer to frolic on all fours in the forest until they hunger again for mortal liver.

Aging & Reproduction

Inari are entirely immortal and youthful. By their eighteenth year, they appear as they will for the rest of their lives. However, they may appear as any age thanks to their Seeming.

Sex & Gender

Inari may be male, female or intersex. This is an equal distribution, meaning one third of Inari eventually become intersex in some way. This is due to being able to change their gender with Seeming, leading to dissonance with their own gender.

With few differences between the sexes, Inari tend to be rather androgynous. Males often have lilting, effeminate voices while females might have brux, growled tones - it all depends on the individual.

Inari go into estrus for a few weeks once year. During this time, a female can reproduce with any other living race with a soul. The offspring will always be an Inari, even if the other parent is a Dryad or Gnoll. Similarly, male Inari will leave other races to bare Inari children; however, the child will resemble its mother until one day it suddenly shifts back into its true form sometime between the thirteenth and twentieth year of life. They will not be able to Incite their Seeming during this time, as the organ has not formed by this point.

Psychology

Like all Faefolk, the Inari

History

While quite old, the Inari are young compared to the other Fae. Their tale began just four thousand years ago. Those who survive to this day have memories stretching back to at least this far, so while their history might be lost to the other races, they themselves know well their own story.

Origin

The Inari were once a primitive race of intelligent vulpine people, not unlike they are today. However, they only had Beast Magic, and their tribe longed to have Glamour that might rival the Fae. Capturing throngs of Boggarts, Inari Maltricians implanted their males with Seeming, and this interaction overwrote their Beast Magic, causing them to hunger for the Saol present within the liver of another being.

This caused the Inari to eat those without Seeming over time, and within a few generations, nearly all Inari had been born with Seeming. They could not survive by staying in their tribal communities, and so they scattered across the globe in search of sustenance.

Society

Magic

Innately gifted with Seeming and fully aware that mastering Arcana of any sort will yield them another tail, the Inari are universally talented. Seducing magi for their secrets, Inari have an easier time than most at collecting magic. However, their thirst for Arcana can be equated to a moth to flame - very few of them survive to their eighth initiation and master each of them.

Language

Inari learn to speak the language of the people they prey upon. If they prefer to hunt human liver in Dullahan, then they will speak Common.

Notable Settlements

None

Inari roam freely across Ælphyne and all of Antarok, blending in with the living. Their nature necessitates small numbers; they rarely expand beyond singular family units that might operate within a town to cover their tracks.

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