Dark Touched
Kitsune descended from the crossing with demons — magic drawn from themselves, and the only ones who can possess.
A breed of Kitsune
Content note. This entry describes possession, including the non-consensual form and its consequences.
What differs
Dark touched kitsune are those descended from the crossing between kitsune bloodlines and demons. That crossing left them dark magic, and it held even after the bloodlines stopped mixing.
Because dark magic draws on the wielder or on a sacrifice rather than on the surroundings, its cost is paid rather than gathered.
Dark touched kitsune are also the only ones who can possess. Entered into consensually and handled with care, possession can be a pleasant thing for both parties. Forced, it crushes the mind completely and the person is unlikely to survive it — though doing it by force is considerably harder than doing it with agreement.
Everything else — shapeshifting, illusion, foxfire, soul-feeding, tails — works as it does for any kitsune.
Magic
Dark is one of the four pure magics, alongside light, chaos and order — the magics that created the fundamental forces, though they have not outranked them for a very long time.
Dark magic is not evil magic. It describes where power comes from and nothing else. What a dark touched kitsune does with theirs is entirely their own, and the species has plenty of decent people drawing on it.
Shared traits
- Descended from
- The ancient crossing of kitsune bloodlines with demons
- Magic source
- The wielder directly, or a sacrificial object such as bone or tissue
- Possession
- Available only to the dark touched