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Yokai in Japanese Folklore

The word Yokai is used in Japanese to refer to spirits and demons: a combination of "bewitching and apparition", but are not necessarily seen as evil, as some are thought bring good luck.

Japanese folklore often represents these creatures as having animal features or shapeshifting abilities and attributes them the domain of the world between life and death. Please see the Lore page to understand more about overall Japanese history and the setting of the game.

 

The Dark Realm

The Dark Realm is the profoundly mysterious, sinister yet beautiful realm within which yokai dwell. In human form, you will see your Ki recovery decrease dramatically but gain Yokai Force faster while inside the Dark Realm. Yokai, however, draws power from this shadowy realm, becoming ever more fearsome within its borders.

To disperse the Dark Realm, one only needs to destroy the creature whose impure energy generates it.

 

Purification

Purify the Yokai Realm: Successfully regain the maximum amount from a Ki Pulse performed within the Yokai Realm. Purifying the Yokai Realm will remove it from that area.

Successfully regaining the full Ki from a Ki Pulse causes the Ki to resonate in the area. This resonance has the power to purify a manifestation of the Yokai Realm.

 

Kodama

A friendly Yokai that will give a blessing if helped find a nearby shrine.

Scampuss

A friendly Yokai that will enhance Yokai Force generation if petted.

Sudama

A neutral Yokai that will give rewards if an item is dropped, but might also kill you.

Dweller

Dwellers are humans turned into yokai by the foul miasma in the depths of a mine.

Enenra

A yokai composed of smoke and darkness, born from the grudges of humans who met their untimely ends in the Dark Realm.

Gaki

Gaki is a yokai that was once human, cast down to Gakido upon dying due to the sins it committed during its lifetime.

Ippon-Datara

Ippon-Datara is a one-legged, one-eyed yokai. It is most commonly encountered in the vicinity of mines and it is believed to have gained its unsightly form after years of harsh labor as a blacksmith.

Karakasa Umbrella

A yokai in the shape of an umbrella. It has a single large eye at its center and a single leg in place of a handle.

Kappa

Kappa are diminutive Yokai with green skin, a dish-like depression on their heads, and a turtle-like shell on their back.

Magatsu Warrior

Magatsu Warriors are armored warriors and corpses that have transformed into yokai by the power of the spirit stones.

Nure-Onna

This man-eating yokai takes the shape of a snake with a woman's head.

Nurikabe

The yokai known as Nurikabe (noo-REE-KAH-bay) take the form of a giant living wall.

Oni-bi

Oni-bi resemble floating balls of fire. They are formed when the elemental power of fire, water, wind, lightning or earth coalesces around the will of a dead soul.

Toxic Slime

Toxic slime has a malleable body that is very resistant to attacks, so the key to repelling one is to aim for its glowing core.

Waira

Waira have giant bodies with a single sharp claw on each of their forelegs.

Warrior Skeleton

Yokai taking the form of armored skeletons.

Yatsu-no-Kami

Yatsu-no-kami is a serpent god with a horn made of countless blades protruding from its forehead.

Yoki

A human turned fiend by the power of Amrita. Also known as a form of oni, a muscular, horned humanoid dwelling in the mountains.

Enki

An Enki is a monkey that has been transformed by Amrita into a yokai after a lifetime of cruelty and abuse by humans.

Lesser Umi-bozu

Ko-umi-bozu, literally "small-umi-bozu" are the resentful souls of samurai who died fighting at sea.

Biwa Boku-boku

A yokai taking the form of a monk playing a biwa lute.

Mujina

Mujina are badgers transformed into crafty and cunning yokai.

Yamanba

Yamanba, also known as Onibaba, are yokai with the form of an old woman.

Mitsume Yazura

Mitsume Yazura is a three-eyed, eight-faced yokai, born when the souls of various beasts combined.

Aberrant Soldier

Soldiers that have come to harness the power of yokai by using Spirit Stones.

Kamaitachi

A Kamaitachi is said to ride the wind, slashing at its victims with biting gales.

Karasu Tengu

Karasu Tengu, giant Tengu with wings like a crow's, has been known to humans since ancient times.

One-Eyed Oni

A gigantic Oni with a single eye in the center of its face.

Gozuki

Gozuki is a demon with the head of a bull.

Yatsu-No-Kami

Yatsu-no-kami is a serpent god with a horn made of countless blades protruding from its foreheard.

Kamaitachi

A Kamaitachi is said to ride the wind, slashing at its victim with biting gales. 

One-eyed Imp

One-eyed imps are yokai who look like a little boy with a single large eye in the center if their face. 

Rokurokubi

These yokai feature elongated necks, although they are indistinguishable from regular humans when their neck is reteracted.

Snowclops

The Snowclops are one-eyed yokai that leave behind bizarre tracks in the snow- a trail of single footprints that ends abruptly. 

Tatarimokke

A Tatarimokke is formed when a large number of resentful spirits coalesce to form a giant owl.

Wheelmonk

A yokai like a wheel with a gigantic face attached to it.

Mezuki

A Mezuki is a demon with the head of a horse.

Koroka

Koroka were once old stone lanterns, and are considered a type of "tsukumogami" (an item that has acquired a spirit.)

Namahage

As yokai that appears in legends from the Oga peninsula in northern Dewa Province, the namahage are viewed as savage servants of the gods.

Spider

Spiders are carnivorous arthropods. Under the influence of Spirit Stones, they metamorphose into gigantic yokai that prey on humans.

Tesso

A Tesso was originally a monk who died while bearing a grudge, transforming into a giant rat yokai.

Daidara Bocchi

Daidara Bocchi is a giant that features in folktales all over Japan.

Gyuki

Gyuki is an enormous yokai with the legs of a spider and head of a bull.

Daidara Bocchi

Daidara Bocchi is a giant that features in folktales all over Japan.

Yasha

Yasha were once a noblewoman, transformed into demons by Spirit Stones and their own hatred.

Kasha

A Kasha (literally "fire chariot") is a yokai that snatches corpses and spirits them away to hell.

Lady Osakabe

Lady Osakabe is a yokai that has possessed an entire castle, lending the building her life force.

Magatsu Warrior

Magatsu warriors are armored warriors and corpses that have transformed into yokai via the power of the spirit stones.

Onryoki

A huge red oni born from a pack of angry ghosts.

Onyudo

O-nyudo (oh-NYOO-doh) are yokai that take the form of a gigantic monk and are said to be former novices who were unable to fully leave the lay world behind and broke vows of their temple.

Otakemaru

Otakemaru is considered one of Japan's three greatest yokai, alongside Tamamo-no-Mae and Shuten Doji.

Red Kappa

The red kappa is a special kind of kappa found in the land of Tono in northern Mutsu Province. 

Ryomen Sukuna

Ryomen Sukuna's unusual form is composed of two demons, red and blue, who are joined at their backs.

Shuten Doji

Shuten Doji is considered one of Japan's three greatest yokai, alongside Tamamo-no-mae and Otakemar

Ubume

An Ubume was once a grieveing mother unable to bear the death of newborn child.

Kiryoki

While Kiryoki bear a resemblance to the yokai Enki, they wield a unique weapon that is able to change its form

Uminyudo

Uminyudo is a grotesquely gigantic yokai from the depths of the ocean.

Bakegani

Bakegani is giant crab yokai that have made many an appearance in folktales told all over Japan.

Nuppeppo

The Nuppeppo is a yokai that resembles a lump of flesh.

Nue

Pronounced NEW-ay. A yokai chimera.

Oboroguruma

The Oboroguruma is a yokai in the form of an ox carriage.

Tsuchigumo

The Tsuchigumo is a giant, spider-like yokai with many limbs.

Fox Spirit

The fox spirit is a fox-based yokai that is highly intelligent and possesses strong magical powers.

 

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