Kitsune

With their unearthly grace and fine features, Kitsune appear hauntingly beautiful to humans and members of many other races. They are slightly shorter than humans on average, ranging from well under 5 feet tall to just over 6 feet. They are more slender than humans, weighing only 100 to 145 pounds. Males and females are about the same height, and males are only marginally heavier than females.
They tend to hide their Kitsune heritage while dealing with other races as a way to keep away from the discrimination and hatred built up in legends and stories. While they hide their fox ears and tails they don't look much different then elves and mostly hide as such. They usually have light colored hair and fur, reddish brown, white, gray, golden brown, though it isn't completely unheard of them to posses black hair and fur. Their range in eye colored are mostly blue, green, yellow or brown eyes.

Basic Information

Growth Rate & Stages

They reach adulthood at 16. However, a kitsune's age is very difficult to tell since they appear to stop aging in their early twenties and live to be a millennium. A kitsune is born with a single tail, but as they grow older and gain more power the also gain more tails.

Additional Information

Perception and Sensory Capabilities

A race of anthropomorphic fox people who have magic in their blood and light shape-changing capabilities.

Civilization and Culture

Naming Traditions

Having had their society nearly exterminated, it is not all that uncommon for a kitsune to have names of other races.

Culture and Cultural Heritage

Kitsune's culture and society used to be a flourishing society of mages and clerics. Since Kitsune are born with a little bit of magic in their blood, to begin with, it is quite common for them to seek out ways to improve on what they are already gifted with. They used to be a very open people enjoying the loves and joys of any race: drinking, feasts, merriment, music, plays, poetry, and storytelling in general. Many of the legends of the Kitsune came from the Kitsune themselves, spinning tall tales of grand heroic mages and warriors.  After the massive genocide against their race, they became a largely secretive race. Most of the kitsune are still very secretive, albeit passionate about their causes. Still, it is in the nature of a kitsune to be a bit of a trickster with people they get to know and it isn't uncommon for their jokes to 'go a little too far' in the eyes of other races. Other races are wary of these fox folk when they meet them. Many pose as humans in the world, having shape changing as an innate ability in their blood. Many kitsune go out to study magic. Some simply want to spread the stories of their kind, valuing these great stories, kitsune bards to travel to other nations to tell their tales.

History

Kitsune are a race of fox people that are quite rare. They tend to hide their kitsune heritage while dealing with other races as a way to keep away from the discrimination and hatred from legends. Due to the legend stating that a kitsune's tail contains power, the kitsune were nearly wiped out for their tails and most of them went into hiding. Only just getting back into the world after centuries of isolation, it is still the practice of some races to sever a kitsune's tail in hopes of obtaining power.

Common Myths and Legends

There are many legends floating around the worlds relating to kitsunes as powerful sorcerers. It is said in legend that kitsune were created by the being known as TricksterQ and therefore are born tricksters and have nigh-infinite power by the time they are fully matured. Supposedly, the only way to kill a kitsune is to cut off its tails, where it's power is stored, but that is simply a tall tale to scare young children.

Interspecies Relations and Assumptions

Other races didn't get along very well with Kitsune due Kitsune's natural ability with magic and their trickster behaviors

Average Height

4' 5" - 6' 5"

Average Weight

80lb

Average Physique

A kitsune has a stature similar to that of an elf, being a bit shorter, and lither than a typical human of the same. In their natural form, they are much like anthropomorphic foxes. They usually have light colored fur, reddish brown, white, golden brown, though it isn't completely unheard of for them to possess black fur that covers their entire body. Some may have multiple colors in their fur such as being mostly reddish brown with white gloves and socks. Their eyes range in color as well, though most have blue, green, or brown eyes. Albeit uncommon they may also have orange, purple, yellow, or even red eyes. They have mostly human-like hands though they do possess claws at the ends of their fingers. They also have paw pads on their feet and hands, much like a fox.