GRIFIX LORE UPDATE #9 - Yokai no Ie, the Jewellers Guild, New Traits, Styles

Posted 2 years ago :: Last edited 2 years ago by MysteriousShine

Hello and welcome once again! MysteriousShine here. In this lore update I will cover two new underguilds: Yokai no Ie (Entertainers Guild) and The Jewellers Guild (Tailors Guild). I am so glad to see once again people contributing to the lore of the grifix like this!

After that I will cover information on some new traits, but most important STYLES which are a trait category I've been using for a while but people still seem to not understand what they are so maybe I should clarify it in a post.

So, let's begin!

YOKAI NO IE

Headmaster - ???

Members - Akuma, Angelfox, others

Yokai no Ie or House of the Yokai is a Entertainment guild that is centered around myths of strange creatures.

As you walk in the small side alley house you will be welcomed by grifix with animal tails, each having a story to tell. You will sit down at a table in the side of a room and loose yourself in the quiet ambiance. Sweet scents will fill the room and the music of a sanshin will suround you. In the darkness of the room your senses will loose themselves and everything may seem as something it isn't... You are not sure about what you are seeing anymore, believing your eyes deceive you, and maybe they do... cause what are the creatures you are seeing, what are the images that run before your eyes, of fantastic animals that run and shapeshift before your eyes?

A sweet voice begins to tell a story, one you never heard before, and the images play their role, taking you through the story as if you were there to witness it...

The story of a fox who turned into a grifix and fooled a king to fall for her, leading him to his demise...

The story of the snake with a grifix head that emerged from the water and lended a baby to a grifix, only for the baby to turn into a stone and the snake to eat the grifix alive...

With each story you lose yourself deeper in that world, you become unsure of the truth. Cause everything you tought was true would prove to be nothing but a trick in those stories...

You leave, shaken by the stories. You swear to never return. Yet you can't stop thinking about it, and, once again, you find yourself knocking on the doors of the House of the Yokai.

THE JEWELLERS GUILD

Name: The Flame of Aspirita (For short The Aspirita Guild)

Patron/ goddess: Aspirita

Founder: Caritas

Headmistress (Master): Scarlet Lily

Apprentice: SunSong

Specialty: Appraising jewels and gemstones as well as the making of accessories and jewelry.

Members: (to be added)

✦ Personal Merchant (who regulates the stock of gemstones and materials): needs character

✦ Regulator of Mines (Who regulates the trade between the mines): needs character

✦ Multiple students(Of different specific jewelry and accessory crafts): needs character(s)

BACKSTORY:

What started out as a humble under guild not known by many over generations became one of the most respected and known underguilds, receiving commissions from famed customers and their jewelry and accessories worn by important figures in the Empire. They worship Aspirita as their patron goddess and her entrapped gem soul is on display in front of the guild as a reminder of the prosperity and wealth she brought to their expertise. They were once an underguild part of the Craftsman Guild, but when the Tailors Guild split from it they became an underguild of the Tailors Guild instead.

LOCATION:

Their guild is located in a big area, the guild operates more like a luxurious market and so there are specific stalls for certain students and their personalized crafts. These students further their craft under the funding of Master Scarlet Lily who generously lets them live in her guild building as long as they are working hard. Scarlet Lily is noticeable especially in a crowd, with her scarlet red hair and vibrant arctic eyes, as well as the luxurious items she wears. Most of the items she dons are specific gifts from her students to her and in respect of their hard work, she wears them, being the model for their work. It is said among the customers of this guild that if you leave empty-pawed you haven't got any sense, and therefore have no taste in anything fashionable. This guild is most well known for being able to start known trends and adapt to any taste.

PATRON GODDESS

There was a fiery Grifix full of spirit and passion who brought life to a hidden gem in the tailors guild faction. Her mane was as fiery as her spirit and her eyes and bright as the ripples of a lake on a sunny day. Three generations have passed since the fiery phoenixs rise to their business and fame and the Grifix whom work in the guild nowadays worship this Grifix as their patron, their goddess who was generous enough to be their wealth and prosperity. These Grifix work hard day and night because of their unending passion and fiery spirit towards their fervence to their Goddess. They wish to be like her and those who have similar features to her are seen to be a signs from the Grifix as a sign of future prosperity. In the first generation of the guild the fiery spirited Grifix known as Aspirita walked around showing off the items and pieces of the masters work and brought fame to the guilds work.However over time that Grifix grew tired and weary and spoke to her friend the Master that she was tired and could no longer walk around happily. She told her friend that like a Phoenix she would turn into “ashes”. That she would convert herself into a gem and later on come back into the world anew from the “ashes”. The Master did not agree but out of dear love for her close friend, and in a way her goddess, she left the guild on a fateful day with Aspirita and went to an unknown sorcerer who turned Aspirita into a gem alike to her spirit, a Stone of Fire, the gem would pulse like the heartbeat of Aspirita and shone like several stars in the sunny sky. These days however in the third generation of the guild, the heartbeat of the Firestone has gotten slower and dimmer, and the members of the guild pass the stone with sadness and weariness, hoping that someday that their patron will come back.

(The heartbeat in the stone gets slower and dimmer since she is coming back from the “ashes” it represents her “death” of sorts. This the Grifix do not know)

This guild is regulated by RubyNoble1

Thank you RubyNoble for coming up with this aewsome underguild, I think the backstory of it is awesome and hope it will get filled with characters once!

Now I'll go into some new traits and what the Trait Styles are!

NEW TRAITS

Please don't use these posts as notifications for new traits as most new traits are not announced here but on Discord. It's just now and then I add them to lore updates.

EAR LAYERING

WING EXTENSIONS

Sphirix Wing Alteration clarification:

The feathers are shaped in such way that they resemble the wing shape of the sphirix. The wing is NOT the wing of the sphirix animal, it is just altered to have a similar shape.

The image displays a butterfly EXAMPLE. It can be any animal, that is just an example.

Styles

Styles are NOT traits. They do NOT have to be selected or anything like that. They are purely for inspiration.

They are often trait combinations that can look cool together, ideas, all sorts of stuff like that. They can all be found here, and you can always give me more ideas for them. Each of them has listed in the description what traits you must use to obtain that style. The rarity I picked for each is just the highest rarity of the traits it contains.

Again, they are not traits, they are just possible combinations and ideas with the already existing traits.

I'll dump here all the styles that exist for now, you can pick any for inspiration and click on them to see what traits they require. This will NOT be updated so do not use this post for reference in the future.

They also have no specific order. I just copy-pasted them from the visual trait index where you can find them updated whenever you need.

Arrowhead Fluff Style (Common)

Leaf Ear (Common)

Petal Fluff Style (Common)

Rib Fluff Style (Common)

Star Ray Fluff Style (Common)

Sun Ray Fluff Style (Common)

Teddybear Ear (Common)

Fur x Feather fluff material (Rare)

Heart Fluff Style (Rare)

Phoenixtail Ear (Rare)

Valkyrie Fluff Style (Rare)

Chicken collar fluffs (Epic)

Fur x Smoke fluff material (Epic)

Pigeon Collar Fluffs (Epic)

Smoke Cluster Tail Fluff (Epic)

Smoke Tail (Epic)

Spiral Fluff Style (Epic)

Unlayered Double Underside Ear (Epic)

Bat Sphirix Wing Alteration (Legendary)

Bee (Insect) Sphirix Wing Alteration (Legendary)

Butterfly Sphirix Corruption (Legendary)

Butterfly Sphirix Wing Alteration (Legendary)

Dragon Sphirix Wing Alteration V1 (Legendary)

Dragon Sphirix Wing Alteration V2 (Legendary)

Fish Sphirix Wing Alteration (Legendary)

Frillback Sphirix Wing Alteration (Legendary)

Pterodactyl Sphirix Wing Alteration (Legendary)

Whale Sphirix Wing Alteration (Legendary)

Feel free to trace any of the wings if you want to use them but don't know how to draw them well enough. Or ask me for it if you want to use wings for an animal I didn't make examples for and I'll draw it for u.