Kitsune Den
Empire Underguild inside Entertainers Guild
Can be home to characters.
The Kitsune Den entertainment house is built around an ancient artifact, named the Fox Stone, which gives entertainers hatched under it’s roof special powers for as long as they reside within the house’s walls. Those hatched inside the house will have set sphirix from birth, all of them being kitsune. Most are born with only one tail, and will gain one if their magic grows stronger. The house mother is the strongest grifix in the house, having nine tails. Entertainers in this house are also born with the sphirix tail trait.
Eggs must spend a few days in the house before hatching in order for the artifact’s magic to sink in. Just hatching there isn’t enough. The house often buys eggs from other entertainment houses when the House Mothers are trying to get rid of them. All members of the house are hatched within the house’s walls and raised there. Those that leave lose their powers - their spirix can not gain any more tails, and they will usually lose all the tail they gained, reverting back to one.
In the Kitsune Den, there are two different ranks Entertainers can be put into based on abilities and heart. Zenko - “good foxes’ and Yako - “field foxes”.
Zenko are the higher ranked grifix that don’t wish to partake in mischievous behaviors, being all high and mighty, thinking they are the most perfect grifix out there. They mainly stay in their rooms or sit and watch the lower ranked entertainers hypnotize the customers with their tails.
Yako are the entertainers. Usually they run around serving tea to the customers, which they hypnotize after with their fabulous tails, dancing around and sometimes putting customers in trances, taking their money or jewelry. When the customers wake up they don’t realize their belongings were taken, never remembering a single thing.
The building of the House is split, having two compartments for each rank, so the Yako can plan their next performances together.
At times the Zenko will perform, but it’s a rare occurrence. If they do perform, their magic makes the watchers go into a super deep trance and the Yako will run around stealing everything they can.
The performers always wear their fox masks, which allows them to be sneaky and unrecognizable to the customers. One of the powers granted by the ancient Fox Stone is shapeshifting. All entertainers can use their magic to briefly shift into kitsune that look like their sphirix - it’s more of an illusion though. More powerful members of the House can also shift into other animals, but it takes up a lot of their magic, and they usually have to train a lot to learn a new “shape”, having to master each shape individually. Learning a new shape is usually the first step to gaining a new tail, because the effort will often help grifix raise their magic level. However, the number of shapes learned by a grifix is not linked directly to their number of tails. It is said that the house master is able to shapeshift into any animal out there.
Tsundae's Tale:
There's a story about the origin of the house goes back to the early days of the Empire, back when there were only a few houses in the Entertainment District. The Tale talks of a tall mare named Tsundae who used to be a dancer at one of those Houses. She had a sphirix in the shape of a nine tail Kisune, and the tails of one.
One night, as she was dancing for some customers, she got lost in the music and danced like she never did before, moving her body and her tails like the notes of the music, until she noticed that the music stopped. When she looked around she realized that everyone in the room had fainted, both musicians and customers. Terrified, she ran to her room.
Next day, when she walked down to do her job as usual, the House Mother stopped her. She told her that everyone in the room had been hypnotized by the way her tails moved, and that the customers woke up angry and refused to pay. If it ever happened again, she would be kicked out of the house.
Tsundae did her best to never dance like that again, but for some reason customers started falling asleep at every movement she made, and it was not before long that she got kicked out of the house.
She tried going around the other houses trying to get a job, but they all would faint when she tried to audition and refuse to ever let her in again. It was like that for a few weeks until she walked into a new House where there were no Entertainers - a grifix from the outside was trying to start an Entertainment House, but nobody wanted to get hired by him, so the business was bound to fail. It was like that for months, and everyone avoided the place, rumors even started to spread that he was cursed. But she had no other place left to go, so she walked in for an audition.
Shen Tsundae met him, she was surprised to see he had 7 kitsune tails just like hers. She danced in front of him for the audition, and to her surprise, he hadn’t fainted, he was just marveled by the beauty of her dance. He welcomed her into the house, introducing himself as Shikamaru, and together they decided to only hire other “kitsune”, who could perform her dance and use it for their business.
With Tsundae’s charm, they soon gathered enough entertainers to open the House, and soon it became one of the biggest Entertainment Houses.
Tsundae grew old in the House and became the House Mother. In her last years, she used to sunbathe on a big stone in the house’s inner yard. Legend says she died on that stone one day, but instead of her body remaining breathless there, she turned into a kitsune statue that still lays on that stone up to this day, and her soul provides the grifix born there with their special magical abilities.
This house is regulated by @CrystalIzzy77
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