Yokai/Yaoguai
Yokai are chaotic reflections of mortality, known in their physical forms as various demonic creatures, mostly from the Kindao realm, they range from the supernatural undead to monsters that are devoid of any restraint or thought. While many of them appear and act as threatening and malevolent, some can bring good wishes to those who bargain politely. Before Yamamura, yokai encounters were considered rare until the ones left unscathed of the Kindao army were released into the mortal realm, descending more yokai for the following decades.
Oni
Oni are large ogre-like yokai that are considered to have the greatest resemblance to Mazoku, the first yokai. Their origins can be traced thousands of years ago when Mazoku laid with multiple mortal women in the form of a man. The children they bore were repulsive and deformed, layered with red skin and armed with grotesque horns. It was common for oni births to be killed or exiled from their own mothers. Even the young who were seldom accepted into the village community out of pity succumbed to their fathers' wicked nature and viciously feasted on the humans who raised them. Today, they are primarily found in caves somewhat near human civilization, where they torture and dissemble anyone who comes near them. Known torture methods these creatures often practice are tearing the limbs, de-skinning, and being dipped in boiling water. Resembling Mazoku's brutality and his purpose to be the villain of humankind.
Kitsune
Kitsune are an inconsistent race of fox-like spirits whose description treads upon both yokai and kami (benevolent entities worshiped in Tekkanese cultures). The kitsune, while revered for their cleverness and symbol of great cultivation, their shapeshifting abilities and instincts to trickery and deceit are set in stone. The kitsune who wander down this path too far eventually transform into yokai. With a form similar to a savage wolf, they scattered all across populated cities luring in prey by bearing the form of beautiful women, that they prance around like puppets on strings, while their real bodies hide deep within allies or crevices. In the yokai race, the kitsune resemble the deception and lies yokai make in order to satiate their hunger.
Bunrakus are a special type of yokai where their origin derives from mankind's obsession with evolving past their means. They were once a form of puppetry in the Tekkanese arts until the discovery of Azure Oil where blacksmiths in Nagashi learned to pull their strings self-sufficiently. They were labeled yokai after they learned to walk themselves and gain a quarter of consciousness. For the shogunate to weaponize and control them, they implanted a "kill switch" that functions when the bunraku steps near the realm of self-awareness. Forcing them to remain the metal slaves with strings intact.
Young hermit crabs found on the shores of Azuhanto, Tekkan have been known to make a home out of a large variety of objects such as large seashells, barrels, and even sunken totems. But when a desperate crab comes across the helmet of an old samurai, it becomes a host for an undying parasite that will continuously grow in size the more seething the trapped spirit ripens.
Kappa
Kappa, also known as "river children" are an aquatic yokai found in the riverbeds and marshlands of Tekkan. Their physical appearance fits the description of a humanoid turtle with the facial features of a bird and an exposed pit at the top of their heads which are filled with water. Should this crater within their head be tipped and relieved of all water, they will stop moving and be declared brain-dead until it is filled. Despite their size resembling that of an average 7-year-old boy, they are incredibly vicious and crass and often feed on the entrails of humans. But they also like cucumbers.
Tako nyūdō
Tako nyūdō are parasitic octopus yokai/yaoguai that latch themselves onto the scalps of wandering monks and assume their control to seek enlightenment and passage back into the Celestial Court from whence theyre banished for being a yaoguai descent of Mazoku. Their foolish desperate way of achieving enlightenment is not only impractical but an offensive treason to the light they pursue. Despite their hopeless chances of seeking what they want, they will franticly cling to their host and defend it by any means necessary.
Tenjō kudari
Tenjō kudari, (literally meaning "ceiling hanger") are a rare type of yokai/yaoguai that hide in the ceilings and attics of homes where they will wait until the time is right and burst out of the ceiling hanging upside down to scare and sometimes attack people. They are regarded as an undead yokai, for their trace of origin comes from hiding a deceased corpse in the walls or attic of one's house. A method mostly used in densely populated cities such as Tatsu in Tekkan and Shao Tai in Shilon, where discarding a dead body is harder than in most rural places.
Karakasa kozō
Dangerousness is a common trait amongst the common yokai, but despite most being descendants of Mazoku, a lot of yokai can be classified as harmless or even playful. The Karakasa kozō are the more well-known of the harmless yokai subgroup, they resemble sentient umbrellas with a single eye that hop around on one leg and lick random objects with their long and grotesque tongues. Nothing else is known about these creatures but are assumed to be formal house furniture in Mazoku's palace.
Akugyo
Akugyo are dangerous immense mermaid-like yokai that stalk the waters surrounding the Tekkanese islands and have been around since the Azure Dragon of the East; Seiryu sent the western oceans into a five-hundred-year-old storm. They are told to be the size of two sailboats with scales of pure gold.
Demon king Mazoku.
An Oni
A kitsune luring in it's prey.
A bunraku giving a geisha a tattoo.
A Kappa.
Tako nyudo
Tenjō kudari
Akugyo
Karakasa kozō
