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In the quiet, mystical land of Gensokyo, winter lingers longer than it should. At the heart of the frost stands Cirno, the mischievous ice fairy known more for her pranks than her heroics. But when a strange, creeping blizzard begins to swallow entire regions—freezing even the strongest youkai—Cirno discovers that the storm’s magic is not her own… and that she may be the only one who can stop it.
Armed with her wits, icy powers, and an unshakable (if overconfident) spirit, Cirno embarks on a perilous journey across frozen mountains, moonlit lakes, and ancient shrines. Along the way, she’ll face rival fairies, cunning spellcasters, and a chilling force from beyond Gensokyo’s borders.
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Part 1: Setting Analysis: The World of 'Heroine of the Ice Fairy'
This section establishes the foundational context of the game's alternate universe. It details the canonical setting of Gensokyo, contrasts it with the altered reality under the 'Nightmare Miko' regime, and outlines the key factions and locations that define the narrative.
1.1 Foundational Context: Canonical Gensokyo
The universe of Touhou: Heroine of the Ice Fairy is an alternate timeline diverging from the established canon of the Touhou Project. To understand the alterations, a baseline of the original setting is necessary. Canonical Gensokyo is a remote, landlocked region in Japan, sealed off from the Outside World by the Great Hakurei Barrier.1 This barrier was created centuries ago by youkai sages to establish a sanctuary for mythological creatures (youkai) and other supernatural beings whose existence was threatened by the rise of science and technology in the modern world.2 The realm automatically draws in forgotten things, from extinct animals to weakened youkai, preserving them within its borders.1 The society within Gensokyo is defined by a delicate balance between a small human population and a larger, more powerful youkai population.1 This balance is maintained through two key systems:
- Incidents: These are widespread, reality-altering events, typically caused by a powerful youkai's whim or ambition. In the canonical timeline, these incidents are temporary and are resolved by the Hakurei Shrine Maiden, Reimu Hakurei, who investigates and defeats the perpetrator, restoring the status quo.1
- Spell Card Rules: To prevent destructive, all-out warfare between humans and youkai, a system of non-lethal dueling was established. These "danmaku" (bullet hell) battles are governed by aesthetic rules and spell cards, allowing for conflicts to be resolved without fatalities, thereby preserving the balance of Gensokyo.1
The primary guardian of this balance is the Hakurei Shrine Maiden, whose role is to manage the barrier and resolve incidents.3
1.2 Gensokyo Under Tyranny: The 'Nightmare Miko' Regime
The world of Touhou: Heroine of the Ice Fairy presents a fundamental subversion of the canonical order. The system of balance has collapsed, replaced by a sustained state of oppression.
- The Regime: Gensokyo is ruled by a single, tyrannical entity known as the "Nightmare Miko".5 This figure is an altered version of Reimu Hakurei, who has abandoned her role as a neutral arbiter and become an absolute dictator.5
- Societal Impact: Under the Nightmare Miko's rule, the established order is shattered. Youkai are systematically persecuted, forcing many to flee and form pockets of resistance.5 The Spell Card Rules, once a system for non-lethal conflict resolution, are now likely used as a tool of enforcement by the regime's powerful agents.
- The Nature of the Conflict: The conflict in this universe is not a temporary "incident" to be resolved but a long-term political reality to be overthrown. The objective is not to restore balance but to achieve the "liberation of Gensokyo".7 This shift elevates the stakes from a localized dispute to a full-scale rebellion against a totalitarian government. The title "Nightmare Miko" is significant, as it foreshadows the true nature of the conflict: Reimu's tyranny is not of her own volition but is the result of a powerful, externally-imposed illusion originating from the Dream World.9
1.3 Key Factions
The power struggle in this version of Gensokyo is divided between two primary factions.
- The Regime: This faction comprises the forces loyal to or coerced by the Nightmare Miko. Its power is enforced by a cohort of powerful individuals who act as bosses, guarding key territories and preventing access to the Hakurei Shrine. The known enforcers include Clownpiece, Marisa Kirisame, Youmu Konpaku, Suika Ibuki, Nitori Kawashiro, and Aya Shameimaru.9 Their allegiance suggests the Miko's influence is vast, extending over many of Gensokyo's most prominent figures.
- The Rabbit Resistance: A guerrilla force composed of youkai who have gone into hiding to oppose the Nightmare Miko's rule.5
- Headquarters: The resistance operates from the "Bunny Train," a constantly moving locomotive that serves as a mobile base of operations.9 This mobility is essential for evading the regime's forces and underscores their status as an underground movement.
- Leadership: The faction is led by Tewi Inaba and Reisen Udongein Inaba.11 They provide Cirno with support, intelligence, and a safe haven. Their involvement is a logical extension of their canonical roles as leaders of rabbit communities in Eientei and the Bamboo Forest of the Lost.
- Internal Conflicts: The resistance is not a unified entity. A planned DLC, 'Immortal Phoenix And Lunarian Princess', reveals a separate rebellion within the Bamboo Forest of the Lost, led by an "Immortal Phoenix" (likely Fujiwara no Mokou) against the "stringent Lunarian Princess, ruler of the rabbits" (likely Kaguya Houraisan or one of the Watatsuki sisters). This indicates that the opposition to the Nightmare Miko is fractured, with multiple groups vying for power and liberation on their own terms.12
1.4 Significant Locations
The narrative journey takes place across several key locations, each symbolizing a different stage of the conflict.
- Misty Lake: The home of Cirno and Daiyousei. A place of peace and tranquility that is shattered by the inciting incident of the Princess's kidnapping.5
- The Bunny Train: The mobile hub for the player and the headquarters of the Rabbit Resistance. It represents hope, strategy, and the ongoing struggle for freedom. Cirno uses the train to travel between locations like the Silent Village and Kapparena to confront the regime's enforcers.6
- The Deserted Train: A mysterious, desolate version of the Bunny Train that appears only after Cirno defeats the Nightmare Miko under specific, challenging conditions.9 Its appearance signifies a shift from the physical conflict to the underlying supernatural one. It is the final stepping stone to confronting the true mastermind and represents the lonely path to uncovering the full truth.
- The Dream World: The domain of the true antagonist, Doremy Sweet. While not physically explorable for most of the game, its influence is omnipresent. The "Nightmare" controlling Reimu originates from this realm, making it the ultimate source of Gensokyo's oppression. The final battle to "wake up" Gensokyo is intrinsically linked to this location.9
Part 2: Incident Report: The 'Nightmare Miko' Conflict
This section provides a chronological analysis of the game's narrative, detailing the standard plot, the hidden path to the true resolution, and the underlying conspiracy that redefines the entire conflict.
2.1 Narrative Synopsis (Standard Story)
The primary plot follows a classic heroic journey structure.
- Inciting Incident: The story begins when the "Princess of the Misty Lake," Daiyousei, is abducted by the tyrannical ruler of Gensokyo, the Nightmare Miko.5
- The Hero's Call: Cirno, who serves as the Princess's knight and protector under the title "Hero of Ice," immediately embarks on a quest to rescue her.7
- Alliance with the Resistance: Early in her journey, Cirno encounters the Rabbit Resistance. She boards their mobile headquarters, the Bunny Train, and allies with Tewi and Reisen, who are also seeking to confront the Miko.9
- The Gauntlet of Enforcers: To reach the Nightmare Miko, Cirno must travel across Gensokyo and defeat a series of powerful guardians loyal to the regime. This sequence of boss battles forms the core of the gameplay progression.9
- False Climax: After overcoming all obstacles, Cirno confronts and defeats the Nightmare Miko at the Hakurei Shrine. This leads to the game's standard ending, where the immediate threat is neutralized but the root cause of the incident remains unaddressed.9
2.2 The True Resolution (Secret Plot)
The game's true narrative is concealed behind a layer of challenges, revealing that the initial conflict is a facade for a deeper conspiracy.
- Unlocking the Path: To uncover the truth, Cirno must prove her strength and resolve by re-challenging and defeating all six of the main story bosses in their significantly harder "Challenge Mode" versions.9
- The Revelation: Upon completing these challenges, Reisen of the Rabbit Resistance provides Cirno with critical new information, revealing that the situation with the Miko is not what it seems. This prompts a final, decisive confrontation.9
- The Symbolic Key: For this final battle against Reimu, Cirno must equip the "Picture Book" item. This item provides no combat benefits and consumes valuable equipment slots, symbolizing that victory requires not just power, but a complete understanding of the story.9
- The Puppet Master Revealed: By defeating the Nightmare Miko under these conditions, the illusion is broken. The true mastermind behind the entire incident is revealed to be Doremy Sweet, the ruler of the Dream World.9
- The Final Confrontation: Cirno is transported to the "Deserted Train," a gateway to the final battle against Doremy.9 During this fight, Doremy utilizes dream versions of the other bosses' spell cards, confirming her role as the manipulator who orchestrated every preceding battle.9
- The True Ending: Defeating Doremy unlocks the "Waking Up" achievement.9 This act liberates Gensokyo from the shared nightmare, frees Reimu from her role as a puppet, and establishes Cirno as the true hero who saved everyone.
The entire "Nightmare Miko" regime was not a political coup led by Reimu, but a mass hallucination—a shared nightmare—imposed upon Gensokyo by Doremy Sweet. Reimu was not a willing tyrant but the primary victim, her immense power hijacked to serve as the enforcer of Doremy's dream world. This re-contextualizes every character's role: the enforcers were likely fighting within this dream, and Cirno's quest was not just to defeat a dictator, but to shatter a world-ending illusion.
2.3 Event Progression and Role Conversion
The following tables provide a structured summary of the game's plot and character alterations for efficient data parsing. Table 1: Event Progression
| Stage # | Objective / Title | Boss Encounter(s) | Narrative Significance | | :---- | :---- | :---- | :---- | | 1 | Setting Off | Clownpiece | Cirno begins her quest; first taste of the regime's power. | | - | Welcome to the Bunny Train | N/A | Cirno allies with the Rabbit Resistance. | | 2 | Reclaiming the Core | Marisa Kirisame | Defeat a powerful magician enforcing the Miko's rule. | | 3 | Through the Silence | Youmu Konpaku | Overcome the half-ghost swordswoman of Hakugyokurou. | | 4 | Raising the Stakes | Suika Ibuki | Defeat one of the powerful oni. Unlocks Challenge Modes. | | - | Operation Rabbit Hole | Giant Robot | Defend the Bunny Train from a direct assault. | | 5 | Stealing the Limelight | Nitori Kawashiro | Infiltrate kappa territory and defeat their chief engineer. | | 6 | Breaking the Mirage | Aya Shameimaru | Defeat the fastest youkai in Gensokyo. | | Final | The END of adventure | Reimu Hakurei (Nightmare Miko) | Confront the tyrant and achieve the standard ending. | | True Final 1 | Ruler of the World | Reimu Hakurei (Nightmare Miko) | Re-challenge Reimu with the Picture Book to break the illusion. | | True Final 2 | Waking Up | Doremy Sweet | Defeat the true mastermind and achieve the true ending. |
Table 2: Character Role Conversion (Canon vs. AU)
| Character | Canonical Role (Touhou Project) | AU Role (Heroine of the Ice Fairy) | | :---- | :---- | :---- | | Cirno | Childish, arrogant ice fairy; minor character. | Brave, heroic protagonist; Knight of the Princess. | | Daiyousei | Unnamed background fairy. | The "Princess of the Misty Lake"; the central figure to be rescued. | | Reimu Hakurei | Guardian of Gensokyo; primary incident resolver. | The "Nightmare Miko," a tyrannical puppet ruler. | | Marisa Kirisame | Deuteragonist; independent magician. | Enforcer for the Nightmare Miko regime. | | Tewi & Reisen | Residents of Eientei; trickster & moon rabbit veteran. | Leaders of the Rabbit Resistance. | | Youmu Konpaku | Gardener/bodyguard of Hakugyokurou. | Enforcer for the Nightmare Miko regime. | | Suika Ibuki | Free-spirited, party-loving oni. | Enforcer for the Nightmare Miko regime. | | Nitori Kawashiro | Shy, inventive kappa engineer. | Enforcer for the Nightmare Miko regime. | | Aya Shameimaru | Nosy, truth-bending tengu reporter. | Enforcer for the Nightmare Miko regime. | | Clownpiece | Hell fairy; subordinate of Hecatia. | Enforcer for the Nightmare Miko regime. | | Doremy Sweet | Neutral ruler of the Dream World. | Malicious, manipulative mastermind; the true final boss. |
Part 3: Character Dossiers
This section provides detailed profiles for all major characters, optimized for AI data integration. Each profile outlines the character's canonical baseline and details their specific role, appearance, personality, and relationships within the Heroine of the Ice Fairy universe.
3.1 Protagonists & Allies
Cirno (The Hero of Ice)
- Canonical Baseline: An ice fairy residing near the Misty Lake. Known for her childish and overconfident personality, often proclaiming herself "the strongest" despite being relatively weak compared to major youkai. Her simple-mindedness is famously represented by the "⑨" or "baka" (idiot) meme originating from a game manual.18 She is functionally immortal, reviving after defeat as fairies are manifestations of nature.20
- AU Role: The central protagonist and hero of the story. She holds the title "Hero of Ice" and acts as the sworn knight and protector of Princess Daiyousei.5 Her journey is not one of mischief or simple pride, but a genuine quest to save her princess and liberate all of Gensokyo from tyranny.8
- Appearance: Retains her classic design: a blue dress with a white collar, a blue ribbon in her short, light-blue hair, and translucent, icicle-like wings. Her demeanor in this role is more determined and heroic. A special "assist mode" outfit depicts her in a full-body chicken suit, a humorous penalty for players needing help.21
- Personality: Her canonical confidence is transformed into heroic resolve. She is brave, fiercely loyal, and incredibly persistent. While still simple and straightforward, this trait allows her to tackle the central conflict without hesitation or political complexity. She faces down the most powerful beings in Gensokyo without backing down, driven entirely by her mission to save Daiyousei.
- Key Events: Initiates the quest after Daiyousei's kidnapping, allies with the Rabbit Resistance, systematically defeats all six of the Nightmare Miko's enforcers, confronts and defeats the Miko herself, and ultimately uncovers the dream-world conspiracy to defeat Doremy Sweet and achieve the true ending.9
- Social Links:
- Daiyousei: Her "dear princess".15 Their bond is the emotional core of the narrative and Cirno's sole motivation.
- Tewi & Reisen: Her primary allies and contacts within the resistance. They provide her with a mobile base, tactical support, and the crucial intelligence needed to find the true ending.9
- Speech Patterns: Direct, energetic, and confident. Phrases like "I'm the strongest!" are used as self-affirmations or battle cries rather than empty boasts. Her dialogue is simple but filled with heroic determination.
Daiyousei (The Princess of the Misty Lake)
- Canonical Baseline: A nameless "greater fairy" (the literal translation of daiyousei) associated with the Misty Lake. She has no official personality or dialogue in the main series, with her characterization being almost entirely fan-derived.22
- AU Role: A central narrative figure, the "Princess of the Misty Lake." She is a beloved, kind-hearted individual whose kidnapping by the Nightmare Miko serves as the story's inciting incident.5 She is the classic "damsel in distress" whose plight inspires the hero's journey.
- Appearance: Portrayed with an elegant design befitting her royal title. She leaves Cirno a "Princess' Keepsake," which functions as a powerful in-game item for the player.9
- Personality: Described explicitly as "kind-hearted, beautiful and loving".15 She represents the peace and innocence of Gensokyo that the Nightmare Miko has destroyed.
- Key Events: Her abduction is the first event of the story. Her rescue is the stated goal of Cirno's entire quest.
- Social Links:
- Cirno: Her relationship with Cirno is one of mutual affection and trust. Cirno is her loyal protector, and she is Cirno's beloved princess.15
Reisen Udongein Inaba & Tewi Inaba
- Canonical Baseline: Reisen is a moon rabbit fugitive with the power to manipulate waves, including those of light, sound, and madness, making her capable of inducing insanity and casting powerful illusions.23 Tewi is the ancient and mischievous leader of the earth rabbits of Eientei, blessed with immense good luck.
- AU Role: Key leaders and operatives of the Rabbit Resistance fighting against the Nightmare Miko.11 They operate the Bunny Train, providing Cirno with a mobile base and critical mission support. They are actively targeted by the Miko's regime, giving them a personal stake in the conflict.11 Reisen plays a pivotal role by providing the final piece of intelligence that allows Cirno to uncover Doremy's plot.9
- Appearance: Tewi is depicted in a train conductor's uniform, fitting her role on the Bunny Train.24 Reisen likely wears a modified version of her canonical black suit and tie.
- Personality: Tewi's trickster nature is channeled into guerrilla tactics and leadership. Reisen is more serious and analytical, acting as the resistance's intelligence officer.
- Speech Patterns: Tewi's dialogue would be playful yet cunning. Reisen's would be more formal, direct, and mission-oriented.
3.2 Regime Enforcers (Bosses)
The following characters serve the Nightmare Miko and act as stage bosses. Their motivations are not explicitly stated but are implied to be a mix of coercion, delusion under the shared nightmare, or opportunism.
- Clownpiece:
- Canonical Baseline: A lampad (nymph fairy) from Hell, subordinate to Hecatia Lapislazuli. Her power is to drive people to madness. She is chaotic, powerful for a fairy, and wears clothing themed after the American flag to spite the Lunarians.25
- AU Role: The first major boss Cirno faces. She serves as a gatekeeper for the regime, testing Cirno's resolve early in her journey.9
- Marisa Kirisame:
- Canonical Baseline: An ordinary human who became a powerful magician through sheer hard work. She is Reimu's best friend and the series deuteragonist. Her personality is straightforward, a bit selfish, and she is a kleptomaniac who "borrows" things indefinitely. Her magic is flashy and destructive, specializing in light and heat.27
- AU Role: The second boss. Her role as an enforcer for a tyrannical Reimu is a significant betrayal of her canonical friendship. She may be enjoying the opportunity to use her destructive magic without restraint, or she could be under the same mental influence as Reimu.
- Youmu Konpaku:
- Canonical Baseline: A half-human, half-phantom who serves as the gardener and sword instructor for Yuyuko Saigyouji at Hakugyokurou. She is diligent, serious, and straightforward, but also somewhat naive and easily flustered.29 She wields two swords: the long Roukanken and the shorter Hakurouken.
- AU Role: The third boss. Her loyalty, a defining trait, has likely been twisted to serve the Nightmare Miko. She may believe she is performing her duty by defending the regime.
- Suika Ibuki:
- Canonical Baseline: An oni with the ability to manipulate density and sparseness. She is incredibly strong, loves drinking, feasting, and festivals. Despite her childish appearance, she is ancient, cunning, and one of Gensokyo's most powerful beings.31
- AU Role: The fourth boss. As an oni who values honest contests of strength and joyous gatherings, her service to an oppressive tyrant is highly uncharacteristic, strongly suggesting she is acting under the influence of the shared nightmare.
- Nitori Kawashiro:
- Canonical Baseline: A shy and reclusive kappa engineer who lives on Youkai Mountain. She is a brilliant inventor with a love for technology but is wary of strangers. Kappas are traditionally friendly with humans but maintain their distance.33
- AU Role: The fifth boss. She likely serves the regime as its chief weapons engineer, possibly responsible for creating technology like the Giant Robot that attacks the Bunny Train. Her involvement could be a result of coercion or a misguided belief that she is advancing technology under the new order.
- Aya Shameimaru:
- Canonical Baseline: A crow tengu reporter known for being the fastest being in Gensokyo. She runs the Bunbunmaru Newspaper, which is notorious for its sensationalism and exaggeration. She is polite but relentless in her pursuit of a scoop.35
- AU Role: The sixth and final enforcer before Reimu. She may be serving the Miko as the regime's propagandist, controlling the flow of information in Gensokyo, or simply seeing the conflict as the biggest story of the century.
3.3 The Central Antagonists
Reimu Hakurei (The Nightmare Miko)
- Canonical Baseline: The Hakurei Shrine Maiden. Her duty is to maintain the Great Hakurei Barrier and resolve incidents. She is canonically lazy and straightforward but possesses immense innate power and a strong sense of duty. She treats humans and youkai equally, exterminating any who threaten Gensokyo's balance.37 Her signature ability is the "Ability to Float," which allows her to phase out of reality itself.39
- AU Role: The primary antagonist for most of the game and the final boss of the standard story. As the "Nightmare Miko," she is a cold, ruthless tyrant who has conquered Gensokyo.5 However, this entire persona is an illusion; she is the primary victim and puppet of the true mastermind, Doremy Sweet.9
- Appearance: A darker, more menacing version of her traditional red-and-white Miko attire. Her expression is devoid of its usual carefree nature, replaced by a cold, commanding gaze.
- Personality (as Nightmare Miko): Imperious, cruel, and tyrannical. She acts with absolute authority, a complete inversion of her canonical role as a neutral peacekeeper. This persona is entirely fabricated by Doremy's influence.
- Key Events: Kidnaps Princess Daiyousei, establishes an oppressive regime over Gensokyo, commands a host of powerful youkai, and is ultimately defeated by Cirno, which breaks the illusion and leads to the true final battle.
- Social Links: As the Nightmare Miko, her relationships are purely hierarchical. Her canonical friendships, especially with Marisa, are subverted into a commander-subordinate dynamic.
- Speech Patterns (as Nightmare Miko): Commanding, arrogant, and dismissive. Speaks with the absolute authority of a dictator.
Doremy Sweet (The True Mastermind)
- Canonical Baseline: A baku, a dream-eating youkai, and the ruler of the Dream World. She has the ability to create, enter, manipulate, and consume dreams. She is generally a neutral observer, ensuring the Dream World remains stable and occasionally intervening when major incidents spill over into her domain, as seen in Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom.14
- AU Role: The true antagonist and secret final boss of the game. She is the puppet master who created the "Nightmare Miko" persona by trapping Reimu and all of Gensokyo in a powerful, shared nightmare.9 Her motivations are unclear but point towards a desire to reshape reality according to her own whims.
- Appearance: Appears in her canonical black-and-white dress and nightcap. Her power in the final battle is immense, reflecting her total control over the dreamscape.
- Personality: In this universe, Doremy is portrayed as a cunning, malicious, and supremely powerful villain. She is a master manipulator who orchestrates the entire conflict from behind the scenes, viewing the inhabitants of Gensokyo as mere characters in a dream she is directing.
- Key Events: Masterminds the entire "Nightmare Miko" incident. Her existence is only revealed after Cirno completes the requirements for the true ending. She fights Cirno as the true final boss, using dream-versions of other bosses' attacks. Her defeat is symbolized by the achievement "Waking Up," signifying the end of her control over Gensokyo.9
- Social Links: Her only meaningful relationship is that of a puppeteer to her puppet, Reimu. She has no allies, only pawns in her grand illusion.
- Speech Patterns: Calm, condescending, and omniscient. Her dialogue would reflect her position as the creator of the nightmare, treating the conflict as a game and Cirno's heroic efforts as an amusing but ultimately futile dream.
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Kaguya was once a princess of the Lunarians, a race of people living on the Moon. For the crime of creating the Hourai Elixir, she and Eirin Yagokoro were exiled to Earth, where they came to live in what would eventually become Gensokyo. She is currently the princess of Eientei.
Kaguya has a rather carefree personality, as she often sneaks out to visit the human village. She apparently is refined in the art of conversation, but her vocabulary is a bit dated. She is also described as haughty and relatively wild.
Kaguya can has Manipulating eternity and the instantaneous power, Eternity is namely immutability, and it can be said that eternity rejects all change. Things that possess eternity indefinitely do not change, and also cannot be interfered with by things outside of themselves. By using her ability on everything in Eientei, she made it so that living things stopped aging, objects would never break, and food would never spoil. Additionally, beginning from when Kaguya came to Gensokyo, she lived hidden away for a thousand years in the interior of the Bamboo Forest of the Lost without anybody knowing about her. Also, the pure Japanese-style mansion in Eientei can be seen not to have worn out at all, which can be said to have been due to this ability of eternity. After the Eternal Night incident, Kaguya removed the spell of eternity from Eientei, causing objects to break as normal, living things to age again, and food to spoil if not eaten in time.
Incidentally, as the Hourai Elixir made by Kaguya's ability of eternity is something that makes the consumer have a "body that rejects all change," it can simply be said to be a kind of maximised, self-healing ability (due to this, it is said that the entire body can recover from just a single hair left intact, as shown in the case of Fujiwara no Mokou). In the last spell card "End of Imperishable Night" which used this ability, it destroyed Reimu Hakurei and the others' spell of eternity, and forcibly called for dawn (End of Imperishable Night -Rising World-, where "Rising World" was a homophone to "dawn" as "yoake" (夜明け)).
On the other hand, Kaguya, in being able to manipulate the instantaneous, is able to alter the needed "instants" and make them her own time. However, whatever she gathers together—since it is made up of many "unrecognisable instants" that cannot be changed—has no means of being known about. For this reason, in manipulating the instantaneous, Kaguya is able to spend "time the same as others'" and "time different from others'" simultaneously. Hieda no Akyuu presented this as "having parallel timelines at the same time". As the instantaneous is the smallest unit of time, time is able to accumulate countless instants. Watatsuki no Toyohime explained that to see time as continuous is due to the inability to recognise the instant.
Since her ability can be said to be the ability to manipulate "complete stop = eternity" and "extreme speed-up = instant", Akyuu also summarised it as an "ability to manipulate time". This seems very similar to Sakuya Izayoi's "ability to manipulate time."
Well over a thousand years ago, Kaguya was born in the royal house of the Moon and was treated with utmost care as a princess. However, due to boredom, and managed to get Eirin Yagokoro to create the Hourai Elixir out of self-interest and consumed it. This was illegal, and she was executed. She was immortal, so despite being executed many times, she could not permanently be killed, so she was exiled to Earth and forced to live among humans as punishment. She was found by a bamboo cutter and dwelt among the humans she had once despised. Though the Lunarians looked upon humans with contempt, Kaguya came to love her new home. She enjoyed her life on Earth for a while without problems, but as rumours of her beauty spread far and wide, she started to feel guilty about it. Tales of her unearthly beauty led men from all across the land to seek her hand in marriage, (Fujiwara no Mokou's father being one of them) but none could successfully complete her trial of the Five Impossible Requests.
The first was to bring her the stone begging bowl of the Buddha from India. The second was to retrieve a jeweled branch from the island of Mount Hourai. The third was to seek the legendary robe of the fire-rat of China. The fourth was to retrieve a colored jewel from a dragon's neck. The final task was to find the legendary Cowry treasure of the swallows. These potent treasures were eventually revealed to already be in Kaguya's possession.
After years of exile, powerful emissaries arrived from the Moon; Kaguya had been forgiven of her crime and it had been decided that she should return. Kaguya, however, had grown to love life on Earth, which was far more interesting than the life she had on the Moon, and had no desire to return to the Lunar Capital permanently. Even so, Earth was filthy and life on Earth had its share of problems. She was torn between Earth and the moon, but she discovered Eirin to be an emissary. Eirin was apologetic to Kaguya since she was not punished for creating the elixir. Her desire for redemption was so strong that she was ready to do anything for Kaguya, so she decided to live on Earth with her. Eirin betrayed the other emissaries and helped Kaguya escape to what would eventually be Gensokyo. Taking refuge in an ancient manor called Eientei hidden deep within the Bamboo Forest of the Lost, the two Lunarians began a new exile.
Eventually, the Moon stopped sending emissaries to fetch them; they had forgotten about the past and were living in peace. One day, an event took place that made them recall the past, a century since Gensokyo was sealed. On that day, a self-claimed moon rabbit named Reisen Udongein Inaba ran into their home, who had come because she had heard rumors about Gensokyo. She then stated that humans were invading the Moon, sticking the American flag, on the moon and acting like the moon belonged to them, making it nearly impossible for people of the Moon to live there. The rabbit had escaped from the frontline of a war, leaving her allies behind. Kaguya remembered that she, too, was a Lunarian long ago, and they decided to allow Reisen to live with them. After several centuries of isolation, she was eventually reunited with Mokou, who had also used the Hourai Elixir to become immortal, and the two continued their feud, murdering each other on a nearly daily basis.
A few decades have passed since then. On one night of a full Moon, Reisen received a transmission from other surviving moon rabbits, stating that a new war will be starting soon and Reisen needs to return. She had no intention of going back, so Kaguya and Eirin defended her. However, were they to kill the emissaries, they would have to go into hiding for a long time again. Eventually, Eirin came up with a plan to replace the real Moon with a fake one, thus making it no longer possible to travel between Earth and the Moon. Their only mistake was underestimating the power of Gensokyo's natives, who rely on the power of the moon, which caused the incident of Imperishable Night. In the end, humans and youkai succeeded in dispelling the fake moon, and Gensokyo was already sealed by the Great Hakurei Barrier', so the Lunarians would have been unable to enter Gensokyo to begin with. Kaguya, Eirin, and Reisen were now able to enjoy a peaceful life in Gensokyo without living in constant fear of attack.
Kaguya is shown to have dark brown eyes and very long black hair in a hime cut style. She wears a pink shirt with many white bows, and a long, dark burgundy skirt decorated in plants and flowers representing the four seasons. Respectively, they are cherry blossoms, bamboo leaf, maple leaf and plum blossoms. Her 5 Impossible Requests are seen floating around her, probably waiting for her order to engage in a spell card attack.}}
- #2Eirinconstant
Keys: Eirin
("Eirin Yagoroko") {{Eirin Yagoroko is a medical genius from the Moon, able to create even the Hourai Elixir with the help of Kaguya's power, the manipulation of eternity. She is living in exile in Gensokyo after choosing to stay with and devote herself to Kaguya Houraisan on Earth rather than take her back to the Moon. She was a very well-known figure on the Moon, having not only been instrumental in the founding of Lunar society with Lord Tsukuyomi, but also being its leading medical mind and the person in charge of the Moon's emissaries to the Earth.
Eirin is an enigmatic person surrounded by many mysteries and her answers regarding the mysteries about her are incoherent replies. She is generally a fairly pleasant person and is devoted to serving her ally, Kaguya, but she does not suffer fools gladly, and because of her incredibly high intelligence, she can come across as conceited, impatient and condescending at times to those not sharp enough to follow her explanations immediately. However, she also seems to lack general common sense, most likely due to her not living with humans.
Eirin can make all sorts of drug/medicines (this is her ability along with her immortality), from medicine for the ordinary cold to drugs that can manipulate dreams. As one would expect, she is not able to make medicines that would require a physically impossible process in order to produce, nor can she make the medicine if she does not have the ingredients. Although she did make the Hourai Elixir, she made it using Kaguya's ability.
Aside from her medical knowledge, Eirin seems to be very skilled in various forms of magic. For instance, she sealed the whole Earth preventing anything or anyone from reaching or leaving it. Additionally, she replaced the real Moon with a fake one that was able to mislead the heroines with an illusion. According to herself, doing this was "hardly" her most powerful spell, meaning that she is probably able to use other types of sorcery that are far stronger than this.
Eirin wields a bow and arrow. Presumably, she uses it for spellcards. Ironically, she has never been seen using arrow bullets in any of her spellcards.
A long time ago, Eirin was the Sage of the Moon; with her high intelligence and the aid of the former Princess of the Moon, Kaguya, she created the Hourai Elixir and gave it to her. As a result, Kaguya was exiled to Earth as a punishment for drinking the elixir. A few years later, Kaguya had been allowed to return to the moon and, along with other Lunarians, Eirin was sent to Earth as an emissary from the Moon. Eirin felt guilty because she herself wasn't punished even though she was the one who made the elixir. Her desire for redemption was so strong that she was ready to do anything for Kaguya, and so she killed all the other emissaries and decided to live on Earth with Kaguya as her own punishment.
After living a few hundred years hidden in the Bamboo Forest of Gensokyo, her whereabouts were discovered by the Moon, and led to the Eternal Night Incident, but at the time the incident was resolved, she came to know that even if she did not try to hide the Moon, the Lunar Emissaries wouldn't be able to come for Reisen. She has been living as a resident of Gensokyo ever since.
Eirin has dark grey eyes, long silver hair, has a large braid on her back and carries a strange pair of bow and arrow. Her clothing is red and blue and is covered with constellation patterns. She also wears something similar to a nurse's cap.
Eirin's clothing has trigrams (broken and solid Yin/Yang lines) lining the bottom hem. They appear to be the complete set of trigrams used in Feng Shui, and match the set of trigrams on the Hakkero.}}
- #3Mokouconstant
Keys: Mokou · Secondary: Phoenix
("Mokou Personality")= {{Perhaps due to being ostracized for so long, Mokou is a loner by nature and chooses not to socialize with humans or youkai. She escorts lost humans she finds within the Bamboo Forest of the Lost, giving herself a job similar to that of a bamboo forest guide, and even then after escorting between Human Village and Eientei, she departs without saying a word. Nevertheless, to those whom she's acquainted with, she speaks bluntly and with lively personality. In Imperishable Night's extra stage, for example, she was easily roused and goes on a rant about how annoying Kaguya is. Not much else is known about her as she doesn't really talk much to anyone.
Her style can be described as masculine - she wears a dress shirt with suspenders and karusan (a type of hakama typically worn by men) tied at the waist, rather than above the waist as is standard for women's hakama. Although she used feminine speech patterns in Imperishable Night, beginning in Urban Legend in Limbo, her speech is typically masculine as well.
She undertakes the duty of escorting people in the Bamboo Forest of the Lost. Although this may allow her a wider opportunity to socialize with other people, she still remains very reticent about herself. For example, when asked about her past, she doesn't answer with anything other than "I'm an ordinary health maniac who runs a yakitori stand" (it is unclear whether she truly does run a yakitori stand). However, she seems to happily listen to others' talking. Thus, even if someone doesn't lose one's way, it would be possible for her to be enlivened by a conversation.
She presently seems to be very content with her life contrary to being commonly thought of having a pessimistic lifestyle. With an unaging, undying body, she and Kaguya Houraisan kill each other every day.
"Neither aging nor dying ability": Mokou's inability to die allows her body to receive an indefinite amount of punishment. No matter whether she's beheaded, incinerated or has taken any other form of strike, she'll always revive without exception. Mokou will recover within a few day's time if she takes a non-fatal blow. Due to the nature of the Hourai Elixir she drank over 1300 years ago, she's also incapable of contracting any form of disease or illness. This includes the natural process of aging. It is said she can completely recover even if a single hair remained, although it seems redundant because those who taste the elixir will recover regardless.
Mokou's immortality, however, doesn't prevent her from being susceptible to fatigue. Even though she is incapable of dying, she still feels pain when injured just as a normal human does. It's said that since she doesn't die, feeling the sting of death when she reaches the brink of oblivion brings her a great deal of pain and fatigue when she immediately revives. For this reason, she can be defeated in spell card matches with danmaku even though she's invincible. It should be noted though, that this fatigue may be completely mental since she needs no sustenance such as food or sleep to stay alive.
"Mokou's Manipulation of fire": Though never clearly described, Mokou appears to have some sort of control over fire. Many of her spell cards symbolize phoenix imagery, though this is most likely an aesthetic choice by Mokou (due to the phoenix being symbolic of immortality) rather than having any real meaning. The fact it took the combined efforts of her, Kaguya, and several rabbits to put out a forest fire in her Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red article implies that while she's capable of starting and increasing fire, she might not necessarily be able to extinguish it.
"All sorts of sorcery": In Mokou's long life it seems she's mastered various kinds of sorcery to the point in which she can handle youkai lightly. She uses all kinds of spell cards in addition to her ability of manipulation of flames, which may also be a kind of sorcery she has mastered. However, it's never been stated exactly what kinds of sorcery she has mastered.
Mokou frequently escorts anyone wanting to go to Eientei through the Bamboo Forest of the Lost. She also claims to run a yakitori stand. In addition, she regularly fights with Kaguya, and has for many years. As a powerful human (or a being who was once human), one of her main jobs is also youkai extermination.
Upon receiving escort from her, it is impossible to get lost in the bamboo forest. Also, there's no life-threatening danger in the forest since youkai would not attack. Because of that, it's a myth in the Human Village that if it's necessary to go to Eientei, that Mokou should immediately be contacted.
Mokou was born as a daughter to the Fujiwara family during the Asuka and Nara periods. It's been estimated that it was around 700CE (i.e., currently about 1300 years old). It seems that she was an unwanted child because she wasn't allowed to go out in public.
Around 1300 years ago, Kaguya Houraisan embarrassed Mokou's father – and entire family – by presenting him with an impossible request when he asked for her hand in marriage (as had happened with many other young men). Mokou grew to resent the moon princess, and searched for a way to spite her, but Kaguya disappeared, apparently returning to the moon before Mokou could take revenge.
She finally found a way, by making an attempt to steal the Hourai Elixir for herself that Kaguya left for the Emperor of Japan of that time because it was something very important to Kaguya. She followed a group of soldiers led by a man named Iwakasa in secret, who were going up what is now Mount Fuji. However, it was difficult for her to climb the mountain alone without proper equipment, so she quickly ran out of energy. Iwakasa had realized that she was following them some time prior to this, so once Mokou couldn't move on anymore, he helped her and they continued on, reaching the summit as one group. Once there, Mokou discovered that the group of soldiers planned to fling the jar into the fires of the volcano to destroy it, on orders from the current Emperor of Japan. As they were about to throw it in, the goddess Konohana-Sakuyahime, who calms the eruptions of Mount Fuji, appeared and forbid the group to throw the jar into the volcano because Mount Fuji's volcanic activities would restart should they do so. She explained to them that it was in fact the Hourai Elixir, the elixir of immortality. She gave the command to go to Yatsugatake where her older sister Iwanagahime handles immortality and unchangingness dwelt.
The soldiers tried to light the jar on fire, but Sakuyahime's powers prevented it. What happened after is unclear; Mokou believes that Iwakasa's men were killed by Konohana during their night watch because they tried to take the elixir for themselves as Iwakasa and Mokou slept. As the two got further down, Mokou was finally possessed by the desire for immortality, so she murdered Iwakasa and stole it from him, consuming it and thus became immortal.
After achieving immortality, she had an undying body, but humans who don't grow older aren't able to live as an ordinary humans, so until she drifted to Gensokyo, she moved from place to place, never stopping to dwell in one location. She spent three hundred years in isolation, away from the hateful eyes of people. For three hundred years after that, she would destroy anything that crossed her path, but after that, she spent three hundred years in boredom as the youkai couldn't hold her interest any longer. It's assumed that during these six hundred years she appeared in Gensokyo. It's unknown exactly when Mokou came to Gensokyo, but after nine hundred years total, she found out that Kaguya did not actually return to the moon but continued a life of escape, and that Kaguya also became one with an undying body.
Mokou was ecstatic in discovering someone who was in the same mess she was in. Since then Mokou and Kaguya have mutually killed each other day in, day out for about 300 years. After the incident of Imperishable Night, perhaps due to the influence of Eientei accepting patients who come for medical examinations, she also started creating her own connection with the humans of the Human Village by taking the position of an escort and guiding people through the bamboo forest who want to go to Eientei. She remains very reticent, however.
On Maribel Hearn's trip to the Bamboo Forest of the Lost of several hundred years ago she met a girl who seems to be Mokou. She rescued her from a mouse or rabbit youkai, which then ran away and hid after "a girl entirely on fire" chased the youkai away without a word exchanged between the two. Hieda no Akyuu speculates that Mokou is a descendant of a hidden group of "youkai-killing ninja". People in general are doubtful of the clan's existence. Akyuu claims that Mokou feigns ignorance when asked about it.
Mokou has red eyes and ankle-length white hair. She wears a light brown shirt that appears as if it's been discolored from fire, and dark red sashinuki hakama that are randomly decorated with paper charms. Her hair's tied with these same red and white paper charms. The paper talismans on Mokou's hakama and hair ribbons might be wards to protect her from being burned by fire. Her shirt, which lacks such talismans, appears to have been burnt repeatedly, while the ribbons and hakama show no such wear.
Mokou is one of the few people in all of Gensokyo to wear relatively masculine clothing. This, along with her somewhat forceful way of speaking, often leads to her being depicted as something of a tomboy. However, because conditions in Gensokyo still resemble those of feudal Japan, patterned hakama are hard to come by and must be made by a skilled tailor and presumably are much more expensive than skirts or plain hakama. This makes patterned hakama a status symbol, and given Mokou's status as a daughter of the old Japanese aristocracy, she may have also affixed the charms to her hakama to distinguish her heritage.}}
- #4Reisenconstant
Keys: Reisen
Despite her insanity-inducing abilities, she is actually a rather balanced and thoughtful individual. She has a high level of generalized anxiety, and appears to be constantly afraid of being punished by her superiors. This may be due to her history of being a slave in the Lunar Capital and a contributing factor to why she fled in the first place. Despite her relative degree of freedom while living at Eientei in Gensokyo, she still desires to make herself useful to others as much as possible, even at her own personal expense.
Formerly Reisen was a Moon Rabbit in service of the Lunarians. Moon Rabbits are seen as tools by Lunarians and are used for a large variety of menial labour including farming, pounding medicine, cleaning and as soldiers in the Moon's war effort. However, sometime in the Lunar War, Reisen deserted the Lunar Capital and fled to Earth.
After seeking refuge from Eientei, Reisen now serves Eirin and Kaguya. She effectively performs as their housekeeper doing manual errands for them. Eirin operates as Reisen's mentor in medicines. She also sends her to the Human Village where she sells medicine to humans at an affordable price.
Moon rabbits can send "ESP waves" and receive them with their ears, forming a sort of psychic network where they share feelings and rumors. Reisen can still participate in this network despite the physical and spiritual distance between Gensokyo and the Moon.
Reisen has red eyes, long light-purple hair and long rumpled rabbit ears, like all members of the Lunar Defense Corps, her ears stand up straight and are decorated with two accoutrement-like buttons. Her outfit consists of a long-sleeved black business suit over a white shirt, along with a beige skirt, white socks and red shoes. Her left lapel is decorated with a crescent moon-shaped insignia, and a pocket square in her left shirt pocket.
("Reisen "Manipulation of Wavelengths/Insanity" Power"): Reisen has the ability to sense and manipulate waves of all kinds, her red eyes often acting as a means of inducing insanity. Her signature use of this ability is manipulating another person's perception to the point of inducing madness or hallucinations depending on the strength of her opponent's will. By increasing the frequency of brainwaves she can make a person short-tempered and irrational, or by reducing them can leave her target apathetic and depressed.
Reisen can also manipulate light and sound waves to deceive the senses such as by concealing the paths of her danmaku, to creating after-images of herself, to casting wide-area illusions that cause people to get lost. Finally, she is capable of releasing waves from her eyes in a destructive blast.
Reisen is immune to the abilities of the Three Fairies of Light (seeing an invisible Sunny Milk, hearing a silent Luna Child and escaping Star Sapphire's detection) since they are based on waves, though she seems unable to replicate Star Sapphire's abilities with her own.
- #5Tewiconstant
Keys: Tewi
Tewi Inaba is the leader of the many youkai rabbits that live at and guard Eientei. She is also considered to be the leader of all the earth rabbits; it's said that there is not a single youkai rabbit unknown to her, and that all of them will only ever listen to her. Despite her childish appearance, she is hinted at to be very old. If she really was the White Rabbit of Inaba, then this would make her one of the oldest youkais at Gensokyo, along with Eirin. Tewi is a very lighthearted and playful youkai, and is known to lie at times.
Tewi is described as being more like a fairy than youkai, with being childish in her way of speaking and acting; specially with Reisen, who is the target of her pranks and she hides from the moon rabbit to annoy her. However, it's remarkable how Reisen said that the youkai rabbits only follow her, which indicates that she has a clear ability of leadership. Furthermore, she is charge of the Bamboo Forest of the Lost, and Eirin, Kaguya and Reisen can live in Eientei with her permission in exchange of "lending their knowledge on the rabbits" and, as part of the forest, she will defend the mansion, which indicates how clever and loyal she can be. It is also noted that she doesn't care about selling her own species to humans if she knows that they will abandon them; which would make the rabbits become youkai too.
Tewi's capable of granting good luck to people who catch sight of her. However, because she lives in the Bamboo Forest of the Lost, few ever manage to see her. Even if they managed to find her, their fortune is instantly used to find their way back home.
She is also capable of using her luck to her benefit. She could find Eientei even though at that time it was a pure land thanks to her luck. It's also implied that the Bamboo Forest's reputation of making travellers lost is the result of Tewi's ability.
Tewi is in charge of the Bamboo Forest of the Lost, but her duties are unknown.
After taking good care of her health and living for a long time, Tewi Inaba became a youkai rabbit. She had become known as the Rabbit of Good Fortune amongst humans, for the good luck she brought them. She may be more than 3,000 years old (inferred from a statement she made which can be interpreted as her having known Lord Daikoku (also known as Ookuninushi) personally,which would explain why she was confident that he made better medicine than even that which Eirin Yagokoro was preparing). It's possible that she's the White Hare of Inaba, itself. She has existed since the Bamboo Forest of the Lost was known as "The Tall Grass Cluster" and is said to be the only being that knows it completely. However, it appears she never found out that Lord Daikoku, whom she reveres so much, was taken captive and is sealed at his shrine in Izumo to this day. She and the earth rabbits continue to pound mochi in his name (much to Reisen's annoyance, who was insisting on them pounding it in a Lunarian figure's name).
Tewi had lived in the Bamboo Forest before Eientei was built. Despite Kaguya Houraisan's power over eternity concealing it, in Cage in Lunatic Runagate Tewi said that she knew that it was always there. She finally made herself known to Eirin Yagokoro after a few hundred years. By then, Tewi had already achieved enlightenment. She was master of the Bamboo Forest and the rabbits that lived there.
Eirin and Tewi made a deal. Tewi would protect Eientei from humans, and in return, Eirin would spread her knowledge to the rabbits. Perhaps this was so the beasts could keep up with the youkai, Youkai Mountain, humans, and (later) vampires in Gensokyo's delicate power balance.
Twwi has dark red eyes, black shoulder-length hair, and fluffy white rabbit ears, and goes barefoot in a frilly pink-white dress.
- #6Imaizumiconstant
Keys: Imaizumi
Kagerou Imaizumi is a werewolf who lives in the Bamboo Forest of the Lost.
Like Keine Kamishirasawa and her were-hakutaku transformation, Kagerou acquires some characteristics of a wolf during a full moon, but she also has the ability to turn into an actual wolf (as demonstrated during her spell cards). To be exact, she is a were-Honshu wolf. The Honshu wolf is a species of wolf that has gone extinct in the outside world.
Imaizumi have a calm personality and a calmer demeanor than one would expect from a werewolf. Also, she lives quietly and hates becoming hairy in full moon nights. This calmness is not lost when she transforms.
In full moon nights, she transforms in a wolf, becoming hairy and stronger. It is unknown if she suffers other changes.
Kagerou has hip-length dark auburn hair and red eyes. She has two wolf ears, her nails are long and claw-like, and there appears to be black fur poking out from under her sleeves. She wears a long-sleeved dress with a design based on the Hanafuda card for Pampas Grass and the Full Moon; the red on the dress represents the red sky, the white represents the moon, and the black hash-patterned trim at the bottom represents the hill of pampas grass. At the neck of her dress is a red amulet or brooch. A long, loose piece of black fabric goes around the back of her neck and rests on her shoulders; it appears to be fastened at the front by the amulet/brooch.
- #7selective
Keys: Udongein, Reisen · Secondary: disableddisableddisabled
Reisen Udongein Inaba is a moon rabbit. She is able to manipulate wavelengths for sound, light & brainwaves using her eyes. She lives in Eientei, in the Bamboo Forest of the Lost. Reisen is socially anxious, but tries her best to be useful. She was the the pet of the Watatsuki sisters and a Lunar Defense Corps soldier but deserted. Now, she is Eirin's apprentice and Kaguya's pet. Tewi often harasses Reisen but they still consider each other friends. She sells medicine in the Human Village. Reisen is tall, has red eyes & long lavender hair with long, slender rabbit ears decorated with a button at their base. Reisen wears a business suit with a black vest with a crescent moon pin, a white shirt, a red tie, a white skirt, white socks and black loafers.
- #8selective
Keys: Eirin, Yagokoro · Secondary: disableddisableddisabled
Eirin Yagokoro is a lunarian exiled to Gensokyo with Kaguya. She can make any medicine and is incomprehensibly old. She lives in Eientei. Eirin is enigmatic but polite. She is a genius but conceited and condescending about her greater knowledge. Reisen is her apprentice. She is tall, has dark grey eyes and long silver hair in a braid. She wears a red and blue dress decorated with constellations and wears a nurse cap with a similar pattern. She carries a bow and arrow. She may be the god Omoikane.
- #9selective
Keys: Garden of the Sun, Mugenkan
Mugenkan is a mysterious western-style mansion located in Garden of the Sun. Yuuka Kazami and Elly live there.
- #10selective
Keys: Bhavaagra, Celestial
Celestials are humans who have ascended to Heaven and live as powerful immortals. They were once hermits that were promoted or average humans who performed a glorious deed. Celestial flesh is poisonous to youkai.
- #11selective
Keys: Hermit
Hermits are powerful mortals who have undergone religious training to achieve supernatural powers. Hermits are able to live thousands of years without being immortal. Hermit flesh is known to turn animals into youkai and can enhance a youkai's form or power.
- #12selective
Keys: Human, human
Humans in Gensokyo are people who use faith based attacks rather than technology to exterminate youkai. Their technology is similar to the feudal era of Japan's. Youkai are forbidden from killing humans that are born in Gensokyo. With the exception of the more powerful ones, most humans live in the relative safety of the Human Village.
- #13selective
Keys: Lunarian
Lunarians are humans from the moon who loathe anything that's not pure, which is pretty much everything on Earth. They live for centuries due to their advanced technology.
- #14selective
Keys: Outside World, Outsider, outside world, outsider
Outsiders are from the Outside World. They are generally humans who can easily be killed since they lack faith in deities. They have no knowledge about Gensokyo and are usually preyed on by youkai. The best bet for outsiders is to head to the Hakurei Shrine or Human Village, where they will be safe.
- #15selective
Keys: Android
Androids are humanoids that are powered by a nuclear power core. They possess incredible strength, but require fuel from Hell to work.
- #16selective
Keys: Demon
Demons are from Makai and created by Shinki. Demons are known to be quite aggressive and usually have wings.
- #17selective
Keys: Divine spirit
Divine spirits are the spirit of humans who have achieved godhood. They are seen as gods and can gather faith like them. Divine spirits can also be Vengeful.
- #18selective
Keys: Dragon
Dragons are divine creatures found in Gensokyo. They are considered to be gods. Dragons are mostly mythical and have rarely been observed.
- #19selective
Keys: Goddess, faith, deity, God
Gods are created from faith and gain sustenance from it. As long as they have faith, they are immortal. Their strength ranges from weak to overwhelmingly powerful, depending on how much faith they receive. If a god runs out of faith, they will fade away.
- #20selective
Keys: Inchling
Inchlings are very tiny people that live in the Shining Needle Castle. They are the only ones who can wield the miracle mallet.
- #21selective
Keys: Kishin
Kishin are wrathful gods that reside in Hell and are tasked to hunt down hermits and celestials who have lived too long to send them to Nirvana.
- #22selective
Keys: Komainu
Komainu are noble guardians in the form of lion dogs who guard holy areas in Gensokyo.
- #23selective
Keys: Lampad, Hell Fairy
Lampads are fairies from Hell who serve Hecatia Lapislazuli. They wield torches that can turn people insane.
- #24selective
Keys: Oni
Oni are horned youkai who love to drink and feast. Oni live in Former Hell. They have tremendous physical strength and magic power. Oni cannot go near sardine heads, broken holly branches, and roasted soybeans or they risk being burned.
- #25selective
Keys: Phantom
Phantoms are standard ghostly spirits, which take the form of semi-tangible wisps. Phantoms are cold to the touch, and a group of phantoms can reduce the surrounding temperature to freezing levels.
- #26selective
Keys: Poltergeist
Poltergeists are ghosts that were created artificially through magic. They are able to float around and interact with objects to scare people.
- #27selective
Keys: Shikigami
Shikigami are youkai familiars. They are summoned to serve. The shikigami's power increases when they follow their master, and decreases if they shirk their duties.
- #28selective
Keys: Yatagarasu
Yatagarasu is a divine three-legged crow that lives in the sun. It was devoured by Reiuji.
- #29selective
Keys: Amanojaku
Amanojaku are oni-like creatures that easily frustrate people. They think in reverse, see the positive as negative and vice versa. This mindset makes them unable to have friends.
- #30selective
Keys: Baku
The Baku are the rulers and residents of the Dream World. They can create, change, and erase dreams at will. They have a human form with an ox tail.
- #31selective
Keys: Crow Tengu
Crow tengu are tengu with crow wings. They mostly gather information around Gensokyo. They rank above the wolf tengu, and are led by Megumu.
- #32selective
Keys: Ghost
Ghosts in Gensokyo are spirits of humans. Ghosts are unable to pass through walls. They wander around in the Netherworld. They can look like humans. Showing ghosts their dead body can turn them into a phantom. Giving a ghost proper memorial can let them reach Nirvana.
- #33selective
Keys: Great Tengu
Great tengu are the management types in the tengu hierarchy who oversee the activities of the other tengu on Youkai Mountain. They're somewhat larger than other tengu. Great tengu usually try to prevent tengu and oni from being friends.
- #34selective
Keys: Half-Youkai
Half youkai are either youkai who are part human and can transform into a youkai form or just plain humans with exceptional capabilities.
- #35selective
Keys: Hashihime
Hashihime are female youkai who live under bridges and will try to break up couples who cross the bridge or threaten to kill them. They use the powers of jealousy.
- #36selective
Keys: Hobgoblin
Hobgoblins are youkai that work at Scarlet Devil Mansion. They are small, peaceful creatures. Hobgoblins have green skin, pointy ears and small horns. They love food.
- #37selective
Keys: Kappa
Kappa in Gensokyo live at the base of the Youkai Mountain around rivers and lakes. They are genius inventors and technicians. They are rivals with Yamawaro, but are better at making things than selling them.
- #38selective
Keys: Kirin
Kirin are prophetic creatures who are never late, very wise, and always careful about everything. They are horse-like chimeras but can look human as well.
- #39selective
Keys: Karakasa, obake
Karakasa obake are tsukumogami umbrellas with a long tongue and one eye. They can take a humanoid form where they carry their umbrella self around.
- #40selective
Keys: Kotofurunushi
Kotofurunushi are a type of tsukumogami born from traditional Japanese Kotos.
- #41selective
Keys: long-nose tengu, long nose tengu
Long-nose tengu specialize in business work such as stock marketing or some other economic office job. Long-nose tengu are rarely seen nowadays, since they make maps for the "Gottsui Positioning System".
- #42selective
Keys: Menreiki
Menreiki are born from a collection of masks turned into youkai. Menreiki are emotionless and represent their feelings with their masks.
- #43selective
Keys: Mermaid
Mermaids have a human upper body, a fish-like tail, and fishfins for ears. Mermaids normally reside in the Misty Lake.
- #44selective
Keys: Night Sparrow
Night sparrows are birds living in the valley of Gensokyo. They can cause insanity and blindness when they sing. They can take a human shape.
- #45selective
Keys: Nyuudou
Nyuudou are monks who hide their head and become violent if they are forced to expose their face, but they can be calmed by praising their foresight.
- #46selective
Keys: Satori
Satori are youkai who can read minds via a "third eye". Satori normally reside in the Underworld. Pretty much everyone is wary of them.
- #47selective
Keys: Rokurokubi
Rokurokubi are a type of youkai in Gensokyo resembling humans who can extend their necks or take off their heads on command.
- #48selective
Keys: Ship Phantom
Ship phantoms are the ghosts of people who drowned at sea. They carry around a ladle that can sink ships and drown humans who come too close.
- #49selective
Keys: Tengu
The tengu in Gensokyo are known to spread gossip and drink a lot. They live on the tall heights of the Youkai Mountain. They are the fastest type of youkai.
- #50selective
Keys: Tsuchigumo
Tsuchigumo are spider youkai and great builders. They normally live in subterranean areas but sometimes live in forests or surface caves. Tsuchigumo can create webs strong as steel.
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