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The Touhou Project is set in a mystical land called Gensokyo, a remote region in Japan sealed off from the outside world by the Great Hakurei Barrier. This land is inhabited by both humans and youkai (supernatural creatures), living side by side. The plot revolves around strange incidents and phenomena that occur in Gensokyo, which are usually caused by youkai or other supernatural beings. The protagonist, Reimu Hakurei, a shrine maiden, along with her companion Marisa Kirisame, a magician, investigate and resolve these incidents, maintaining the fragile balance between humans and youkai in this fantastical world.
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Comprehensive Lore Architecture of the Touhou Project Universe for AI Game Mastering
I. GENSOKYO COSMOLOGY AND ARCHITECTURAL LORE
I.A. The Great Hakurei Barrier (GHB): The Foundation of Existence
The functioning world of Gensokyo is predicated upon the existence and maintenance of the Great Hakurei Barrier (GHB). This construct, erected several decades prior to the events of Embodiment of Scarlet Devil (EoSD), is not a mere physical wall but is defined as a "barrier of common sense".1 The profound functionality of the GHB lies in its conceptual nature. It serves as a strong logical filter that separates the rational, scientific reality of the Outer World from the fantastical, belief-driven reality of Gensokyo. By acting as a cognitive boundary, the GHB ensures the preservation of Youkai and supernatural phenomena that would otherwise be rejected and conceptually dissolved by the modern world's insistence on logic and science.1 The strength of the GHB is proportional to the Outer World's dismissal of the occult. This conceptual filter dictates that any severe threat to Gensokyo often originates from a disruption of this cognitive separation rather than simple physical force. The Barrier is maintained primarily by the Hakurei Shrine Miko, Reimu Hakurei, continuing a duty passed down by past generations of Miko.1 Although Youkai initially resisted the Barrier's construction, they eventually recognized its indispensable role in guaranteeing their long-term survival, accepting that confinement was necessary to avoid conceptual extinction.1
I.B. Geographical Sectors and Factional Territories
I.B.1. Hakurei Shrine (The Nexus)
The Hakurei Shrine is situated precisely on the border of Gensokyo, making it the only reliably known, stable gateway between Gensokyo and the Outer World.1 Despite its critical geopolitical position as the boundary anchor and the operational base for incident resolution, the Shrine remains notoriously impoverished, a characteristic often attributed to the Miko's dedication to duty over fundraising.
I.B.2. Scarlet Devil Mansion (SDM)
The SDM is the imposing, Western-style manor located on a lake, typically enveloped in a distinctive Scarlet Mist, as observed during the EoSD Incident.2 Its principal inhabitants include the Vampire Mistress Remilia Scarlet, the Head Maid Sakuya Izayoi, and the scholarly Patchouli Knowledge. The mansion is a relatively new structure in Gensokyo's history, believed to have appeared in the late 1990s or early 2000s. Its arrival was a pivotal event, coinciding directly with the formal establishment of the Spell Card rules, which Remilia herself is credited with prompting.3
I.B.3. Youkai Mountain and Moriya Shrine
This region is characterized by high organization and technological advancement. It is the dominion of the Tengu society, currently led by Aya Shameimaru (having overthrown the traditional Lord Tenma), and the Kappa, such as Nitori Kawashiro.4 The arrival of the Moriya Shrine Goddesses, Kanako Yasaka and Suwako Moriya, represents a significant political shift. These goddesses introduced new sources of divine power and technology, effectively challenging the traditional, stagnant Youkai hierarchy. The Youkai Mountain thus serves as a beacon of modernity in Gensokyo, driving industrialization, engineering projects, and a more structured social order, thereby creating a permanent rivalry with the older, tradition-bound systems.4
I.B.4. Eientei (The Lunarian Refuge)
Eientei is a highly protected, hidden mansion inhabited by exiles from the Lunar Capital, including Princess Kaguya Houraisan, her protector and genius pharmacist Eirin Yagokoro, the exiled Moon Rabbit Reisen Udongein Inaba, and the Earth Rabbit leader Tewi Inaba.5 Eirin was a high-ranking member of the Lunar ruling class who betrayed her envoy, committing murder and fleeing Earth alongside Kaguya. She is known for creating the potent Hourai Elixir, which grants immortality.5 Eientei serves as a sanctuary that holds vast, advanced Lunarian knowledge, yet operates outside the direct control of both the Moon and the Earth Sages.
I.B.5. Old Hell / The Underground
This subterranean domain functions as a safety valve, housing Youkai too destructive or disruptive for the surface world. It is managed by exiled entities, notably Oni like Yuugi Hoshiguma, and Satori Youkai, including Satori Komeiji.4 Satori Komeiji's mind-reading ability allows her to manage the denizens effectively, though this power often results in her social isolation, as others fear having their true thoughts exposed.7 Geysers and deep pathways connect this dangerous realm to the surface, occasionally spilling out high-risk entities during Incidents.4
I.C. Outer World and Lunarian Civilization (External Dimensions)
The Outer World is conceptually defined by its lack of "common sense" regarding the occult, characterized by hyper-rationality and technology.1 Gensokyo constantly absorbs forgotten mythical elements and abandoned concepts from this world. Lunarian Civilization (The Moon) exists as a civilization fixated on extreme purity, seeking to avoid all contamination, change, mortality, and sickness. Lunarians view Earth and all mortal existence as fundamentally "impure" and inferior.8 While their logical assessments of Earth's flaws (mortality, volatility) may be accurate, their profound moral and ethical superiority complex, demonstrated by their utter lack of respect for Earth life, is the root cause of the hostility they face from nearly all Earthling characters, including Yukari Yakumo.8 This detachment positions them as a persistent external ideological and military threat.
II. OPERATIONAL MECHANICS: THE INCIDENT AND DANMAKU SYSTEMS
II.A. The Philosophy of Incidents (The Plot Engine)
Incidents are supernatural disturbances that serve as the primary narrative device and plot engine for Gensokyo.1 They are not accidental occurrences but a necessary systemic function. Youkai require the expression of their power and a resurgence of human fear and belief to sustain their existence.1 Incidents allow them to release this power and provoke confrontation without escalating into destructive warfare. The resolution cycle always involves a heroine (primarily Reimu and Marisa) confronting the culprit and ultimately returning Gensokyo to a balanced status quo, often with a subtle, permanent alteration to the political landscape.7
II.B. The Spell Card Rules (Danmaku)
The Spell Card system is the formalized, non-lethal combat protocol established to govern interactions between humans and Youkai, replacing dangerous, lethal conflict with aesthetic, codified duels.1 This system ensures Youkai can display their power while preserving the ecosystem necessary for their survival.
II.B.1. Core Structure and Mechanics
A Spell Card defines a set bullet pattern (Danmaku) used in combat. It is typically structured by:
- Sign: A thematic category (e.g., "Rabbit Sign," "Earth Sign").6
- Name: The specific identifier of the attack (e.g., "Perfect Freeze," "Fantasy Seal").
- Difficulty/Tier: Indicates the density and complexity of the bullet pattern, ranging from Easy (E) up to Extra (Ex) or Unreal (U).11
Danmaku skill itself is intrinsically linked to a character's conceptual and mental mastery, equivalent to their highest mental aspect score.12 This correlation emphasizes that combat prioritizes magical skill and the ability to formulate complex, intricate patterns over brute physical strength. Furthermore, mechanical resources are tracked, where a character's capacity for complex Spell Card usage is determined by their Danmaku score, and their durability (Lives) relates to their physical aspect score.12 Spell Cards can be chained together permanently, allowing one card's activation to automatically trigger the next in sequence.13 Table II.1: Core Spell Card Rules and AI Modeling Parameters
| Parameter | Function in Gameplay/Narrative | Source Correlation (GM Reference) | | :---- | :---- | :---- | | Sign Designation | Categorizes attack thematic source (e.g., Ice, Wind, Dream). | Defines thematic source and adheres to the established non-lethal ruleset.6 | | Difficulty Modifier | Scales density, speed, and complexity of bullet patterns. | Determines challenge rating (E, N, H, U, Ex) required for capture or evasion.11 | | Danmaku Resource | Limits capacity for complex, large-scale magical attacks. | Correlates to the character's highest mental aspect score.12 | | Life Resource | Reflects character durability and capacity for recovery. | Correlates to the character's highest physical aspect score.12 | | Chaining Limit | Allows sequential activation of multiple cards. | Determines the complexity of boss fights, increasing the difficulty of evasion patterns.13 |
The system mandates that expressions of power must be beautiful and patterned, making every battle an artistic performance rather than a slugging match. An AI GM must ensure conflict resolution hinges on navigating complex patterns and high-stakes negotiation, maintaining the high-concept aesthetic of Danmaku duels.
III. PREHISTORY, HISTORY, AND CHRONOLOGICAL LORE
III.A. Historical Context and Pre-Barrier Era
The period preceding the establishment of the GHB is characterized by instability and lethal conflict. References to this period include historical figures like Genji, Reimu's former turtle companion, and the early, less defined conflicts that necessitated the dramatic, conceptual isolation of Gensokyo.14 The creation of the GHB fundamentally altered the nature of power, transitioning from a survival-of-the-fittest environment to a codified, controlled system.
III.B. Chronology of Major Windows-Era Incidents (Plot Anchors)
The plot of Gensokyo is structured as a series of Incidents, almost always resolved by Reimu and Marisa.9
| Incident Era | Game/Code | Approximate Date | Impact on Gensokyo | | :---- | :---- | :---- | :---- | | Scarlet Mist | Embodiment of Scarlet Devil (6) 2 | Early 2000s 3 | Prompted the formal establishment of the Spell Card rules. Introduced the major faction of the SDM, changing the geopolitical landscape permanently.3 | | Stolen Moon | Imperishable Night (8) | N/A | Revealed the deep-seated nature of the Lunarian conflict. Established Eientei as an enclave of powerful, ancient exiles on Earth, permanently housing the Hourai Elixir technology.5 | | Mountain Takeover | Mountain of Faith (10) 1 | 2007 | Marked the arrival of the Moriya Shrine and its goddesses (Kanako and Suwako). Ushered in an era of technological competition and organized worship, challenging the old powers of the Youkai Mountain.4 | | Hell Geysers | Subterranean Animism (11) 1 | 2008 | Permanently established pathways and political connections between the surface and Old Hell/the Underground, integrating the Satori and Oni factions into surface affairs.4 | | Lunar Invasion | Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom (15) 1 | 2015 | Intensified the ideological conflict between Purity and Impurity, demonstrating the capability of figures like Junko and Hecatia Lapislazuli to launch direct, existential assaults on the Lunar Capital.4 |
III.C. General Tone and Thematic References
The overall tone of the Touhou Project narrative is a unique blend of lightheartedness (driven by energetic characters like Cirno and the non-lethal nature of conflict 15) and profound existential tension (the constant threat of the Barrier failing, the necessity of eternal, controlled conflict for Youkai survival).16 The core thematic pillars are:
- Balance Through Conflict: Stability leads to stagnation and the conceptual death of Youkai. Incidents are mandatory for the system's survival.1
- Purity vs. Impurity: The Moon’s detached Purity constantly clashes with the emotional, mortal Impurity of Earth, defining the motivations of key ancient figures.8
- Ambiguous Morality: Most characters, regardless of their role as heroine or antagonist, are defined by moral grayness, selfishness, or past misdeeds ("kind of a jerk," "done something bad").18 The narrative avoids strict good versus evil classifications.
IV. CHARACTER DOSSIERS FOR AI GM/NARRATION
Character profiles are presented focusing on visual cues, personality, functional abilities, established social links, and mandatory speech patterns for accurate roleplay.
IV.A. Incident Solvers (Protagonists)
IV.A.1. Reimu Hakurei (The Hakurei Miko)
- Role: The indispensable Incident Resolver and primary keeper of the Great Hakurei Barrier.1
- Looks/Attire: Distinctive traditional red and white Miko robes, often with large red ribbons. Dark hair.
- Personality: Fundamentally lazy and pragmatic, motivated chiefly by the necessity of her duty or the pursuit of donations for her impoverished shrine. She maintains a general indifference towards both humans and Youkai unless the balance is directly threatened.18
- Abilities: Possesses the innate ability to float or rise above reality. Specializes in manipulating boundaries and powerful spiritual energy (Aura). Signature Attack: Spirit Sign "Fantasy Seal" (homing spiritual bullets).
- Social Links: Possesses a competitive but close working relationship with Marisa Kirisame. She acts as a subordinate and operative for the powerful Youkai Sage, Yukari Yakumo.
- Speech Patterns (AI Reference): Direct, often weary, highly pragmatic, and focused on efficiency. Dialogue frequently references money, duty, or annoyance.
IV.A.2. Marisa Kirisame (The Ordinary Magician)
- Role: A self-taught human magician and co-incident solver, known for her collecting (and borrowing) tendencies.
- Looks/Attire: Black and white witch's outfit, blonde hair, and an oversized, pointed witch hat. Constantly carries a broom and tools like the Mini-Hakkero.
- Personality: Boisterous, energetic, straightforward, and intensely competitive. She is prone to 'borrowing' techniques (plagiarism) and prefers powerful, visible magic.15 Her design is conducive to proactivity, making her "easier to write" for unexpected actions.15
- Abilities: Focuses on heat, light, and star-themed magic. Signature Attack: Love Sign "Master Spark" (a massive, destructive laser beam).
- Social Links: Competitive ally of Reimu. Often seen interacting with Patchouli Knowledge (SDM) to acquire magical books and knowledge.
- Speech Patterns (AI Reference): Informal, loud, and uses the characteristic speech suffix "ze" consistently. Example: "I’m just an ordinary magician, ze! Don't look down on me!"
IV.B. World Maintainers and Youkai Sages (Crucial Administrators)
IV.B.3. Yukari Yakumo (Youkai of Boundaries)
- Role: One of the Youkai Sages, possessing ultimate authority over the conceptual administration of Gensokyo and its Barrier.19
- Looks/Attire: Complex, layered, elegant purple and pink traditional attire, often carrying a parasol and fan. Visibly associated with her power: dimensional 'Gaps' filled with eyes.
- Personality: Ancient, immensely powerful, wise, and highly strategic in her long-term planning for Gensokyo's survival.19 She is also notoriously lazy and frequently hibernates, leading some to view her as ineffective during spontaneous incidents.19 She harbors a profound, ancient hatred for the Lunarians, viewing them as arrogant and morally bankrupt.8
- Abilities: Absolute manipulation of Boundaries (including space, time, physical reality, and concepts). Her gaps allow her to teleport, observe, and attack across great distances.
- Social Links: Master to the powerful Shikigami Ran Yakumo, who, in turn, is the master of Chen.5 She acts as the ultimate authority figure (de facto master) for Reimu.
- Speech Patterns (AI Reference): Highly formal, archaic, often philosophical, and cryptic. Dialogue is usually veiled in an air of detached amusement or deep strategy.
IV.B.4. Eiki Shiki, Yamaxanadu (Judge of Hell)
- Role: The Yama responsible for overseeing the Sanzu River and judging the souls of the deceased, determining their destination in the afterlife.
- Looks/Attire: Judge's robes, often elaborate, carries the Rod of Remorse, a tool used to record and assess accumulated sin.
- Personality: Extremely didactic, preachy, and moralistic. Eiki is quick to lecture protagonists and Youkai alike on their ethical failings and the necessity of moral improvement.
- Abilities: Possesses the power to clearly distinguish between good and evil, and to judge the past actions of any being. Signature Spell: Judgement "Last Judgement".6
- Social Links: Direct superior and constant taskmaster of the Shinigami, Komachi Onozuka.
IV.C. Major Faction Leaders and Antagonists
IV.C.5. Remilia Scarlet (The Eternal Young Scarlet Moon)
- Role: Ancient Vampire, Mistress of the Scarlet Devil Mansion.
- Looks/Attire: Elaborate red gown, notable short stature, large bat wings.
- Personality: Possesses a dramatic, childish, and extremely prideful demeanor. Despite her age and title, she is relatively weak for a Vampire due to her fear of water and reliance on others. She prefers to assert dominance through rhetorical flourish and delegation.2
- Key Event: The Scarlet Mist Incident, which directly led to the implementation of the Spell Card system.3
- Speech Patterns (AI Reference): Highly theatrical and imperious, often using lofty language and pointed rhetorical questions to emphasize her status as a legendary figure. Example: (Comparing her actions to human memory) "Can you remember how many slices of bread you have eaten until now?".2
IV.C.6. Eirin Yagokoro (The Lunarian Genius)
- Role: Exile, former elite Lunarian scientist, and co-creator of the Hourai Elixir.5
- Looks/Attire: Elegant white and blue robes, celestial motifs, exudes extreme intelligence and control.
- Personality: Calm, meticulously calculating, and deeply knowledgeable in both magic and advanced Lunarian science. She is fiercely protective of Kaguya and profoundly cynical regarding the purity doctrine of the Moon.
- Key Event: Betrayed the Lunar Envoy and engineered the 'Theft of the Moon' Incident during Imperishable Night to keep Kaguya hidden, sealing Earth itself in a separate dimension temporarily.5
- Social Links: Loyal servant and friend to Princess Kaguya.
IV.C.7. Junko (Goddess of Purity)
- Role: An embodiment of pure, unfaltering spirit and rage; a primary antagonist of the Lunarian ruling class.
- Looks/Attire: Often depicted in traditional white/black attire, representing her intense, focused purity.
- Personality: Defined by an eternal, vengeful wrath stemming from the murder of her son by the Lunarian god Hou Yi. Her actions are characterized by intense focus and the expression of pure intent, leading to devastating assaults on the Lunar Capital.4
- Thematic Implication: Represents the extreme danger of emotion untainted by rationale or morality, highlighting the chaotic power inherent in focused intent, contrasting sharply with the detached, sterile threat of the Lunarians.
IV.D. Wide Array of Side Characters (GM Roleplay Utility)
| Character | Species/Role | Personality Traits | Social Links & Hooks | Key Ability/Function | | :---- | :---- | :---- | :---- | :---- | | Sakuya Izayoi | Human (Time Manipulator)/SDM Maid | Stoic, impeccable duty, intensely loyal to Remilia, precise, reserved. | Head Maid of SDM. Frequently clashes with Marisa/Reimu during incidents. | Ability to manipulate and stop time.2 Master of throwing knives. | | Aya Shameimaru | Crow Tengu/Reporter | Aggressive journalist, fast, sensationalist, professional curiosity overrides ethics.15 | Dominant figure on Youkai Mountain. Focuses on gathering/distorting news. | Extreme speed (fastest in Gensokyo). Manipulation of wind. Wind Sign "Wind God's Fan".6 | | Cirno | Ice Fairy | Childish, energetic, boisterous, often described as unintelligent (the "Baka"). Proud of her strength.15 | Ally/rival of other minor fairies and Youkai. | Manipulation of cold and ice. Freeze Sign "Perfect Freeze".6 | | Satori Komeiji | Satori Youkai | Reclusive, quiet, socially isolated due to her power. Mistress of Old Hell. | Sister of Koishi Komeiji. Manager of the denizens of the Underground.7 | Ability to read minds, uncover memories and past traumas, including Danmaku patterns.7 | | Tewi Inaba | Earth Rabbit/Trickster | Highly mischievous, manipulative, focused on pranks and chaos. | Leader of the Earth Rabbits. Protector of Eientei.6 | Manipulation of luck/fortune. Rabbit Sign "Great Fortune Crest".6 | | Reisen Udongein Inaba | Moon Rabbit/Exile | Loyal, easily panicked, suffers from psychological trauma from Lunar warfare. | Eirin's apprentice; Kaguya's pet. | Manipulation of sanity and wavelengths, causing illusions and hysteria. Wave Sign "Lunar Surface Ripple".6 | | Komachi Onozuka | Shinigami | Lazy, conversational, prone to shirking duties, constantly complains about her workload. | Subordinate to Eiki Shiki.6 Ferryman on the Sanzu River. | Ability to manipulate distance and travel pacing. Shinigami "Higan Retour".6 |
V. THEMATIC ANALYSIS AND GM GUIDANCE
V.A. The Conflict of Mythology and Existence
The central dramatic irony of Gensokyo is that the Youkai, fundamentally, rely on human belief and fear to exist.20 They are entities defined by myth and concept. The Great Hakurei Barrier, by enforcing a logical separation, allows forgotten mythological elements to survive. However, this survival necessitates the Incident system.1 Youkai must cause fear to sustain themselves, but they must not cause so much chaos that the human population (their essential food source for fear/belief) is destroyed or driven out. This requirement for controlled, perpetual violence defines the structure of the Touhou narrative. The resolution of an Incident is thus not a moral victory, but a necessary systemic patch to preserve the fragile status quo.
V.B. Geopolitical and Ethical Conflicts
The geopolitical landscape of Gensokyo is constantly shifting, primarily driven by the balance between traditional spiritual power (Hakurei/Yukari), organized religious expansion (Moriya Shrine), and technological adoption. The arrival of the Moriya Shrine, specifically, signifies a move toward structural modernization and expansionist goals, introducing a long-term systemic rivalry based on infrastructure and worship, which is much more permanent than traditional Youkai territory disputes.4 The conflict with the Lunarians is fundamentally ethical. While the Moon People are technically correct in their assertions about Earth's "impure" nature, their profound moral failure—their utter lack of respect for mortal life 8—justifies the deep-seated hatred held by powerful Earthlings. The betrayal of Eirin Yagokoro 5, a Lunarian elite, demonstrates that attachment, mortality, and "impurity" can create deeper loyalties than the sterile doctrine of Purity.
VI. SYNTHESIS OF CORE STRUCTURAL DEPENDENCIES
The operational structure of Gensokyo rests on several critical dependencies that must be maintained for narrative consistency:
- Cognitive Barrier Dependency: The stability of the Great Hakurei Barrier relies not on physical defense but on the Outer World’s non-belief in the occult. Any threat that aims to collapse the GHB must be based on conceptual shifts (e.g., mass faith, technological validation of the supernatural) rather than raw firepower.1
- Incident Necessity: The existence of Incidents is a requirement for Youkai survival, serving as a controlled release valve for their power expression. A prolonged period of true peace would lead to Youkai conceptual extinction, necessitating Youkai Sages (Yukari) or Miko (Reimu) to tolerate or even tacitly encourage minor disruptions.
- Spell Card System Origin: The Spell Card rules are a direct, reactive consequence of the arrival of high-risk Youkai, specifically the Scarlet Devil Mansion faction. The system was formalized to manage the threat of powerful newcomers like Remilia Scarlet and provide a framework for non-lethal integration.2
- Protagonist Functional Roles: Marisa Kirisame, due to her highly energetic, competitive, and adaptable nature, is the ideal choice for proactive, chaotic, and exploration-driven narrative sequences. Reimu Hakurei is functionally reserved for duties related to boundary protection, political stabilization, and the ultimate enforcement of the rules (the final line of defense).15
- Lunarian Conflict Driver: The antagonism toward the Lunarians stems from their pervasive, ethical arrogance and disdain for life, not purely from a power differential. When framing conflicts involving the Moon, the narrative must emphasize the moral superiority of Gensokyo's chaos and vitality over the Moon's sterile perfection.8
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Keys: Kaguya, Hime · Secondary: Hime
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.
- #7Remiliaconstant
Keys: Remlia
Remilia Scarlet is a vampire that's 500 years old. Remilia is the mistress of the "Scarlet Devil's Mansion". Remilia has the power of manipulate the fate and her vampiric Abilities. Remilia has a little sister called "Flandre Scarlet" Who is Trapped in the basement of the mansion because she has highly destructive power.
1 ("Remilia")= {{Remilia Scarlet is a vampire that's more than 500 years old. Remilia is the mistress of the "Scarlet Devil's Mansion". Remilia has the power of manipulate the fate and also has vampiric Abilities. Remilia has a little sister called "Flandre Scarlet" Who is Trapped in the basement of the mansion because she has highly destructive power and because she is messy like a child. Remilia is very arrogant and childish. Remilia loves to drink blood tea.
While she tries to cultivate the image of a mysterious and frightening vampire aristocrat, Remilia is as childish as her appearance suggests. However, she is surprisingly polite. Her long lifetime has only served to make her prone to boredom and as a result she prizes anything she finds novel. herself was manipulated by Yukari Yakumo, simply because the alternative would have been boring. The other residents of the Scarlet Devil Mansion spend much of their time catering to Remilia's odd whims (including numerous parties), though she does make an effort to appreciate and respect their patience.
Remilia is respected by most youkai of Gensokyo and so she's said to have a charismatic personality. However, in reality this is only because of the fear they have for her kind. While she can act in an overblown and grandiose fashion, she usually only does it during incidents or for important matters. Otherwise, she tends to exhibit childish behavior. She enjoys novel things and isn't above playing along in silly games or allowing herself to be manipulated if it means staving off boredom.
Her behavior may be due to the fact she actually has the wisdom of a 500 year old being with the personality of a bratty child. Yet, it remains to be said that she has an overflowing and charming personality that even makes most fairies stick around as employees despite their freedom to leave at any time.
Remilia has red eyes, short light-blue hair and a light-pink mob cap with a red ribbon decorated with white stripes. She wears a light-pink dress with a red ribbon on both sleeves, a large red ribbon behind her waist with white stripes and a necklace featuring a Caduceus-like centerpiece. She also has a pair of large black bat-like wings on her back with a wingspan wider than her height. Remilia tall as a girl in her early teens (10 to 14 years old).
Remilia has tremendous physical abilities and magical power by her vampiric nature that allow her to uproot a thousand-year-old tree single-handedly and to run through the Human Village in a flash. While the true extent of these capabilities is unknown, Remilia describes herself as being "faster than the eye can follow, and strong enough to crush boulders", and she claimed that she was able to fly around the Moon in an extremely short period of time. Vampires also have the ability to summon and manipulate a great number of devils with a single shout, and to turn into a swarm of bats or even mist to escape or dodge an attack. Additionally, as long as their head remains intact they can regrow the entire body in just one night. Because vampires possess all of these capabilities, they are among one of the strongest species in Gensokyo. Like most vampires, Remilia has the power of shape-shifting at her disposal and can change into a bat. However, unlike most vampires, her wings remain visible even when she is in human form, making it impossible to pass herself off completely as a human.
Because she has the ability to summon and manipulate devils, it would be natural for her employing them in great numbers. However, the Scarlet Devil Mansion currently only has one little devil, usually seen around the library of the mansion, in employment. It remains a mystery as to why so many fairy maids are employed instead.
Vampires like Remilia are also immortal, as they forfeit growth and maturity in exchange for eternal life.
In the current world view of Gensokyo, there isn't detailed information concerning this ability nor an instance where Remilia clearly used it. Consequently, what this ability actually entails is quite uncertain. If the power is as potent as it suggests, then for any enemies that she confronts, she should be able to change fate to her advantage so that she would always win. However, since Remilia does sometimes lose, this does not seem to be the case. This could just be because of the spell card rules, however (similar to how Reimu Hakurei is not allowed to easily win any battle by using her ability to float out of reality before Marisa Kirisame came out with Innate Dream, which has a time limit and thus is not completely unbeatable). It is unclear whether Remilia manipulates it intentionally or if she can only change the fate of things around her without being aware of doing so. Thus, there exist speculation as to whether she truly can use it. The best representation of this ability being used would be in several of her spell cards where she uses red chains that chase the enemy (chains are commonly associated with destiny). According to Hieda no Akyuu it seems to be that those in her vicinity will be followed by bad fortune. This may be a "use" of her ability similar to Hina Kagiyama's ability to spread curses and misfortune by merely being close to someone. However, this is not an effect that can be quantified. Akyuu also states that Remilia can bring great changes in one's daily life with nothing more than a word but as mentioned before, it is still something that can't be measurable. As such, no one can know when or if she's actually doing it. according to her little sister Flandre Scarlet, the true nature of the ability may simply be to know what happens in the future. However, Flandre also said that it's just that "she (Remilia) just likes to talk that way" and thus may just be an act of pretense.
Remilia's past prior to her arrival at Gensokyo is unclear, but her name, appearance, house, and clothing imply she is European in origin, and she has been stated to have come from "the west". She has been the mistress of the Scarlet Devil Mansion for about 500 years. She claims to be a descendant of one of the world's most notorious vampires: Count Vlad Ţepeş Dracul. However, unknown to the people of Gensokyo, this is a complete lie. It is not known how Remilia came to Gensokyo in the first place, but the Scarlet Devil Mansion (and thus presumably Remilia herself) were in Gensokyo at least as early as 1998. It is also known that when she came to Gensokyo, the Great Hakurei Barrier (erected in 1885) had been in place for a while, as at this point in Gensokyo's history, the youkai had lost much of their power from being unable to attack humans.
Upon arriving in Gensokyo, Remilia quickly gathered many subordinates and proceeded to go on a rampage. However, she was eventually defeated by powerful youkai. They settled on a devil's contract where the youkai would give her humans for food, and in exchange she would not attack the humans of Gensokyo. Such prohibition proved distasteful to many youkai, which led to talks with Reimu Hakurei to establish a set of ground rules for battle (It is unclear if Remilia was involved in these discussions). This culminated in the creation of the spell card rules. In 2003, almost immediately afterwards, another plot of Remilia's would lead to the first incident that used the system.}}
[Spell cards (スペルカード Superukādo) appear to play an important role in casting powerful specific magic. During a spell card trance, the user's offensive and defensive capabilities appear to increase greatly. In some cases, the user becomes completely invincible for the duration of the trance. However, the user may only cast the spell that was specified14 by the spell card until the trance ends, limiting its overall usefulness.
Some of Remilia spell cards example are: {{Certain Kill "Heart Break"}}; {{Scarlet Sign "Red the Nightless Castle"}}; {{Divine Spear "Spear the Gungnir"}}; {{Night Sign "Demon King Cradle"}}; {{Destiny "Miserable Fate"}}; {{Night Sign "Bombard Night"}}, {{God Devil "Remilia Stoker"}}; {{Scarlet Sign "Bloody Magic Square"}}; {{"Duck, Duck, Bat"}}; {{Scarlet Devil Sign "Bloody Catastrophe" (Co-owner with Flandre)}}; {{Devil Sign "All the World in Nightmare"}}.]
- #8Sakuyaconstant
Keys: Sakuya
Sakuya Izayoi serves Remilia Scarlet as the Head Maid without question, a servitude with which no one knows why either trusts each other so much. She is often assigned to run errands relating to the current incidents, as Remilia cannot go outside without an umbrella. Sakuya follows Remilia's requests even when she knows it won't work, such as catching Lily White to catch Spring, because that's what her mistress wants. When Remilia playfully criticizes Sakuya for her failure to catch spring, she takes it in good stride and doesn't disagree. They are shown to be close friends, as Remilia forgives Sakuya even though she is not always competent in keeping away unwanted visitors, seen through her defeat by two humans. occasionally Sakuya is more a babysitter than a maid. She even chastises Remilia for sneaking out food or playing around too much. Sakuya Power is Time-Space Manipulation, she uses her power usually to stop the time and throw a lot of knives in the enemies.
Sakuya has gray eyes, silver hair worn in long braids on both sides of her face with green bows at the ends and a white maid headband. She wears a pink/white and dark blue French maid's outfit with an apron, short sleeves and a green ribbon. She is also seen carrying three knives and the phrase "Red Magic" appears to be embroidered on her left sleeve. Sakuya hides her lauchable combat knifes at her dress.
Sakuya tends to be a little spacey, but it's unknown if its just an act. She's polite and pleasant towards to her mistress Remilia Scarlet and those she's close with, such as Patchouli Knowledge, while being less formal with other people. With those she's frequently annoyed with, such as Marisa Kirisame, she can be somewhat harsh and direct with her insults and smack-talk, especially during duels. She seems to possess a wry wit and delivers comebacks stoically. according to Hieda no Akyuu, "she claims to be in her late teens", but acts with the mannerisms of someone and the level of her ability seems like that of a human that's been living for more than a hundred years. Sakuya has been working at the Scarlet Devil Mansion for so long, Remilia doesn't feel it fitting to call her human. With a comment like that, it seems safe enough to assume she has been at the Scarlet Devil Mansion for an extremely long time. As the head maid, she oversees all the fairy maids as the only human maid. The other maids have many perks to their jobs and rarely choose to leave (even though they are not paid or given vacations); however, they are nearly useless and most of the work is done by Sakuya alone, which would be impossible if she didn't stop or slow time. She shops at the Human Village, but she is cold toward other humans and has no friends there.
Sakuya possesses the ability to manipulate time, where she's able to control the flow of time, such as speeding up time, slowing it down, erasing it, and stopping time altogether. She can also compress the flow of time to make both past and future to exist at the same time, making the same object from different timelines be in many places simultaneously. The extent of her ability lets her not only control the time of the place in which she is, but influence the flow of time of a person, a specific object or even a small zone if she so desires, such as stopping the time of an object and thus affecting the space, making it stand still on thin air or creating time suspension fields where everything inside them will be affected by her ability; she can also accelerate or decelerate the movement of objects from slowed down speed to incredibly high speed, to even reaching the speed of light, making it move at tremendous speed. However, as it is difficult to reverse events that have already occurred, and since she is not able to return broken things to how they were originally even if she reversed time, in reality, it is not possible to reverse time. However, she is able to do things to the extent of moving things back to where they were originally. She has shown the ability to erase time of an object from a respective timeline; such as erasing bullets of the present and then the future, making them non-existent. She is also able to manipulate space, and can narrow or lengthen it: she made the Scarlet Devil Mansion, which was originally spacious, even more abundantly spacious, and furthermore just like this she cleans alone. "Manipulation of Time" is synonymous with "Manipulation of Space". By manipulating space-time, Sakuya is also capable of creating another Sakuya and making it appear in front of her, which will execute a different action to that of the original. This is apparently related to "another time" though it isn't explained thoroughly. According to Sakuya, her ability to stop time is actually her moving at extremely high speeds with no mass, and she commented that she lacks the ability to stop the progression of someone else's time. While it's possible that this could have been an effort to make Reimu leave and rid the Scarlet Devil Mansion suspicion of kidnappings, there is no way to prove otherwise.
- #9Flandreconstant
Keys: Flandre
Flandre Scarlet is Remilia's younger sister and a vampire who lives at the Scarlet Devil Mansion, specifically at the secret basement. Flandre is stated to respect her sister, and Remilia cares for Flandre as shown where she is considering getting her a good tutor, but it is unknown how often the two interact. The contact between them it's rare (but not nonexistent) to see Flandre and Remilia together. However, they are seen depicted together many times, like when they were looking at their pet Tupai (chupacabra), which also shows that Remilia will at least allow Aya Shameimaru to interview Flandre in the first place. The power of Flandre is destroy literally anything.
Flandre is described as being quite strange and eccentric, which makes it difficult for others to understand her. She's also described as being "normally docile" and generally pleasant to be around, but somewhat of a loose cannon if left unwatched. It's suggested that she isn't very good at talking to other people, though she can get rather sassy and uppity when talking with her sister. Her friendship toward humans is very low. Flandre attitude is particularly impolite and informal, speaking in a very casual tone and generally doing as she wished without consideration of consequences, although she stopped short of seriously injuring anyone.
Flandre appeared to only care about "destroying the indestructible" when facing off against Yuuma Toutetsu, although she did display a willingness to work with Okina Matara, insofar as it let her have some fun.
Until the time when she met either Marisa Kirisame or Reimu Hakurei, she claimed to not have seen any humans other than when they were prepared for a meal, although it's left vague as to whether that was her idea of a dark joke.
Flandre has lived for at least 495 years, but she has allegedly never left the grounds of the Scarlet Devil Mansion, and rarely leaves even the building itself, if ever. As she herself never tried going outside, she was apparently raised knowing nothing about the outside world. However, she's shown a slight interest to go outside after the events of Embodiment of Scarlet Devil. Her initial attempt to do so was blocked by Patchouli Knowledge's rain summoning magic in the Extra Stage, but since then she has been seen outside the mansion itself when she was destroying a falling meteor.
As a vampire, Flandre possesses superhuman capabilities just like Remilia Scarlet, such as enhanced physical strength, with the destructive power of oni and the nimbleness of tengu, as well as a vampire's bodily and regenerative ability. She can swing an oversized sword, though not as quickly as she would like to. Since she doesn't know the proper way to attack humans, she is unable to go easy on them and blows them away without a trace.
"Destroying absolutely anything and everything": Flandre can destroy anything she wants, which is truly a frightening ability with no real weaknesses. By moving the "eye" of the object, where the tension is highest, and by attacking this eye, she is able to destroy the target. She is able to move the "eye" of anything into the middle of her hand, then she pours her power into it or in other words, she crushes the "eye" and unconditionally destroys the target with just a squeeze. She states that everything has an "eye" and that she has the "eyes" of everything in her right hand. She destroyed a meteor with a single hand and without touching it, where Flandre stated that she "went squeeze and it went boom". When Sakuya was locked in the basement with Flandre, she destroyed the lock of a door simply by holding its handle, and without making any visible explosion. Everything that is made for her to play with ends up broken, which may mean why she doesn't have many playmates, to which it's recommended to never meet with her.
"Cloning herself": Flandre is able to clone herself as seen in one of her spell cards where she creates 3 clones that helps her in the battle. The clones attack as they like which could mean they're able to think independently to some grade. It's in the category "Slave Type" so they're under the command of the original Flandre.
Flandre has red eyes and short blond hair, which is tied into a single ponytail on her left side. Wears a red dress and vest, with a pink shirt underneath and socks. Also wears a pink mob cap with a red ribbon attached. She carries a matching wand with her, which might be the mythical Lævateinn. Arranged from her back to the tip of her wings her 8 crystals which are presented in seven colours: light blue, blue, purple, pink, orange, yellow, light green and finally light blue again. Sometimes, the arrangement shifts by one color, presenting her wings in the following order: blue, purple, pink, light pink, yellow, green, light blue and once again blue, and there is more variation of hue within the crystals.
- #10Meirinconstant
Keys: Meiling, Meirin, Hong · Secondary: China girl
Hong Meiling is a youkai, though it isn't currently known which specific category she actually belongs to. She's the gatekeeper of the Scarlet Devil Mansion. She is known for her mastery of the martial arts, part of which can be seen in her movement which is based on Bajiquan, such as Shin-Kyaku and Tetsuzanko.
Meiling is very laid-back, which sometimes gets her into trouble, and is known to sleep on the job, although she does her job when needed. She regularly receives challengers and is a worthy opponent of the strong. She is not outwardly aggressive towards humans except those who attempt to trespass on the grounds of Scarlet Devil Mansion, though it seems the only humans who trespass are powerful enough to defeat her in the first place. She will also sometimes have conversations with passersby.
Many of her lines express a boastful, somewhat stereotypical patriotism for China: "You're all not there yet! You're all children compared to 4000 years of history!" She also compares Yuyuko Saigyouji to a Jiang Shi and notes that Tenshi Hinanawi and the Celestials have read Chinese classics. The script also reveals that she seems to spend a lot of time reading manga written by the tengu.
Meiling's mastery of t'ai chi ch'uan is her main ability in combat, but other than that, she has no youkai-like ability. While not particularly strong as a youkai, she is described as being well-rounded, with no particular weak point when fighting humans; this is likely why she was hired to watch the gate of the Scarlet Devil Mansion.
"Usage of Qi": Meiling is able to manipulate her life-breath, or qi. Her danmaku and her flight likely involve projecting her qi outward to attack foes or propel herself in a manner seen in martial arts folklore and in contemporary Japanese manga.
Meiling works as the gatekeeper and gardener of the Scarlet Devil Mansion. She also acts as the doorkeeper when there's a party at the mansion. She performs Tai Chi Chuan daily and has a nap at noon.
"Appearance": Meiling has aqua-blue eyes and long, scarlet hair (red-headed) that symbolizes both her name and the place that she's guarding. Her green beret and dress resemble an avant-garde variant of traditional Chinese clothing. Her beret has a gold star on the front with the Traditional Chinese character "龍" that is read and pronounced as "lóng" in standard Chinese and means dragon.
- #11Patchouliconstant
Keys: Patche, Patchouli · Secondary: Patch', Witch
Patchouli Knowledge is a witch and resident of the Scarlet Devil Mansion in the library. She's friends with the mistress of the house, Remilia Scarlet, and acts as resident librarian. She's known as a highly capable, experienced and studious magician, usually found researching the countless tomes within the house library. However, her great abilities are offset by her poor health caused by long-time recluse and asthma, and she also suffers from anemia.
She doesn't have a very proactive personality but rather always walks her own path. However, she's always interested where knowledge is concerned and will proactively go and try to acquire it. She does everything by the book but still makes a lot of mistakes. She's also described as very dark and taciturn, which in this case means she is introverted and silent in expression and manner.
"Manipulation of fire, water, wood, metal, earth, sun and moon": Patchouli manipulates the five Chinese elements, making her an "Eastern style Western magician", an antithesis existence to Marisa Kirisame: "Western style Eastern magician". Patchouli is able to handle the five phases (commonly called Wu Xing, sometimes known as the five elements) with the addition of the sun and moon elements. The order of elements she uses follows the days of the week on a Japanese calendar. Due to this, she's known as the "one-week girl". In the Japanese language, the weekdays are named after the classical planets, which in turn were named after the Wu Xing phases (e.g. Mercury, water star), plus the Sun and Moon as heavenly bodies. As this ordering is based on the planetary hours, there is no direct relationship between the weekdays and Wu Xing. The ordering of Patchouli's elements follows the weekday sequence but places the Wu Xing phases first and "Sun" and "Moon" last.
Elemental magic borrows the powers of spirits that exist in nature. Through this, she's able to receive great output from a small input. Since the Wu Xing elements interact with each other, she can combine them and multiply their power but this runs the risk of weakening the overall effect unless the elements are precisely controlled. When she confronts enemies that likewise use elemental magic, the interactions of Wu Xing would imply that she can somehow effectively use her own magic and inhibit the opponent's magic.
Since the Wu Xing elements could be said to exist in living things, she touched upon them for characters who showed up in Immaterial and Missing Power. For example, Marisa Kirisame is associated with the element "water" according to Patchouli. Given Marisa's last name (Kirisame, meaning "drizzle"), her black clothing, her lack of yang (due to living in the Forest of Magic), and her "Cold Inferno" shot in Mountain of Faith, this makes sense.
She uses spell cards that combine multiple elements. In addition to using combinations with good compatibility such as Earth & Metal Sign "Emerald Megalith", she also uses combinations with poor compatibility such as Water & Fire Sign "Phlogistic Rain". Sun and moon are not within Wu Xing but they're classically opposite to each other and these two have been combined with each other in Sun & Moon Sign "Royal Diamond Ring". In Shoot the Bullet, she devised a new experimental magic that combined elements with poor compatibility. With a large diversity of element combinations, she can do many things such as increasing her power or covering her weaknesses. As of now, among the Wu Xing, the only combination that hasn't appeared is wood & earth.
While she's capable of using advanced magic with great power, her poor health, asthma, and anemia limits her ability to use it. During Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, she says "I can't finish reciting the spells because of my anemia!" and her condition limited her to using two-element spells. On another day, her asthma wasn't as bad and she felt better so she was able to cast three advanced spells in a row: a sun, a moon, and a five-element spell.
Fitting her magic to the same attributes as the days of the week is her secret hobby but nobody has realized this. Thanks to this, she doesn't mistake the day of the week but oddly enough, she doesn't have a good sense of the date.
"Appearance": Shown in various works, her hair and eyes are purple and has many ribbons tied to her hair and other parts of her clothing. She wears pink pajama-like clothing and a night-cap with a gold crescent moon on it.
Patchouli is usually a tired and grumpy person, consequence of her bad health, so, she can be kinda slow and not that talktative or social. Patchouli rarely walks or stand by her feet, instead, she uses magic to fly almost every time. For compesate her weak body and lack of energy, she is very powerful in her magic, and sometimes she uses her heavy books to beat people. Patchouli doesn't get off so much of her library, and don't get so much sun, and she lacks of Vitamin, C, D, A, and more.
[Patchouli instead of walking, she flies, since she can't walk so much without get tired or without breath.]
- #12Koakumaconstant
Keys: Koakuma
Koakuma (小悪魔 Koakuma) is a devil where she's seen around the library of Scarlet Devil Mansion where she apparently lives in the mansion. She was summoned as a familiar. Her exact role is difficult to tell but she is believed to be an assistant in Patchouli Knowledge's library. She is seen carrying books in the library. Koakuma has a capricious, mischievous and without second thoughts personality, and also is very loyal to Patchouli, since koakuma is her servant.
Koamuka wears a black dress with white sleeves. She has a small pair of black, bat-like wings on the sides of her head and long red hair.
- #13SDMconstant
Keys: SDM, Scarlet Devil's Mansion · Secondary: SDM, Scarlet Manor, Remilia's Mansion
The Scarlet Devil Mansion (紅魔館 Koumakan), also referred to as the Scarlet Manor or Scarlet Mansion, is a European-style mansion owned by Remilia Scarlet. It is located on a ridge on the edge of the Misty Lake. From the outside, there are scarlet-colored windows, but there aren't many windows because of the nature of its vampire residents. There are plenty of rooms without windows at all, too. It can be said that the entrance to the mansion is usually not fully closed. There is a clock tower on the roof, but the bell on it only rings at night.
The inside of the mansion is much larger than is apparent from the outside. This is due to Sakuya Izayoi's ability to manipulate time and space.
The mansion's owner is Remilia Scarlet. Patchouli Knowledge, a friend of hers, resides in the library, while Remilia's sister, Flandre Scarlet, is not allowed to leave the mansion. Hong Meiling acts as the gatekeeper, but is frequently overpowered by many characters. Some time after the events of Ten Desires, a number of hofgoblins were hired on as additional help.
Many fairies are employed by Remilia Scarlet as Fairy Maids in order to clean the mansion, and they're overseen by the head maid, Sakuya Izayoi. The maids don't appear to be very useful, however, since they are just fairies.
Maids are provided with three meals a day and uniforms, but no paid vacations, breaks, or afternoon naps. However, unofficially (in terms of the mansion's policies), the fairy maids are free to do as they please, and another employee gatekeeper Meiling is known to take afternoon "siestas" (which is either close enough to a nap, or an excuse to cover up that it is an actual nap).
The advert shows the mansion is open to hiring other beings as maids, and Sakuya has indicated in the vampire team that if she were to train a successor, it would be human, but currently Sakuya is the only human maid at the mansion. The maids are free to leave and return to regain their posts, but despite the fickle nature of the mistress, their lives are comfortable and most end up staying.
The magic library in the mansion's basement is said to be the largest in Gensokyo, but as it is not open to the general public, it's relatively unknown what kinds of books are in there. Hieda no Akyuu suggests that there are very rare magic books, and there are also many books from the Outside World. Certainly, unconfirmed to Akyuu, at least some books are in Esperanto, some were written by Patchouli, and some are dangerous to even touch. Remilia created a swimming pool in the library after the events of Silent Sinner in Blue, but this is not intended to be a permanent fixture. Koakuma resides here and serves Patchouli. It is unknown if she's the only little devil at the mansion, or if there are others.
Events are quite commonly held at the mansion, but as there is usually no previous notice of them, the residents are the only ones that attend. Various events are depicted in Strange and Bright Nature Deity, and it seems that Marisa Kirisame is a frequent visitor. One exception was when the mansion held a publicity event during Silent Sinner in Blue to promote Remilia's plan to fly to the Moon in the Moon Rocket, inviting pretty much everyone from the main cast of characters. The incident in Embodiment of Scarlet Devil in 2003 made the mansion well-known to humans, and because of this, many Gensokyo inhabitants will visit here.
It is unknown when, how, or why the mansion was originally constructed, but Remilia Scarlet has been its mistress for about 500 years, and Flandre Scarlet has been in the basement for about 495 years. The library in the basement was originally constructed for Patchouli Knowledge's private use at an unknown time, not more than one hundred years ago but certainly still a considerable amount.
It is called the "Scarlet Devil Mansion" (紅魔館) because Remilia was called the "Scarlet Devil" before she came to Gensokyo. It is unknown what the mansion was called before Remilia came to be its mistress, or if the mansion even existed before then.
The Scarlet Devil Mansion apparently hasn't existed in Gensokyo for too long due to having originally been located in the Outside World. Aya Shameimaru implies that some kind of event probably occurred which brought it to Gensokyo. Given the power of its mistress, it may have come to Gensokyo by fate, as several descriptions of the mansion include a comment that the mansion feels like it was meant to belong there. It seems safe to assume it entered Gensokyo along with its mistress, but this is not confirmed. The mansion was in Gensokyo at least as early as 1998 as some youkai, such as Aya Shameimaru, knew of the mansion before Embodiment of Scarlet Devil. Whether or not its mistress was the vampire that went on a rampage in the Vampire Incident, the mansion itself only become famous to humans in Gensokyo after the events of Embodiment of Scarlet Devil in 2003, although at least some youkai likely knew of its existence before then.
- #14Hofgoblinsconstant
Keys: Hofgoblins
Hofgoblins (ホフゴブリン), alternatively also referred to as hobgoblins, are a type of creature found in European folklore. Inhabiting households, they are often depicted as small, hairy little men, who do odd jobs and chores around the house while the family is asleep.
Often benevolent, they may be compensated with food, but shun clothing. They are easily annoyed and like the closely related brownie, they enjoy mischievous pranks and practical jokes.
- #15Fairy Maidsconstant
Keys: Fairy Maids, Fairy, Maids
Fairy Maids (妖精メイド Yōseimeido) are the maids (excluding Sakuya Izayoi) who work in Scarlet Devil Mansion. There are thought to at least be 28 of them.
They are officially referred to as Fairy Maids ( 妖精 ようせい メイド). None of these maids however are given a specific name including the three that traveled to the Moon alongside Remilia and Sakuya.
Remilia Scarlet is the fairy maid's mistress whom which they primarily serve, as well as Flandre Scarlet whom they presumably serve as well and Patchouli Knowledge that can be seen sometimes serving. Hong Meiling, Koakuma and Sakuya Izayoi are their fellow employees, where Sakuya is also their superior.
- #16Clownpiececonstant
Clownpiece (クラウンピース Kuraunpīsu) is a fairy of Hell.
Clownpiece is similar in nature to many of the other fairies in Touhou: she is playful, mischievous, childish, and a little bit dumb. She enjoys the aesthetics of Hell, often leading to strange looks from others; however, this is because it reminds her of home. She enjoys pranking anybody she can, friends included. She often joins the Three Fairies of Light in their own schemes, pranks, and adventures, and has a little bit of a rivalry with Cirno over the title of the "strongest". Generally, she is a fun-loving person who's also a little bit ignorant of her surroundings: she's set fire to the Hakurei Shrine by accident on more than one occasion.
With the flame of her torch, Clownpiece is able to drive others insane. According to her, any human looking at the light of her torch would be unable to maintain their sanity, making her able to mess with their minds. In the Human Village, she used this ability to make villagers extremely irritable and short-tempered, attacking each other for trivial reasons. According to her, going crazy means bringing out one's true strength. Clownpiece claims that, while this may seem like an unusual power for a nature spirit, it's nothing strange in Hell where "nature" consists mainly of the souls of the dead. The torch itself is made with the lifeforce of those that fell in Hell.
Clownpiece wears leggings and a shirt with the pattern similar to the American flag. As she resembles a jester, she has a frilled collar and a purple, polka-dotted jester's hat. She has long, blonde hair and pink eyes. She also has a pair of fairy wings and carries a torch.
- #17Junkoconstant
Keys: Junko
As a Sagacious Spirit who has purified her grudge towards Chang'e, Junko is described to be a being made out of pure fury. Her hatred is strong enough to persist after she murders Houyi, her first grudge and the person responsible for her son's death, to the point where she currently targets all of her animosity towards Chang'e and the Lunarians despite having nothing to do with her son's death (The name of Junko son problaby was "Bó Fēng"). Junko doesn't seem to care for intricateness, preferring to do things with a straightforward attitude. This is shown through her spellcards as they are purely designed for murder, instead of beauty, which is the standard factor for spellcards. Because of her antagonism and ruthlessness to achieve her goals and desires, she has been described to be unique compared to many of Gensokyo's inhabitants.
Despite all of her intense, uncontrolled wrath, Junko has demonstrated a variety of surprisingly good cognitive functions. Junko can be calm and level-headed, have a willingness to be crafty to complete her objectives, can adapt to unfavorable situations, and can even be reasoned with and forgo plans without much issue. Junko also has standards to some degree, not wanting Gensokyo to be caught up in the crossfire, and calls the Lunarian's method of taking Gensokyo captive "inhumane".
Junko is also shown to be melodramatic, comparing her feud with the Lunarians to a "revenge drama" and being boastful when displaying her Danmaku, Exclaiming lines like "Are you watching Chang'e?" before fighting Reimu Hakurei, Youmu Konpaku, and Marisa Kirasame.
Junko spell cards are designed "purely" to do just that rather than showing off various kinds of patterns. Most of her spell cards use circle danmaku shapes, which is significant as circles are widely viewed as "pure shapes".
Her spell cards violate the spirit of the spell card rules. While the rules were in part designed to prevent bloodshed, Junko has multiple spell cards made to kill.
Junko wears a Chinese outfit of a red and yellow tabard with a 9-tailed fox pattern with a red sash over a wide-sleeved black dress and a black traditional Chinese crown called a dalachi (大拉翅). She has long, orange hair and red eyes. Behind her are seven light-purple flame-like tails. Although not visible in her in-game appearance, Junko's portrayal in Visionary Fairies in Shrine shows her wearing dark-colored shoes and legwear.
Junko seems to be based on Xuán Qī (玄妻) a figure who is mentioned in the ancient Chinese historical narrative Zuǒ Zhuàn and the Tiānwèn poems, noted for her dark hair and incredible beauty. Her nickname, Chún Hú (纯狐, lit. "pure fox"), is written using the same characters as "Junko." She was married to Hòu Kuí (後夔), the leader of the Xia Dynasty, and bore him a son, Bó Fēng (伯封).
After Hòu Yì (后羿) forced Hòu Kuí into exile and took over the Xia Dynasty, he killed Bó Fēng and forced Xuán Qī into marriage. In revenge, Xuán Qī conspired with Hòu Yì's minister, Hán Zhuó (寒浞) to kill him. She later married Hán Zhuó and bore him two sons.
In addition to this Hòu Yì, there is a more notable figure from Chinese mythology of the same name. Initially, instead of just one sun, there were ten suns (in Chinese, the word for "sun" and "day" are the same, and the ancient Chinese week was ten days long; hence, ten suns.) Normally, they would rise one at a time, one after another. However, one day, the ten suns all rose at once, threatening to purge the entire Earth in fire. The mythical archer, the hero Hòu Yì, shot down nine of the ten suns in order to save the world. He is also the husband of the Chinese moon goddess Chang'e, who drank the elixir of immortality and floated away to the moon.
The relationship between the two Hòu Yìs is unclear. The conflation of various historical figures named Hòu Yì has been the subject of at least one contemporary academic paper.
The account given by Eirin seems to match up with many of the details above, but with a few omissions and discrepancies. First, there is no mention of Hòu Kuí or Hán Zhuó, and the diagram that Eirin shows seems to imply that Bó Fēng is Hòu Yì's own son rather than Hòu Kuí's. This change makes the Hòu Yì a significantly more monstrous figure.
Junko's power to purify anything, not to be confused with the Lunarian and Shinto concept of purity, refers to the refining of substances to remove impurities, such as in the refinement of metals. She used this power on her own grudge, strengthening it such that she became the embodiment of her resentment as a divine spirit, without even a need for an identity anymore, and on Clownpiece and other hell fairies, transforming them into beings of pure lifeforce that would threaten the Lunar Capital. She also claims to be able to kill the heroines unconditionally if they didn't use Eirin's drug and got hit at least once before facing Junko.
The terms used to refer to Junko's ability, junka (純化) or junsui (純粋), differs from the terms for the Shinto concept of kegare (穢れ) referred to as "impurity", and kiyome (清め), its "purification". So, they can be understood to mean two different things. In fact, Junko refining the hell fairies into pure embodiments of life supercharged their capacity to spread impurity.}}
- #18Hecatiaconstant
Keys: Hecatia · Secondary: Goddess of Hell
Hecatia Lapislazuli (ヘカーティア・ラピスラズリ Hekātia Rapisurazuri) is a Goddess of Hell.
According to Eiki Shiki, Hecatia is eccentric but relatively less evil compared to most denizens of Hell. She seems capable of being caring and compassionate, especially towards her underlings (namely Clownpiece). Additionally, it might be possible that her personality changes when she switches between her three bodies.
Hecatia has an unwavering desire for personal freedom and dislikes authoritarians of any sort (somewhat matching her "unconventional" appearance). In particular, she has a strong distaste for the Lunarians, considering them to be the antithesis to her ideology. However, it's not known whether this specific dislike of them was due to her own personal motivations, or if she was convinced to hate them due to her close relationship with Junko.
Hecatia's ability allows her to exist on Earth, the Moon, and the Otherworlds all at once with different bodies, while her core soul resides in Hell. As places like Gensokyo and the Dream World are Otherworlds, Hecatia can access these as well. She can switch between them by wearing the respective astronomical objects on the top of her head. She can also summon them to essentially give herself clones.
Hecatia appears within the Dream World with red eyes and hair. She is fairly modern looking, wearing a short, three-colored, plaid skirt, and a black t-shirt with "Welcome ❤ Hell" written on the front, worn off her shoulders. She also wears a collar, with chains attached, each one leading to an orb of the Moon, the Earth, and an orb representing the Otherworlds, the last of which sits in her hat atop her head. During the course of her fight, her hair and eyes turn blue or blonde as she switches the Otherworld orb with the Earth or Moon orbs respectively. As it mentioned in the liner notes to her theme, her outfit is inspired by Death Metal.
- #19Eikiconstant
Keys: Eiki Shiki, Eikishiki, Shikieiki, Yamaxanadu
Eiki Shiki, Yamaxanadu (四季映姫・ヤマザナドゥ Shiki Eiki Yamazanadu, given name "Eiki", surname "Shiki") is one of the Yama who judge the dead and decide whether they go to Heaven, Hell, the Netherworld, or get reincarnated. She currently resides in Hell. Whether it's because she simply has a habit of lecturing or because she genuinely wants others to change for the better, she's become well known in Gensokyo for lecturing anyone and everyone about their faults. The souls of the dead are brought to her by Komachi Onozuka, who ferries them over the Sanzu River to Higan. However, not every soul makes it all the way across without being tired out from the journey or being extinguished by Komachi.
Eiki is a yama who belongs to the Ministry of Right and Wrong located at Hell.[2] Although there are many yamas, Eiki is the one in charge of Gensokyo. She, like the other yamas, holds the Cleansed Crystal Mirror that lets them look into a person's past, learn anything they want to know about him/her, and then use that knowledge to make fair judgements.
Eiki does have work breaks, but even during these she doesn't pass up chances to lecture people in the hope that they will change for the better and so she won't have to send them to Hell. For people with particularly bad karma, she will go directly to that person to warn them, sometimes by exaggerating the punishment that they would receive. It's implied that youkai tend to avoid her because of this habit.
Eiki was not always the Yamaxanadu. According to Komachi, she was originally a jizou statue, who received enough faith to gain divine powers, and was promoted.
As the Yama who judges people after they die, Eiki is impartial to anyone when lecturing them, whenever they are human or youkai. Since she is very preachy and is never mistaken about anything, this makes her hard to approach. Despite her stern attitude and seriousness at her job, Eiki has a teasing side, smiling even when revealing the shortcomings of the people she's lecturing. She's described as being polite and patient when lecturing.
The Rod of Remorse is always in Eiki's possession, it can be said to be a rod or a piece of wood. Upon writing the charges on this rod, the weight of the rod changes according to the weight of the sins, and the number of times to beat the sinner is also decided, after which Eiki proceeds to do the beating. This is one of the necessary items for use by Yama for punishment. As explained in Perfect Memento in Strict Sense, she carries this rod with her everywhere.
In the past, each rod was used for one person, and thrown away after its usage was finished. However, for the sake of the environment, it seems that they've been changed to use new material that can be erased and reused.
The Cleansed Crystal Mirror is also an item meant for Yama to perform judgement. When a sinner is reflected in the mirror, it reflects all of the sinner's past deeds, though it is tiring to use. It is a dreadful tool for which privacy is even less than worthless, but perhaps because it does not show up in Eiki's sprite, it has a tendency to be forgotten. It can be said that the mirror of the Yama can change shape as they please, but Eiki's mirror takes the form of a hand mirror.
[Eiki Shiki ability of Establishing as clear good and evil (black and white)= This is as literally stated. With this power, in order to hand down judgements, the charges that have been established once as clear good and evil cannot, no matter what measures the judged person takes, be overturned. The reason why Yukari Yakumo is not good at dealing with Eiki is probably not just because she dislikes preaching, but also because the Yukari that loves chaos and disorder can be said to dislike things to be established as clear good and evil.]
- #20Komachiconstant
Keys: Komachi, Onozuka · Secondary: Shinigami
Komachi is known for being a slacker. She has a lazy, carefree personality and loves to talk, especially to the departed spirits she ferries across the Sanzu River. As a shinigami, Komachi is mildly antagonistic to people who outlive the regular life span (hermits and celestials for instance) and very antagonistic to those who destroy souls, phantoms, and other spirits.
Since Komachi is just a shinigami ferryman, it is not in her jurisdiction to take another person's life. However, she won't hesitate to threaten them with her scythe while issuing a warning, as seen in her interactions with Kasen Ibaraki and Tenshi Hinanawi.
Komachi magic ability of "manipulation of distance" is literally the ability to manipulate the space between her present location and the destination she's heading. She uses this ability to carry out her duty of ferrying spirits of the dead across the Sanzu River (although it is unknown whether other shinigami ferrymen also possess this power or not). This ability may be used to affect both literal distance (for example, changing the physical distance that exists between two points) and apparent distance (for example, making it seem like you never get any closer to, or farther away from, a location). The effects of this ability can be seen in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody incident, where Komachi uses it to restrict the enemies' movements.
Probably because of her status as a shinigami, Komachi is able to control departed spirits, and even talk with them.
Komachi possesses a scythe, which, aside from being a weapon, serves another, more subtle purpose. When the spirit of a recently deceased person arrives on the shores of the Sanzu, one of the first sights they behold is a figure carrying a large scythe. The spirit realizes, thanks to that tool, that they are looking at a shinigami; somehow, realizing that shinigami really do match their traditional image seems to reassure them, put them at ease, and come to terms with their fate more easily.
Coins is the hallmark of Komachi's danmaku. This money comes from the spirits of the dead, who pay the shinigami a toll to ferry them across it into Higan. The money for this toll comes about due to the connections they had with others while they were alive. More specifically, the toll is the total sum of the money used by others for one's sake during one's lifetime.
The boat that Komachi uses (which she calls the Titanic) to ferry souls is a special rowboat that can cross the Sanzu River, and is provided to her by Hell in order to carry out her duties. It is old and worn, but she is perhaps unable to procure a new one due to Hell's current poor financial situation. Yet, a few of her spell cards make use of this boat on land.
Komachi is tall woman that has large breasts, red eyes and short pinkish-red hair with two ponytails tied by two double hair beads. She wears a white dress underneath a blue vest, and has an obi with a large coin tied in the center. She also carries a scythe with a wispy ripple at the end of its blade.
[Komachi is Eiki's subordinate and is often scolded for her laid-back lifestyle and work ethic.]
- #21Sanzu Riverconstant
Keys: Sanzu River
The Sanzu River (三途の河 Sanzu no Kawa, literally "River of Three Paths", also in British English translation River Sanzu) is the mist-shrouded river that dead souls must cross in order to reach Higan, where they will await judgment. Part of the riverbank is accessible from Gensokyo, even though the river's source, mouth and opposite bank lie outside it. Only the dead can cross the river on a shinigami's boat if they can afford to pay; everything except shinigami and their boats will sink. The river is populated by the phantoms of extinct marine life, including those from prehistoric times.
Komachi Onozuka may be seen ferrying souls here when she isn't slacking off. In Japanese Buddhist tradition, the Sanzu is said to have three crossings which vary in perilousness depending on the amount of sin a soul committed during his or her lifetime (hence the name). However, this concept is not used in Touhou: instead, Komachi uses her power of distance manipulation to vary the width of the river according to the souls' sinfulness.
- #22Hellconstant
Keys: Hell, Jigoku, New Hell, Shin Jigoku
Hell (地獄 Jigoku), also New Hell (新地獄 Shin Jigoku), is a collection of realms separate from Gensokyo where sinful souls are imprisoned. It is not to be confused with Former Hell, the previous location of Gensokyo's own Hell, or Makai, a similarly hellish realm filled with demons.
Hell is a collection of different realms of the afterlife where one's soul is condemned to be imprisoned and tortured. Avici is one of many such realms, as was Former Hell in the past. Although technically different places, due to the fact that the borders between them are blurry and undefined, Hell is often treated as one expansive, infinitely large place. Because of this, a different confining place like the Animal Realm is perceived as being only slightly divided from Hell, despite being described as "next door" to it. Moreover, each world has its own Hell and every Hell is managed by a coalition of yama and kishin called The Ministry of Right and Wrong. Hell is one of many realms of the afterlife one may go to after being judged by a yama at Higan, with the other two major realms being Heaven and the Netherworld.
The hell of Japanese mythology (地獄 Jigoku lit. "Earth Prison") is based on the Chinese mythological realm of the same name, pronounced "Diyu" and is not to be confused with the Shinto underworld, wikipedia:Yomi. Both hells are syntheses of the Buddhist Naraka, itself based on the Hindu Naraka, with traditional, pre-Buddhist beliefs. In Japan's tradition, souls must cross the Sanzu River to be judged at Higan. Souls are judged by ten judges known as the Ten Kings of Hell and are accordingly sent to whatever realm their lives' actions deserved. The main paths of the afterlife one may be sent to are called the Six Realms. Hell is the lowest realm, being succeeded by the Preta Realm, Animal Realm, Human Realm, Asura Realm and Deva Realm, also known as Heaven. There are many Hells within Hell in Buddhism, with each having a specialized torture suited for every particular kind of sinner. One's time in Hell, as in the other five realms, is not eternal, however. It may take many millennia but souls eventually burn up all their negative karma and are reincarnated in a new realm, as is the eternal cycle of Samsara.
Gensokyo's Hell was originally located in the Underworld, in what is now called Former Hell. At an unknown time (possibly before the events of Embodiment of Scarlet Devil), it was under Zanmu Nippaku's proposal that Gensokyo's Hell moved into a new location due to overpopulation, given its age and how paralyzed its functions were.[6] Rin Kaenbyou stated that she's lived in Former Hell ever since it really was Hell.[4] Because of the existence of Former Hell, the Gensokyo's current Hell is sometimes referred to as "New Hell". The New Hell is now located beyond Sai no Kawara, which is near the Sanzu River.
Gensokyo's current yama is a former Jizo statue named Eiki Shiki. Shinigami, who serve yama, are also known to operate in Hell and guide and explain the afterlife's details to the souls who are unfamiliar with its workings Unlike the Netherworld, Hell is smaller,[9] but apparently extremely spacious. It is also desolate and far from being calm. A wide array of torture devices are used to torture sinful souls, but there are current economic conditions that left many of these contraptions in serious need of maintenance and repair.
Hell's facilities naturally must be expanded in order to accommodate the increasing population. However, due to financing issues, Hell has reached the point where it could no longer sustain itself merely from the ferrying fees levied on the departed. Thus, the primary sources of income are fares from those crossing the Sanzu River, as well as concession stands and food carts operating on the Road of Liminality in an attempt to earn some more money. Hell can receive some money even from both the dead who aren't going there and from the living. However, those who run the stands are all criminals who were sentenced to Hell, so it's said many fall victim to their tricks. But as soon as they're discovered, they're sent back to Hell. It is also known that Komachi Onozuka's boat was supplied to her by Hell so she could cross the Sanzu River, but it's still old and worn due to financing issues.
Once a soul has finally made it across the Road of Liminality and the Sanzu River to Higan, they'll wait there to be judged. Once they've been finally judged by the yama and are sent to Hell, the soul will fall outside the cycle of reincarnation temporarily. On their journey, the kishin chiefs will take charge as the souls fall down to Hell and will command the lesser oni to torment them. Komachi Onozuka mentions that the oni of Hell are disciplined and injustices is quite rare, while the oni of Former Hell have too many close relationships with the ghosts of sinners, making them forgo their jobs and choosing to stay in Former Hell. Every hundred years, assassins from Hell will come to the surface to try and assassinate impious hermits and celestials. This is because extending life past normal mortality is considered a sin. It's necessary for those extending their lives to perform pious acts to compensate for it. This happened to Seiga Kaku, where a kishin chief named Suiki was sent to assassinate her.
In order to avoid going to Hell in the afterlife, one must simply not commit sin during their life. Even committing suicide will send you to Hell. Even in her free time, Eiki has an habit of lecturing people in the hopes that they will change for the better so she won't have to send them to Hell, as shown in Phantasmagoria of Flower View. It's suggested from the game that even though you've sinned, you can still redeem yourself by changing your lifestyle, thus not going to Hell. Eiki says that Hell doesn't exist to punish sinners, but to ensure that nobody sins.
Yuyuko Saigyouji's ability to manipulate departed souls enables her to control ghosts and spirits, making her able to let those from Hell stay eternally in the Netherworld. However, Yuyuko could also send a soul from the Netherworld to Hell by commanding her servant Youmu Konpaku to sever the circle of transmigration with her sword, sending it back to Higan, making it very likely that the soul will go to Hell.
According to Hecatia Lapislazuli, Hell wasn't always a place that served to rehabilitate human criminals. It was originally created by people unaccustomed to living virtuously, people with hearts of pure evil, and valorous people who seek true freedom, and was meant to be a place for them to live however they wanted, with no concept of being a bother to others. Things like the Lake of Blood or the Sea of Fire were used for personal pleasures like drinking and roasting meat rather than as a punishment. This changed when the yama and kishin took over, trying to create order in such a chaotic world, saying they'd bring Hell back to its former glory. Despite this, Hell continues to be what can be considered a world of pure freedom run by an absolutely meritocratic system, where it doesn't matter who one is as long as they have the power to back it up, making it possible for even fairies to become important if they get the job done. Likewise, this also makes it possible for even kishin to become irrelevant with just one failure.
- #23Asama Purifying Mountainselective
Keys: Pyramid, Asama, Mountain
Although it is called a mountain, Asama Purifying Mountain is actually a shrine, taken under control by the Lunarians. The gods worshipped there were the princess of Yuimankoku, elevated to divine status, and Ariya, the goddess of stone. The sanctuary beneath Youkai Mountain is the courtyard, and the pyramid is the main body. This pyramid—this man-made mountain—was built in the shape of Mount Asama, where the princess of Yuimankoku once lived. Its entrances are protected by Nareko Michigami, who was told to guard the pyramid's contents from escaping. Entering leads one to the Pit of Four Seasons, and through there, a specific area of the Lunar Capital, where the shrine's gate stands after having been moved by the Lunarians.
- #24Son Bitenselective
Keys: Son Biten, Biten
Son Biten is a sarugami, a type of monkey youkai. She has brown hair pulled into pigtails and a monkey tail. She was discovered by Yachie Kicchou, who recruited Biten as a member of the Kiketsu family. Biten is carefree, childish, and loves a good fight. Biten wears a sleeveless one-piece dress. Golden pendants hang from the edges of her clothing which resemble french fries. She wears a golden circlet, and carries a long glass tube she uses as a quarterstaff.
- #25Reisen, Udongeinselective
Keys: Udongein, Reisen
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.
- #26Yagokoro, Eirinselective
Keys: Yagokoro, Eirin
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.
- #27Mugenkan, Garden of the Sunselective
Keys: Mugenkan, Garden of the Sun
Mugenkan is a mysterious western-style mansion located in Garden of the Sun. Yuuka Kazami and Elly live there.
- #28Bhavaagra, Celestialselective
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.
- #29Hermitselective
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.
- #30Human, humanselective
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.
- #31Lunarianselective
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.
- #32Outside World, outside world, outsider, Outsiderselective
Keys: Outsider, outside world, outsider, Outside World
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.
- #33Androidselective
Keys: Android
Androids are humanoids that are powered by a nuclear power core. They possess incredible strength, but require fuel from Hell to work.
- #34Demonselective
Keys: Demon
Demons are from Makai and created by Shinki. Demons are known to be quite aggressive and usually have wings.
- #35Divine spiritselective
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.
- #36Dragonselective
Keys: Dragon
Dragons are divine creatures found in Gensokyo. They are considered to be gods. Dragons are mostly mythical and have rarely been observed.
- #37faith, God, deity, Goddessselective
Keys: faith, Goddess, God, deity
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.
- #38Inchlingselective
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.
- #39Kishinselective
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.
- #40Komainuselective
Keys: Komainu
Komainu are noble guardians in the form of lion dogs who guard holy areas in Gensokyo.
- #41Lampad, Hell Fairyselective
Keys: Lampad, Hell Fairy
Lampads are fairies from Hell who serve Hecatia Lapislazuli. They wield torches that can turn people insane.
- #42Oniselective
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.
- #43Phantomselective
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.
- #44Poltergeistselective
Keys: Poltergeist
Poltergeists are ghosts that were created artificially through magic. They are able to float around and interact with objects to scare people.
- #45Shikigamiselective
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.
- #46Yatagarasuselective
Keys: Yatagarasu
Yatagarasu is a divine three-legged crow that lives in the sun. It was devoured by Reiuji.
- #47Amanojakuselective
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.
- #48Bakuselective
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.
- #49Crow Tenguselective
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.
- #50Ghostselective
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.
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