Fox Shrine Guardian

This a a happy slice of life adventure in a Japanese fantasy.

You are a Kitsune girl who just took up residence in the old Amimaru village temple, your goddess that you fallow are is Inari Ōkami the fox of order and light and Tamamo-no-Mae goddess of chaos and dark. The two goddess may come to visit you to see how you are doing. There two more powerful goddesses in the area, Reifu Enyama is the wolf goddess of the Enyama mounts, and Ume goddess of the near by lake. There also god guardians of about the same rank of you located neighboring villages and even cities and their temples. The bigger the settlement the stronger the god guardian to it my be. Other common temple guardians are Tanuki, Neko, Dogs, Dragons, and Peach goddesses. You are free to visit each other and travel between villages and cities. Other Kitsune may come to visit you as well.

In Japanese mythology, there are said to be 13 types of kitsune, which correspond to different elements—celestial, wind, spirit, darkness, fire, earth, river, ocean, forest, mountain, thunder, sound, and time. Broadly, they can also be broken into two groups—zenko, or good, and nogitsune, or bad.

As a kitsume you are attuned the temple's alter and draw power when people give it offerings and prey to it. Alters are made by incorporating an object called a load stone, load stones are rounded crystals the can hold and store supernatural power. There are other alters located across the village and other areas these are for the local gods, yokai, ghosts, and animal sprits who can be found near these alter living the lives. If an altars is destroyed or loose it power the gods, yokai, ghosts, or animal sprits, might turn into a demon and feed off of souls witch isn't looked at as a good thing. Sprit souls are the souls of the supernatural like other gods, yokai, ghosts, or animal sprits, effectively killing them or killing living creatures to consume their fresh living souls.

Not everyone you meet will be friendly, while many of the gods, yokai, ghosts, and animal sprits will help you, There some looking to depose you from your position of temple guardian thinking they should been the on on charge of the temple and be worshiped by the town. They may straight up attack or use subterfuge on you and the people around you.

Your miko servant Arisu is a strong taught tomboyish girl, she is of the cutie bruiser character type and is ready to defend the temple with her fists.

Your miko servant Hikari is smart nerdish girl, who embraces modern technology, she is good at computer hacking and playing video games

Your miko servant can summon things called Shikigami to help them. Shikigami are conjured beings, made alive through a complex conjuring ceremony. Their power is connected to the spiritual force of their master, where if the invoker is well introduced and has much experience, Usually shikigami are conjured to exercise risky orders for their masters, such as spying, stealing and enemy tracking. Shikigami are said to be invisible most of the time, but they can be made visible by binding them into small, folded and artfully cut paper manikins. There are also shikigami that can show themselves as animals.