Bestiary Reference Guide.
Race: Chimagin
Appearance: They are extremely difficult to tell by appearance. The only thing different they hold than a human, is that they will have an aura in their eyes that will pass two conflicting concepts. Judgement and compassion, Love and Hate, Death and Life are some of the typical ones. The internal conflict and the energy playing off the conflict is what is said to be what drives them. Otherwise, they typically look like a well built Japanese human.
Origins: The practices of Tae Chi in Shogunate2k were taken to extremes in various temples throughout the modern Shogunate in Japan. Over several generations, monks began to be able to tap into a particular chakra point and make magical effects come from them. Families started to notice these trends eventually, after monks and priests first unlocked them. It is a recessive trait of a family, and typically carried by the male but seems to produce other Chimagin with a higher percentage if its both male and female that carry the trait. No one can explain why, but families tend to be specialized in only one chakra point and that is of the male carrier. It is believed that it comes from what the monks and priests focused more heavily on in the temples.
These people also seem to have amazing physical characteristics, but that wasn't seen untill wars later on when those not involved in holy sects but had the strange trait passed to them were fighting. They became trophies for any warlord to have, untill there was so many that they began forming their own Diayamos and Clans. For their ability to manipulate Chi into the magic through a Chakra point, they were named Chimagin by the humans that witnessed them.
Habitat: All but a few live Shogunate2k, a dimension where Japan was never forced to adapt its social structure from the fuedal system. Daiyamos, Shoguns, and an Emperor still rain supreme in equivalent to the modern day earth. There are guns, but there are also swords, and the rising powers of the Chimagin have made guns and melee weapons almost more practical than some firearms.
Ronin still cause towns to burn to the ground with their weapons, but Samurai stick to weaponry that is less explosive. Chimagin are known to rush gunman and use their strange powers to eliminate them, and some Chimagin use weaponry combined with their powers to make powerful clans rise in distant cities from the emperor.
It is a time of constant warfare and change, just like the times of the Shogunates in fuedal Japan.
Behavior: As varried and irrational as a human. A lot of them get power drunk because of their environment, use to humans that can't do a whole lot to compare with them. There are also the few that use their ability to correct the wrongs that their brothers and sisters committ. The only real typical thing to say of a Chimagin's behavior, is that it takes awhile for them to learn fear or act as thouhg they are afraid.
Special Abilities: Physical prowess is the first thing that is noticable. They are fighters, of course with all the needs of a human and many of their weaknesses, but they are seen taking extra-ordinary amounts of pain and damage. They tend to use martial arts, but even those without martial arts, are seen as able to compete in a fight heavily outnumbered by humans.
Healing is rather fast for them as well, seeing a Chimagin out of a fight for more than a week is rare.
The next is based on whatever chakra point their family specializes in, and the power becomes as part of them as breathing is to a human. They tend to be able to tap into a second chakra point, but Chimagin are put half way to death and more sometimes when they draw on the chakra point which they are only secondary in.
Base Characteristics: A bullet through the head, cut off their head, serious fatal wounds, and all those weaknesses that a human have. Some will be minimalized depending on the Chakra point they specialize in, but they have all the typical weaknesses of a mortal.
However, they are tough as nails and fast too. Just because your father was a diety, is not going to place a Chimagin out of the realm of a fist to nose hurting. They are able to comepete physically with the toughest races out there, though they can't go incorporal or escape any of the stuff that a lot of other beings can do.
Diet: They eat more than a typical human, because they are usually exterting a lot more energy. However, using their Chakra point draws on Chi which is all around them, so that's not what makes them hungrier. It's not uncommon to see Chimagin eat twice or more the servings of a typical human.
They also seem to like chocolate a lot.
Mating: Sex is a powerful thing in the world of Chimagin, it's how they have a possible chance of spreading the trait that will allow them power and influence in the clans. It's not unusual to see male Chimagin fighting wars to get to a female Chimagin.
Myths: Chakra points and their meaning have been a common Eastern myth that dates back to accupuncture, Tae Chi, and martial arts. Twist this with modern magic and giving the meaning of different chakra points, and you get the Chimagin.
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