Jusenkyo (AST)

==Overview== 
Created by the Great Builder Sedna Jusenkyo is a very ancient place that goes back at least two thousand five hundred years, and probably is older than that. However the curses themselves are rather recent. In old times it was said that the pools did not mix their effects, and were effectively just a convenient way for members of the Moon Kingdom to take on alternate forms. You could easily use the springs to undo the effect.
The mixing seems to be more recent. While there were springs that had mixed curses, but they had to be created that way. Now all the springs seem to intermingle their magic effects. Why that happened no one is too sure of. This intermingling also means that there is no cure to the curses.
Jusenkyo is considered a form of true magic due to amount of energy the transformation requires. About ten times the amount of energy used in your average polymorph spell, depending on the relative difference in size between cursed and normal form. Also while a polymorph spell would take about a day to set and can only be done once, victims of jusenkyo change instantly every time they are splashed.
Plus, there is magical lock on top of magical lock guarding the magic. No magus has ever managed to break through to manipulate the magic of Jusenkyo, and that is why there are no known cures. Only augmentory magic can affect Jusenkyo curses. There is no way to cancel out the transformation effect. In fact, this magic only works on the cursed form, not your real form. No matter how you use it, it will trap you in your cursed form.
Spending an excessive periods of time in their cursed form can affect the victims mental state. However extended periods in a cursed form can alter one's core identity. You start to think of yourself as whatever you've transformed into. The effect takes longer with creatures of more intelligence like humans, but with animals, give them about a month and they are totally lost in a new form's identity.
Another thing to watch out for is the plain physical effects. This is why victims of the Nannichuan can’t have children. Every time they transform, their body restarts its cycles. Additionally, their hormones are totally out of whack requiring about months of time without a single transformation to even become fertile again. A Jusenkyo curse also can't handle stuff that isn't there in both forms. It sort of short-circuits. While this would increase a victims healing factor since the damaged bit wouldn’t exist in their true form. When you change genders any unborn children are just an extra bit the curse doesn't know what to do with, so it just ignores it, and when you transform back it restores the original pattern, not the pregnant pattern. This only affects gendered curses if Ukyo became pregnant and is splashed with cold water she’s transform into a pregnant wolf.
==List of known cursed springs==
Spring of Drowned Wolf
::Created: Unmentioned
::Cursed: Ukyo Kounji
Spring of Drowned Mao
::Created: Unmentioned
::Cursed: Mousse
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