Ayakashi

Ayakashi (あやかし, ayakashi) are fabled spirits that are born with a soul. While they often resemble humans, each Ayakashi race has its own unique powers.

## Story

### **Past**

Ayakashi and humans were living together in the beginning of the time.

#### **Edo period**

Some Onmyoji made a contract with ayakashi to increase it power, humans and ayakashi live together. Un a part of the story Oji said that a relation of a human and a ayakashi can be difficult, becuase humans and ayakashi start to be upset about this relation.  Asa died because his own village kill her beacuse she had a relation with a Domeki.

According to Kuro after the burn in Kyo and his death, human start to hunt ayakashi. Some of ayakashi specie extinct, other attack to human and other run away.

Some humans before the Meiji accept ayakashi or onmyoji, this case occurs with Ginnojo with the Shinsengumi.

### **Present (Meiji Era)**

In Meiji era, the setting of the story, human and ayakashi live separated, and some of the spirit live in the human world hidden hills form. The government eliminate those that are ayakashi or Onmyoji or something weird in a person. Some Ayakashi and onmyoji are living in humans world or their own world hidding from the Meiji goverment.

According to Aizen , Kagemaru and Shizuki  there was a war between human and ayakashi, in which human won. This occurs at the begining of the era.

The government create a organization called the Onikiri that is responsible to eliminate Ayakashi, Onmyoji, Red Eye (Wraith) and weird things. Acording to Koga and Toichiro , if the goverment realized that one is a Onmyoji or Ayakashi, they will kill them. Aizen leader of the Onikiri, discovered Futaba but instead of killing her, they used her to catch the senkitai and the maskered fox fiend.

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**Spoiler alert! Major spoilers beyond this point.**

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In Koga route, Aizen attack to the contracted ayakashi of Futaba because they fail the mission and to be ayakashi and onmyoji

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In Twilight Faction the senkitai, an organization of ayakashi that want to destroy the Meiji Government, and the government hava a fight between theme. Kagemaru, leader of the Senkitai, want to create a world only to the strongest ayakashi.

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## Abilities

### **Ayakashi Transformation**

Depending of the ayakashi can take different form. There are ayakashi that cannot turn into a human, other have human form but it can turn into it real form and other have human and real form.

**Ayakashi Form:** There are two kind of ayakashi form.

* **True Form:** This form is the real appearance of the ayakashi, their appearance are those seen in Japanese myths, or it take form of a normal tool in case of the Tsukumo-gami.
* **Ayakashi humanoid form:** This form is like a human but with something that human doesn't have, like horns, ears, tail,

**Human Form:** This form is a humanoid form that hides his ayakashi features.

**Age transformation:** This form is when the ayakashi take a form less powerfull. For example Yura and Gaku their true form is their adult form, they take a form of a child to limit their powers.

**Other transformation:** Some ayakashi have especial form that make it powerfull. The carnage is a transformation of the oni that made that the Oni attacks.

### **Ayakashi Power**

Each ayakashi have diferent power. It's known that ayakashi can vanish a wraith but it come back later.

## Type of Ayakashi

 3) Nekomata

## Trivia

* Human discriminate ayakashi to be beast or monster. This can be seen in Koga's route. Also ayakashi discriminate humans, this can be seen with Kagemaru, Akiyasu and other characters.
* It reveal that there are many ayakashi that are extinct, like Nue and Nurahihyon
	+ **SPOLIERS,** Kuro is the last nue, according to Hisui and the rest of ayakashi.