Pale Owl

*"The best damn postal service in this world and it still costs you your life force."*

**Awa Fukurō** (淡梟 Pale Owls) are a species of **Reijin** (霊人; Spirit Being) favored by and possibly created by Owl the god of Darkness, Secrets and Fear.

## ***Overview***

Treated like forest spirits and familiars the Pale Owls, often shortened to Pales, are a mystical creature which seem to be present in every environment and climate of the world and yet are so very rarely seen in the wild that their existence is considered a myth by those who are incapable of summoning them or have never witnessed one being summoned.

Because of their peculiar abilities and their considerable intelligence they are used by people across the world as a fast, reliable and secure method of delivering secret messages to known locations or delivering messages to secret locations. The method to summon the Pale Owls is however a secret method known to few people, and this secrecy in the method is what allows the owls to even be summoned in the first place.

## ***Cultural Impact***

As the creatures most obviously favored by Owl and the form Owl is most likely to manifest as to convey information to someone seeking their favor they have becomes ubiquitous with the god in question and have become symbols of her divinity.

Statues or carvings of owls without a beak and eyes will often be *hid* inside of restaurants and other mercantile establishments to ward off the secrets of their merchandise from being revealed. Similarly several secret organizations will often have a name associated with an owl or have an owl in their symbols as a means of currying the favor of Owl and maintain their secrecy from the general public.

A common and popular children's game Fukuryo (A pun on Fukuro which means owl and Ryo which means game and hunt) is named in honor of these creatures, it is basically hide and seek but the "It" is referred to as the Pale Owl and they have to find their "targets" and "deliver the message" that they lost the game.

## ***Abilities***

### **Vampirism**

As a Reijin the Pale Owls are unable to generate their own ki and must instead rely on the ki provided to them by others, notably Pale Owls are fueled in part by Owl which grants a portion of her own ki to them when they remain hidden from the sight of creatures. This passive mode of replenishment of Ki is however not enough for procreation and as such a Pale Owl must acquire this ki from a willing source as payment for their services if they plan to ever procreate.

### **Absolute Concealment**

Pale Owls seem to have some kind of innate Earth Ki Style technique which manipulates the area around them and seizes and nullifies all indications of their presence from all senses but direct touch.

They do this by manipulating the light, the air, the chemicals and even the ground around them to render themselves invisible, unable to emit sounds and unable to leave any chemical or physical tracks that would indicate their location at any given moment. The only way to locate a Pale Owl using this technique is by being in direct contact with one.

### **Specific Omniscience**

A blessing granted to every Pale Owl by Owl herself, it grants them a specific form of her own omniscience which allows a Pale Owl to know the exact location of their target and the location of any secret location their target might be in. Notably this ability even works if the actual location or the target doesn't possess any true secrecy by exploiting the fact that not everyone knows about them or that place, and thus would be considered a technical secret to those people.

### **Mimicry**

While Pale Owls are fully able to understand any language known to man they are unable to truly speak it, they can however, like parrots and other birds, perfectly mimic words spoken to them and thus can convey messages even when no physical message is provided for them to deliver.

## ***Trivia***

* This species is portrayed by a fake pokemon design by **Darksilvania**.