Reika Megami

Species
 Affiliation

**Reika Megami** is an Inari with long black hair with a small strand between her eyes, yellow-eyed, light brown-tailed, cunning bookworm. Wears traditional miko clothes with small pouches on her obi for storing runic papers and other items. Also holds a staff.

## Aspects

### Guardian of The Frontier

A master at manipulating magical energies and using it to create spells unknown to the demons and non-Frontier humans and monsters. Also a walking library for anything Frontier-related. However, this also backfired since she doesn't know (yet) how to manipulate and control non-Frontier spells.

### Intelligence Fetishist

Easily tempted by intellectual wealth, she will try to get her hands on knowledge to the extent of stealing, deceiving, putting herself in danger, forgetting her physical needs, and.... other things. However, given the time, she will be able to recall ANYTHING from any book.

### Diplomatic Naivete

Secluding herself in her own shrine in the Frontier while pursuing intellectual enlightenment, she doesn't care for politics or power dynamics as long as she was able to conduct her research and studies.

## Stunts

### Shapeshift

Roll a Deceive against a random opposition. If point shift is or greater than 1, Reika shapeshifts into another person only if she had seen that person, giving her bonus point(s) on Deceive and Burglary (+1), or simply to change her physical appearance. If there is no point shift, Reika transforms while leaving her tail unhidden. If the roll fails, Reika turns into a random object instead.

### Nine-Tailed Witch

Reika channels her inner Inari energy, giving her a boost of magical powers (Magic +2) which manifested as her tails became nine, and also giving her aerial mobility by flying with her staff. If she has a Mental Stress checked, she can't transform; transforming instantly checks 1 and 2 Mental Stress box after use. Can only be used once per session.

### Walking Magical Transceiver

Being an Inari, Reika can sense or infuse magical energy from/into objects/her surrounding, giving her an advantage. Reika can use Magic to replace Craft/Investigate rolls if the situation is related to the arcane.

## Extras

### Inventory

- Staff

- Runic Papers

### Backstory

Reika Megami the Inari was one of the protectors of the elusive, almost-mythical regions of the earth known as The Frontier. She was revered and worshipped in the region, gaining status of a demi-god. Even so, what she did was only helping other Inari from The Council setting up barriers that repel almost any interaction from or to the outside region or the demon realm. What she sought was the total isolation from matters beyond the region; a state of peacefulness and solitude from the outer world. Her daily life was only filled with meditating and studying the mysteries of the magic forces present in The Frontier.

One day the barriers were cracked by a mysterious force that somehow succeed in weakening the very complex runes and ancient mantras. She was shocked, and summoned to The Council. Reika told her desire to The Council to 'discover and research what lies beyond the force' in the outside world. The Council agreed, and thus began her journey. To her surprise, outside world was unbelievably rich in things unknown to her kind. She wandered from town to town in Central, searching any library or any place filled with books to 'borrow' them; she wanted more.

Until one day, her 'borrowing' habit brought her to the really (un)fortunate meeting with Kayt, the leader of Gilded Hearts. She failed to return the book, which is actually a confidential document regarding the great powers in Central, including the mysterious Crimson Lotus. However, Kayt thought that Reika could be a great addition due to her being the already elusive Inari and her interests. And so, she was moved to Zakaruda, to the city near the Gilded Hearts' HQ, working for the guild to return what she owed (but probably will never be).