Oni

Oni are demons from japanese shinto mythology. They are the result of the souls of sinners being tortured in Jigoku by oni until the evil soul become an oni themselves, joining their former tormentors. Sometimes however particularly evil peoples become an oni in their lifetime or use magic to transform, these are widely considered the most powerful of their kind.

Some particularly powerfull oni could even become kamis like the brothers Fujin and Raijin, gods of the wind and thunder respectively.

## Appearance

Oni are giants of varying sizes depending on their power, but at least twice the size of a normal man up to hundreds of meters tall, the oni used in Crypto X Ing being an average between these extremes.

They have very muscular bodies with stangely colored skin (red and blue are the most common colors, with green a distant third) and sharp clawed fingers (sometimes more than ten fingers), their skulls exibits three eyes bestial jaws with tusk-like fangs and one or more bovine horns.

Oni tend to look wild and unkempt, with long scruffy hairs and wearin only loincloths made of wild animals's skins, preferably tigers.

## Behaviour

As befitting creatures born of evil and wickedness, oni are universally savage and evil, killing and devouring innocent people and gathering in hordes to ramsack entire provinces.

Most oni spend their existence in Jigoku where they visit tortures on the souls of the wicked, including boilling them "alive", shooting flaming arrows at them, crushing them with iron mountains, dismembring them with saws and impalling them.

## Characteristics

* Strength : oni are immensely strong, wielding their huge metal clubs with ease and having an estimated lifting strength of 180,000 tons (a conservative estimate).
* Claws and fangs : oni have clawed fingers and powerfull fanged jaws that can rend the flesh of their victims.
* Resilience : oni are much more resillient than a normal person, able to endure the hottest (a giant oven said to burn hundreds of degres Celsius hot) and the coldest (comparable to liquid nytrogen −195.8 °C (−320 °F)) of Jigoku's 16 hells. They can also survive blows that would cripple a human and even an oni's decapitated head can still bite for a few minutes before finally dying.
* Speed : because of their grea size oni are lumbering cretures that are somewhat lacking in agility and finesse.
* Intelligence : despite their savage aspect oni are fairly intelligent, being able to organize in large groups and some are accomplished sorcerers. Nonetheless they are still brutish and lacking in guile, allowing a clever opponent to trick them.

## Powers

* Witchcraft : oni can use black magic to cause storms, earthquakes, disease, and crop destruction. They lack minute control over these phenomena, only creating and ending them.

## Gear

* Kanabo : the oni's favorite weapon a massive iron club used for crushing armor.
* Axes and saws : oni make uses of these as torture tools in Jigoku, though their effectiveness in combat is discutable.
* Bow and arrow : oni fire flamming arrows at sinners in Jigoku, indicating archery skill.

## Weaknesses

* Beans : on the 3rd of february japanese people celebrate the holiday of Setsubun by throwin beans to ward of evil spirits, if performed adequately this ritual will protect participants from oni for the year.
* Oni can't enter a building that doen't have an oppening on the northeast (they can still attack such buildings from outside).