Owl

*"Everything kept away from the sun is the Owl's domain."* -*Common Saying*

**Owl** is an **Ōkīgami** (*Kanji:* **大きい神**; *English:* **Chief Deity**) and is the deity which presides over the domains of Darkness, Shadow, the Night, Mysteries, Secrets, Obfuscation, Ignorance, Fantasies and to a lesser degree by association Fears and Nightmares. Because of her domains Owl is actually empowered mostly by accident as very few people actual pray or build cults towards her.

Despite her negative associations and domains Owl is a neutral deity who blesses and curses in equal measure regardless of the content of one's characters, for Owl is privy to all the private and secret thoughts that creatures tuck away and does not judge anyone for having them. Her main symbol and envoys are the Pale Owls.

## ***Personality***

### **Quirks**

* **Not A Snitch**: Owl despite being privy to so much secret, lost and embarrassing information is notoriously coy with sharing any of this information, many great adventures have been started by Owl refusing to tell anyone about a secret they seek but instead providing them with a lead to set them on a quest that will possibly reveal them the information they seek.
* **Fey Like**: Owl as a being of immense knowledge and mostly impossible to pin down qualities acts much like a dark fey of legend, blessing and cursing people at random and doing things either for entertainment or other unknowable reasons.
* **Chaotic Neutral**: As a direct consequence of the other facets of her personality Owl can be described as chaotic neutral, not siding with neither "good" or "evil" but enjoying the metaphorical and literal darkness that chaos brings to the world. Notably this puts her at odd with Light and Order.

## ***History***

### **Names**

As a Chief Kami Owl has many names she is known for across the world, these names include: **Yami** (闇, *Darkness*), **Shadow**, **Whispered One**, **She Who Is Veiled in Darkness**, **Twilight Maiden**, **The Owl Witch**, **Boogeyman**.

## ***Abilities***

### **Kami Abilities**

* **Earth Style Ki**: As beings of External Yin and External Yang the Kami are naturally predisposed to using Earth Style Ki techniques to shape the world around them to their whims. Owl is no different.
* **Faith Empowerment**: As a Kami Owl is sustained and empowered by faith and belief in the concepts she embodies. Notably like other dark gods, she does not require active devotion to exist but is instead mostly a byproduct of life and consciousness.

### **Domain Abilities**

* **Darkness Manipulation**: Owl is able to "manipulate" shadows and notably seems to have extreme control over the Yin aspect of reality, especially when it comes to it overwhelming the Yang side. This ability to manipulate darkness is most obviously manifested in how she can seem to deny the entrance of light into an area, the ability to outright destroy light and the ability to destroy through darkness like a black hole.
* **Information Manipulation**: Owl is able to manipulate information in the world, notably this ability is limited by the fact that Owl is not the only god with this ability and as such is limited in her scope to the realm of secrets, mysteries, information that people do not want to "come to light" and information which has been lost and became secret through forgetting it.
	+ **Secrecy Omniscience**: The most obvious and most famous manifestation of this power, Owl is said to hear every whispered word, read every secret and instantly understand and know when a lie is said. Thoughts that a person does not share out loud are also easily read by Owl but they will be forgotten about by Owl once spoken out loud as they become no longer secrets.
	+ **Secrecy Inducement**: Another famous passive ability Owl is said to have is the ability to guarantee the secrecy of something or some action, notably this power manifests and is seen most often in the form of **Mekura Ink**, a special kind of ink which encrypts text magically to only be able to be read by designated people. It's also manifested by the existence of **Divine Secrets**, a special type of Secret that is kept by Owl herself and which renders the transfer of certain types of information that would divulge this secret impossible to occur.
	+ **Secrecy Empowerment**: Another less known but incredibly powerful ability of Owl is the passive ability to empower techniques, locations and objects by using their secrecy and uniqueness as "source of fuel". This effect can be influenced further by naming a technique **Ōgi** (奥義; Secret Skill) because of the powers of Hawk.
* **Fear Manipulation**: A lesser ability and much weaker than the rest, Owl is able to induce great fear and paranoia unto a creature by exploiting her association with darkness and ignorance as the "source of most fears".

### **Personal Abilities**

On top of all the other abilities Owl has access to she is also known to have developed a few simpler techniques of her own to grant as gifts to those who acquire her favor.

#### **Blessings of the Owl**

As a kami Owl is capable of granting powers to people she wants, these come in the form of a greater and a lesser blessing.

* **Greater Blessing**: A blessing Owl gives out to loyal followers, certain cultists and can be gained by drinking tea brewed with petals of every type of Mekura flower. It is a type of beneficial curse that allows one to manipulate their own shadow, a shadow when manipulated in this way is as durable as iron and can be shaped like water, but the area of the shadow cannot exceed the surface area of one's body. As a limitation to this ability the user is unable to detach the shadow from themselves despite being able to manipulate it on three dimensions. Use of this ability causes *other* people to forget memories related to the wielder at an equal rate to the ammount of time the ability is invoked.
* **Lesser Blessing**: Another blessing Owl gives out to other followers and lesser cultists, and can similarly be gained by drinking an incomplete **Owl Tea**. It allows them to "pluck" at their shadow and remove feather shaped pieces from it. These feathers can be thrown or wielded like daggers and when they hit they deal damage by weakening the magnetic bonds (light) of molecules and the light ki of ki creatures. A shadow is permanently reduced until the feather is returned to the shadow or until the feather is used up by throwing it.

Because Owl is a kami and is fully capable of increasing the size of her shadow to infinity she has no limitations in using her own Blessings in combat, additionally due to having no attachments to anyone concrete in the world she does not consider the memory loss effects detrimental.

## ***Trivia***

* This character is portrayed by **Satella** from **Re:Zero**.