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I'm pretty bored right now so I’m looking to kill some time...
So, I'm going to post some descriptions of some of the races found in my manga Chochin En!

I'll edit this as I work on them more...

Chochinobake
The definition of a chochinobake in our world is a paper lantern that has been around for 100 years and come to life. This is not what my chochinobake are, but they are similar. Chochinobake in Chochin En are demons that were sealed in ceremonial lanterns to protect humankind from them. Because their souls are bound to the lantern and if the lantern is destroyed they die, they are in a sense "ghosts of the lantern". Chochinobake is a Japanese word meaning roughly "Lantern Ghost" so the name fits.

The chochinobake in Chochin En were sealed against their wills in lanterns by humans about 3000 years ago. Three groups of magicians took on the task of hunting and sealing these demons and each group had their own way of sealing.

One group used the ashes of the victims of these demons as a medium and sprinkled these ashes on the lanterns to seal the demon inside. This created the Gray Ash Chochinobake. Gray Ash were calmed by the guilt they had for killing and so they became peaceful, never to kill again unless to protect themselves. These Lanterns were stored near an old shrine and were guarded until an earthquake caused the chamber entrance to collapse, sealing the room from the outside world.

Another group was very fierce and used the blood of the demons they managed to kill to seal their share. The leader also used a power made by grinding the demon's horns that he threw over the lanterns to complete the seal. The Demonhorns were angry that their kind had been killed to bind the rest of them, they became vicious and mean but they were sealed and could do nothing and this furthered their hate for all humans. The demonhorn Lanterns were stored in a cavern deep in a seldom traveled valley and they too were guarded. Until one day the guards were killed by a mysterious woman who entered the cavern and used magic to cause poison thorns plants to grow over the entrance, warding off all who would try to enter.

The last group wasn’t as brutal to the demons but was also not as merciful as the Gray Ash. These magicians challenged the demons to a tournament and the loser would be sealed, whether human or demon. The demons agreed, confident that their strength was great enough to defeat any human. However, the magicians cheated and every one of the demons fell in defeat. To seal them the magicians used to power of a mystic stone their people worshipped, an orb of pure obsidian. The Obsidian Chochinobake were angry that they had been cheated but knew that it was only because of their violence towards the humans that they were in this mess. They grew to dislike humans but at the same time accepted the fact that they were only trying to stop a threat. These lanterns were stored in a giant tree and this tree eventually grew closed over the hollow, trapping the lanterns inside.


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