Play as both familiar and never before witnessed ancestries and lineages from across East Asian folktales! With three prepared, we have many more in the wings just waiting to be unlocked in our stretch goals.

Kappas are cucumber-loving guardians of the Kyougen Federation's rivers and lakes. Depending on climates, kappas evolved differently to the degree their heritages might appear unrecognizably different. River kappa may appear short and stout of body, mountains kappa might be tall with wings while those in lands closer to Yomi have horns and claws. They're always found in the outskirts of Kyougen cities, content to live amongst nature.

Huodou are the desertfolk of Long Xin. They appear similar to werewolves with the powers to transform into black canine forms and consume fire. Their society emphasizes pragmatism which contributes to their openness to accept new technologies and developments for survival's sake. They've maintained their independence through multiple dynasties using their desert homes and tunnel systems as natural fortresses.

Born from a fateful happenstance, usually through an atypical possession or a trick of destiny, Spiritborns are naturally undead. Though their existences begin frail, they awaken to tremendous spiritual might that materializes physically, supporting any weakened internal or external organs. Spiritborns are highly respected and feared in equal parts in Dangukese society for their innate abilities to commune with or exorcise the dead. As half-ghosts, they exist in the threshold between the living and the dead, eventually requiring a unique solution to the question of how to properly fit in with their surroundings.

Bards in the College of Mourning (5e) or the Lamentation Muse (PF2e) compose elegies that both lament the dead and give them final vigor for one last hurrah. Their songs quite literally awaken the grave and kindle long lost feelings in the hearts of the undead.

The Circle of Entropy believes immortality is a sham at best and unnatural stagnation at worst. Despite conceptions that they worship death and destruction, druids of entropy manipulate the collapse of energy to protect existing cycles of nature.

Monks of the Way of Transcendence (5e), or Blooming Ascendants (PF2e), are cultivators who change themselves from the inside, shedding their old bodies like cocoons into stronger, more beautiful vessels. Their training gives them the power to evolve and change to their liking at a whim, gaining new resistances to disease, poison, or the elements.

Virulent Soul (5e) sorcerers, or the Virulent Bloodline (Pf2e), are those who were either gifted by a deity of nature or murder or had their sorcerous origin tainted by a potent toxin. They're living examples that curses don't simply stop at claiming one life.

When a shard of... something splits off, it yearns to become whole, even if it must begin anew from a separate vessel. Warlocks of the Corruption Patron (5e) and Summoners of the Corruption Eidolon (PF2e) become hosts for these shadows of ancient evil, eagerly selling bits of themselves for greater power.