What are tailmouth?
Tailmouth in the novulia verse are creature with two souls instead of one. Often seen as monster from their appearance, those creatures shaped likes wolves or even foxes for the smallest one, display an unusual tail or even multiples of them that has a mouth at the end, mark of the second soul they both share in the same body.
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Origin
As exotic and horrible they may seem to be, tailmouth are nothing more than cursed creatures that has to live their life in those nightmare fuel forms.
Tailmouth were kitsunes at first. After the war of the guardians which lead both kitsune and nogitsunes civilizations to massacre each other, their mark on the earth and the amount of destruction this war brought made the spirits' balance to flinch and made dead coming back to life, corrupting everything on their path. War kept growing stronger and with this other unstoppable force something has to be done, something to heals what has been wounded. A half-breed nogitsune decided to sacrifice himself on one of the guardian's altar to stop this madness and this growing danger. He did succeed to the price of his life for his brothers and sisters and a curse that only pure kitsunes went to contract, turning them in the creatures we know today, leaving the other as kitsune or nogitsune, marked and slightly corrupted by that spiritual magic that put this world in danger. |
Culture
Now exiled in the deepest cave compared to his cousin kitsune, they live among rare minerals and crystallized cave where they can canalize light from the surface to light up the ground. Usually a nocturnal species, it's not unusual to see them wonder at the surface during daytime but most of them mostly wondering when night come and the moon is high in the night sky. Condemned to hunt corrupted souls as main diet, it's pretty common to see them hated among kitsunes and Novulies, often attacking those who are corrupted by the necrosis, corruption that goes severe over the time and make their host, puppet of an unknown and destructive form.
But among tailmouth, it's common that hatred grows to other tailmouth who has multiples tailmaw. In fact, for them to grow such appendices, the consumption of another tailmouth's soul is required but as seen, hatred toward them only show they fought with one of his own, killed and intentionally absorbed their soul. This is a reminder that their species is cursed and was once before pure kitsune or nogitsune that were supposed to bring balance and not destroy it. |
Habitat
Tailmouth are not daylight creature that is why they lives among the darkest place on the world despite being the symbole of purity and balance. Most of their habitat are place where the sun never show up like caves, dark forest or even spectral realm.
From those different location, tailmouths always choose the most fitting place to drain magic from the world and depending on the known place different technic are used to those intend. Most of the time the heart, place where all the magic is gathered, would
From those different location, tailmouths always choose the most fitting place to drain magic from the world and depending on the known place different technic are used to those intend. Most of the time the heart, place where all the magic is gathered, would