Creatures of Rokugan

This page last updated 15 January 2002

Animals

Mammals

• Badger
• Bats
• Bear (black, brown, sun)
• Desert cat
• Elephant (asian)
• Fox (red, corsac)
• Leopard (clouded, great, snow)
• Lynx (northern)
• Monkeys (macaques, loris, gibbon)
• Mustelids (weasels, polecats, civet, marten, stoat)
• Ox (muntjac, buffalo, gaur)
• Pangolin
• Panda (great, red)
• Takin
• Tiger (jungle, snow)
• Wolf (grey)

 

Supernatural

• Akuma (Toori Akuma, or Ma) (terrifying creature with an enormous flaming head and eyes like coals, which flies through the air brandishing a sword; even the sight of an akuma brings bad luck)
• Bakemono (goblin, small devil)
• Baku (dream eater) (has the face of a lion, the body of a horse, the feet of a tiger, and the tail of a cow)
• Dragons (earth, air, water, fire, void - the imperial dragons have five claws instead of four)
• Fushichou (= Feng Hwang) (Phoenix) - male: hou or ho; female: kou or oo
• Geiryo (spirit that sleeps in treasures and magic items)
• Giants
• Ikiryo (family spirit, friendly or otherwise)
• Jinshin-Uwo The source of all earthquakes, this several hundred mile long eel carries Rokugan on its back; it causes these quakes by lashing its large tail)
• Kami (fortunes, elemental spirits, ancestors, spirits in general)
• Kansen (corrupted elemental spirit)
• Kappa (ornery water spirit)
• Kyonshi (= Jiangshi) (hopping vampire)
• Maho tsukai (necromancer, witch)
• Mujina (trickster spirit)
• Naga (serpent-man)
• Nezumi (ratling)
• Nue (horse-sized chimera with the head of a monkey, the body of a tiger, the tail of a serpent, and the wings of a bird)
• Nukekubi ("floating head" vampire)
• Nupperabo (doughy and dwarfish lump of flesh with stumpy, vestigial arms and legs, guarding temples)
• Ogres
• Oni
• Kyoso no oni (malevolent, four-armed earth spirit with a vaguely female appearance)
• Oni no akuma (oni with three eyes that destroy areas with tongues of fire)
• Oni no chizoro (ugly fat oni that sprouts podlings)
• Oni no shikibu (orange fanged dwarf oni that reform in corpses)
• Oni no tsuburu (giant "living gullet" oni)
• Pennaggolan ("pickled guts" vampire)
• Rokurokubi (long-neck goblin)
• Shapeshifting animals (crane, monkey, pig, dog, goat)
• Ki-rin (= Ch'i-lin) (horse spirit)
• Kitsune (fox spirit)
• Kumo (spider spirit)
• Shito dama (will o'the wisp, wandering spirit of the dead)
• Tengu (a.k.a. kenku)
• Yama Uba (The Crone of the Mountains)
• Yorei (Ghosts)
• Yorei gaki (The Hungry Ghosts - vampires)
• Yorei goryo (The Vengeful Ghosts - ghosts of those who have been murdered)
• Yorei shiryo (ancestors)
• Yorei ubume ("The Mourning Ones".  Ghosts of women who died in child birth)
• Yuki-no-onna (a snow maiden, beautiful woodland spirit than lures men who follow her into the snow to their deaths)
• Zombies