Kami (spirit) TCG

Air Kami

Kami were spirits that inhabited the natural world of Ningen-dō, which sometimes interacted with Rokugani people.

Blessings and Magic

A priest from the peasant caste might get attention from the Kami, so they could bless fields, sanctify ritual spaces, perform weddings and funerals, practice auguries, and create good luck charms and talismans blessed by their favored deities, but such priests could not compel miracles from the kami, a gift reserved to Shugenja, members of the samurai caste who had manifested the ability to communicate with the spirits and given specialized training. Kami were not obligated to answer the call of a shugenja, nor did they tend to react to frivolous entreaties. The kami were not at the beck and call of the shugenja; if anything, the relationship worked the other way around.

Spiritual Backlash

Even the most practiced shugenja risked unintended consequences when appealing to the kami. When a shugenja lose control of Fire kami, they roiled forth, spreading chaos and destruction wantonly, Earth kami repayed disrespect with stony silence, Water kami could shift suddenly, flowing with power one moment and ebbing away without warning the next, and Air kami were mischievous, but when angered, their practical jokes could take a decidedly deadly turn.

Manifest

Earth Kami

Rokugani might encounter manifest elemental kami when they had been summoned or when a kami was in great distress.

• Earth kami shaped bodies of stone, appearing as statues of warlike Fortunes or the sacred beasts that guarded ancient shrines and tombs. These beings were powerful, wise, and slow to anger.
• Air kami were terrifying to behold, the twisting storm, howling with rage and fury. Their form was that of a many-armed whirlwind, flickering hands reaching out to toss about loose items, and it could grow or shrink in an instant.
• Fire kami appeared as a humanoid shape, clothed in a robe of smoke and with blazing skin, the harbinger of destruction but also of renewal. While they were intelligent and knowledgeable, fire kami were notoriously single-minded once they had taken form, seeking only to consume everything within their reach before sputtering out.
• Water kami took the form of a humanoid torso rising from a source of water; if they had legs, these were obscured within the water or become visible only if the kami strode onto land. The forms of these kami shifted and changed as circumstances required, and they could even split themselves to act in multiple places at once and reabsorb damaged copies to restore their own vitality.

See also

Water Kami

• Kami/Meta

External Links

• Guardian Kami (Disciples of the Void)
• Kami Unleashed (Disciples of the Void)

References

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