Character Sheet for Kio
Character Description
Kio has white fur with green markings and blue eyes. He has two jet black horns in his head and a jet black nose. He has four ears like all of his species do.
World/Setting
Lightbringers are spirits created from light. They are given form, which can vary as one’s very soul differs from another’s. They can become incorporeal and often glow, though they can choose to keep their glow hidden if it’s required for stealth. They are small with the tallest males only reaching about 4 feet and the tallest females only reaching 3’6”. Despite their small stature they can live for millennia. They are often found in forests and act as guardians.
Male Lightbringers are known as Raitogiba, “light givers”, and female Lightbringers are known as Raitomaza, “light mothers.” Females are more bat- or dragon-like in appearance, though both share the notable features of horns, long tails, and four ears. Due to the four ears, they have very acute hearing able to hear danger up to a mile away on clear days.
However, due to being made of of light, the lightbringers are especially susceptible to the corrupting influence of darkness. These light bringers are typically separated into a different clan and labeled “Kurayami”. Kurayami will find themselves able to manipulate darkness rather than light. Lightbringers worship Akiko, goddess of nature and her many titles. However, Kurayami worship Reito, husband of Akiko and god of the fallen.
Lightbringers love music and dancing. They enjoy it so much that it is how they bond with one another. Should one be approached and asked to dance, they will typically accept. Lightbringers do have a dance ceremony during the mating season for courtship. Once a Lightbringer finds a mate, they are mated for life as each gives part of their light to the other.
Lightbringers reproduce in a manner similar to that of mammals but they give the offspring a portion of their light, which regrows, and after a period of 6 months the new Lightbringer will be born. After the child’s first year of life they are taken to the shrine to Akiko where a ceremony is performed. The child is named at this ceremony and it is said that Akiko etches this name into the heavens.
When a Lightbringer dies their body disintegrates into a ball of light and their light is sent back into the world. It is widely thought that they will reincarnate once all the light reforms, though they will be in a different form with no memory of their past lives.
