Yet, at times, particularly powerful oni abandon this mindset and instead gather to their side entire legions of oni drawn from all types.
Oni tend not to congregate with others of their kind, being most comfortable in positions of leadership over enslaved or oppressed societies populated by humanoids they can masquerade as. Oni retain their hatred of the kami upon reentering the Material Plane as physical creatures, and often their depredations and violations of the world can be directly tied to their efforts to destroy kami or the kami’s works. It is also important to understand that oni’s immoderation is also motivated by their corrupted and evil natures-that is, no pleasure is more enjoyable than one that deprives or wounds another. Most oni seek to attain positions of leadership and power, often in the guise of a normal humanoid, in order to secure a never-ending supply of sensory experiences. They arrive in physical form starved for sensory experience, and never fully sate their desire to gorge on such experiences. In order to understand oni, it is important to consider that most of these beings were once spirits tasked with protecting a material realm they now believe is undeserving of such care and concern-indeed, the physical world is to be dominated and consumed. Oni use this ability to infiltrate humanoid societies, either to prey upon the weak or to rule them in disguise. The type of shapes an oni can assume depend upon its species, but all can transform into some form of humanoid. Yet while they have hideous forms, all oni are capable of changing their shape to assume forms more pleasant to the civilized eye.
5E ONI RACE DUSTBORN SKIN
Tusks, additional eyes, or strangely colored skin are common physical attributes. Once an oni manifests its physical body, that body becomes its true form for the rest of its life-all oni are shapechangers, but this original form is the form in which they are born and the form they revert to upon death.Īn oni’s true form is always similar to that of a specific type of humanoid, save that it is always deformed and monstrous to look upon. The type of oni a spirit transforms into is influenced by a wide variety of variables, ranging from the nature of what the oni spirit was before to the location where it is reborn into the realm of flesh and blood. The methods by which this may occur vary, but the process generally takes place in areas already despoiled by sin, tragedy, or cruelty. Eventually, an oni’s spirit manifests a physical body on the Material Plane. These oni are more often destined for positions of great power and strength than most. Rarely, a mortal creature’s soul can become a disembodied oni upon death, or in even rarer cases, after a truly evil individual has undergone a particularly vile ritual that ends in suicide. As punishment, they were stripped of their ability to form a physical body and then cast into the void. The majority of these bodiless oni were once kami who failed their wards, or more often, who deliberately abandoned them. In this form, oni are harmless and invisible.
In pure spirit form, an oni is nothing but a disembodied evil longing for the sins of the flesh. Oni are a race of evil spirits, native to the Material Plane, that manifest physical bodies based upon the shapes and desires of humanoid mortals.
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