What has this world wrought but pain and suffering, corruption and death? At some point everything once ran according to the Laws of Heaven, all things had purpose and place, there was nothing out of balance. Eventually that all changed when those in charge failed their duties and fell into corruption. Cursed to an eternity of drinking Blood and caste away from the sun, the Kuei-jin suffered greatly for their arrogance, many seeking to end their existence due to their humiliation they suffered. Yet there are those who were born form this pain and learned from it, those who would become known as "The Howl of the Devil-Tigers."

At some point after the fall of Meru and we had lost favor with Heaven, our Dharma was formed to take up the mantle to punish the wicked and trim the corruption from the world. This path is not an easy one, as we must seek to understand pain, learn from it, and enjoy it, we must also be able to teach this love for pain to others. Like a forest fire, we use this pain to burn away the refuse of life and which encourages new growth, if those who cannot endure are brought to the pyre, they shall be consumed. However, in order to know what is bad and what is good, we must understand this 'corruption' on an intimate level, becoming a force of malevolence and malice ourselves.

Being Monsters is not something we choose to be, but something we are ordained to be, it is Heaven's will that we become the worlds 'Celestial Devils' and take to our task with fervor and glee. Yet we cannot let our zealous nature make us into blind animals who do evil for no other reason than for our own, childish nature, but for the greater good of the world. Our cuts must be more than at the surface, our burns must be more than just hot pokers on flesh, each needs to strike deep, and those who are too far gone in corruption must be cut away, much like a decayed limb that must be amputated to save the rest of the body.

In order to better serve Heaven as Monsters we connect with the Lesser Soul of ours, the 'P'o' that so many of our kind seem to try and hold back. Unlike them, we accept the lesser soul as needed aspect to our duty and offer it the chance to indulge in its nature. It is not easy to find that balance with the P'o, and many of would be Celestial Devils have fallen from their lofty perch and became mindless puppets to the P'o, but those who have learned to give the lesser one it's due, thrive and become a maelstrom of Pain, Passion and Righteousness.

We offer you a chance to become such a force, to face Evil in the world which you have suffered from with your own Evil. To learn form your pain, to accept your death, and look upon this new life with eyes no longer clouded. No longer will the suffering you've endured and remember be something that you fear, but something you learn from and enjoy, you, like all of us, will find that Pain can be cleansing and Enlightening. Come, suffer no more, and accept your place upon this world as one of the 'Howl of the Devil-Tigers.'

- Ogami Itto, Eastern Devil in the process of educating a newly awakened Kuei-jin.

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