Kuei-jin Lore

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This is not an exhaustive list, but there are some details picked to share to give an idea of the levels.

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Level 1:

• Basic understanding of the necessities (Chi/blood) and the banes (sunlight causes flesh to rot)
  • Not the same as Western Vampires
• They are of Asian descent
• They are closest to Vampires but ancestry from East and Southeast Asia
• Rumor that they are corrupted descendants of legends from the Middle Kingdom
• Know some of their terms ("Hungry Dead", Yin, Yang, Chi, etc)
  • Term for them is Kuei-jin (Kuei - Mandarin word for ghost; Jin - Japanese word for person)
• The concept that their power comes from Chi and to get it they must drink blood from the living.
• You know the names of the different Dharmas
• You know they are on a spiritual trek, called a Dharma, looking to achieve enlightenment, and the names of the different Dharmas

Level 2:

• The concept that the closer to enlightenment (higher Dharma) they get, the more power they possess
• Not created through the act of another
• Their blood has no supernatural properties and cannot create Blood Bonds or Ghouls
• They were humans (sinners) that were killed and took a 'second breath' to rejoin the land of the living after escaping from Hell
• When they take their 'second breath' back into a human body, they are a mad cannibal and must be captured before too many are taking in a killing spree and trained by other Kuei-jin
• They have two souls: Hun (high soul - more refined, intellectual) and P'o (lower soul - brutal aspect of a person)
• They are closer to a risen then a vampire - a spirit inhabiting reanimated flesh either their own or someone else.
• The need for blood is phased out as Dharma rises to 4, than can feed off the breath of a living person.
• Constantly struggling between their two souls, as the P'o wants to take over
• Their Chi - the energy they live off of - is divided into Yin (vulnerable to wood) and Yang (vulnerable to metal).
• Yang infused KJ can get drunk with enough spirits, and even have children
• Can give short descriptions of the different Dharmas
• You know about the Yama Kings and their growing of chi corruption in the material world

Level 3:

• Divided into Courts
• You know the names of the five greatest courts
• Has an understanding of their Disciplines
• You know something about their Rituals
• Know many of the old terms and their meanings
• Bound together in Wu (i.e.: Pack), mystically linked to each other and a guardian Nushi (i.e.: Totem)

Level 4:

• Have a deeper understanding of Rituals
• Have a knowledge of the dharma specific version of Disciplines
• Can name many well known Ancestors and leaders of the Courts

Level 5:

• Knowledge of the Jade Emperor
• Once the purpose that brought them back has been accomplished, they will go to rest again