Kitsune
Fallen Guardian of Yokai Island
Kitsune is a revered Yokai sage whose commitment to guarding the Isles becomes hostility toward outsiders. He taught Seiwa and Kanmu, fought beside them against Zakhvatchik and advised later rulers, but Kanmu experienced his protection as imprisonment. His kindness toward the young Miko coexisted with prejudice that made Daisho and Yuhuan conceal her mother’s foreign heritage.
His acceptance of Drakath’s Chaos power turns that hostility into a demand that Yokai rule humans. He controls Daisho before the Hero banishes him into the Yokai Realm, where Koschei later uses his lingering essence as a puppet against Miko. An earlier account names a Kitsune among the Heroes of Balance defending Yokai during the Queen’s first reign. How that figure relates to the later sage is unknown.