
Demon, bloodthirsty and bent on destruction. “Bright divinity.” A kami of great importance. Before the war, kirin were omens of good fortune and long life. A mythical, otherworldly creature with aspects of a horse, a dragon, and a deer or goat. The vengeful spirit of a mortal who died in anger or without the proper rites. Physical objects worshipped at or near Shinto shrines as repositories in which spirits or kami reside. A spirit created by dividing another spirit. A benevolent spirit with aspects of a lion and other animals that is said to eat the bad dreams of children. To give Kamigawa its own distinct look, as well as to reflect the fact that the plane was in turmoil, we concepted the kami as bizarre creatures that look out of place in the natural world, as though they couldn’t even realistically exist within it." Kami are gods of a sort they’re the eternal essences of things, people, places, ideas, and so on. Background Īccording to Brady Dommermuth "he overarching premise of the Kamigawa block is 'Shinto gone wrong.' In Shinto, a belief system indigenous to Japan, everything has a kami.

For this reason, Eiganjo trained many kami diplomats to try to keep the peace between the mortal and spirit realms. Many fled to the remains of the Jukai forest, and were hostile to humans. Neon Dynasty Ībout 1200 after the Kami War the kami are threatened by the growth of the modern city of Towashi. When the kami manifest into the ordinary world, their manifestation is a bit unstable and creates strange energy objects orbiting around them.

It was because the theft of O-Kagachi's scion, that the Kami War began. The greatest kami of all are the five myojin, rivaled only by the mighty O-Kagachi.


Kami come in an overwhelming variety of forms, even among the same "species" of kami, and their brand of magic is mysterious and beyond anything mortals have conceived.
