Board Thread:Fan-made Monsters/@comment-24701421-20140918123104

 Nurarihyon 

Species: Demi-Human

Habitat: Inhabited Settlements (Zipangu)

Disposition: Mischievous, Friendly, Proud

Diet: Omnivorous

In the era of the past Demon Lords, Nurarihyon have the form of elderly men with gourd-shaped heads while dressed in a kesa. Like all mamono of the current age, Nurarihyon currently possess the forms of beautiful young women, usually with grey hair and dark-red eyes.

Like the Nurarihyon of the past era, they enjoy sneaking into houses while the owners are away to drink tea and eat snacks, treating the house as though it is their own home. Depending on the owners of the house, their antics can be harmlessly troublesome or, in the case of people that they truly despise, maliciously destructive. If the house is inhabited by a man whom the Nurarihyon fancies, she would sneak into his home even more often than usual before eventually deciding to introduce herself to her future husband by waiting for him to return after sneaking into his home. Possessing supernatural charm and friendly attitudes, they are highly persuasive and are difficult to resist let alone drive away.

Despite their acts of mischief, Nurarihyon are in fact powerful mamono that are capable of leading other youkai-type mamono to form a Hyakki Yakou, a night parade of one-hundred mamono. Every year during the summer, a Nurarihyon will assemble a Hyakki Yakou and parade through the night. Any human man caught by the parade will be attacked and claimed as a husband while human women will be turned into mamono themselves. Because of their ability to form Hyakki Yakou with various kinds of mamono, including the infamous Ushio-Oni, Nurarihyon are respected by even the more powerful mamono of Zipangu such as Inari and Ryu. It is also for this reason that they often act as generals to help protect their homeland form enemy intrusion, especially mamono-hating factions such as the Order.

Like most mamono from Zipangu, Nurarihyon can become capable housewives but they generally prefer to leave housekeeping duties to subordinate mamono from their respective Hyakki Yakou instead. It is also relatively common for a man who is married to a Nurarihyon to have a harem of mamono who are her most trusted subordinates.  