So I'm looking to play a Kitsune Noble Scion (with some measure of thematic inspiration from the English folktale of "Mr. Fox") in an upcoming game, and I'm trying to figure out a background, but I don't know much about kitsune in Golarion.
Are they all from Tian Xia, or are there kitsune who have been living in the Inner Sea region for a long time? Are there particular nations where they hold more prominence or power? (And would you be able to tell, given their human form?)
Thanks!
So I'm looking to play a Kitsune Noble Scion (with some measure of thematic inspiration from the English folktale of "Mr. Fox") in an upcoming game, and I'm trying to figure out a background, but I don't know much about kitsune in Golarion.
Are they all from Tian Xia, or are there kitsune who have been living in the Inner Sea region for a long time? Are there particular nations where they hold more prominence or power? (And would you be able to tell, given their human form?)
Thanks!
The answer to most of your questions is, "Kitsune are found wherever you want them to be found." If you want a kitsune noble from Taldor (which sounds like it'd be the best shot at what you want) or Cheliax or Qadira or anywhere, go ahead and make one. Just give them a reason in their backstory to be there.
In strict canon AFAIK, kitsune are found almost exclusively in Tian Xia (though as you said, given their ability to look human, it'd be hard to know if they can be found in Avistan and Garund or not). There aren't any 'kitsune nations' as such, though the Forest of Spirits in Tian Xia probably comes closest.
Good luck with the character!
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Your background can be pretty fluid. I'd try to work it out with your GM, but a couple ideas offhand:
Passing Nobles - A family of nobles in Cheliax has long been shapeshifting kitsune. Since the disappearance of Aroden, the kitsune have been increasingly involved with resisting the church of Asmodeus and smuggling halfling slaves out of Cheliax.
The PC is wandering the world helping to smuggle slaves, letting the church's suspicions cool down, escaping a lover's jealous husband, or looking for more kitsune to bolster the shrinking family line.
For bonus points, the family name can be Alopex (Fox in Ancient Greek, fits well with the Chelish naming scheme).
Fox Wife - An explorer and nobleman tired of his safaris in the Mwangi Expanse and set sight for bigger prey: the Crown of the World. The passing into Tian Xia left him at death's door and it took the mysterious forest woman who rescued him months to nurse him back to health.
Shortly after they returned to his ancestral lands, now happily married, she gave him a son. It was an idyllic life until the nobleman realized his wife's true nature.
She insisted on returning to Tian Xia, vanishing in the night over her husband's objections. Since then, he's buried himself in the management of his estate and left his son to his own devices.
The White Fox - There's a substantial Tian population in the Jade District of Kalsgard in the Land of the Linnorm Kings. A handful of kitsune move among them, passing themselves off as Tian.
Few, however, would think to look for kitsune among the thanes of Sveinn Blood-Eagle. But the wisest kitsune can appear as a hulking Ulfen warrior as easily as a charming Tian merchant.
When he explained his totem demanded his son travel south to learn of other cultures, the other thanes could only accept it. After all, who would risk anger a totem as cunning and powerful as the White Fox?
Cheers!
Landon
Those are some amazing ideas, Landon!