Kitsunes can gain their extra tails faster by doing good deeds, ridding areas of violent yokai and kegare pollution, as well as assisting others in finding their path.
In kitsune lore, once a fox reaches the age of 100, they gain the power of shapeshifting. The fox grows a new tail every century until they have nine, and the color of their fur will eventually change from red to gold and finally to white (Geller).
If a kitsune has a tail stolen they will grow back naturally in a century. The advantage of separating a tail from their body is a kitsune may use it as a magical focus to increase the potency of their spells. They may also observe the tail's surroundings in places they may not be physically present.
If a Kitsune loses all of their tails through either giving them away or having them stolen (or in rare cases, destroyed), they will become exceptionally weak and frail, similar to an anemic human, and will lose all of their powers.
After reaching 1,000 years of age and gaining its ninth tail, a kitsune turns a white or golden color, becoming a tenko (天狐, 'heavenly/celestial fox'), the most powerful form of the kitsune, and then ascends to the heavens.
In Japanese mythology, there are said to be 13 types of kitsune, which correspond to different elements—celestial, wind, spirit, darkness, fire, earth, river, ocean, forest, mountain, thunder, sound, and time. Broadly, they can also be broken into two groups—zenko, or good, and nogitsune, or bad.
Some legends say a kitsune gains a tail every hundred or thousand years. Another tale says that a kitsune gains all nine tails when they reach nine-hundred years old.
Kaze Kitsune
Kaze Kitsune are born with an affinity to wind chakra and are able to use it to its fullest potential. These kitsune are incredibly rare and are said to bring good luck to those who find them.
Perhaps fittingly given their divine patron's portfolio as a fertility deity, pregnancy for Kitsunes is short (often under 3 months), and multiple births are relatively common. A common belief is that a Kitsune will never have more kits in a litter than she has tails, but this has never been proven.
Kitsunes are born with a single tail which is considered smaller and thinner than a normal fox tail, this tail will naturally grow over time developing into a full foxtail by the time they are in their first 15 years of their life, then eventually by the time they reach the age of 100, it will be fully developed into a ...
Shapeshifting: Kitsunes are able to shapeshift themselves into other forms. Kitsunes can either make themselves an older version of themselves or even a younger version as well as changing their height and weight. They can even change their gender to that of the opposite one if they so please.
The lifespan of a kitsune depends strongly on the number of tails they have, with one tailed individuals living 75 years or so, while those with multiple tails can live well into their second century and beyond.
Kitsune can have as many as nine tails. When a kitsune gains its ninth tail, its fur becomes white or gold. With such powerful abilities, you may wonder how to kill a kitsune. Legends say that to kill a Japanese kitsune, you have to cut off all its tails.
Canidae: Kitsunes are known to have a great fear and hatred of dogs and wolves. Some become so rattled by the presence of that they will revert to the shape of a fox and flee.
Every year from the end of January to late March is the mating season for foxes; and their offspring might be born around late March to early May.
Most kitsune only take one partner throughout their life, though males may have multiple mates, and if the kitsune (usually female) were truly attached to to the human, halfling, elf or vampire they married, they might not survive the death of their mate, especially if there are no young children that need care.
A female. red fox is. called a. vixen. A male fox is called a dog fox and young foxes are called pups,cubs, or kits.
A human and a kitsune who have a child will produce one of two things: A human child or a kitsune child. Which one occurs depends on chance as much as anything else.
Their powers include illusions, shapeshifting (particularly to human form), possession, and especially the ability to use foxfire.
A kumiho or gumiho (Korean: 구미호; Hanja: 九尾狐, literally "nine-tailed fox") is a creature that appears in the folktales on East Asia and legends of Korea.
Other kitsune have characteristics reminiscent of vampires or succubi and feed on the life or spirit of human beings, generally through sexual contact.
"There are thirteen different types of Kitsune: Celestial, Wild, Ocean, Thunder... But there is one, a dark Kitsune. They call it Void, or Nogitsune. [...] Nogitsune draw its power from pain and tragedy, strife and chaos."
[The doctrine] says that the celestial fox has nine tails and a golden color. It serves in the Palace of the Sun and Moon and has its own fu (talisman) and a jiao ritual. It can transcend yin and yang. The fox spirits encountered in tales and legends are usually females and appear as young, beautiful women.
Kitsune is often portrayed as mischievous and known for playing tricks on humans. However, it can also be seen as a symbol of good fortune, particularly in the Shinto religion from Japan.
In furry lore, kitsune are born either from one or two kitsune parents or a drifting kitsune soul possessing an unborn child's body. Mortals may also be turned into kitsune through 'sharing' spirit with another kitsune, or by divine figures.