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A rocky clan heritage that no one seems to have the most solid ideas of how they originated. The most common rumors among their clan involve vast experiments that eventually resulted in what they've found themselves to be today. A myth and rumor not entirely untrue, as the clan would have first originated by unnatural means. Over generations their bloodline solidified with specific traits, however, and those with that blood manifesting enough obvious signs that they were able to band together into their own solid, though small, group. Orochi Clan founded among those with blood such as theirs, features of reptiles even if not always technically the same type. It would have been a loose camaraderie until the nations were torn asunder. The perfect opportunity for the clan to fall apart. The world in disarray, the differing opinions of the clan would pull harder. Those who wished to hide their bloodline, those who wished to flaunt it, at odds with one another through centuries now having the clan split and scatter amongst the nations. Those of the Orochi clan often feeling empty and out of place with their unsettling features and so few that understand their specific heritage.
Orochi Heritage
Those of the clan are born with unnatural features that separate them from the rest of society. These features can be rather simple and mundane to something large and unsettling. Fangs, slitted eyes, lack of exterior ears to be replaced by interior ones, forked tongues, scales, or tails all being but examples of what an Orochi could be born with. Their bloodline one that involves the specifics of reptiles within their veins, the clan is known for being more comfortable in warm weather and highly less tolerable of cold. Awakening of their bloodline comes with focus, control, practice, or perhaps desperation. While all reptilian, they are most associated with 'snakes' which man often considers an enemy worth killing.
Hachūrui no seirigaku | [Reptilian Physiology]
Requirements: Orochi Heritage
At the very basic start of developing of their bloodline, the Orochi will find the utilization taxing and aggravating. The biggest difference and change at the rookie proficiency is that they are able to change from their humanoid bodies to that of a typical reptile. A complete transformation from what they are normally to that of an animal, benefiting from that reptile's strengths and weaknesses in only that base reptilian form. Their natural features may grow worse, aka those with fangs may now have them grow wider and longer, or those with tails find them suddenly longer and thicker due to practicing with their bloodlines, the clan still unable to naturally hide their oddities as a humanoid and can only shrink away as a fully transformed reptile. Other benefits are minimal but can often lay the groundwork for what further advancement the clan can offer. Or what they may lose...
At the apprentice proficiency they retain the ability to fully transform into a reptile, in addition to benefits in their typical form if so activated. Hints towards all of these benefits are similar to that of the previous proficiency, with only vague feelings towards a future to come. At this proficiency they will gain the ability to activate their bloodline, providing strengths and weaknesses combined. They are able to choose one benefit of their bloodline while also acquiring the corresponding weakness. As well as being able to activate an Enhanced sense of Touch. This enhanced sense of touch makes them highly sensitive to changes in the environment around them.
When becoming more practiced in their bloodline, those at the Journeyman proficiency are able to freely transform between their reptilian and humanoid form as well as activate benefits of their bloodline while in their normal form. Enhanced sense of touch comes with somewhat of a boon in ability, but the true show in power is that they are able to utilize two traits of their bloodline rather than one, with corresponding weaknesses as well.
At the level of Veteran they are able to begin hiding their reptilian appearance, appearing far more human and able to blend in with the natural world. They are still able to take the form of a reptile in its base state as well as access their natural humanoid form. The enhanced sense of touch consistently remains throughout the advancement of their bloodline with increasing ability to notice and adapt to changes in the environment, while this level gains the ability to acquire all strengths and weaknesses of their bloodline.
It's at Master that one would truly understand the depth of what they are. Able to shift 'skins' of themselves at ease. From blending as a normal human, to humanoid reptilian, to a reptile as a whole. Their enhanced sense of touch exceedingly helpful in the smallest shifts in their environment. Having not only acquired all boons of their bloodline but able to negate one of the weaknesses of such. And their ability to blend into the environment unseen and unheard becomes more naturally gifted, a predatory beast coming into its own.
Pinnacle of all that is the Orochi and not a level that has been known to be reached within the last generations is that of Grand Master. Weaving between any mixture of man and reptilian beast at will, with the ability to activate an exceptional sense of touch. They have acquired all boons of their bloodline while negating all the side effects, and remain predatory monsters able to slip in and out of situations unseen and unheard, almost as if their very being is changing to blend into the cover around them.
Enhanced Smell/Taste | Poor Eyesight - A true combination of smell and taste, the subject loses their typical sense of smell entirely to utilize that of a reptilian organ. It is the tongue taking in the particles of the air that then makes them capable of acutely telling what is in the vicinity. A baffling amount of scents can be processed via this method with surprising accuracy that has fabled the idea that this creates a sixth sense altogether, in truth, the molecules in the air are simply processed differently allowing a very clear and true picture of their surroundings. | Assuming one has not met the higher levels of proficiency, Enhanced Smell/Taste comes with the downside of Poor Eyesight. Being almost virtually blinded with only the fuzziest of images getting through, the picture of the shinobi's vision is one that can't be relied upon, making it all the more essential they utilize their alternative senses.
Vibrational Hearing | Decreased Stamina and Endurance - A distinct characteristic of many reptiles is their ability to hear in a very different way. While utilizing the ear is typical for a human, Orochi are able to maximize the vibrations within their body and calculate and decipher information through those vibrations. While the more bodily contact with the ground the better, Orochi are able to utilize their bodies as vessels to break down the vibrations that carry through the things they touch [usually the ground] and be able to create a mental picture of what those vibrations are caused by, their location, and their actions. | This vibrational hearing comes with a steep cost to Stamina and Endurance should one not have a high proficiency as an Orochi member. Cold-blooded, reptiles often need a source of heat to be able to act at full capacity. With the boon of their specialized hearing their body enters a colder and more hibernational state, not making them incapacitated by any means but surely lowering their ability to continue on and take damage.
Infrared Vision | Deafness - A boon of a varied form of eyesight, the Orochi are able to detect heat signatures to even the smallest degree. Creating detailed images in their mind of whatever may have been giving off heat, even those unseen by typical vision wouldn't be able to hide from their eyes unless completely ridding themselves of any temperature shifts. | As always, a cost is applied. The specialized vision coming with a deafness of the ear. At most, muffled sounds may carry through but be indistinguishable in what would be causes said noise, unable to utilize that typical sense to any degree which may be considered helpful.
Enhanced Reaction Speed - Reptiles are known for their swift and immediate strikes that can take prey off guard.
Poison Knowledge/Capability - While not all reptiles have any sorts of poisons or toxins, the most deadly and revered ones tend to make their names from those dangerous and scary doses of death.
Orochi Clan
A rocky clan heritage that no one seems to have the most solid ideas of how they originated. The most common rumors among their clan involve vast experiments that eventually resulted in what they've found themselves to be today. A myth and rumor not entirely untrue, as the clan would have first originated by unnatural means. Over generations their bloodline solidified with specific traits, however, and those with that blood manifesting enough obvious signs that they were able to band together into their own solid, though small, group. Orochi Clan founded among those with blood such as theirs, features of reptiles even if not always technically the same type. It would have been a loose camaraderie until the nations were torn asunder. The perfect opportunity for the clan to fall apart. The world in disarray, the differing opinions of the clan would pull harder. Those who wished to hide their bloodline, those who wished to flaunt it, at odds with one another through centuries now having the clan split and scatter amongst the nations. Those of the Orochi clan often feeling empty and out of place with their unsettling features and so few that understand their specific heritage.
Kekkei Genkai
Orochi Heritage
Those of the clan are born with unnatural features that separate them from the rest of society. These features can be rather simple and mundane to something large and unsettling. Fangs, slitted eyes, lack of exterior ears to be replaced by interior ones, forked tongues, scales, or tails all being but examples of what an Orochi could be born with. Their bloodline one that involves the specifics of reptiles within their veins, the clan is known for being more comfortable in warm weather and highly less tolerable of cold. Awakening of their bloodline comes with focus, control, practice, or perhaps desperation. While all reptilian, they are most associated with 'snakes' which man often considers an enemy worth killing.
Hachūrui no seirigaku | [Reptilian Physiology]
Requirements: Orochi Heritage
At the very basic start of developing of their bloodline, the Orochi will find the utilization taxing and aggravating. The biggest difference and change at the rookie proficiency is that they are able to change from their humanoid bodies to that of a typical reptile. A complete transformation from what they are normally to that of an animal, benefiting from that reptile's strengths and weaknesses in only that base reptilian form. Their natural features may grow worse, aka those with fangs may now have them grow wider and longer, or those with tails find them suddenly longer and thicker due to practicing with their bloodlines, the clan still unable to naturally hide their oddities as a humanoid and can only shrink away as a fully transformed reptile. Other benefits are minimal but can often lay the groundwork for what further advancement the clan can offer. Or what they may lose...
At the apprentice proficiency they retain the ability to fully transform into a reptile, in addition to benefits in their typical form if so activated. Hints towards all of these benefits are similar to that of the previous proficiency, with only vague feelings towards a future to come. At this proficiency they will gain the ability to activate their bloodline, providing strengths and weaknesses combined. They are able to choose one benefit of their bloodline while also acquiring the corresponding weakness. As well as being able to activate an Enhanced sense of Touch. This enhanced sense of touch makes them highly sensitive to changes in the environment around them.
When becoming more practiced in their bloodline, those at the Journeyman proficiency are able to freely transform between their reptilian and humanoid form as well as activate benefits of their bloodline while in their normal form. Enhanced sense of touch comes with somewhat of a boon in ability, but the true show in power is that they are able to utilize two traits of their bloodline rather than one, with corresponding weaknesses as well.
At the level of Veteran they are able to begin hiding their reptilian appearance, appearing far more human and able to blend in with the natural world. They are still able to take the form of a reptile in its base state as well as access their natural humanoid form. The enhanced sense of touch consistently remains throughout the advancement of their bloodline with increasing ability to notice and adapt to changes in the environment, while this level gains the ability to acquire all strengths and weaknesses of their bloodline.
It's at Master that one would truly understand the depth of what they are. Able to shift 'skins' of themselves at ease. From blending as a normal human, to humanoid reptilian, to a reptile as a whole. Their enhanced sense of touch exceedingly helpful in the smallest shifts in their environment. Having not only acquired all boons of their bloodline but able to negate one of the weaknesses of such. And their ability to blend into the environment unseen and unheard becomes more naturally gifted, a predatory beast coming into its own.
Pinnacle of all that is the Orochi and not a level that has been known to be reached within the last generations is that of Grand Master. Weaving between any mixture of man and reptilian beast at will, with the ability to activate an exceptional sense of touch. They have acquired all boons of their bloodline while negating all the side effects, and remain predatory monsters able to slip in and out of situations unseen and unheard, almost as if their very being is changing to blend into the cover around them.
Bloodline Capabilities
Enhanced Smell/Taste | Poor Eyesight - A true combination of smell and taste, the subject loses their typical sense of smell entirely to utilize that of a reptilian organ. It is the tongue taking in the particles of the air that then makes them capable of acutely telling what is in the vicinity. A baffling amount of scents can be processed via this method with surprising accuracy that has fabled the idea that this creates a sixth sense altogether, in truth, the molecules in the air are simply processed differently allowing a very clear and true picture of their surroundings. | Assuming one has not met the higher levels of proficiency, Enhanced Smell/Taste comes with the downside of Poor Eyesight. Being almost virtually blinded with only the fuzziest of images getting through, the picture of the shinobi's vision is one that can't be relied upon, making it all the more essential they utilize their alternative senses.
Vibrational Hearing | Decreased Stamina and Endurance - A distinct characteristic of many reptiles is their ability to hear in a very different way. While utilizing the ear is typical for a human, Orochi are able to maximize the vibrations within their body and calculate and decipher information through those vibrations. While the more bodily contact with the ground the better, Orochi are able to utilize their bodies as vessels to break down the vibrations that carry through the things they touch [usually the ground] and be able to create a mental picture of what those vibrations are caused by, their location, and their actions. | This vibrational hearing comes with a steep cost to Stamina and Endurance should one not have a high proficiency as an Orochi member. Cold-blooded, reptiles often need a source of heat to be able to act at full capacity. With the boon of their specialized hearing their body enters a colder and more hibernational state, not making them incapacitated by any means but surely lowering their ability to continue on and take damage.
Infrared Vision | Deafness - A boon of a varied form of eyesight, the Orochi are able to detect heat signatures to even the smallest degree. Creating detailed images in their mind of whatever may have been giving off heat, even those unseen by typical vision wouldn't be able to hide from their eyes unless completely ridding themselves of any temperature shifts. | As always, a cost is applied. The specialized vision coming with a deafness of the ear. At most, muffled sounds may carry through but be indistinguishable in what would be causes said noise, unable to utilize that typical sense to any degree which may be considered helpful.
Suggested Proficiencies
Enhanced Reaction Speed - Reptiles are known for their swift and immediate strikes that can take prey off guard.
Poison Knowledge/Capability - While not all reptiles have any sorts of poisons or toxins, the most deadly and revered ones tend to make their names from those dangerous and scary doses of death.
