Tanuki

Tanuki are eastern Kami spirits, much like Kitsune and Tengu. Tanuki are small mammals whose name is sometimes translated as Raccoon-Dog. In his natural form a Tanuki is a 3½ foot tall anthropomorphic Raccoon-Dog. He has a bushy tail and a raccoon-like mask, brown fur, black sock and glove marks, and a white face. However, Tanuki are shapechangers and can take other forms as well. All Tanuki are male. Tanuki are revered by some cultures as gods of nature, business, practical jokes, and luck. They, of course, are not gods, but some have come rather close.

Tanuki age as humans for their first twenty years of life after which they no longer visibly age. They have a life span similar to that of elves. Tanuki can breed with other creatures while in the appropriate form. Chance of conception is the same as the type of creature he is currently using the form of + 5%, and there is a 10% chance the offspring is Tanuki, an 80% chance that the offspring is the normal outcome of the mother and the Tanuki’s shapechanged form, and a 10% chance that the offspring is the normal outcome with a Tanuki bloodline.