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○東方永夜抄 (Touhou Eiyashou ~ Eastern Long Night Vignette) 　～ Imperishable Night

Character Intros and Spoilers

Team Shanghai Alice Leader ZUN 2004/08/15

There's lots of extreme spoilers here, even about the ending. Only look at it if you've given up on clearing it, or just don't mind that sort of thing.

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◇Player Characters

Wonderful Shrine Maiden of Paradise Reimu Hakurei

Species: Human Ability: Mainly flying in the air

The now-familiar shrine maiden of the Hakurei Shrine. She lives in the Hakurei Shrine located at the boundary that separatesGensokyo from the outer world. The shrine simultaneously exists in both worlds.

She treats everyone fairly and equally, which makes her well-liked by even the feared being such as youkai. On the flip side, she doesn't see anyone as a comrade. Since there are a great number of humans and youkai around her, there are instances where she works together with them, but even so, she usually does things by herself alone. She might just truly be a cold-hearted kind of human...

An Ordinary Black Magician Marisa Kirisame

Species: Human Ability: Ability to use magic

She's an ordinary magician living in Gensokyo. She also has a mania for collecting things. No one has any business in the Forest of Magic, so she lives there in comfortable solitude while studying to improve her magical ability.

You might imagine witches as being indoor-type people, but Marisa is a rather active outdoor-type person. She prefers a lively atmosphere over silence, but still doesn't like to be disturbed when she's studying. The Forest of Magic is the perfect place for her because almost no one bothers to visit her there Marisa would also like to point out that, "Concealing my half-finished works is not the reason I'm living in there."

Maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion Sakuya Izayoi

Species: Human Abilities: Manipulating time

There's a scarlet mansion on the banks of a certain lake in Gensokyo. She works there as a maid.

When you're a maid, you don't have to worry about clothing, food or housing, even when you live this deep in the mountains. She's human, but both humans and youkai don't look too well on her since she lives with devils. Still, some humans will overlook this, and she never has to worry about her living conditions. She can't imagine a life better than this.

Half-human half-phantom Youmu konpaku

Species: Comprised equally of human and phantom Abilities: Handling sword techniques

She's the gardener of Hakugyokurou. But actually she is a swordmanship teacher for Yuyuko.

Even she herself is not certain whether she is alive or not, or whether she is considered a human. Even though she has longer life expectancy than human's, it seems that she can experience death, so maybe she is alive. Konpaku's swords were designed primarily for use against spiritual beings, but they still seem to work well against living beings.

Seven-Colored Puppeteer Alice Margatroid

Species: Magician Ability: Ability to use magic

A magician living in the Forest of Magic. The greatest difference between Alice and Marisa is that Marisa is a human of magician occupation whereas Alice is a magician as a species.

You might imagine magicians as being indoor-type people; in Alice's case, you'd be right. She spends most of her time alone, and the forest is a good place for that. The forest is quite humid, however, and her dolls will become damaged without her constant care. Because of this, she's currently planning to make a doll that will automatically take care of other dolls."

Scarlet Devil Remilia Scarlet

Species: Vampire Abilities: Manipulation of fate

In the middle of a lake in Gensokyo, there is a scarlet mansion. She is the mistress of that mansion.

She is very childish even though she has been alive for more than 500 years. Devils, including vampires, are hated with a passion by both humans and youkai, because their kind tend to be self-centered and selfish. Remilia indeed is no exception. Type-B blood tastes the most delicious to her.

Dreaming Ghost Yuyuko Saigyouji

Species: Ghost Ability: Manipulating death

Yuyuko is a ghost princess who lives in the Netherworld. Like typical ghosts, she is quite the opposite of what humans call "down-to-earth", and her whims distract Youmu all the time. Unlike typical ghosts, her form has legs and feet.

She is a ghost — the form of humans after death. There is no doubt that Yuyuko "lives" a whimsical life, but she doesn't unleash her ability lightly, so neither humans nor youkai have a reason to attack her. Still, many beings across the land fear her within their hearts.

Youkai that lurks in the boundary Yukari Yakumo

Species: Youkai Ability: Manipulating boundaries

She lives somewhere on the boundary between Gensokyo and the outer world. Since most people can't see the border, no one is certain exactly where she lives. They know only that she does not live near the Hakurei Shrine, which is also located on the boundary.

Among the youkai in Gensokyo, she has lived ever since the ancient times and she has a considerable amount of power. Gensokyo's origins have been long forgotten by humans and even most youkai, but it seems that she still remembers some part of it. She is often described as devious; that's mainly because she has low quality of a human, so others find her actions quite difficult to comprehend. She easily has enough power to annihilate all of Gensokyo if she so desires, so it's probably a good thing that she is somewhat weird...

◇Enemy Characters

Stage 1 Boss, a Bug of Light Wriggling in the Dark Wriggle Nightbug

Species: Youkai Insect Abilities: Manipulate insects

Stage 1 Boss.

Insects gather around her. Fireflies can perform their flashing with timed synchronization even in huge swarms, but that is actually because there is a commander like her within them.

Those who carelessly regard her as a mere insect will be easy victims to the swarm of insects. When Wriggle is upset and serious, she summons a swarm of harvest mites which can cause deadly fever to humans.

She can't stand cold or insecticide.

Stage 2 Boss, Night Sparrow Apparition Mystia Lorelei

Species: Night Sparrow Abilities: Driving people insane by singing

Stage 2 Boss. In addition to her song of confusion, she can make people night-blind.

Humans call her the Night Sparrow, but few have ever seen her appearance. This is because she only plays during nighttime, and humans around her become blinded by darkness anyway. Had they seen what she actually looks like, they probably wouldn't have called her a sparrow.

Her song can cloud a person's judgment; humans who walk into the night in that condition inevitably disappear without a trace. This confusion ability is the main reason people lose their way at night so easily.

In addition, she's known to give humans night-blindness (an illness where one's eyesight degenerates a lot in dark places) to hide her form.

Stage 3 Boss, History Eater Keine Kamishirasawa

Species: Were-hakutaku Abilities: Eating (concealing) history, and creating history

Keine looks like an ordinary human most of the time, but she is actually a were-hakutaku who transforms into a hakutaku under the light of the full moon. As a human, she has the ability to eat histories. As a hakutaku, she possesses all knowledge about Gensokyo, and possess the ability to create history.

When she first noticed this incident, she thought it was an opponent with considerably great power, and she decided to seal the Human Village during the night in order to protect humans from youkai.

She devoured the village's history to make it unable to be seen.

Although Keine is a youkai, she loves humans and always tries to help them. She only uses her ability when it would benefit humans.

Wonderful Shrine Maiden of Paradise Reimu Hakurei

Species: Human Ability: Flying in the air

As usual, the shrine maiden you all know.

The morning that she was expecting to see after a full night's sleep didn't greet her. She thought that something very strange was going on, so she left the shrine to investigate. It's not unusual for her to go out at night, but going out at midnight just after having taken a full night's rest was most unusual. Anyway, nights always make her sleepy, so she'll be going back to bed once the issue is resolved. She followed a trail of power into a bamboo forest, and what she found were very familiar faces..."

An Ordinary Black Magician Marisa Kirisame

Species: Human Ability: Ability to use magic

An ordinary magician.

A bit past midnight, she felt a disturbance ripple through the forest. She had a feeling that something bad was about to happen, and she was right. Many hours later, it was still as dark as midnight, long past the time for dawn, as though the night was everlasting. She left home in a hurry to investigate this interesting night... and was a little too impatient when she met the people responsible for the unnaturally long night."

Stage 5 Midboss, Earthborn Rabbit Tewi Inaba

Species: Youkai Rabbit Abilities: Conferring good luck to humans

After taking good care of her health and living for a long time, Tewi has the power equivalent to that of a youkai. She leads the Earthborn rabbits living in Eientei. Her impetuous temperament makes her seem more like a fairy than a youkai.

Humans who lose their way in the bamboo forest around Eientei sometimes catch a glimpse of Tewi. Those who see her are able to find their way out without fail, so she is considered a guide of the forest.

It's a shame that they waste the fortune given to them by Tewi on such a small thing, but humans are too clueless to notice their mistake.

Stage 5 Boss, Lunatic Moon Rabbit Reisen Udongein Inaba

Species: Moon Rabbit Abilities: Manipulating insanity

A rabbit who lived on the moon. In her eyes dwell far greater power of insanity than the rabbits of the earth.

She is currently living as Kaguya's pet. Her real name is only Reisen (レイセン, in katakana), but in order to masquerade as one who comes from the earth, she adopted the ateji 鈴仙 for "Reisen." However, it was quite artificial.

Udongein is a pet name that Eirin gave her. It is unknown why she calls her that. Furthermore, she affectionately calls her "Udonge." To arbitrarily give her a pet name simply to abbreviate it - aliens' ways of thought are hard to understand.

"Inaba" was the pet name that Kaguya gave her. In fact, calls all rabbits "Inaba." Whenever Kaguya says Inaba, she does not distinguish her from Tewi, and it seems that she really doesn't distinguish between them in any case. Perhaps to her, all rabbits are the same.

Reisen is a rabbit of the moon who fled the moon when people of earth began invading it. More information about that is available in Kaguya's profile.

Stage 6 Boss, Brain of the Moon Eirin Yagokoro

Species: Lunarian Abilities: Making any drug. Natural Genius.

She's a person from the moon. That means she's an alien. She has lived on the Earth for a long time. Her relationship with Kaguya dates back to their days on the moon.

The Yagokoro family is a line of medicinal geniuses that have been living on the moon for some time. Even among them, Eirin is exceptionally intelligent. She is much smarter than humans, which makes her rarely understood.

In truth, she has power well beyond that of Kaguya's. She saves her power and maintains it at a lower level out of respect for Kaguya.

Long ago, Eirin was one of a party of messengers who were sent to bring Kaguya back to the moon; the crime for which she was exiled to Earth had been forgiven. For some reason, she helped Kaguya kill all the other messengers instead. To ensure that the earthlings who lived with Kaguya would remain silent, she bribed them with the Hourai Elixir. The elixir had the power to make people immortal. None of those earthlings consumed the elixir, however, and died shortly afterwards.

It was later discovered that they were murdered.

More detail is available in Kaguya's profile.

Eirin is very surprised to see Sakuya, but only Eirin knows the reason why.

○Last Boss, The Sinner of Eternity and the Instantaneous Kaguya Houraisan

Species: Lunarian Ability: Manipulating eternity and the instantaneous

Kaguya (カグヤ) was born in the royal house of the moon and was treated with utmost care as a princess. Because of that, she grew very selfish... But one scandal changed her life. She had Eirinmake the Hourai Elixir - a forbidden medicine - out of self-interest and consumed it.

The crime was soon discovered and Kaguya was executed for it.

However, possessing the power of eternity, Kaguya immediately resurrected upon dying, so effectively she could not die. For Kaguya's punishment, she was exiled to Earth and forced to live among filthy humans. Soon afterward, she was found by an old human male, and began life as Kaguya-hime...

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Kaguya is a former Lunarian who was expelled from the moon. She enjoyed her life on Earth for a while without problems, but as rumours of her beauty spread far and wide, she started to feel bad about it.

A few years later, she was allowed to return to the moon, but she really didn't want to. She had become attached to people who she were living with and preferred life on Earth, which was far more emotional than the life she had on the moon. Even so, Earth was a bit filthy and life on Earth had its share of problems. She was torn between Earth and the moon... It was then that she found a familiar face among the emissaries from the moon. It was Eirin.

Eirin felt very sorry for Kaguya because she wasn't punished even though she was the one who made the elixir. Her desire for redemption was so strong that she was ready to do anything for Kaguya, so she decided to live on Earth with Kaguya.

Eirin betrayed the other emissaries and helped Kaguya escape. The two of them began to live in desolate place. It was so desolate that it was haunted by youkai...

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A long, long time has passed since then.

The moon was no longer sending emissaries to fetch them; they had forgotten about the past and were living in peace.

One day, an event took place that made them recall the past.

It had been more than a century since Gensokyo was cut from the human world. They were living quietly without meeting anyone. On that day, a rabbit ran into their home. She claimed to be a rabbit from the moon who had come because she heard rumours about Gensokyo, a place where non-humans live. She then said, "humans are invading the moon and it's becoming nearly impossible for people of the Moon to live there. These humans stuck a flag on the moon and are acting like the moon belongs to them".

The rabbit had escaped from the front line of a war, leaving her allies behind...

Kaguya remembered that she, too, was a Lunarian long ago.

Humans were invading the moon? That's ridiculous...But the rabbit seemed to be telling the truth. Anyway, they decided to allow that poor rabbit - Reisen - to live with them.

A few decades have passed since then.

Kaguya, Eirin and Reisen were enjoying their peaceful life. Gensokyo makes everyone easy-going and peaceful... It really was like a paradise.

On one night of a full moon, Reisen received a transmission from other surviving moon rabbits. (Moon rabbits have some kind of telepathic ability and can communicate across great distances.) It said:

"These filthy humans are exploiting the power of the moon and trying to build a base here. We've been urging them co-exist peacefully with us, but they never listen. We're up against a wall.

"We've decided to declare a final war against them. The tide of war is currently slightly in their favour... Their modern weaponry is far better than we expected. But don't worry, we have the wisdom and pride of our millennia of history... We will never lose.

"Dear Reisen, a war will be starting soon. Please come back and fight at our side.

"Also, please tell the humans you're living with... That we're coming to take you back with us on the next full moon. Refusal is not an option."

Reisen told them that she needed to return to the moon, but... Kaguya and Eirin were part of the Lunarian race as well.

Kaguya remembered her past. A past of innocence. A life of living with humans. A memory of murdering emissaries and going into hiding.

Kaguya had a discussion with Eirin, then decided to not return Reisen to the moon, which would result in killing the emissaries and relocated their home. Thus they would have to return to going into hiding again. However, Kaguya got sick and tired of doing such thing so she consult Eirin if there was a way to drive away the emissaries while being able to live on Earth with dignity.

Just as Kaguya was about to finish speaking, Eirin presented her solution.

"If we remove the full moon from Earth, then the path between Earth and the Moon will be closed. A full moon from Earth is what makes it possible for them to come here. That's why the Lunarians only visit on nights with a full moon. If we corrupt that full moon... Earth will become a large, sealed chamber."

She said.

Thus, they hid the true moon from Earth, replacing it with a fake moon that will never be full.

It was no longer possible to travel between Earth and the Moon.

Their only mistake was that they had not expected the power of the youkai, who rely on the power of the full moon, to be this powerful.

In the end, humans and youkai succeeded in dispelling the fake moon. But that wasn't a problem... Gensokyo was already sealed by the Hakurei border, so the Lunarians wouldn't have been able to enter Gensokyo to begin with.

Kaguya, Eirin and Reisen have come out of hiding and are living freely in Eientei.

So, what was the outcome of the Moon War? That didn't matter to Kaguya anymore; Gensokyo is now her home..."

Extra Boss, Figure of the Person of Hourai Fujiwara no Mokou

Species: Human Abilities: Neither aging nor dying

A human who has lived forever since consuming the Hourai Elixir.

Long ago, before she became immortal, she was the daughter of an aristocrat. She wasn't allowed to go out in public, so it seems that she wasn't a wanted child. One day, her father proposed to a commoner girl, but was humiliated because she responded by making an impossible request. That girl was Kaguya.

Mokou has hated Kaguya since then, and wanted to take her revenge before Kaguya returned to the moon. She couldn't make it in time, however... She reconciled herself by attempting to steal the pot of medicine that Kaguya left for the emperor of that time.

Oddly, by the time Mokou found the medicine, people were about to throw it into a volcano. She managed to steal it before it was thrown in and consumed it - the Hourai Elixir... That was the last time she was ever seen.

Humans who never age cannot live in the same place for long, so Mokou was forced to live as a wanderer... Humans usually can't survive alone, but she can't die. However, she still suffers from hunger if she doesn't eat and pain if she becomes injured. Eventually, she chose to live like a forgotten youkai in a desolate place...

Many long years came to pass.

Now, Mokou and Kaguya kill each other on a daily basis. She was extremely surprised to discover Kaguya in Gensokyo and so close to where she lived. It's no wonder, though; Kaguya left the Hourai Elixir, one of the moon's most classified secrets, on Earth. She could never expect to return to the moon in peace. Kaguya also had to run. Mokou felt relief beyond what she had ever experienced - Kaguya was in the same mess she was!

Mokou still detests Kaguya, and Kaguya still tries to kill her, but neither of them can die forever. What a meaningful days and nights. This secluded place in a deep mountain is truly the land of Hourai! How magnificent it is to be alive!