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○東方神霊廟 (Touhou Shinreibyou: Eastern Divine Spirit Mausoleum)　～ Ten Desires. 

Character Settings and Extra Story

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Shanghai Alice Team ＺＵＮ
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　        2011/08/13
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■0. Settings TOC
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　■1. Extra Story
　■2. Character Settings


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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■1. Extra Story
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The Hakurei Shrine.
Reimu and Marisa were conversing lightheartedly, as always.

Reimu "So, Miko's house was pretty big.
It was even shiny."
Marisa "Hm, I wonder how I can sneak in."

Just then, Sanae showed up.
She seemed a little agitated.

Sanae "Did you hear?"
Reimu "Nope."
Sanae "They say Myouren Temple has made its move."
Marisa "Move? Did it finally transform?"

Sanae "They say they always knew Myouren Temple was right above
Miss Miko's mausoleum, and that's why they built it there."
Marisa "Hmm, I wonder why?"

Reimu was unable to keep quiet any longer.

Reimu "I know.
Byakuren's on the youkai's side, after all."
Marisa "So, why did she..."
Reimu "Miko is the very picture of a saint.
They probably figured she'd definitely be an enemy of youkai.
Plus, Futo was anti-Buddhist.
She might end up starting a holy war."

Marisa "Mmm.
I see, so they're Byakuren's enemies, in many ways.
How did she know about that mausoleum, anyway?"
Reimu "The youkai probably talked about it.
That someone dangerous was asleep there."

Sanae "Umm..."

Reimu and Marisa turned towards Sanae.

Sanae "So, see.
The youkai were all worried about the resurrection of Miko's group, and I heard
they were looking for some sort of countermeasure."
Reimu "Countermeasure?"
Sanae "Yes, I heard something about them calling in
someone who'd serve as the youkai's trump card..."

Marisa "Trump card?
That sounds pretty dangerous."
Reimu "At any rate, It's nothing more than typical youkai thinking.
The youkai can't be disciplined, so they won't be calling someone stronger than themselves.
Otherwise they'd just end up being backfired."
Sanae "In any case, the fact that they've taken action somehow still remains true."
Reimu "Well, we can do that, too."

As soon as she said that, Reimu made preparations to leave.
That's when Youmu appeared.

Youmu "Oh, so everyone's here."
Reimu "What is it? I'm busy."
Youmu "Well, it seems the youkai have been in an uproar since the divine spirit incident.
They say the Myouren Temple has made some sort of move."
Reimu "I already knew that."
Youmu "Oh, impressive.
What could it be?
Is it a resurrection thanksgiving? Weren't you all invited?"

The other three heaved sighs.

Reimu "I'm leaving now."
Marisa "Sounds like the one they called is also there."
Sanae "Why don't we go together?"

Youmu "What should I do...
Should I go, too?"

Youmu obliviously wondered aloud, and broke into a smile as visions of parties danced in her head,
unaware that yet another killing field would open up soon enough.


Meanwhile, groups of fairies started causing a fuss at Myouren Temple.
A youkai that had crossed the sea in a long journey to reach Gensokyo was taking a break.
An intimidating aura filled the air around her.
Now they'd get the upper hand on Miko......
(Or so they thought for a while, according to Kyouko.)








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■2. Character Settings
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◇Player Characters
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The Shrine Maiden of Paradise

Reimu Hakurei

Species: Human
Ability: Flying in the air

The all-too-familiar shrine maiden of the Hakurei Shrine.

She treats everyone the same. However, since her job is youkai-hunting, she acts particularly strict with youkai, but she doesn't really care much about humans or youkai.

She goes off to investigate after being alerted by the odd divine spirits, that seemed far too shabby and numerous than they should. It'd be troublesome if she just left them alone and something happened, in which event her shrine would be blamed.


An Ordinary Magician

Marisa Kirisame

Species: Human
Ability: Ability to use magic

An ordinary magician living in Gensokyo. She also has a mania for collecting things.

She seems a bit rebellious, but in reality she's the most straightforward. She always wears black clothing because she thinks that's what magic users should do and because it hides dirt very well. Very straightforward.

She noticed that the divine spirits were actually masses of human desire. Her motivation is from pure curiosity. Curiosity is also a form of desire.


The Newbie Goddess of the Mountain

Sanae Kochiya

Species: Human
Ability: Causing miracles

The Shrine Maiden living in Moriya Shrine in Youkai Mountain. She is not used to youkai hunting.

She wish to have human friends to keep her company, since she lives constantly surrounded by gods and youkai, but most of humans living around the foot of the mountain are youkai-like humans. The thought of becoming like one of them eventually, is somewhat disconcerting to her. As may be expected of a living god, she is as strong as youkai, but she is also somewhat of an airhead.


Divine spirits are very important spirits for a shrine. She thinks that in order to stir up the faith among humans, it is imperative that she must collect these spirits.


Half-human half-phantom gardener

Youmu Konpaku

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

She is both the gardener of Hakugyokurou (which is in the world past death) and the swordmanship teacher for Yuyuko.

She is always busy doing her chores as the gardener of the incredibly large Hakugyokurou garden. She's straightforward and always on her duty, but very easy to be deceived. Her life was quite peaceful as the phantoms wouldn't make much of a fuss these days.

Then there was a sudden appearance of a mysterious spirits - the divine spirits were beings that was composed of the desires of humans. Their existence is very transient, so they disappear quickly. But she went off to investigate hoping that there will be no more incidents relating to any kind of spirits in the future.



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1st stage boss - Ghost who is not swayed

Yuyuko Saigyouji

Species: Ghost
Ability: Manipulating death

Yuyuko is a ghost princess who lives in the Netherworld, and is Youmu's mistress. She doesn't have too much of an interest in divine spirits, but the direction in which the divine spirits are headed intrigued her a little. This direction was Myouren Temple, a temple that was just recently constructed. It was a place for those who want to meditate to suppress their inner desires, but for divine spirits, which are the essence of desires, to congregate there... It surely didn't seem like the conduct of a typical temple.

And it happened when she was thinking about that.

Some humans were intruding her properties to investigate about divine spirits. After seeing them, she was relaxed that there was no need for her to do anything, and decided to continue with her flower viewing.



○2nd stage boss Sutra Chanting Yamabiko

Kyouko Kasodani

Species: Yamabiko
Ability: Reflecting sound

You may have loudly shouted "Yahoo-!" when climbing a mountain. If you hear a "Yahoo-!" in response, then it's a yamabiko at work.

She lives in the mountains, and when she hears a joyous voice, she replies back with a loud yell. A youkai that loves to join in on the fun.

But these days, superstitions like "Yamabiko (mountain echoes) are just sound waves being reflected back to you-" have become commonly held. Realizing the emptiness of secularism, she decided to enter the Buddhist discipline.

Her ability works well with reciting Buddhist sutras. It is her everyday work in the mountains.

And by doing so, she now inspires fear as "a sutra-reciting voice coming from a mountain where no one is present", so she was able to retain her place as a youkai.




Stage 3 midboss Greatly Troubled Lost Article

Kogasa Tatara

Race: karakasa obake
Ability: Surprising humans

A youkai umbrella that wanders around the sky above the temple.
She found her place in the cemetery, and found herself living in the cemetery most of the time.
This is because while humans that are rarely surprised in the middle of the road, they are easily scared when they are in the cemetery. And she finally did it. Amazing.

But an incident has crept up to disrupt her truly happy time.

A youkai who was never seen before has been appearing from the inside of the cemetery, and has been moving around like it was its home ever since.


She tried to get in contact with that youkai, but she couldn't communicate with the youkai at all. Feeling threatened, she wanted to shoo away the youkai forcefully.

But that ended up as futility. No matter how she attacked, she couldn't get a response out of it, so she escaped.


While she was considering whether she should ask for help of the members of the temple, she saw those humans that she saw before. They were those, whom she encountered and fought several times before.

And so she thought, "They must have come to defeat that youkai!" and decided to ask boldly.


And she ended up like this.



3rd stage boss　　Loyal Corpse

Yoshika Miyako

Yoshika Miyako

Species: Jiang shi
Ability: Eating anything
(humans bitten by her turn into a jiang shi temporarily)



An ancient-japan-era corpse revived by Seiga. She works for Seiga as her underling. This time, she was summoned to protect the Hall of Dreams' Great Mausoleum during the verge of resurrection.

She possesses strange power and has a body that does not feel pain. It is very challenging to confront her directly, but her brain is like a forgotten age of computers. It is very easy to kite her around.

While fighting, if she is damaged, she consumes spirits and regenerates health, so she's very hard to beat up. But it is very easy to get away from her (and this is important).

Her flesh body is very hard, and her joints do not bend. She cannot even walk that well. Her master is recommending an exercise training for flexibility. Activity with no flexibility often ends up in injury. Though she is just a zombie.






　○Stage 4 Boss　　The Wicked Hermit Who Passes Through Walls

(Nickname: Seiga Nyan Nyan, lit. Lady Seiga)
Seiga Kaku

Species: Wicked Hermit
Ability: Passing through walls


Once, she was a human in awe of the Tao.

When Seiga was young, her father took a liking to the Tao and left her behind to shut himself up in the mountains. Finding herself interested in a book her father had left behind, she read through it over and over, and became attracted to the Tao. She was particularly interested in He Xiangu (Kasenko, one of the eight sages of Taoism), and swore she'd become a hermit one day, too, and meet her father.

As she grew older, she was able to marry into the Kaku family. She led a life without any restrictions on her freedom, but she was unable to throw away her aspirations towards Taoism, and she spent every day depressed. As a result, she practically became a shut-in, never conversing with anyone.

One day, after eight more years had passed, Seiga suddenly said her goodbyes. Her family thought it was odd but as Seiga fell sleep, seemingly like any other day, she never opened her eyes again.

Surprised, a great sadness cast itself over her family, and they buried her utterly lifeless body.


However, she wasn't dead. While she'd been shut away in her room, she used a technique she'd read about in her book to make a bamboo rod take the form of her own body, making her appear to be dead. That was what her family had buried.

She cast away her worldly life and ran. Yes, she ran to join the world of hermits she'd so yearned for.


―――Countless time has passed. As a hermit, she'd gained a certain amount of power. She maintained her youthful appearance, becoming unaging. In order to reach this far, she also did many things which made her feared by the public. However, the Heavens did not acknowledged her and she became a wicked hermit. She didn't even hesitate to deceive her family in order to fulfill her own personal goal. That was not a good behavior at all.

She had a tendency to "Spread the ways of Taoism", as a pretense for showing off her powers. However, Taoists and hermits of her level weren't that unusual in this country. So, she thought she'd move to a hermit-less country, and headed out for a country in the east she'd never seen before: Japan.


At that time in Japan, Buddhism, which had just spread there from the continent, and Shinto, which placed its faith in Japan's native gods, were locked in battle for supremacy.

Thinking this was the perfect chance, she caught the ear of Toyosatomimi no Miko, who was widely seen as a most virtuous person, and taught her of the charms of Taoism.

She suggested to the powerful ones that they use Buddhism in politics to keep the people from getting restless, while they used Taoism to attain superhuman strength for themselves.

Since Taoism was a nature-worshipping polytheistic creed, it fit well with the beliefs of Shinto, which held the powerful in Japan to be descendents of the gods. And since its ultimate goal was immortality, it was a compelling alternative for them to the more stoic Buddhism. A little while after she thought about it, Miko spoke to her former religious rival, the Mononobe clan, of this plan.





○ Stage 5 Mid-boss: Ghost of the Children of the Gods

Soga no Tojiko

Species: Ghost
Ability: Cause of lightning

A ghost of a member of the powerful ancient Japanese family, the Soga. She is serving Miko together with Futo, but she has been denied to resurrect as a human due to her connections with Futo in the past. It looks like she is treated conveniently by Futo taking a spirit form.

She herself isn't feeling any particular inconvenience taking the spirit form. Rather in fact, she had been considering that she had no use for a human body, which would break down so quickly.

The Soga and the Mononobe had fought over Buddhism, but Futo and Tojiko's relationship is not in bad terms, and thought to be a give-and-take relationship. For now, they both hate Buddhism.



Stage 5 Boss　　A Shikaisen from Ancient Japan

Mononobe no Futo

Species: Human? (a taoist who self-identifies as a shikaisen)
Ability: Manipulating feng shui


Long ago, indeed, fourteen hundred years ago or so.
Before, in fact, it had been decided that the country would rule over the people. People, things, technology, religion... Many things were being introduced from across the sea.
One of those would greatly influence the direction Buddhism would take in this country.

The country was divided into pro- and anti-Buddhist factions, which dug in more over time. The Mononobe, the ones who had Umashimaji no Mikoto - a god in Shinto - as its ancestor, was in the anti-Buddhist faction. Her confrontation with the Soga, the ones who had a human as its ancestor, was dreadful, and afterwards this religious conflict wasn't talked of as a petty political battle, but as a battle between the lineage of the gods and human dignity.

And so, religious war over Buddhism ended in tragedy.

The battles grew more vicious with each passing day as the Mononobe waged an anti-Buddhist campaign that invaded and burned temples and threw out their statues. Perhaps it was simply bad timing, but after that day, an epidemic began to spread, resulting in the passing of the Emperor.

The Soga proclaimed this to be a curse brought on by despicable acts against Buddhism. This rallied support in Soga's favor, who was eventually given permission to bring the Mononobe into submission.

This battle resulted in the destruction of the Mononobe. From then on, the nation's politics were carried out in a fashion befitting Buddhism.
This is what most people know about the religious war between the Mononobe and the Soga.


However, there was someone else pulling the strings behind the scenes: Futo.
A daughter of the Mononobe, she worshipped at the altar of another faith.
That faith was Taoism, which had been introduced at the same time as Buddhism. Taoism could grant people superhuman abilities based on their own actions, eventually resulting in immortality. It was particularly appealing to those with political power.


















 


























































　○Extra Mid-Boss　　Old Youkai #1

Nue Houjuu

Species: nue
Ability: Making her true form unknown


A strange and wondrous youkai that lives in Myouren Temple.

The saint that Byakuren had been holding back had finally resurrected.
When she heard about this, she decided to pay back what she owed Byakuren from last time (UFO) and called on an old youkai friend in order to increase the power of the youkai.

Naturally, she kept this a secret from Byakuren.


As a result, another youkai came to live at Myouren Temple.

Thus, she only served to make Byakuren even busier.