Gaki were a "hungry spirit", ghosts that ate blood, eyes, desire, ... ^[1]

Contents 1 Origin 2 Appearance 3 Abilities 4 Known types of gaki 4.1 Skull Tide Gaki 4.2 Shikko-gaki 4.3 Kwaku-shin-gaki 4.4 Gakimushi 5 External Links 6 References

Origin Edit

Gaki were a form of undead that were created when a person, having lived a life of selfishness or dishonor died, and were cursed to an existance in Gaki-do, the realm of the hungry dead. Also called hungry ghosts, they were spirits in agony from a constant need which they sought to satisfy--though they never could. The hunger drove them mad. ^[2]

Appearance Edit

Their forms were ephemeral and ghost like. Moonlight made them glow softly. ^[3] Exposed to the taint of Jigoku due to the proximity of the two realms, many gaki suffered horrible mutations often resulting in strange insectoid characteristics. There were many specific kinds of gaki which had been categorized, though quite often unique gaki were encountered. ^[2]

Abilities Edit

The gaki were vampires who prey on the sleeping bodies of the living. They could easily move through solid objects, and only were affected by jade and crystal weapons, or Spirit Ward Magic. ^[3]

Known types of gaki Edit

Skull Tide GakiEdit

Drawn of the souls of drowned sailors, the Skull Tide Gaki manifested itself as a mass of chattering skulls, attacking ships by biting at the hull and tossing the ship about through sheer weight of numbers. Those sailors who fell overboard were ripped and torn in the jaws of the many skulls of the gaki, their tormented souls joining that hungry undead host. ^[2]

Shikko-gakiEdit

The spirits of those punished for the defilement of graves were cursed with a terrible hunger for dead flesh, becoming hulking primative creatures that skulked in graveyards, devouring corpses. ^[2]

Kwaku-shin-gakiEdit

Those who were guilty of allowing the destitute to freeze in winter storms, unwilling to be charitable out of greed or cruelty sometimes were punished to wander the world as these gaki, their lower bodies contained in flaming cauldron-shaped braziers--their upper bodies scorched continually by the blazing fires, but driven nonetheless to gather fuel for their continued torment. ^[2]

GakimushiEdit

Those who lived lives of mindless slaughter were condemned to short unlives as horrible rampaging insect monsters similar to mutated ant-lions, pincering and ripping apart everyone in their path until their tortured existance can be brought to an end by a large and skilled enough group of bushi. ^[2]

External Links Edit

• Gaki (Winds of Change)
• Gaki of Desire (Honor's Veil)
• Essence of Gaki-do (Reign of Blood)

References

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