Dokkaebi

Unknown origin is considered a native word in Middle Korean 돗〮가비〮 (Yale: twóskàpí).

• Singular: Dokkaebi

• Plural: Dokkaebi, Dokkaebis

Dokkaebis are descendants of Juramaia, an eutherian from China to Korea that evolved into a humanoid with goblin-like features. Their skins are based on the ethnic groups; depending on the biomes, they have reddish skin and black or brown hair on tropical, subtropical, and temperate biomes, while some of those ethnic groups in the desert and savanna biomes have pale reddish skin and brownish black hair; in cold regions, they have dark red and white hair, unlike the other two of them.

Dokkaebi have plantigrade legs, including claws, pointed ears, small fangs on the lips, brownish lips, thick eyebrows, and sexual dimorphism like humans as a result of convergent evolution. Dokkaebi is made of fire and ice, including arcane magic, and is immune from attacks from fire.

Early humans on the Korean Peninsula even had an impact on the Dokkaebi, who use fire for social gatherings, cooking, warmth, and security. Dokkaebi are troublemakers and wisely trickster marsupials that used fire, electric, ice, or arcane magic for aesthetics, props, decorations, trolling people, and others, or as bait that considered Dokkaebi nearby.

Dokkaebi was very adapted in Air Coral Reefs in Korea to Colombia, as a result of turning into invisible because of their silver hairs on the epidermis and causing invisibility by natural means, doesn't seem to us. Dokkaebi's magical skills are very creative and are formed in the form of projectiles like propeller fans, disks, circular-shaped, or sniper rifle bullets, which are very deadly weapons.

Because of their body proportions, which imply long-distance running ability, the Dokkaebi possessed endurance running, which is useful for persistent hunting or trapping foes or cunning people. Because Korea is a temperate country, Dokkaebi, like humans, have lived in a variety of temperatures, including African savannas, temperate woods, Asian tropics, and freezing parts of Siberia.

Tools

Dokkaebis are actually tool-makers and more advanced than us and elves, due to keeping their secrets over the years and having their own specific items made by this species. Dokkaebi possess magical items, such as the Dokkaebi Hat called the dokkaebi gamtu (도깨비 감투), which grants the wearer the ability of invisibility, and the dokkaebi magic club called the dokkaebi bangmangi (도깨비 방망이), which can summon things and act functionally as a magic wand. Dokkaebi like buckwheat jelly, sorghum, and red bean rice cakes, mashed sorghum, and the drinks. So in dokkaebi gosa (도깨비 고사), there are foods that dokkaebi like.

• dokkaebi gamtu—A kind of gat, or Korean hat, worn by human males along with hanbok (Korean traditional clothing) during the Joseon period.

• dokkaebi bangmangi—A kind of wooden club at first, inside the weapon contains a strange gem stored with magical energy that either summons things or acts functionally as a fire lance that acts like a flamethrower and shotgun that also ejects psycho-energetic shrapnel or pellets.

• dokkaebi gosa—The own cuisine made by these marsupials, which is their favorite food, and they disliked humans.

Dokkaebis are very afraid of the blood of rhinoceros, horses, tapirs, and extinct relatives being repelled by Koreans or international people as a repellant.

• Wildfire: ugh.

The Dokkaebi can hunt and scavenge. In the past, they were skilled hunters who pursued medium to large animals (antelope, horses, tigers, leopards, deer, serows, sea lions, or even mammoths) using coordinated group tactics. Along with gathering or cultivating berries, vegetables, roots like ginseng, and seeds for farming or herbal remedies, they also scavenged and processed carcasses using techniques connected to materials. Ecosystems will be purposefully shaped by the Dokkaebi through the employment of tools, fire, hunting pressure, and sorcery.

The Dokkaebi's primary predators were tigers, hyenas, and eagles. However, humans (Koreans) eventually rose to the top of the predator hierarchy in Korea, and we both engaged in conflict or trickery.

Dokkaebi were armed with a variety of human-derived tools and weaponry from the Joseon period to the present day on the Korean peninsula. The majority of Dokkaebi's weapons are wooden clubs called dokkaebi bangmangi, which serve the same purpose as a hammer or war club but have the ability to call forth items. Knives, daggers, hairpins, swords, halberds, tridents, muskets, fire lances, hand cannons, explosives, pickaxes, slings, and—most strange of all—tteok are examples of non-club weaponry. In Korea, ttoek, a rice cake, is a favorite among humans, dokkaebi, and kumiho.

The Dokkaebi exhibited social behavior, including cooperative hunting and foraging as well as potential age and sex-based work division. The Dokkaebi use fire and social life. By controlling fire, they were able to cook and assemble at night, which strengthened group ties. They also told stories orally to humans and other Dokkaebi.

Dokkaebi are divided into two sides: those who are dishonest and lack discipline, and those who are very intellectual and trustworthy as partners with the All-Powerful God. In Korean culture and legend, Dokkaebi are known for being cunning and troublemakers. This is shown in a variety of media and television shows.

Dokkaebis dominated worldwide, originally as an endemic species of South Korea prior to colonization. They were found in hidden air-breathing coral reefs and now lived in all biomes.

• Movement Pattern: Random

• Individual Type: Solo/Group

• Population Trend: Stable

• Population: ???

• Locomotion: Versatile

• Habitat: Taiga; Montane Grasslands and Shrublands; Temperate Coniferous Forests; Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests; Temperate Deciduous Forests, Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands; Subtropical Coniferous Forests; Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests; Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests; Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands; Salt Flats; Stone Forest; Tropical Coniferous Forests; Tropical Moist Broadleaf Forests; Tropical Dry Broadleaf Forests; Tropical Grasslands; Tropical Savannas and Shrublands; Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub; Mushroom Forests; Mushroom Fields; Deserts and Xeric Shrublands; Badlands; Flooded Grasslands and Savannas; Swamp; Bayous/Billabongs; Riparian; Wetland; Mangrove Forest; Cold Bamboo Forests; Tropical Bamboo Forests; Air-breathing Coral Reefs; Graveyard Vale; Mountain.

• Earth: 

  • Extant (Resident): South Korea

  • Extant (Seasonally Uncertain): North Korea

  • Extant & Vagrant (Resident): Australia; Colombia; Spain (Canary Islands)

  • Possibly Extinct: China; Japan/Nihon; Russia

• Reinachos: 

  • Extant & Introduced (Resident): Thrymr's Islands

• Sawintir/Everrealm: 

  • Extant & Introduced (Resident): Enchancia; Khaloun; Latveria; Seattlea

Unfortunately for us, the Dokkaebi was not a domesticable species but rather a wild, intelligent old mammal because is impossible and inappropriate. They were intelligent, social beings — keeping them as “pets” would be unethical work.

ugh.

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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dokkaebi

• https://www.deviantart.com/ognimdo2002/art/Dokkaebi-931432017

• https://www.deviantart.com/ognimdo2002/art/Dokkaebi-2023-1001105472