Gashadokuro

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Gashadokuro

It is rattled by bones and ribs!

Izanami

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Size: 12.3 m tall in height and lenght; 6666 kg in weight

Lifespan: Forever (∞)

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Pantheon: Japanese

Time Period: Holocene

Alignment: Bad, later neutral after summoning

Diet: Carnivorous 🥩🥓🩸🐟🪲🦴

Elements: Rock, dark

Inflicts: Rockblight, darkblight, bleeding, ossified

Weaknesses: Light, fae, earth, fire

Casualties: ???

Based On: itself

Conservation Status: Extinct in the Wild

Gashadokuro (Japanese: がしゃどくろ/ 餓者髑髏, "Gashadokuro", literally "starving skeleton", also known as Odokuro) is a mythical creature and an undead introduced in Life for Bogatyr and Mahabharata and Persistence of Sengoku.

Etymology

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Summoning

Gashadokuro was summoning many dead bodies turned into a hill of unburied, using the Japanese words for ordering to summon this guardian 2 times.


Kanji / Hiragana / Katakana:

現在、未来、美しい星、その先へ

現在、古代、美しい星、その先へ

現在、現在、美しい星、その先へ


未知からの死んだ人々の肉と骨、私を恐れてください。

メンバーとして私を覚えていませんでした。私はあなたに支払います。

骨の巨大アイドルを形成し、リベンジすべきだ!


Romaji:

(Kenma, mirai, utsukushī hoshi, sonosakihe;

Kenma, kodai, utsukushī hoshi, sonosakihe;

Kenma, genzai, utsukushī hoshi, sonosakihe;


Michi kara no shinda hitobito no niku to hone, watashi o osorete kudasai.

Menbā to shite watashi o oboete imasendeshita.

Watashi wa anata ni shiharaimasu. Hone no kyodai aidoru o keisei shi, ribenji subekida!)

Physical Appearance

The Gashadokuro is a spirit that takes the form of a giant skeleton, made of the skulls of people or animals who died in the field or for unknown reasons, and is 10 meters tall. Only the eyes protrude, and some sources describe them as burning yellow or green, with some spikes decorating them.

Abilities

Gashadokuro's body is covered in incredibly tough, protective bone spines, but when it spots prey, the undead shoots those spines out as projectiles to knock the victim out. When summoning skeletons, the landscape quakes and groans under the weight of its enormous frame, far greater than that of any other monster.


At 2:00 a.m., Gashadokuro is seen pacing around. and when it sees humans, it attacks and devours them. However, they are also known to be stealthy when approaching humans they wish to eat. When a Gashadokuro approaches, it is said to make a clattering sound with its teeth, "Gachi Gachi."

Weaknesses

Otherwise, a Gashadokuro will continue hunting its prey until its pent-up anger is released, causing the bones to crumple and the Gashadokuro to collapse.

Weather Phenomenon

Ecology

Gashadokuro wanders around at 2:00 a.m. and attacks and eats all creatures at all paces, when it sees them and the predator and enemy of Seiryu, an Azure Dragon, and Bake-kujira, or Honengyo. When a Gashadokuro approaches, it is said to make a clattering sound with its teeth. The following characteristics are not confirmed by the government of Japan:


They roam at midnight, grabbing lone travelers and biting their heads off so that they can drink their blood.

Behavior

In the entry for Gashadokuro in Mizuki's book, a related tale from the Nihon Ryōiki is introduced. It tells of a man in Bingo Province (Hiroshima Prefecture) who is in a field at night and, hearing an eerie voice moaning, "My eye hurts," finds a skeleton there with a bamboo shoot growing from its eye socket. He removes the bamboo shoot and offers the skeleton dried boiled rice, upon which the skeleton tells him the story of its murder and its personal history and rewards him for his kindness.

Distribution and Habitat

Because Gashadokuro was vulnerable to deep waters, it was only found in Japanese provinces like Kanto, Kyoto, Shimotsuke, and Tokyo. It was not found in Okinawa, Hokkaido, or other Japanese islands. The descendants of Princess Takiyasha were allegedly summoned in the future to Honolulu, Kailua-Kona, Christchurch, Yunnan, Taipei, Wellington, Dunedin, Polillo, and other places, all of which were reportedly claimed by the Japanese government in the 2600s.


Non-subtropical biomes made Gashadokuro weaker and prevented him from becoming immune to infection. The subtropical biome, which is found in Japan, Hawaii, the Philippines, and New Zealand, is the strength of Gashadokuro. It is distinguished by hot, muggy summers and cool, mild winters.


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Lore

Bereshit - 300,000–70,000 BCE

In order to battle the Chinese gods, Izanami used dead people or other creatures to create Gashadokuro. Izanami refused to sign the pact and continued to fight against her kind in ancient Japan, including Japanese sea lions and wooly mammoths, when her grandson Susanoo-no-Mikoto tried to stop her.


Legacy - 70,000 BCE–940 AD

One of the first known myths of the Gashadokuro dates back to the tenth century, when it took part in a semi-historical account. During that century in Japan, Taira no Masakado, a prominent samurai from the Kantō region, was ambushed one day by three of his cousins due to quarreling over marriages. Enraged by this, Masakado retaliated by burning down their residence, killing one of his uncles, Kunika. Taira no Yoshimasa, who was either Masakado's parental uncle or cousin, wanted to avenge Kunika and challenged Masakado to a duel. Upon losing the duel, Yoshimasa, embarrassed by his defeat, called upon Taira no Yoshikane, another one of Masakado's relatives who fought over the same woman. Yoshikane, who was the assistant governor for Kazusa Province, was easily able to gather many warriors and other officials from his province. On the day of their battle, Masakado, despite only having around 100 poorly-equipped soldiers, was able to inflict heavy casualties on Yoshikane and Yoshimasa’s forces, which were estimated to be thousands strong.


After his victory, Masakado was summoned to the imperial court in Kyoto due to complaints received about him. Fujiwara no Tadahira, Masakado's lord, however, most likely lightened his punishment and helped him get a pardon from the court. In 937, Yoshikane, anxious to avenge his humiliating defeat, once again battled with Masakado. Masakado, injured in the fight, tried to flee with his wife, Yoshikane’s daughter, but was unsuccessful. In 939 AD, Masakado started a minor rebellion referred to as the 'Tengyō no Ran' (天慶の乱) ("War in the Tengyō era" or "Tengyō Disturbance").


The armed revolt officially began when Masakado attacked one of the central government’s outposts in Hitachi Province. Later that year, he conquered Shimotsuke and Kōzuke Provinces, claiming the title of Shinnō (New Emperor). The government in Kyoto acknowledged his attacks as a revolt and put a bounty on his head. Taira no Sadamori, his cousin, and Fujiwara no Hidesato killed him in 940, decapitating him and bringing his head to the capital in Kyoto for a reward. Masakado's daughter, Takiyasha Hime, a famous and powerful sorceress, was infuriated at her father's killers for disrespecting him. She conjured up the first Gashadokuro with the bones of those who died in the battle, along with Masakado. To take revenge, Takiyasha unleashed the Gashadokuro on Kyoto. It ravaged the city until Masakado's head was moved to Shibasaki, a fishing village that eventually became Tokyo. The head became a sort of demigod there, with a grave still standing today near the Tokyo Imperial Palace.


Legacy Continues - 941–present AD

Though this tale has been conflated with that of the Gashadokuro, the two are in fact unrelated, the Gashadokuro having originated in the later half of the 20th century.

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