Yoru: Eclipse of Tails - A Tale of Mercy and Judgment

Echoing Tales Between Worlds

In a realm where spirits linger and folklore breathes, ten souls await, each now a monster, each once as innocent as any being born into this world. Loneliness twisted some. Betrayal hardened others. Loss consumed the rest.

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What Makes a Monster?

Every yokai you face walks from the pages of Japanese folklore, ancient tales whispered to children as warnings, spirits who once had names. The Oni. The Kitsune. The Yuki Onna. Each was born in legend, shaped by fear and wonder. Each was innocent once, before the world twisted their tales into nightmares. They are monsters now, but does that erase what they were?

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Two Paths, No Wrong Answers

Forgiveness is not weakness. Punishment is not cruelty. Each choice demands courage. Each shapes the world around you, turning day to dusk, peace to shadow, warmth to cold.

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The Eclipse Awaits

When your tails hold ten souls between them, the Eclipse forms overhead. Few find the balance. Fewer understand what it means. Will you?

Will you remember what they were before the world broke them? Or will you find the strength to end what they have become?

One tail glows with mercy. One tail burns with judgment.
When both hold five souls, the Eclipse reveals itself, and the balance few can bear.

The Heart of Choice

Two Tails. Ten Souls. One Eclipse.

A nekomata's tails are not marks of good and evil, they are mirrors of choice. Your right tail glows when you choose to remember their innocence. Your left tail burns when you choose to end their suffering. Neither path is wrong. Both have power. Both have cost.

🕊️ Path of Forgiveness

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Remember Their Innocence
Use dialogue to uncover their story before they became monsters. Every forgiven soul adds a glowing ring to your right tail.
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The World Blooms
Autumn trees burn crimson under clear skies, wildflowers bloom along sacred paths, and waterfalls sing in daylight. The world feels warm, alive, at peace.
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Mercy Has Power
Forgiveness unlocks abilities of healing and guidance. Your spirit regenerates near shrines. Peaceful souls offer secrets and aid.

Walk in Light: Each act of mercy shapes the world toward warmth and peace. But mercy demands understanding the unforgivable.

🔥 Path of Punishment

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Find the Strength to Punish
Face powerful yokai in combat. Some sins cannot be undone. Every punished soul adds a burning ring to your left tail.
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The World Transforms
Twilight descends. Spirit lanterns glow, waters shimmer with ghostly light. The air grows heavy. Whispers echo. The world is still breathtaking, but now it is eerie, haunted by the weight of your judgment.
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Judgment Has Power
Punishment unlocks abilities of flame and shadow. Your spirit regenerates through combat. Yokai paths open, revealing forbidden knowledge.

Walk in Shadow: Each act of judgment demands strength and resolve. But punishment carries the weight of every soul you end.

The Twin-Tail System

Each moral choice adds a ring to one tail. Ten souls. Ten rings. Ten tales.
And when both tails ignite, the Eclipse begins, revealing a truth only those who walk the edge can comprehend.

Light Tail (Right)

Mercy • Forgiveness • Persuade

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Dark Tail (Left)

Judgment • Strength • Punish

Neither is destruction. Neither is salvation. Both are transformations of the same realm, shaped by the weight of ten tales you will write.

Gameplay

Where Folklore Meets Choice

Every system reinforces the duality, your tails mirror the tales you shape

👹 Ten Yokai, Ten Tales

Ten legendary spirits from Japanese folklore await. Each carries a tale, the Oni's rage from betrayal, the Kitsune's tricks born from loneliness. Begin with dialogue to understand their story, then choose their fate.

✨ The Shine System

Shine is your spiritual energy. Powers consume Shine. It regenerates based on your choices: forgiveness regenerates near shrines, punishment through combat. Balance grants steady flow.

🍑 Offerings & Sanctuaries

Find shrines to save your journey and restore your spirit. Offer peaches for healing, sake for power. Each shrine reflects your path, glowing with warmth or shrouded in shadow.

⛩️ A World That Remembers

Your choices transform everything: atmosphere, music, NPC reactions. High forgiveness opens peaceful dialogue. High punishment strengthens combat. The world physically shifts with every tale you write.

🌀 Hidden Depths

Beyond the ten main souls lie side tales, smaller spirits with their own regrets. Each offers glimpses of a deeper story, a shrine, a family, and choices that echo across lifetimes.

🌑 The Eclipse Convergence

When all ten rings ignite, an Eclipse forms overhead. This final convergence determines your ending. The Eclipse remembers every tale you've shaped, every choice you've made.

Dynamic World

Where Choices Become Power

This realm breathes with your choices. Walk the path of forgiveness, and the world blooms. Choose punishment, and twilight descends, the same beauty remains, but the air grows heavy with spirits watching from shadows.

Path of Light

Walk the path of forgiveness, and the world blooms. Autumn trees burn crimson under clear skies, waterfalls sing, the air feels warm and alive. Each soul you persuade strengthens your right tail, granting you deeper understanding, words that heal, and the ability to see beyond the monster.

Path of Shadow

Choose punishment, and twilight descends. The same beauty remains, spirit lanterns glow, waters shimmer; but the air grows heavy. Whispers echo. Spirits watch from shadows. Each soul you end strengthens your left tail, granting you flame, speed, and the power to face what cannot be reasoned with.

The Eclipse Tree

After each yokai falls, whether through mercy or judgment, you must bring their soul to this ancient tree. Here, beneath its branches, your choice becomes power: A ring ignites on your tail. An ability awakens within you. Persuade a soul, and your right tail glows with wisdom. Punish a soul, and your left tail burns with strength. When you find the balance both tails hold five souls each, the Eclipse forms, and the tree reveals what you truly are.

Visual Journey

Witness the Duality

From serene temples to haunted shrines, a world shaped by the tales you choose

The Nekomata's Journey

Two tails, two paths, one Eclipse

Face the Yokai

Each carries a tale from folklore

The Moment of Choice

Remember their innocence or end their tale

A World Transformed

Every choice reshapes the realm

Lost Souls

Each has a story, a regret, a choice

The Eclipse Approaches

When all rings ignite, your tale concludes

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