Sahra Wrote:One thing of immediate interest though - Kreyas mentioned the Inari his post and mentioned a problem or coup between the races, but you didn't mention anything about the Raksha. Where do you fall when it comes to his statements?
Riechisah in particular is a soldier in the Inari army back home, and judging on my base gut instincts I would have to say I don’t necessarily recollect any problems between our races. Now this is not meant to invalidate his claims that the Raksha race had issues with the Inari, I wouldn’t be surprised if we did, but the Inari army has had countless alliances/coups/skirmishes/wars/whatever with many other races, so in regards to that I can’t recollect this particular skirmish.
Xanthus Wrote:Not meaning any offense, but I general tend towards a little more scrutiny of kin with extensive and elaborate backstory of their kintype.
How did you find all this information?
Did you check this information in any way for accuracy, and if so, how?
How many memories related to this information have you had yourself, and under what circumstances did you remember/uncover them?
How much of this was related to you by another person?
Hope the questions don't bother you.
EDIT: Note, this does not constitute me calling you a fluff in any way. I am actually and honestly interested in answers to these questions.
No worries Xanthus, I am quite pleased that both you and Sahra have taken an interest in my race and want to learn more ^^
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Back to your questions:
Quote:How did you find all this information?
It all started at the first Otherkin community I joined called “Enchanted Realms.” There I met an Inari who went by the name “Toren” who as it turned out is Riechisah’s father. Now to properly answer your question, a lot of my information comes from Toren himself and the various entities I’ve spoken with through him (he is also a Channel), my spiritual sister (memories tend to crop up when we are together <!-- s

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Quote: Did you check this information in any way for accuracy, and if so, how?
To be honest, I really don’t have any “definitive” way to check and make sure that my information is correct (mostly because there is no human record of “Inari” that I have come across), other than the way it makes me feel. As to the information I posted here, I “feel” that it is accurate. Though there was one time I was introducing my spiritual sister to one of my Inari relations (via my spiritual father) on AIM for the first time, and my Inari grandfather kind of pushed the other Inari aside, demanding to speak to my spiritual sister. Apparently they knew each other quite well which was a very confusing yet exhilarating validation for me.
Quote:How many memories related to this information have you had yourself, and under what circumstances did you remember/uncover them?
I haven’t gained any new memories lately (mostly because Riechisah is a life parallel to mine here on Earth) but normally they come in the form of flashbacks or just like any other “normal” memories you would experience.
My first memory was very vivid though. At that point I had been awakened for a little under a year so I still had no idea what I was (though I do remember feeling a VERY strong pull towards the Inari Toren that was on the ER message board) when Toren had posted a link to the song “Sora” from the movie “Escaflowne.” He didn’t really post much in the way of information, he just wanted other people’s opinion on the song because he was experiencing flashbacks while listening to it (he did not go into detail).
Later on I was in the ER chat room and I listened to the song. The words started and my whole body froze, eyes locked forward. Though I could see the computer screen before me, my mind filled with the vision of a valley filled with a seemingly endless sea of motionless bodies. Sprinkled throughout the valley tattered banners stuck into the ground blew gently in the breeze. As I watched on the top of the valley, I knew that I was holding my upper right bicep, an arrow wound I believe.
Another memory flash hit me, this time I was in the thick of battle. I turned to look at a young male with blonde hair and blue eyes and watched in horror as an arrow punched through his chest. Time slowed down and I watched the male fall backward in slow motion. His name was Ta’kaan, I believe he was a good friend (I don’t recall any other memories of him than this).
It took me several minutes to recover from the flashback. While the images were flashing into my mind tears were streaming down my face. Somehow I managed to describe the images in my head and type them into the chat room. At that point Toren validated saying that in fact the memories he got were of a war.
Later on, I felt the pull towards the Inari Toren grow stronger and stronger and we started talking over AIM. I remember the feeling, it was like a feeling of deep respect and love. I felt that I should look up to him…like a father almost. It was around that time that I came to the realization (after sensing my wings for the first time) that I in fact was Inari and the Inari named Toren was in fact my father.
Long story short, a few months after I realized I was Inari, I was talking to my father about that song he posted and he told me the first time he heard the song he actually dropped to his knees and started sobbing. I’m not sure how Yokko Kanno (I believe that is the name of the composer?) came up with those words or what language they were in (I remember vaguely that the words for the song “Sora” came in a dream the composer had…or something…its been to long I can’t remember) but those words were the same as the words in a Inari funeral song commemorating that war both my spiritual father and I remembered.
There have been other memories since then, but that one by far was the most vivid.
Quote:How much of this was related to you by another person?
Some of this information comes directly from my spiritual father (the name “Inari,” the idea of co location, the idea of animal forms). As for physical description, I apparently started drawing my true form and not realizing it ever since high school, and I noticed similar characteristics in Toren’s drawings of other Inari (that and I just know what I look like lol). As for the creativity/chaotic nature those are things I have gleaned from personal reflection, memories, and comparing notes with my spiritual father.
So yes, a fair amount of the information I have considering the race of Inari does come from an outside source which I realize does leave a lot of room for misinformation, but I never felt that the information my spiritual father Toren gave me was wrong. Normally I have a pretty sensitive BS detector but all the information I’ve found/shared with my father has just felt “right” to me.
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