Species

There are three Oni Subspecies: Akai Oni (Red Oni), Ao Oni (Blue) and Murasaki Oni (Purple). This refers to their fire instead of coat. 

Oni can manipulate fire and they have different colors of fire: Red fire is hot, Blue fire is cold but equally destructive, just that you can't feel it until it's too late, or it can suck up all the heat from your body, and Purple Fire that can have it's heat manipulated by the one who caused it, it can become hot or cold, and has much higher and lower temperatures than the red and blue ones.

Red is common, Blue is Rare, Purple is Legendary.

The Oni's coat usually matches the fire but it's not a rule!! They can have entirely different colors. But usually they still match the fire somehow and it is usually easy to tell what fire one has. 

Murasaki Oni are very rare and that can lead to conflicts surrounding them, some parents try to keep it hidden if their kid is Purple, while others take pride in it. But usually the kid gets a lot of unwanted attention from it.

Appearance

The body:

They are hooved mammals with aspects similar to ponies. They have a similar body build, but they are slightly stronger and buffer, with angular features. They do not have wings.

Their hooves can be regular uncloven hooves, cloven, or even evolve into dragon-like claws on older oni. Their hooves/claws are usually dark, almost black.

Markings:

Their bodies are covered in markings, and their legs have a color gradient to them.

They have a flank mark similar to a cutie mark, but the marks are not figurative, only abstract.

The head:

They have pointy, downturned ears. Their glabella is very well defined, which makes their eyes naturally frowned.

They have big sharp teeth that come out of their mouths. Their teeth can be white, grey or black.

They have horns anywhere on their head or even other parts of their body. The horns, especially the bigger ones, have color gradients on them (not mandatory but it is more usual like that).

The eyes:

Their sclera is always black. Their iris looks either like a colored ring, or a colored spot. The pupil is the same color as the sclera, but in the case of a dot iris it is not visible.

They usually have an almond-shaped mark on their forehead. Sometimes, they have a third eye there. They may even have extra eyes.

The hair:

Their hair covers their back from their head all the way to their tail. It also covers the shoulders, but doesn’t always connect in the front.

Aging:

Oni do not age like other creatures. They gradually become less pony-looking as they age. Their bodies elongate, their hooves turn to claws, they become larger, stronger, but also wiser. Their tails grow from simple equine tails into long, tufted tails.

Features of older oni:

“Aging” can be caused by high amounts of power as well. Here, for example, the middle example is the Oni Prince of Farasi who is merely 20-30 years old, but has the size of a usual 50 year old oni, because he has more power than the usual oni.

Bases

There are multiple bases for this species which you can find on our Discord in the base channel. 

localization

before the great cataclysm

Settlement: Zebrat, Casabronco, other settlements inside Farasi

Relationship with grifix: No grifix interactions.

Relationship with other species: They coexist with Kelpies, Abada and Zebras on the same land, similar to the three types of ponies that live in Equestria. They interact with ponies sometimes.

Clothing and accessories: They often wear golden accessories, but not always.

After the great cataclysm

Settlement: The Great Eastern Library, other settlements inside Farasi.

Relationship with grifix: They take part in knowledge trading with grifix. All the knowledge stores in the Great Eastern Library is set to be eventually sent to the Great Northern Library in the Frozen Empire.

Relationship with other species: They are on good terms with kirin and changelings from the Kirinaria Mercenary Group and with Hippogriffs from the Great Southern Library. They are not on good terms with any creatures outside the Knowledge Treaty.

They coexist with Kelpies and Abada in the same land and settlements.

Clothing and accessories: They often wear golden accessories, but not always.

Great thanks to kazoowary for the huge contribution to the creation of this species. Credit for a lot of ideas goes to them. Thank you very much!