Japanese legend speaks of the oni, vicious red-skinned ogres with hirsute bodies, horns upon their head and many eyes. The oni came to represent sin as demons, and in many stories were responsible for visiting the wicked upon their deathbeds and consuming their souls. The Oni kith visibly resemble their fairy-tale counterparts, though many have skin colors other than red: blue, jaundiced, green, black and so forth.
The Oni can take advantage of many call A Mouthful of Sin: by spending one Glamour point and making a successful bite attack, the Oni consumes a number of gulps of the victim’s blood equal to damage caused. Each “gulp” or mouthful of blood swallowed heals either one lethal point of damage or two bashing points (aggravated cannot be healed in this way). This can only be done once per chapter (game session). Curiously, this also works only when attacking a creature somehow possessed of sin — the target must be of Morality (or its equivalent, such as Harmony, Humanity, Wisdom or Clarity) 6 or below.
