House of Shinobe (series)

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House of Shinobu is a turn-based role-playing video game series developed and published by Square Enix. The first and second games were released for PlayStations 2 and 3, the third and fourth only for PlayStation 3, Reavers Legacy for PlayStation Portable and Reavers Legacy 2 for PlayStation Vita.

The series focuses on its main protagonist's, Shinobu Reijis life or on Reavers Legacy and Reavers Legacy 2 on Karasu Wataris life before meeting Reiji. Shinobu Reiji is a spirit born from non-spiritual blood, as neither his father Shinobu Yoshi nor his mother Shinobu Chiro are spirits as opposed to his friend Watari, whose father Karasu Goku is a full-blooded devil.

The series is based in modern-day Japanese archipelago in the middle of the Pacific.

Character classes
There exist four different character classes in House of Shinobu.

Humans
Humans are mortal beings without spiritual or devilish abilities, unless they have abandoned their spirituality or demonry to become human, i.e. through being a reaver where they have little to no control over some of their powers to some extent. A human can give birth to a spirit even if its father is a human as well if their child has a spiritual grandparent or ancestor as the 'missing link'.

Spirits
Spirits are immortal beings able to practice elemental magic, metamorphosis, mentalism and various other spiritual abilities. They have usually good to neutral karma and a friendly alignment towards humans. Spirits appear as humans with an ethereal glow emanating from their bodies.

Devils
Devils are immortal beings able to practice black magic and various other devilish practices and abilities. They have usually bad karma and a hostile alignment towards humans. Devils appear as a distorted fusion between an animal and a human with several human's body parts being replaced by an animal's body parts.

Reavers
Reavers are incomplete beings in transition from one class to another. They are incapable to control some of their powers to some extent due to their incompleteness. Reavers are rare, since there are only five known reavers in the series: Karasu Watari, Takahashi Bofuu, Kaminari Akio, Mikato Akira and Lang Chien-Po.