The 1000 Fold Path

The 1000 Fold Path

A school of sorcery based on origami.   Practitioners are often refereed to as ‘Cranes’.   While most laugh at though of someone folding paper as being any sort of threat, that laughter quickly falls silent when they see a Crane in action.  Firstly, the Crane is able to animate and control any origami in proximity to them, so it is not uncommon for a Crane to keep a dozen or two paper cranes up specially tailored sleeves that can be deployed and sent flying through the air to stab the eyes of enemies.

If a Crane stands in proximity something that can be bend or folded they can fold a ritually prepared paper and fold an object through sympathetic magic.  Case and point, folding ritual paper near a stop sign allows the Crane to turn the metal since into a metal origami cat and animate it to attack an enemy.

In melee Cranes can be quite deadly.  They typically can be seen with metal canes or walking sticks.  These sticks are made of folded steel, much like the more famous katana.  Attuned to the Crane, they can command the cane/stick to refold into different melee weapons, consequently Cranes are typically masters of multiple melee styles to maximize their advantage.

Advantages:

-Manipulate anything that can be bent or folded without special paper

-enchanted cane that can take on any melee weapon tag at will

-Can animiate origami creations and command them

Weakness:

Beyond their magic, they are normal humans.  However as some of tradition’s practices draw upon Buddhism and Shinto. they are subject to it as well to some degree.

-If one has a piece of paper with the kanji characters of 4 and 9 (which are considered unlucky as they look very similar to Death and Suffering) one gains protection against the Cranes’ animating power.

-If one captures the tolling of 108 bells and release them at once, the Crane’s magic will shatter and all their constructs and their cane will unfold be magically inert.