The Fox Spirit, one of the 6 characters from an ongoing project for my Junior Thesis where I design video game characters based off Chinese myths and legends. Inspired by a short story about a Fox who breathed the elixir of life onto the moon. I gave her the name Lishen and made her an agile fire wielding mage.

“Suddenly he saw something floating in the air inside the gardens, glowing like a ball of crystal.”

“Whenever it drew its breath in, the ball sank down again, and the creature caught it in its jaws… Then the farmer realized that it was a fox, who was preparing the elixir of life.”

“The ball of fire leaped out from his throat. At once a hand reached for it… then the man knew what had happened, but the fox was gone.”