Ki-Rin

The Ki-Rin, also known as Kirin and Kyrin are very rare Spiritual Creatures living in Spiritual Realms who have a large degree of untouched wilderness - they're very powerful and are born when a sentient Spiritual Creature, such as a Shinigami dies while harboring intense wishes of a pure and selfless nature. These emotions take form in a manner very similar to the creation of a Diabolus, only that these creatures absorb only positive emotions and not negative ones, although they do absorb neutral emotions as well.

Ki-Rin are usually only seen at certain times and commonly only show themselves under exceptional circumstances; the most well-known example being shortly before the appearance of a future prodigy; and one appeared shortly before the first appearances of Izanagi, Shinrei, Toshiro and Gin.

Appearance
The Ki-Rin are beautiful creatures to behold, they resemble antelopes with a single horn and with a mane of silky red hair, their skin is scalish and colored in different shades of green, orange and gold. Their body is covered with a lot of the same red hair that makes up their mane, especially prominent at the stomach, hoves and at the tip of their long tails, when they're moving the light plays along these coarse hairs and creates an illusion of flames dancing around them.

Killing a Ki-Rin or otherwise harming one is concidered a Capital Crime in Seireitei and other places where they exist and is punishable by execution; which up until a few years ago was done trough the Sōkyoku.

Behaviour
While gentle and pure creatures the Ki-Rin are also very shy and try to avoid all contact with Shinigami and as such they're very rarely sighted, following a Ki-Rin is concidered very unwise in that it will most commonly attack its pursuer if it feels like it is being stalked over its set level of tolerance. Although it will rarely kill it can cause serious injuries and if the follower harms it, even as a means of self-defense the judgement will still stand when they return back to Seireitei.

They are almost exclusively seen shortly before the rise of a future prodigy and very few if any at all know where to find them; and those who do guard those secrets with their lives.

Powers & Abilities
Great Spiritual Power: The only confirmed fact about the Ki-Rin is that they have a very large resserve of Spiritual Energy which is comparable to that of a Shinigami Captain: this serves to make them some of the most powerful Spiritual Creatures in existance - their Spiritual Power is known to increase with age and the oldest ones are so powerful so as to dwarf even some of the most powerful Captains in Reiryoku resserves.