Thread:Njalm2/@comment-5778280-20151012034000/@comment-3403804-20151012144950

Yes indeed, I can help you with that. When it comes to them being a race, that's fine, but I think the best way to make them both unique and fulfill your wish of them being at least somewhat diverse is to make it so that they're not mythical beings as much as they are mythical creations. Kido Masters are constantly looking for new ways to gain power and knowledge, new ways to flaunt their extraordinary abilities and what better way to accomplish this than to turn their talents towards creating new lifeforms for themselves?

Following this train of thought a Phoenix would be a spell given life of it's own, it'd assume the form of a bird, yes, and it might pass for one at first glance but the distinction is that it'd always be shrouded with the spell it originated from. The most common spells used to create a Phoenix would probably be Shakkaho, Sokatsui and Okasen. Which would produce birds of crimson, blue or yellow fire respectively.

They might not posess the ability to control fire per se, but any of these three would be able to wield the spell which composed them with the fury, skill and ingenuity of a true Kido Master specializing within that spell. As an example, a sufficiently powerful Blue Phoenix would use the power of Sokatsui to an extent only really matched by my own Hiroya. What Hiroya could do with Sokatsui, that Phoenix could do as well.

Naturally, it'd be fully possible to use spells other than those three to create phoenixes, you could make a White Phoenix embodying the element of snow through Hyoga Seiran, who moves gracefully through the sky like a living snowstorm. Or a Gray Phoenix unleashed by Tenran that most resembles a bird compossed entirely out of wispy white fog.

Their ability to reform after death, which is practically the centerpiece of the entire myth, would be simple enough to do in practise. As they're living spells, they likely have a set capacity, they drain energy from their surroundings the same way a Kido Master does to cast spell, with the exception that they're sustained by this as well, if you put a Phoenix somewhere there is NO spiritual activity whatsoever, it would cease to exist within, destroy it anywhere else and it would eventually reform.