Kitsune Island

"An island close to the Japanese coasts, that no army could ever take, for it would disappear every night, only to appear somewhere else the next morning. An island exclusively inhabited by demons."

- Himawari Kitsune Island (狐ヶ島, Kitsunegashima, transl. Fox Island) is the name of an imposing isle located northwest of Honshu, Japan. It used to be a regular, nameless island, until being invaded during the 12th century by Tsuzurao and his army, to serve as their settlement for the following few hundreds of years.

While originally nothing different from the other local islands, its sudden newfound yôkai population eventually quickly reshaped its landscape, making it into a fearsome fox-shaped island, surrounded by the heaviest fog at all times of the day, with at its center an active volcano that frequently oozes lava on various areas of the isle. Aside from a small beach hiding by the side of the isle and some hot springs, everything else is nothing but mountains, to the exception of a demon village built at the foot of the volcano, not too far from Tsuzurao's personal castle, itself built around the lava crater.

In order to make it into a more convenient place where to live and so that they would never be found out easily, a spell of relocation was cast on the entire island, making it so that it would randomly appear in a different location every day, but always close to the Japanese coast. To make this more effective, a special bridge was built to be directly lowered from the island down to the coast it is close to, allowing for the demons to wander around on demand easily. Its inhabitants are the only ones able to predict where the island will move next.

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