DajiWP (妲己, Dakki?, Pinyin: Dájǐ), Golden White Face (金色白面, Konjiki Hakumen?, Pinyin: Huángjīn Báimiàn, localized as Fair-faced Golden Fox), is a figure in Chinese mythology.
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Background[]
The favorite concubine of the ancient king of China, Zhou of ShangWP, who was also portrayed to be an evil fox in Investiture of the Gods, also known as Fengshen YanyiWP (封神演義, Hōshin-Engi?). She is China's thousand year old Huli jingWP (狐狸精, Kori-sei?, lit. "Fox Spirit") from the Shang Zhou Revolutionary PeriodWP.[1][2][3] Daji was assigned by Nüwa to facilitate the fall of the Shang Dynasty, but she was so evil that she unnecessarily prolonged the collapse she was meant to bring just to torment people more, which caused Kunlun to send Taigong after her. Daji was defeated by Taigong Wang in life.[4]
Daji is equated to the Golden White Face, the origin of one of Japan's Three Great Monsters, Tamamo-no-Mae. Despite being thought to be the same being, Tamamo declares that she and Daji are not the same person and are unrelated. However, Tamamo Cat declares that Tamamo went to Japan after having committed all the atrocities she could in China and India as Daji in the Shang Dynasty and as Bao SiWP in the Zhou DynastyWP, the evil goddess who demands 100 heads in Devala.[5] Her nation ruining accomplishments were even said to match those of Mo XiWP of the Xia DynastyWP. Yuanshi Tianzun and Xi Wangmu declared her a great evil that threatened peace and tranquility all over the world.[6]
Appearance[]
She is described as incredibly beautiful, even by Taigong Wang. Taigong also claimed her to be a 1000-year-old Fox Spirit with nine tails, making her similar in appearance to Amaterasu despite both having different origins.[4][6]
Personality[]
She is described as a femme fatale and an unparalleled evil, one who would slaughter and torture thousands along with their families and friends, and having blood swallow the land, all the while laughing and declaring it to be "fun". She is also someone that would never be selfless and willingly protect someone other than herself from harm at the cost to herself, even if it were happenstance or an outcome of providence.[4]
Role[]
Fate/Grand Order[]
S I N: The Land of Unified Knowledge[]
Having had enough of her deception, Qin Shi Huang claims to know Tamamo Vitch Koyanskaya's real identity, and calls her Daji, which catches her off-guard, enough that she can't defend properly when immediately hit with a surprise attack from Li Shuwen.[7]
Tunguska Sanctuary - Non-Primate Biosphere[]
While she does not appear in Fate/Grand Order, Daji is mentionned and talked about by Tamamo Cat and Tamamo-no-Mae. While Cat readily admits when asked that she and Tamamo are Daji, Tamamo is offended and immediately refutes the Daji connection as slander, askings Cat to stop because if she goes around repeating it, everyone will believe it to be true. Tamamo states that even she wouldn’t go as far as Daji did, which Cat agrees with, saying that while Tamamo tends to go into more "harlot" territory when her "good wife" energies are capped out, she wouldn't usually make an entire country into her "husband".[5]
She also features in Taigong Wang's flashbacks, where, after defeating her to save China, she cursed him after he told her about becoming Xian for all of eternity, stating that she will always despise humanity.[8]
Koyanskaya was inspired by Daji and her legend, wanting to become a Beast in manner similar to her.
Abilities[]
Daji is an Evil of Humanity, Taigong declaring her to have been a Beast from 3000 years ago,[5] embodying the trait of Collapse (傾国?).[4] She also held the title of "Golden White Face", a title shared by Amaterasu,[4] despite not being the same being.
Daji also possesses the Shapeshift skill and the ability to somehow identify with Tamamo-no-Mae.[1][2][3] Neither a Taoist, nor a sage nor even a virtuous Divine Xian could lower their guard around Daji.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Fate/Grand Order - Tamamo-no-Mae (Caster), Translation by Master of Chaos
- ↑ 2.0 2.1
[] Fate/EXTRA - Tamamo-no-Mae (Caster) Matrix [T] Class: Caster
Master: Player
True Name: Tamamo-no-Mae
Noble Phantasm: The Eightfold Blessing of Amaterasu
Keyword: Maleficum, Red Lily of the Killing Stone of Nasu
Strength: -, Defense: -, Agility: -, Magic: -, Luck: -
Area Creation: C, Maleficium: EX, Transformation: AKewords 01 - The Eightfold Blessing of Amaterasu
A mirror wielded by Tamamo-no-Mae. It is one of the sacred treasures brought down from the Heavens by the god Takehinateru-no-Mikoto and was oringally kept in the great shrine in the Izumo Province. According to passages in the Chronicles of Japan, the mirror was later moved to a site in the Kawachi district as the behest of the Imperial Court.
The mirror is also known as Yata-no-Kagami and is frequently used in rites honoring the sun goddess Amaterasu. In addition to its importance in ritual observances, it is also thought to possess the power to bring the dead back from the afterlife. However, since Caster's rebirth as a Servant, this power is no longer accessible.
02 - Maleficum
The Witchcraft that Caster uses is all physical phenomena performed with her own body. While common Magecraft are programs that "recompose what exists around," Witchcraft are programs that "recompose the raw materials in one's own body."
According to Caster's own word:
"This time there is only one due to the constrains of the Moon Cell, but originally I could produce a million troops from my multiple tails!"
That is really suspicious though.
03 - Red Lily of the Killing Stone of Nasu
This skill involves the use of the infamous Killing Stone of Nasu. After her death, Tamamo-no-Mae's spirit began to haunt the area around this stone and also imbued it with a terrible curse that killed any creature that came near it.
Originally located in the Nasu highlands of Tochigi Prefecture, the stone was shattered by a virtuous monk by the name of Gennou who then scattered the peces across three places in Japan.
It is believed that the shards of the rock evolved into fox spirits known in Japanese as kitsune and inukami. The legends go on to say that these newly-born spirits were bound as familiars by wizards powerful enough to establish contracts with the divine.０１ - 水天日光天照八野鎮石
玉藻の前が身につけている鏡。
玉藻鎮石と呼ばれる神宝の中の神宝を一時的に解放したもの。
鎮石とは出雲に祀られていた、武日照命が天より持ち来たったという神宝である。
日本書紀の記述によると、朝廷の要請によって出雲より持ち出され、のちに河内に祀られるようになった。
おそらく後の八咫鏡であり、すなわち、天照大神の神体である。
また、鎮石は物部の十種神宝の原型と考えられ、魂と生命力を活性化させる力を持つ。
本来なら死者さえも甦らせる冥界の神宝だが、サーヴァント化している彼女では、そこまでの権限は持てないらしい。
０２ - 呪術
キャスターの扱う呪術は、すべてキャスター自身の体を使って行われる物理現象である。
通常の魔術は“そこにあるものを組み替える”プログラムだが、呪術は“自身の肉体を素材にして組み替える”プログラム。
「今回はムーンセルからの制約で一つしかありませんが、本来なら多数の尾から百万の軍勢を生み出せるのです！」
とはキャスター本人の弁。実に眉唾である。
０３ - 常世咲き裂く大殺界
殺生石を用いたキャスターのスキル。
玉藻の前が死後石に生じたものを“殺生石”と言い、これはたいへんな呪毒を帯びた石で、近づく人や獣を中毒死させた。
本来は栃木の那須高原にあったが、後に玄翁和尚という高僧によって砕かれ、日本に三箇所ある高田という場所に飛散した。
また、この際に飛散した残りはオサキ狐や犬神となり、各地の使役術師に使役される使い魔となったという。Skills Territory Creation [C]
This skill allows one to create a reality tailored specifically to their skills as a magus.
Unfortunately for Tamamo-no-Mae, her personality is ill-suited for the task of manipulating reality and she has great difficulty even creating a small-scale crafting studio for creating minor amulets and other types of low-level talismans.
Maleficium [EX]
The sacred rituals of the Dakini goddesses. The rituals confer the abilities to perform such actions as foretell the time and place of one's death and manipulate the hearts and minds of both men and women. Due to a number of very harsh lessons impressed upon her in the past, Tamano-no-Mae no longer make use of her still formidable skills in these areas.
Transformation [A]
This refers to the abilities of either changing ones appearance or borrowing the physical form of another. As a kitsune, or fox spirit, Tamano-no-Mae is able to alter her appearance and even species at will. However, due to a traumatizing event in a past incarnation that resulted in her death and temporary damnation, she rarely, if ever, uses this ability.陣地作成[C]
魔術師として、自らに有利な陣地を作り上げる。
が、どうも性格的に向いていないらしく、工房を作ることさえ難しい。
呪術[EX]
ダキニ天法。
地位や財宝を得��法（男性用）、権力者の寵愛を得る法（女性用）といった、権力を得る秘術や死期を悟る法がある。
しかし、過去さんざん懲りたのか、あまり使いたがらない。
破壊工作[A]
借体成形とも。
玉藻の前と同一視される中国の千年狐狸精の使用した法。
殷周革命（『封神演義』）期の妲己に憑依・返信した術だが、過去のトラウマからか、あまり使いたがらない。Details 01 - Character Background
In the final years of the Heian period, there was a beautiful courtesan in service to the Emperor Toba known as Tamamo-no-Mae. Born Misukume, she first entered the court as a servant at the age of 18, but quickly became a well-respected lady and a favorite of the emperor himself due to her incredible beauty and the depth of her intelligence.
While the stories become somewhat murky on this point, the most widely excepted theory is that an itinerant fortune teller visiting Emperor Toba's court discovered Tamamo-no-Mae's true identity as a nine-tailed fox spirit. Tamamo-no-Mae was denounced as the cause of the emperor's lingering illness and was driven out of the palace and onto the plains of Nasu, where she was killed trying to defend herself against an army of 80,000 soldiers sent by the emperor. While no one knows exactly what happened to her afterwards, it is believed that she was transformed into the legendary killing stone.
02 - "Dakini Deva"
While Tamano-no-Mae is generally believed to be a nine-tailed fox spirit with many of the attributes associated with the tantric deities known as Dankini, she is frequently mistaken by many as one of the Inari or sometimes even a manifestation of Buddha.
In the Fate/EXTRA universe, Tamamo-no-Mae is a soul that was created from the essence of the sun goddess Amaterasu, and as such is not merely a Earth spirit, but is actually a unique facet of the goddess from which she came. With this being said, it'd be a monumental mistake to classify her as one of the many human-spawned Legendary Souls.
However, she was willingly embraced the role of a Legendary Soul so that she could, in her own words "become a good wife." By deliberately accepting the limits inherent in the role of Servant, many of her original powers have been sealed away.
On a final note, as most deities are neither truly good nor evil, there are instances when Tamamo-no-Mae can be summoned as an evil spirit. Should this happen, she will transformed into a hideous monster capable of defeating a hundred heroes at once. In fact, when in this form, she is considered one of the Japan's Three Great Monsters.０１ - 人物背景：
平安時代末期、鳥羽上皇に仕えた絶世の美女。
白面九尾の狐が化けた姿とも言われている。
幼名は藻女。
十八歳で宮中に仕え、のちに鳥羽上皇に仕える女官となり、玉藻の前と名乗った。
その美貌と博識から次第に鳥羽上皇に寵愛されたという。
諸説様々だが、その後、鳥羽上皇は病に伏し、その原因を調べた陰陽師によって狐の正体を暴かれ、宮中から追い払われた。
宮中から去った後は那須野で悪名を重ね、上皇からの命によって八万もの討伐軍を派遣されるもこれを撃退。
二度目の戦いにおいて人間に敗北するも、その骸は毒を放つ石になったと言われている。
０２ - 『ダキニ天』
元来、“玉藻の前”は巷間に九尾の狐といわれるが、厳密には野干（ジャッカル）であり、本来は「アマテラス（垂迹）＝（本地）大日如来（法身）＝（報身）ダキニ天」として崇拝された稲荷明神……宇迦之御霊神（うかのみたまのかみ）であると考えられる。
ちなみに源平盛衰記には、平清盛がこのダキニ天の力を用いた修法によって権力を握った伝承もある。
EXTRAにおける玉藻の前はアマテラスから分かれた御霊であり、その正体は九尾の狐ではなく神の表情の一つとして扱われている。
また、彼女を英霊としてカテゴライズするのは大きな間違い。
玉藻の前の“良妻になりたい”という願いを実現させる為に英霊になったため、本来のスペックを発揮できずにいる。
悪霊、荒御魂として再現された場合、彼女は百の英雄すら返り討ちにする大化生へと変貌を遂げるだろう。
日本三大化生の一人の名は伊達ではない。 - ↑ 3.0 3.1 Fate/Grand Order material II - Tamamo-no-Mae, p.206-213, Translated by WaifuHunter at reddit
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Tunguska Sanctuary: Anti-Primate Ecosphere - Chapter 11: Second Coming of Cherishment
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Tunguska Sanctuary: Anti-Primate Ecosphere - Chapter 4: The Nikitich Solution
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Tunguska Sanctuary: Anti-Primate Ecosphere - Chapter 10: Planet Songs of the Primate II
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - SIN: Land of Unified Knowledge - Section 6: The Demonic General Descends
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Tunguska Sanctuary: Anti-Primate Ecosphere - Chapter 13: Love is The Plan, the Plan is...