Feng Shui

The ancient art of Feng Shui (literally Wind and Water, practitioners are known as Fang Shih) is the alignment of buildings and graves in accordance with heavenly emanations and earthly configurations, allowing chi to flow freely to bring happiness and prosperity to the occupants of the humans near it. Feng Shui also creates spiritual potent places that appease the dragons that sleep beneath the earth. Scientists believe that original Feng Shui orientated itself on magnetic lines and underground waterways, while most traditionalists insist on the presence of dragons and spirits in wind and earth that must be brought into harmony.

While Feng Shui is practiced among the mortal population of China as well (although many were forced to flee the country after the Communists under Mao became the dominant power), the Kuei-jin, with their special insights into the flow of chi, have developed their own variant of it, also referred to as Tso Tao (the Black Way). It means not only the power to detect dragon lines and arrange areas to be in harmony with them, but the ability to cleanse areas of evil influences, disguise or alter ambient Chi, and even to interfere with a Kuei-jin's ability to draw ambient Chi from an area. By manipulating special talismans, the fang shih can direct energies to control and corrupt. Some Cathayans even make themselves available to mortals for employment as fang shih; they tend to command very high prices due to their skills.

Official Abilities
Included below are the official powers described in the Kindred of the East Companion. Sources are described below in the order they were printed.

Standard Powers

 * Wind-Water Eye: The Kuei-jin can discern the type of ambient chi around him.
 * Broom of Heaven: The Kuei-jin can dispel minor disruptions in the chi flow
 * Hand of Darkness: The Kuei-jin curses a target by manipulating the chi flow around it
 * Inharmonius Aligment: The Kuei-jin can alter the chi around him in a way that it cannot by drawn by Mandarins or Bodhisattvas via Osmosis
 * Chi Ward: The Kuei-jin constructs a barrier of chi that prevents shen from crossing it
 * Hand of Darkness: The Kuei-jin curses a target by manipulating the chi flow around it
 * Inharmonius Aligment: The Kuei-jin can alter the chi around him in a way that it cannot by drawn by Mandarins or Bodhisattvas via Osmosis
 * Chi Ward: The Kuei-jin constructs a barrier of chi that prevents shen from crossing it
 * Chi Ward: The Kuei-jin constructs a barrier of chi that prevents shen from crossing it
 * Chi Ward: The Kuei-jin constructs a barrier of chi that prevents shen from crossing it

Advanced Powers

 * Beneficent Celestial Mirror: The Kuei-jin can shape the chi of the Mirror Lands to create a safe haven for himself within them that can be used as a beachhead for further umbral exploration.
 * Dancing Spirits: The Kuei-jin manipulate the spirits around him to do his biding by binding them to locations and objects
 * veil of Defilement: The Kuei-jin can veil an area with good Feng Shui to make it appear barren to outsiders
 * Transcendend Portal: The Kuei-jin can open a portal into either the Yang World or the Yin World.
 * veil of Defilement: The Kuei-jin can veil an area with good Feng Shui to make it appear barren to outsiders
 * Transcendend Portal: The Kuei-jin can open a portal into either the Yang World or the Yin World.
 * Transcendend Portal: The Kuei-jin can open a portal into either the Yang World or the Yin World.
 * Transcendend Portal: The Kuei-jin can open a portal into either the Yang World or the Yin World.