You can choose to specialize in anything you want, but your strength in battle, your power, determines your place in the hierarchy, and how society treats you. My society, that is.

My culture.

[and he's not even lying. that's exactly how his clan worked, and nehan simply uses their beliefs and culture in order to craft a youkai identity from them.]

Of course, that's difficult to enforce when there's no one else like me around. [aside from six-- but the man is an idiot, nehan will not even allude to their relationship because it will just blow his cover.]