"Faen can look like pointy-eared humans, but they may have animal parts, like my wings or Temperance's current centaurine body, or an animal head and so on."

"Turning into a girl's fun sometimes; that's usually the most I do. Chakra constructs can look like anything - like, the Nine Tails looks like a giant fox with some humanoid stuff? And nine tails."

Kurama's grumbling about strangers knowing his name, so Naruto's decided not to share it.

Temperance gets a translation and grins at Naruto. They sit next to Reon, still part-horse.

"Temperance sure agrees. Moving on, we have giants, who look also look human, but twice as tall and eight times as heavy, sometimes with a metallic hue in their skin and hair."

Phelix stands up to his full height and flexes all his four arms. "And giants can have more or less human parts, meaning that they can have more arms like me, extra heads, or extra torsos, and even fully hermaphroditic giants. But also the opposite, like giants without heads and faces on their torsos."

"Huh. That sounds like some of the weird you hear in spirit-tales..." He shrugs. "Though I guess some bloodlines might also have that - we just have humans, but some humans look really different from others. Like, humanoid shark."

"I think a ritual could give you that, but it's a sufficiently complicated that I doubt that even one in a thousand merfolk is technically a human - merfolk is the catch all term for Faen, Serpents, Dragons and hybrids with aquatic somewhat humanoid forms."

"Are bloodlines common?"

"Like, they exist? And some kind of bloodline is decently common in, like, the shinobi, though I don't know about samurai or monks. But most've them are like - you can use special techniques, or certain techniques are easier, or you have a sensory power, ones that change how you look are less common."

I was asking more in the sense of how likely we are going to meet one."

"Regardless, I just realized we omitted something from our explanation. The different's species power associations. Sea Serpents are water and defensive powers. Dragons are magic itself and also the strongest powers of the other species, like shapeshifting or healing. Giants are metal and enhanced skills. Faen are associated with life and companions, which is the ability to create one or two members of a magical species that's telepathically connected to you."

"Was that hard to understand? Because, I am actually a companion myself. And also sort of my own creator and Reon's twin."

"That's kind of nothing like ours and I really didn't understand it, but I bet the nerds would love it. And I've actually got a bloodline? If you're meeting any shinobi you'll probably meet someone with one."

"It's a bit complex, luckily practice will make the explanation go smoother. Anyway, there are still three other magical species. Though, they are somewhat easier to summarize. Phoenixes have fire powers and sensory powers. They look like this," fog construct the size of a swan. "Thunderbirds have wind and movement powers and are like this," dragon-sized eagle-like bird. "And unicorns are basically horses with crystal horns, they have earth powers and blessing powers, which is a term for this... usually passive lesser powers. They do stuff like cleaning or repairing objects. Spirits have mental powers and powers of basic elemental manipulation."

"Can species do each others' stuff?"

"Yeah... Do you have paper and writing utensils? It's a bit easier if we use a visual medium."

"Uh, yeah. Notebook paper and fountain pen and all work?"

They need a longer translation pause to get the concept of "fountain pen", but then nod.

Presumably, the objects are handed over and Reon starts sketching a grid. The letters might be blocky but precise.

"It should be easier to visualize it this way. Each line belongs to an element, and each column to a... category. The different magical species have access to any power in a specific element or specific category. Nearly all powers overlap, for example, the power to repair objects is both considered a blessing and a metal power. Unicorns have access to blessings, Giants have access to metal powers, so either can have said power."

" - That's a lot of weirdly specific stuff. Uh, we have like a bunch of special ways of doing chakra stuff? And I think someone who knows like academic things could probably make a chart..."

They nod. "What can chakra do? Does it have any hard limitations?"

"Uh we thought so and then we found someone who broke those, so we're not - there might be stuff we're not thinking of, but..."

"But there might be a way to do it and you have yet to figure it out?"

"Pretty much! Lots we don't know."

Temperance asks something.

"Is the local kind of magic learnable and how long does it take to learn it?"