Yamaneko Maoyexing

Yamaneko Maoyexing (/jæ'mənɛkɔ 'mɑojeʧɪŋ/)is a character battling against Melvin, Francis, and Myrna in Sorcerer's Misery. He's a nekomata acting as a keeper of one of the paths to the Sankoku region.

Appearance
Yamaneko has yellow eyes that glow and purple hair with black streaks. His two tails have a purple striped pattern. His hands and feet are clawed. Several wounds can be found on Yamaneko's lower limbs, presumably from fights. He also has purple cat ears. He has an athletic build.

Sorcerer's Misery
Yamaeko wears a torn dark blue capelet on him with no undershirt. He wears a purple jaguar-patterned pelt over his lower torso and his legs.

Personality
Yamaneko despises humans, contrasting his master's helpful attitude towards them. He also acts brash and reckless causing him to get wounded sometimes in encounters and fights. He wants to scare humans away from the pass using his abilities. He doesn't like being bossed around, hence being reluctant whenever his master doesn't want to do something Yamaneko himself wants to do. He wants a good fight, however, and would battle people and youkai alike to do so.

Manipulating blue fire
Yamaneko is capable of manipulating fire on his own to the point that he can use hotter blue fire in his own accord. He can create miniature spheres of fire and literal fiery walls.

Sorcerer's Misery
If the reader chooses to go to the mountains, they encounter Yamaneko who knows Melvin after his visit before the events in the book. The two-tailed cat asks for a spar that results in Melvin resorting to using Styrkur's strength. The fight nearly ends disastrously with Yamaneko attempting to use a huge sunlike fireball against the team until Tamamoku ends the fight.

Tamamoku Baihu
Yamaneko is Tamamoku's subordinate, being a guard to one of the passes to Sankoku.

Trivia

 * Yamaneko's jaguar pelt didn't come from a jaguar or youkai stemming from a jaguar; rather, it was dyed to make it look that way.
 * Yamaneko's theme in Sorcerer's Misery, He Whose Eyes Shine on the Mountain, is a reference to the iriomote cat--an endangered species of cat in Japan--and two of its names in the local dialect there: "that which has flashing eyes" and "that which shines on the mountain".