[PF/3.X] Foxes!

[The Insanity]

I'm making an inn that's all about fox-related mythology and folklore (at least on the meta level), but my knowledge of such, and also knowledge of fox-related mechanics, is lacking. So I'm looking for suggestions for both obvious (like for example the name of the inn is "Golden Fox" and the innkeeper is a kitsune) and obscure stuff that only a myth/folklore nerd would know.
Hope you guys get what I mean, it's pretty hard to put it in words in a second language.

[Gavinfoxx]

Hengeyokai!

[The Insanity]

Okay, but how do you propose using it?

[Re'ozul]

Well theres the story Reynard the Fox.
In it the fox is essential a giant Liar and cheat.

That one could be paid homage to by the innkeeper, via either a quest or sale of items, implicating the PCs in a crime.
When the royal gendarms arrive to search the place for something specific they will find it on the PCs.

[Gildedragon]

Well. This is flavor but a focus on grapes, and broth is served in broad shallow plates.

Mechanical: fox's cunning vintage wines (maybe giving just a +2 and lasts less time)

Werefox templates

[Bullet06320]

Red foxes feature prominently in the folklore and mythology of human cultures with which they are sympatric. In Greek mythology, the Teumessian fox or Cadmean vixen, was a gigantic fox that was destined never to be caught. The fox was one of the children of Echidna.

In Celtic mythology, the red fox is a symbolic animal. In the Cotswolds, witches were thought to take the shape of foxes in order to steal butter from their neighbours. In later European folklore, the figure of Reynard the Fox symbolises trickery and deceit. He originally appeared (then under the name of "Reinardus") as a secondary character in the 1150 poem Ysengrimus. He reappeared in 1175 in Pierre Saint Cloud's Le Roman de Renart, and made his debut in England in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Nun's Priest's Tale. Many of Reynard's adventures may stem from actual observations on fox behaviour ; he is an enemy of the wolf and has a fondness for blackberries and grapes.

Chinese folk tales tell of fox-spirits called huli jing that may have up to nine tails, orkumiho as they are known in Korea. In Japanese mythology, the kitsune are fox-like spirits possessing magical abilities that increase with their age and wisdom. Foremost among these is the ability to assume human form. While some folktales speak of kitsune employing this ability to trick others, other stories portray them as faithful guardians, friends, lovers, and wives. In Arab folklore, the fox is considered a cowardly, weak, deceitful and cunning animal, said to feign death by filling its abdomen with air in order to appear bloated, then lies on its side, awaiting the approach of unwitting prey. The animal's cunning was noted by the authors of the Bible, and applied the word "fox" to false prophets (Ezekiel 13:4) and the hypocrisy of Herod Antipas (Luke 13:32).

The cunning Fox is commonly found in Native American mythology, where it is portrayed as an almost constant companion to coyote. Fox, however, is a deceitful companion who often steals Coyote's food. In the Achomawi creation myth, Fox and Coyote are the co-creators of the world, who leave just before the arrival of humans. The Yurok tribe believed that Fox, in anger, captured the sun, and tied him to a hill, causing him to burn a great hole in the ground. An Inuit story tells of how Fox, portrayed as a beautiful woman, tricks a hunter into marrying her, only to resume her true form and leave after he offends her. A Menominee story tells of how Fox is an untrustworthy friend to the Wolf.[144]


In Greek mythology, the Teumessian fox or Cadmean vixen, was a gigantic fox that was destined never to be caught. The fox was one of the children of Echidna. It was said that it had been sent by the gods (perhaps Dionysus) to prey upon the children of Thebes as a punishment for a national crime. Creon, the then Regent of Thebes, set Amphitryon the impossible task of destroying this beast. He discovered an apparently perfect solution to the problem by fetching the magical dog Laelaps, who was destined to catch everything it chased, to catch the Teumessian fox. Zeus, faced with an inevitable contradiction due to the paradoxical nature of their mutually excluding abilities, turned the two beasts into stone. The pair were cast into the stars, and remain as Canis Major (Laelaps) and Canis Minor (Teumessian Fox).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mythological_foxes

Wikipedia is full of usefull details that could be easily adapted for your purposes

[Gildedragon]

You could have the inn's specialty dishes be sweet rice stuffed into fried beancurd pockets

Fish broth with pasta, vegetables, and puffy fried triangles (naturally in a shallowish bowl (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fox_and_the_Stork))

There is a Foxhide Armor hidden somewhere: or the guard taking care of the place wears it.

Shifters (Wildhunt or Dreamsight) make good fox-types, tack on the Deep template to make them more cunning.

A mantle of the winter witch trimmed in white fox fur

Effigy creature foxes