Hinokagutsuchi (demon)

History
Japanese god of fire, son of Izanagi and Izanami. His mother was so badly burned when she gave birth to that she died. Izanagi cut his son in eight pieces and from the body eight mountain gods emerged and from the blood came forth eight gods. Kagutsuchi is an alternate name of Ho-Masubi.

Appearances

 * Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei: Deity/sword
 * Digital Devil Story: Warrior of the Demon City: Deity/sword
 * Megami Tensei: Final Sword
 * Megami Tensei II: Second only to Lucifer's Sword
 * Shin Megami Tensei: Devil and Final Fusion Sword
 * Shin Megami Tensei II: Amatsukami Clan
 * Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne: Final boss

Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei
Hi-no-Kagutsuchi appears in Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei as deity, which manifests itself as Akemi Nakajima's sword.

Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne


The phase changing of radiation of Kagutsuchi's energy pulse is the same as the traditional Shin Megami Tensei lunar phase. From 0 phase - silent (new phase in English version) to 8th phase - full. Then swings to silent phase reversely and continues the loop. Its function in the game is the same. During a full phase, demons will act drunk and raise their attack power.

Full phase is also a good time to recruit demons as their lowered inhibitions make them ask simple "yes/no" questions with no other demands, but they may ignore you as well. When a demon ignores an attempt to communicate or is angered during negotiations, the enemy immediately starts their turn. Until the skill Jive Talk is learned by the main character, Full Kagutusuchi is the only time you can speak with demons of the dark alignment (Wilders, Haunts, and Fouls) and may successfully recruit them (if they do not ignore you or you anger them by answering incorrectly to their question). In silent phase, enemies will become calm and easy for conversation, especially with the Dark Pledge skill. Several skills are affected by Kagutsuchi's phase, too.

If certain conditions are met, for one battle, the phase of Kagutsuchi can be set to "dead"; as expected, this means no skill that is affected by Kagutsuchi will work correctly.