Nat

Also called Nats, The Thirty-Seven Nats.

In Burmese (Myanmar) animist tradition, the Nats are a pantheon of spirits venerated alongside Theravada Buddhism, most famously codified as the Thirty-Seven Nats presiding from Mount Popa.

Tradition: Burmese (Myanmar) animist tradition
Region: Asia (place of origin)
Trait family: The Hearth-Bound

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Aitvaras Bound to a specific household location · Domestic spirit helps or harms based on treatment
Bannik Bound to a specific household location · Domestic spirit helps or harms based on treatment
Brownie Bound to a specific household location · Domestic spirit helps or harms based on treatment
Kaukas Bound to a specific household location · Domestic spirit helps or harms based on treatment
Kobold Bound to a specific household location · Domestic spirit helps or harms based on treatment
Nisse Bound to a specific household location · Domestic spirit helps or harms based on treatment

and 4 more

Black Tamanous Possession
Cluracan Bound to a specific household location
Bocan Domestic spirit helps or harms based on treatment
Elves Domestic spirit helps or harms based on treatment

Traits

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Behaviour

Domestic spirit helps or harms based on treatment
why
Nats are considered volatile and morally ambivalent: they can grant protection, fertility, and good fortune to households and villages that honor them, but are also believed to bring illness, misfortune, or possession upon those who neglect or offend them, particularly by violating taboos associated with a given spirit's shrine or domain.
Bound to a specific household location
why
households and communities maintain coconut offerings and small shrines to their household nat (Eindwin Nat, "the nat within the house" — Min Mahagiri himself in his domestic aspect, as chief of household nats) and to a given nat's tutelary tree or site

Offensive powers

Possession
why
communal nat pwè festivals feature spirit mediums called natkadaw who become possessed by individual nats, dancing and speaking in their voice to deliver blessings, warnings, or requests from the assembled worshippers.

Utility powers

Blessing bestowal
why
Nats are considered volatile and morally ambivalent: they can grant protection, fertility, and good fortune to households and villages that honor them, but are also believed to bring illness, misfortune, or possession upon those who neglect or offend them, particularly by violating taboos associated with a given spirit's shrine or domain.

Roles

Judged from the works' own entries, not from the description. Carries: the figure holds the role. Meets: the role is in its stories, held by something it meets.