There is one law in the spell card rule which I don't really understand.
1) "Relying on stamina" and repeating an attack is not allowed.
What does this mean "relying on stamina" is not allowed? ( Am still confused about this one. Can anyone provide an example.)
Can anyone help me with those questions, please.
http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Perfect_Memento_in_Strict_Sense/Draft_of_Spell_Card_RulesThe spellcard rules say, that battles must not be completely based on power alone, so that weak humans/youkai could still win.
If everyone just tried to survive, the strong would be able to easily defeat the weak, which would be a somewhat unfair battle system i.e.:
Yukari fights with Rumia. While both are able to defend themselves, Yukari would always win because her stamina is higher.
2) Does the spell card rule battle necessary applies also to the residents of "hell, heaven and/or even Netherlands" or only to the residents of Gensokyo?
I don't really understand what you mean with hell, heaven and Netherlands.
Hell and heaven are for the dead; those that reside in there have yet to make an appearance so we don't now.
If with Netherlands you mean the underground, Palace of the Earth Spirits, etc. they do use spellcards, so the rules do seem to apply to them.
3) Also from what I had understood you can only use one spell card once in a duel/fight, isn't?
You said so yourself in the first question.
4) From what I read, even before the creation of the Gensokyo, youkai already exist. But there something which I don't quite understand.
Since youkai are suppose to be immortal in a sense and thus cannot die from old age.
- Does that mean they don't have a lifespan to begin with?
Since I'm not too familiar with Japanese folktales I may have miss something but let say Vampire and other youkai are considered as some sort of immortal creatures (cannot die from aging).
- What about "European dragons" those lifespan generally range from let say 250 - 500 years and even more according to some sites?
- Can they also be consider as youkai?
- If they (European Dragons) can be classified as youkai, what about the lifespan thing?
- Does being a youkai make you immortal (cannot die from aging) or does becoming a youkai and residing in Gensokyo make you one??
- Finally do you think if an let say European dragon was to live in gensokyo, will he/she become immortal?
Most youkai do seem to be biologically immortal, so they can die from injury, just not from old age.
These "European Dragons" are somewhat vague, since there are so many stories about them. In some stories they are immortal, and in some they are not.
Since youkai simply means something like supernatural creature, they would probably indeed be classified as youkai, and they might become immortal if they already weren't.
Youkai always existed, however, if humans forgot about them, they would disappear. This is one of the reasons Gensokyo was made. Because people in the outside world didn't believe in youkai anymore, they stopped existing everywhere except for Gensokyo.(Where there still were humans that believed in them.)