Inter-Dimensional Crossroads

Shinki is a graceful, human-like goddess with long white hair with a pigtail on the left side which is held by red beads and light-blue eyes​. She wears elegant red attire – typically a flowing dress with a short capelet and black ribbon accents – that gives her a regal, otherworldly presence​. Most strikingly, Shinki can manifest six wings at will; these wings appear pure white at first and then turn purple with red patterns when she unleashes her full power​. This angelic, winged motif underscores her divine status as the creator of Makai.

Despite her godly status, Shinki’s demeanor is composed and surprisingly cordial, albeit tinged with pride. When the Reimu and the other protagonists confront her, she remains polite but firm, even dismissing the shrine maiden as “nothing more than a dog of the gods” in mid-battle​. This confidence aside, Shinki is not portrayed as truly malevolent; the chaos she caused stemmed more from a naïve decision than from evil intent, and she ultimately took responsibility by facing the intruders herself​. After her defeat, she bears no grudge, suggesting a fundamentally benevolent nature beneath her proud exterior. Shinki is a gentle, motherly figure who cares deeply for her creations – an image consistent with her role as Makai’s creator and the admiration she earns from its residents​.

Shinki is the self-proclaimed deity who created the entire realm of Makai, effectively birthing a world of demons (and presumably all its inhabitants) by her own hand​. She presides over this realm from its capital city, Pandæmonium​, and for the most part Makai remains separate from the human world. However, at one point Shinki permitted her Makai denizens to take a “tour” of the outside world – a decision that caused chaos when swarms of demons poured into Gensokyo and disturbed its residents​. In response, the shrine maiden and other heroines ventured into Makai to confront the source of the disturbance, battling through Shinki’s servants and ultimately challenging Shinki herself​. Though immensely powerful, Shinki was defeated in the conflict, ending the incident and restoring the barrier between Makai and the human realm.