Asahina Kusho

Name: Asahina Kusho
Clan: Crane
School: Asahina Shugenja
Rank: 1
Insight (Rings x 10 + Skills): 128
Player:

Primary Weapon
None

Roll to Keep & Hit
Roll skill, Keep Agility
Not Applicable

Roll & Keep Damage
Roll Strength + Damage Rating, Keep Damage Rating
Not Applicable

TN to be Hit
Reflexes x 5, plus Armor
15

Initiative
Roll & Keep Awareness
3K3

Glory: 1
Boxes:

Honor: 4
Boxes: 5

Skills:
Ettiquette - 3
Meditation - 2
Shintao (Philosophy) - 2
Calligraphy - 1
Spell Research (Learning/Finding) - 3
Spellcraft (Creating) - 2
Tea Ceremony - 1
Poetry - 1
Investigation - 3

Stamina: 2Earth: 2
Willpower: 2
Strength: 2Water: 2
Perception: 3
Agility: 2Fire: 2
Intelligence: 2
Reflexes: 3Air: 3
Awareness: 3
Void: 2
Wounds (Earth x 2)
[4]
+0
[4]
+3
[4]
+6
[4]
+10
[4]
+15
[4]
+20
[4]
Down
[4]
Out
[4]
Dead

Equipment
Kimono
Wakizashi (2K2)
Traveling pack
Scroll Satchel
Tanto (3K1)
Steed
(All are Fine quality)
10 Koku

Techniques / Spells
Asahina shugenja get a free Raise on all Air spells.

  • Sense
  • Commune
  • Summon
  • Whispering Wind (Air) Lets the caster know if the target believes the last thing he said to be true. Superstition says that the kami do not like to be used this way, and a shugenja who uses this spell too often may find himself unable to lie.
  • *Wind Borne Slumbers (Air) Makes an inactive target fall asleep. Makes active targets exhausted (-2 dice on all actions).
  • *Secrets on the wind (Air) The caster can listen in to conversations held in any place with which he is very familiar, up to 1 mile away.
  • Path to Inner Peace (Water) Healing spell
  • Reflections of Pan Ku (Water) Scrying spell that will reveal an object's nature and powers, as well as visions about its past.
  • Wings of Fire (Fire) Self-explanatory. Allows the caster gliding flight.

Shadowlands Taint:
Boxes:

Advantages

  • Clear Thinker (2) Whenever a character tries to confuse, befuddle, or lie to you, their TN is raised by 10.
  • Benten's Blessing (2) People like you. Whenever you make a roll involving persuasion, keep an additional die (two if the target is attracted to you).
  • Innate Abilities (4) You may cast the asterisked spells without using a scroll.

    • Disadvantages

  • Dark Secret (5) You have a shadow over your past that will cause you great dishonor, to the extent that you must commit seppukku ion order to cleanse your honor.
  • Obligation - Shosuro Itachi (4) You have an obligation hanging over your head, and one day it will be collected upon. And when that happens, you will be honor-bound to do whatever she asks, even at the cost of your own life.
  • Sworn Enemy - Shosuro Itachi (0) You have someone who's out for your blood.

    • Notes
    Mixed Blessings - Your family is reknown for their cleverness, but the reputation comes at the expense of another clan. Gain one Honor rank, and a minor Enemy.

    During the time of the Blood Speakers, the Empire banded together to defeat the foul necromancer Iuchiban and his army of undead, stolen from the graves of the empire. Many samurai found their ancestors' graves desecrated as the remains of their kin were brought to life to battle against the Empire. And it only made the dishonor worse that the clans had to kill their own ancestors in order to prevail. Nearly the whole of Rokugan came to gether to defeat Iuchiban, and bind his blackened soul away for eternity.

    Nearly.

    Asahina Yajinden was the lieutenant of Iuchiban. It was he who created the four Bloodswords, some of the most powerful magical swords known, and all twisted with evil. It was Yajinden who led Iuchiban's army of zombies against Otosan Uichi.

    In the end, Asahina Yajinden was captured by his own pacafistic family, and because of their views, they would not kill him. Instead, Yajinden had his mind erased and spent the rest of his life as a gardener in the Imperial City.

    His family was not so lucky. The Clans made sure that all of Yajinden's relatives were hunted down and killed.

    But they missed one.

    Yajinden had an infant son by a geisha, and he kept the child hidden from everyone. He feared that if Iuchiban was successful, the necromancer would fear his son as a threat to his power, and that if he failed, the rest of the Empire would be sure all of his family were dead.

    In the aftermath of the battle against the sorcerer, the land was in chaos, and orphans were everywhere. The geisha took this opportunity to give Yajinden's infant son to the Asahina, claiming that he was the son of an Asahina that was killed in the battle. The kami confirmed for the Asahina that she spoke the truth, so they took the Blood Speaker's son and raised him.

    And that is who your grandfather's grandfather's grandfather's grandfather's grandfather's grandfather's father truy was. It does not matter that it was 600 years ago, you are the direct descendant of one of the most foul sorcerers that ever lived. You spend each night praying that the Empire will never find out.