<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=276862.msg13601913#msg13601913">Quote from: AndyZ on 15-10-2017, 07:52:47</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Hairy, I might try a Courtier if you're willing to walk me through things.  I've played L5R a handful of times - you ran one of them - but I don't really remember the system or setting overly well.  Considering Michelle Harrison, though, I think I can pull off a social character with relative ease.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>As has been said, its a new system to all of us, but I'll be happy to help out how I can.<br/><br/>A social character in Scion and a social character in L5R are rather different though, given the setting. Even within L5R, the different clan courtiers have very different styles. For example:<br/><br/>Crane - Doji diplomat<br/>No one plays the game of court better than the Crane—after all, their clan wrote the rules. The Doji Diplomats choreograph the courtly dance of favors exchanged, gifts given, and the right people invited to private gatherings. The Doji are always on the leading edge of fashion and culture, often driving it forward to benefit the Crane artisans. The Doji need never use an unkind word: their silence speaks volumes, and a simple gesture says even more. Their networks of favors, gifts, and invitations allow them to weigh the ebb and flow of the social side of the Empire and adjust the scales to their benefit<br/><br/>Dragon - Kitsuki investigator<br/>The Kitsuki Investigator School is a recent school, founded when Agasha Kitsuki saved the life of the Mirumoto daimyō by use of evidence. The Kitsuki Investigators use their method of observation, experimentation, logic, and reason to understand the truth, which puts them outside the norm of the Rokugani testimony-based judiciary system. For the Kitsuki Investigators, justice and truth align more often than many in the Empire like, yet they pursue their investigations where it takes them. The Kitsuki Investigators gravitate to legal work as magistrates and justicars, and are also found serving as courtiers and representatives of the Dragon Clan<br/><br/>Scorpion - Bayushi Manipulator<br/>Through the adept use of deception, temptation, and espionage, Bayushi trained courtiers are the masters of finding and exploiting the weaknesses of others. No method is too dishonorable as long as it is effective and untraceable. The Bayushi Manipulators are the shadow to the Doji Diplomat’s light, justly feared by all; yet, no court is complete without its Scorpion scoundrel—others are glad to have the Scorpion be the ones to dirty their hands. The Bayushi Manipulators accept their roles as villains in the play that is Rokugan, and in doing so, they help ensure that no true villains rise to threaten the Emperor<br/><br/>They have the same general skills, but use them very differently.