Blargh, hate Mondays, don't really  give me the time to work on stuff like I'd like.<br/><br/>Since you mentioned being okay with NPCs, there's a disadvantage called blood feud in Fields of Victory that I would love to use. I got the idea when doing the rolling for the named for tables. I rolled on the phoenix table since I wanted to have a bit of Phoenix in their lineage to help explain the tendency towards Shugenja rather than the usual infiltrator route and I got the following<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Guardian of Forbidden Knowledge: One of your kin guards or once guarded a reliquary of forbidden knowledge. Either your family still has responsibility for guarding the reliquary, or it has gone missing.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>So I was thinking that maybe a grandparent or someone further back in the line had one of Ishikawa branch families marry into the family for political purposes who was the guardian of a relic. Shortly after the marriage the relic was stolen and well the branch family didn't take it very well. They blamed the Shadow Weavers branch of the Shosuro family and assumed it was a grand plot to steal the relic. After that well relationships worsen and eventually developed into a blood feud with that one branch of the Ishikawa family hating  the Shadow Weaver's family.<br/><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Blood Feud Disadvantage description</div><div class="spoiler_body"><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><strong>Blood Feud (Water)</strong><br/>Types: Interpersonal, Social<br/><br/>Your bloodline is locked in a deadly struggle with another family or group, which makes members of that group hostile when they learn your affiliation. They may bar you from their courts and homes, refuse to meet with you, or even challenge you to duels over slights in which you had no personal involvement. Confer with the GM to select a campaign-appropriate family or group when choosing this disadvantage. Note that the family lines that participate in a given feud are much smaller than a full Great Clan family this adversity represents a feud with a group such as the descendants of a specific Kakita lord, rather than the entire Kakita family<br/><br/>When performing a check to interact with the chosen group or family that relies on their goodwill toward members of your family (such as a Courtesy [Water] check to seek hospitality on the road while traveling on family business or a Performance [Water] check to impress them with a song attributed to you under your family name), you must choose and reroll two dice containing success or opportunity. After resolving the check, if you failed, you gain 1 Void point. <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div></div></div>