I<em>think</em>I have the starting xp spent right but I'm not sure. I don't really grasp the system for that.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body">Isawa Tsukihime<br/><br/>Isawa Elementalist School (Shugenja)<br/><br/>Air: 2<br/>Earth: 2<br/>Fire: 3<br/>Water: 2<br/>Void: 3<br/><br/>Glory: 49<br/>Honor: 50<br/><br/>Meditation: 2<br/>Medicine: 3<br/>Theology: 2<br/>Culture: 1<br/><br/>School Rank 1 (16xp): Earth 2 (6xp), Medicine 2 (2xp), Medicine 3 (6xp), Culture 1 (2xp)<br/><br/>School Rank 2 (20xp): Heart of the Water Dragon (3xp), Inari's Blessing (3xp)<br/><br/>School Rank 3 (24xp): Grasp of the Air Dragon (3xp)<br/><br/>Invocations: Extinguish, Path to Inner Peace, Tempest of Air<br/>Techniques available: Invocations, Shuji, Rituals<br/>Rituals: Commune with the Spirits, Divination<br/><br/>School Ability (One With the Elements): Once per scene when making the check to activate an invocation, before step 3 can reduce the TN of the check by school rank.<br/><br/>Starting outfit: Sanctified robes, wakizashi, knife, scroll satchel, traveling pack, 5 koku.<br/><br/>20 Questions<br/><br/>1.) Phoenix (+1 Void +1 Theology)<br/>2.) Isawa (+1 Fire +1 Meditation +1 Theology)<br/>3.) Isawa Elementalist School (+1 Fire +1 Water +1 Medicine +1 Theology +1 Meditation)<br/>4.) Empathy (+1 Air)<br/><br/>5.) Her duty is to tend to the needs of the heimin of Phoenix lands. She travels the villages blessing fields and births, providing healing, speaking with the local kami of the land, and doing her part to ensure the bountiful harvests that keep the Phoenix Clan in food and abundance. Although she serves the Phoenix Clan as a whole and the Emperor, her primary lord is Isawa Ichiro, who oversees the clan magistrates of the Phoenix lands. Part of her duties as wandering shugenja is to learn of unrest among the peasantry in less obtrusive ways than a clan magistrate might. (Giri: Tend to the people of the Phoenix territorities)<br/><br/>6.)  Tsukihime dreams of one day sitting on the Council of Elemental Masters. She believes that if she can attain a seat on the Council, she will be privy to the great secrets of communing with the kami and she'll have a chance of understanding all the mysterious things she just knows are lurking in the Phoenix's sealed vaults. She's far more interested in the challenges of hidden lore and secret magic than she is in mere mundane blessings. (Ninjo: To be an Elemental Master)<br/><br/>7.) The Phoenix are the only home she's ever known. She loves her clan and her people. She feels grateful for being born into the Isawa because she believes that her family is closest to the kami. Except for the Emperor. The Kami speak directly to the Son of Heaven, of course. But she places her family as not far behind. Being an Isawa means that she enjoys a close connection with the spirits, and it's both her duty to honor them and her pleasure to speak to them and have them respond. (+5 Glory)<br/><br/>8.) Tsukihime thinks Bushido is a fine thing, when she thinks deeply about it at all. After all, the Tao does not speak out against the Code Akodo One-Eye laid down. Her experiences tending to the needs and injuries of the peasants has evoked a strong sense of Compassion in her towards the lower classes. She's still samurai and will do her duty, but she has developed sympathies for those less fortunate in the Celestial Order. Her experiences have convinced her that the Phoenix's righteous commitment to pacifism is the right course, and that they serve their people best by protecting the empire from the specter of war. (+10 Honor)<br/><br/>9.) So far Tsukihime's greatest accomplishment would be the cultivation of her impending marriage. It was an accidental thing but she turned it to her advantage. She had been betrothed at a young age to one Iuchi Sun Yi, a part of the Phoenix's ongoing efforts to understand and control the meishodo magic of the Unicorn. She'd never met the young man and wasn't best pleased at the thought of being married off to someone she didn't know, but was prepared to go through with it for her family's sake. The ongoing hostilities between the Unicorn and the Phoenix however, caused Sun Yi's family to break the engagement shortly before her gempuku, much to the embarassment of the nakado involved. Soon after her gempuku, she and her bodyguard encountered one Miya Shinichi, an Imperial Herald on business who was assaulted by members of the criminal Perfect Land Sect. She and her yojimbo helped the Herald fight off the attackers, though Shinichi was badly injured in the process. Tsukihime's knowledge of medicine prevented him from bleeding out immediately, and they got him to a village where she tended him for weeks. Shinichi and Tsukihime fell in love during those weeks she tended him, and since Shinichi had yet to have a bride chosen for him (though he had many interested admirers), both he and Tsukihime found a nakado to convince their respective parents of the advantages of the bargain. It took some serious negotiating on the part of the parents, but the union was approved. Isawa Tsukihime wed into the household of Miya Shinichi. (Advantage: Blissful Betrothal)<br/><br/>10.) Tsukihime didn't know it at the time, but one of Shinichi's admirers would go on to be a serious enemy. Otomo Sakura had her eyes on the dashing young Miya and prior to his ill-fated trip to the Phoenix lands, she had already began plans to have him betrothed to her. Finding out that he had arranged to be married to some nobody buke samurai was humiliating for a scion of the Imperial Court. Even worse was how ridiculously happy he was about it when the arrangements were made. Her frustration and anger was expressed on many a helpless servant and she spent a good deal of time subtly badmouthing the "Isawa peasant girl" in the Court. Her jealousy and rage went unanswered however. The parents were agreed. The marriage happened. Otomo Sakura has never forgiven and never forgotten, even with her own impending nuptials to the son of the Seppun daimyo. (Adversity: Sworn Enemy-Otomo Sakura)<br/><br/>11.) Tsukihime has an abiding interest in learning new things. She always wants to know more and to learn more, and sometimes this drive for knowledge isn't always a good thing. She takes whatever chance she can get to study in the libraries of the Phoenix, and in the libraries of her new family among the Miya. (Passion: Curiosity)<br/><br/>12.)  Tsukihime's compassion for life makes it very difficult for her to contemplate taking actions that would end life. (Disadvantage: Softhearted)<br/><br/>13.) Tsukihime learned the most not from her sensei but from her father. When she was a little girl it was her father, Isawa Sojiro, who bestowed upon her a love of learning. At an age when most samurai children were still playing innocent games and enjoying childhood, Sojiro would challenge his daughter with complex philosophical and theological riddles. Not because he thought she was a prodigy. But simply because he could see his girl was bright and he wanted to foster her mind while he could. It was through riddling with her father and studying his scrolls that she developed her love of learning, which became a passion for her. She was happy to see her father continuing the tradition with her little brother Tetsuya. Before she left for the dojo, she'd join her father in playing riddle games and sharpening the mind of her beloved little brother. (Isawa Sojiro. Advantage: Blessed Lineage. Sojiro is the son of a famous healer who saved the Emperor's household from a virulent plague. <br/><br/>14.) Tsukihime's most startling physical feature is the single lock of silver-white hair that adorns her head. Her mother said she was touched by the light of the moon at her birth, and she's always had this strand of moon-kissed hair to mark that occassion. She's rather proud of it, and favors decorations in her otherwise black hair that draw attention to it.<br/><br/>15.) Tsukihime has a hard time containing her excitement. Around a subject or person she's passionate about she tends to become a bundle of over-excited joy. It's very hard for her to maintain her on at these times. When she's worried, by contrast, she tends to look into space and lose herself deep in thought. She contains anger very well though, since the sensei taught her the dangers of a shugenja losing their tempers.<br/><br/>16.) Tsukihime's greatest exposure has been to the peasants of Rokugan. In her time touring the Phoenix provinces she's gotten to know some of them (as much as a samurai can anyways) and she feels a sense of obligation to them. As samurai, it's her job to educate and enlighten them, as well as protect them.  She has a good relationship with her new family in the Miya, and adores her husband. Her compassionate stance towards the heimin means that she views the Miya in a favorable light for their good works towards the lower classes. <br/><br/>17.) Tsukihime has a good relationship with both of her parents. She was always a daddy's girl at heart and still maintains a lot of warm correspondence with her father from the road. Her mother Kyoko, who came from the Agasha family, is someone who Tsukihime also gets along well with. There's a lot of playful banter between them, especially now that Tsukihime's all grown up and married and off to her duties. She also has a younger brother, Tetsuya, who has already shown an affinity for the air kami and who idolizes his big sister. She loves her little brother dearly and is fond of bringing him treats and stories from the road when she's home. Tetsuya is too young to go to the dojo, but the stories of his sister the traveling healer fire his imagination and thirst for adventure.<br/><br/>18.) Tsukihime took her name for her grandmother, Isawa Tsukiko, who discovered a cure for a plague that had afflicted the Empire at the time. Tsukiko was born on the first night of a full moon, the same as Tsukihime, and given their similar interests in the medicinal arts, the name seemed appropriate. (5: Discovery, 9: Medicine)<br/><br/>19.) Her personal name is Tsukihime, which means "moon princess".<br/><br/>20.) Tsukihime knows that when she dies she'll be reborn. After all, she is Phoenix. She should die confronting some great supernatural evil that threatens the empire. Hopefully, her death would help the Empire achieve victory. She'd like to die at the side of her beloved Shinichi, joining her ancestors in Yomi.</div></div>