(http://www.geocities.com/witchy692003/Asahina_Meiwha.jpeg)<br/><br/>Name: Asahina Meiwha<br/>Clan:  Crane<br/>Family: Asahina<br/>School: Asahina Shugenja School<br/>Honor: 3.5<br/>Status 4.5  Emerald magistrate<br/>Glory 1<br/>Insight Score: 155<br/>Insight Rank: 2<br/><br/>Air:  3<br/><br/>Awareness 3<br/>Reflexes 3<br/><br/>Earth  3<br/><br/>Stamina 3<br/>Willpower 3 (1 Shugenja school Asahinas)<br/><br/>Fire  2<br/><br/>Agility 2<br/>Intelligence 3  (1 for Asahina family.)<br/><br/>Water  2<br/><br/>Perception 2<br/>Strength 2<br/><br/>Void  3<br/><br/>Skills:<br/><br/>Calligraphy 1<br/>Etiquette 1<br/>Courtier 1<br/>Investigation 3<br/>Meditation 2<br/>Theology 1 (fortunes)<br/>Artisan 2 (origami)<br/>Artisan 3 (craft Tsangusuri)<br/>Lore 2 (divination)<br/>Lore 1 (Astrology)<br/>Lore 1 (Tea Ceremony)<br/>Lore 1 (Spellcraft)<br/>Performance 1 (Singing)<br/>Defense 5<br/><br/>Advantages:<br/><br/>Dangerous Beauty 2  Beauty is a heritage of the Crane.  However, it is the innocense of trust.  That turns Asahina Meiwha into a dangerous beauty to the opposite sex.<br/><br/>Benten's Blessing 2 (crane) The same naive innocence of trust, also serves the Asahina beauty.<br/><br/>Sage 4<br/><br/>Voice 2 (crane)Her voice is sing song, musical in delivery.  With it's soft caress sooths the savage anger.<br/><br/>Disadvantages:<br/><br/>Compulision +1 (Gambling) It is hard to pass up a game of chance.<br/><br/>Gulliable +3 The same innocence that enhances her natural beauty and gives her power in social settings with members of the opposite sex.  Is also gives her one of her major weakness.  With a naive trusting.<br/><br/>Lechary +4  Not so much her trusting nature and naiveness.  Her lechary serves as an outlet for her pacifist nature she adheres to.  It is the outlet that funnels out the aggression kept within.<br/><br/>Soft Hearted +2  Is firm in her belief in not bringing violence to another other then the shadow land tainted monstrocities.<br/><br/>School: Affinity Air, Deficiency fire<br/><br/>Spells: Sense, Commune, Summon, Counterspell, By the light of the lady moon (air), way of deception (air), windborne slumber (air), Path to Inner peace (water), reversal of fortunes (water), Jade strike (earth)<br/>2nd level: Bentens touch (air),  Secrets of the wind (air)<br/><br/>Starting outfit:  Tanto, Divination tool, Kimono, sandals, scroll satchel, traveling pack, 110 koku.<br/><br/>Appearance;  The best way to describe Meiwha is she petite and nubile in appearance.  Like a blade of grass in the wind.  She stands 5' in height and weighs less then a hundred pounds at 96lbs.  Her eyes a rare trait in the house Asahina, are of a sky blue.  A more common trait of the other houses of the Crane clan.   Meiwha takes to the Crane tradition and custom of bleachingg her hair white.  In honor of Daidoji Hayaku.<br/><br/>Background;  One might wonder why such a flower as Asahina Meiwha was selected and appointed as an Emerald Magistrate.   For the shugenja of the Asahina school.  Are known more for their meditation and fetish creations of nemuranai.  Along with a deep conviction of pacifism.  The refusal to strike back even when facing possible death.  Or the use of destructive spells.  Unless the antagonist is of the shadowlands, for the those tainted by this blight upon the natural order are the exception<br/><br/>Her selection brings a spiritual insight and demeanor that is not clouded by the need to excel in the skill of arms.  That would bring a balance to what ever group she is assigned to.<br/>