<div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Shinobu Shiba</div><div class="spoiler_body">1. What clan does your character belong to?<br/>The Phoenix Clan<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body">Ring Increase:+1 Void<br/>Skill Increase: +1 Theology<br/>Status: 30<br/>The Shiba Family<br/>Ring Increase: +1 Water<br/>Skill Increases: +1 Courtesy, +1 Tactics</div></div><br/>3. What is your character’s role and school? Bushi, Shiba Guardian<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body">Ring Increases: +1 Earth, +1 Water<br/>Skill Increases: +1 Courtesy, +1 Fitness, +1 Martial Arts [Melee],  +1 Tactics, +1 Theology<br/>Techniques Available: Kata, Shūji, Rituals<br/>Starting Techniques:<br/>• Kata (choose one): Striking as Water, Striking as Earth<br/>• Kata: Lord Shiba’s Selflessness<br/>Honor: 45<br/>Way of the Phoenix (School Ability): The Shiba Guardian School teaches<br/>the idea of a life-preserving blade, one that is drawn only after all other<br/>options have been exhausted. In a clan so full of shugenja, emotional<br/>turbulence can lead to catastrophic destruction; it is the Shiba Guardian’s<br/>sworn task to keep their clan’s shugenja from being harmed and from<br/>harming themselves. If a conflict or disaster can be cut off at the source<br/>with a word of wise counsel rather than a swift sword, all the better.<br/>Once per scene, when a character at range 0–3 makes a check, you may<br/>negate a number of  results up to your school rank.<br/>Starting Outfit: Ashigaru armor, travel clothing, daishō (katana and wakizashi),<br/>spear or naginata, traveling pack, 5 koku.</div></div><br/>4. How does your character stand out within their school?<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body">Creativity, passion, or drive (+1 Fire Ring): Your character is recognized<br/>by their teachers and peers for their inventive ideas, their sincere<br/>love for the craft of their school, or their intense and irrepressible<br/>desire to succeed in their field. Their energy and enthusiasm inspire<br/>fellow students and galvanize rivals to put forth their best as well.</div></div><br/>5. What is your character’s duty to their lord? Bodyguard<br/><br/>6. What does your character long for? A place to belong<br/><br/><br/>7. What is your character’s opinion of their clan? Shinobu is a strong believer in peace over power, protecting those who cannot, and holding all things in balance, so she holds her clan in high regard.<br/><br/><br/><br/>8. What does your character think of Bushidō? Shinobu holds firm to her clan's philosophy of Bushido.<br/><br/>9. What is your character’s greatest accomplishment so far? During one of Shinobu's rare tasks away from Tsukihime, she was assigned to the escort duty of one of the Phoenix Clan's provincial governors. What was supposed to have been a simple task of seeing the governor to his winter estate safely, turned near disastrous as the detail was ambushed by ronin and bandits. The fighting lasted for over a day, Shinobu's spear breaking as the moon rose, bodies of the bandits laying around her. By the time the estate guard had come to see what the delay was, only Shinobu and the senior samurai of the escort duty remained standing. Despite the fierce fighting, the governor remained relatively unharmed. Shinobu reminds herself of this fierce fighting each time she begins to doubt herself, to remind her of just what can be overcome through determination. (Advantage: Iron Will)<br/><br/>10. What holds your character back the most in life? Shinobu is a skilled fighter, a resolute warrior. In the heat of battle, as the storm of conflict rages, she can stand in the center of calm. Yet, when it comes to certain activities outside of battle, she is.... Less than graceful. Shinobu would be an exemplar of a samurai if she could get over tripping over her own two feet, every dance instructor has quit in frustration and her calligraphy tends to be a bit sloppy at best. She isn't blind to this fault either, it tends to be her greatest shame and she tries to keep it as a secret if she can help it. (flaw: clumsiness)<br/><br/>11. What activity makes your character feel at peace? Shinobu feels most at peace when helping others, seeing others happy and at ease also sets her heart at ease. (passion: generosity)<br/><br/>12. What concern, fear, or foible troubles your character the most? Shinobu is quiet, preferring to stay in the background and let others speak. After all, it is not the duty of the yojimbo to speak for their charge, they are there to fight so the charge need not. Unless called out, Shinobu tends to avoid saying anything at all. (anxiety: meekness)<br/><br/>13. Who has your character learned the most from during their life?<br/><br/>Experience Purchases:<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body">School Rank 1 XP: 16/16 ; Increase Air Ring to 2 (6xp), Increase Melee to 2 (4xp), Technique Purchase Iajutsu (3xp), Warrior's Resolve (3x)<br/>School Rank 2 8/20: Increase Melee to 3 (6xp); Iron Forest Style (2xp)</div></div></div></div><br/>Getting there! Near completion.