<ul class="bbc_list"><ul class="bbc_list"><ul class="bbc_list"></ul></ul></ul><div class="floatright">(https://i.pinimg.com/236x/ff/1e/37/ff1e37f7a6729342f6420abc776b3697--drama-movies-k-drama.jpg)</div>Name : Mirumoto Takehiko (Mountain Prince)<br/>Clan : Dragon<br/>Status:    30    Honor:    50    Glory:    49<br/><hr/>Earth:    3    --steady, thorough, mentally resilient, reliable and grounded<br/>Water:    2    --adaptable, powerful, affable, physically flexible, observant, easygoing and perceptive<br/>Fire :        3    --ferocious, direct, passionate, curious, physically quick and inventive<br/>Air  :        1    --graceful, cunning, deft, shrewd and precise<br/>Void :        1    --spiritually sensitive, wise, introspective and unflinching personality<br/><br/>Endurance: (Calculated based on your final ring values; (Earth + Fire) x 2.) = HP against harm (fatigue is measured vs it)<br/>Composure: (Calculated based on your final ring values; (Earth + Water) x 2.) = HP against grief (grief measured vs it)<br/>Focus: (Calculated based on your final ring values; Fire + Air.) = initiative<br/>Vigilance: (Calculated based on your final ring values; (Air + Water) / 2.) = Perception/awareness<br/>Void Points: (1/2 void ring, max equal void ring) = Luck/Fate/Focus to increase dice rolls by 1, avoid death or activate techniques<br/><hr/>School: Agasha Mystic<br/>Rank: 1<br/><span class="bbc_u">School Technique/Mastery</span><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Elemental Transmutation</div><div class="spoiler_body">When performing an invocation, you may choose a different ring with which to make the check. While using this school ability, you cannot activate the original Element of the invocation, but you can activate for the new Element. You can use this school ability a number of times per game session up to your school rank.<br/><br/>Starting Outfit: Sanctified robes, wakizashi (short sword), bō (staff), knife, traveling pack, scroll satchel, set of glass vials, journal.<br/></div></div><br/><br/>Heritage: (question 18)<br/>Roll #1: (which ancestor your non-personal name deviates from)<br/>Roll #2: (specific deed done by an ancestor, d10 rolled)<br/>Roll #3: (roll d10 after determining #2)<br/><hr/><br/>Skills:<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Martial Skills</div><div class="spoiler_body"><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Fitness rank 2</div><div class="spoiler_body"><em></em><br/><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Restore Approach (Earth Ring): </li><li>Adapt Approach (Water Ring):</li><li>Invent Approach (Fire Ring): </li><li>Refine Approach (Air Ring): </li><li>Attune Approach (Void Ring): </li></ul></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Martial Arts (Armed) rank 1</div><div class="spoiler_body"><em>Whatever other arts they practice, a bushi’s foremost art is always the art of battle, and even samurai who rarely take the field often train extensively in the martial arts as an exercise in self-mastery. Nearly all of them receive some training in use of a melee weapon, even if they prefer a weapon such as a bow. While many samurai believe sword fighting to be the most refined of martial arts, there are numerous schools that are more renowned for their use of other melee weapons. Samurai in Rokugan use the great clubs known as tetsubō, spears, naginata and other polearms, and even staves, depending on the teachings of their school and their own personal preferences.<br/>Martial Arts [Melee] covers combat with close-quarters weapons in both practice and theory.</em><br/><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Withstand Approach (Earth Ring):</li></ul> Fighting defensively, blocking carefully, exhausting your opponent, practicing techniques that rely on stamina. <br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Shift Approach (Water Ring):</li></ul> Fighting reactively, redirecting force, drawing out your opponent, practicing techniques that rely on fluidity of motion and flexibility.<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Overwhelm Approach (Fire Ring): </li></ul>Fighting aggressively, attacking directly, unnerving your opponent, practicing techniques that rely on bursts of speed and power.<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Feint Approach (Air Ring): </li></ul>Fighting subtly, attacking indirectly, outmaneuvering your opponent, evading attacks, practicing techniques that rely on grace and poise, reading your opponent’s moves.<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Sacrifice Approach (Void Ring): </li></ul>Fighting instinctively or without regard for your life, attacking without regard for anything else, putting mind over matter.<br/>[/list]<br/></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Meditation rank 2</div><div class="spoiler_body"><em></em><br/><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Restore Approach (Earth Ring): </li><li>Adapt Approach (Water Ring):</li><li>Invent Approach (Fire Ring): </li><li>Refine Approach (Air Ring): </li><li>Attune Approach (Void Ring): </li></ul>$$ Withstand Approach (Earth Ring): Using logic to overcome your personal feelings, reflecting on the nature of your responsibilities, maintaining a level head despite challenges and provocation, resisting temptation.<br/>$$ Shift Approach (Water Ring): Understanding your own emotions and desires, reflecting on the nature of your desires, understanding how to align your goals with your desires, resisting rage.<br/>$$ Overwhelm Approach (Fire Ring): Using your emotions to reject a seemingly inevitable conclusion before you, maintaining concentration on a single topic, staying in an emotional state for long periods of time, resisting fear.<br/>$$ Feint Approach (Air Ring): Convincing yourself of the truth of something, finding weaknesses in your viewpoints and ideologies, understanding how to align your goals with your ideals, resisting despair.<br/>$$ Sacrifice Approach (Void Ring): Understanding your place in the universe, understanding the role fate has provided for you, knowing what you are willing to give up to achieve your goals, seeing glimpses of your own future, resisting supernatural mental interference.<br/>[/list]<br/></div></div></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Scholar Skills</div><div class="spoiler_body"><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Theology rank 2</div><div class="spoiler_body"><em></em><br/><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Recal Approach (Earth Ring): </li></ul> Knowing facts about the formal doctrines of religious traditions of the Emerald Empire, knowing about historical occurrences of supernatural events, correctly reciting scripture, remembering the weaknesses of a supernatural being from folklore, communing with earth kami.<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Survey Approach (Water Ring):</li></ul> Identifying religious artifacts and supernatural phenomena, knowing how the average person of a given walk of life interacts with spiritual traditions, researching a piece of scripture to learn its meaning, communing with water kami.<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Theorize Approach (Fire Ring):</li></ul>  Guessing what supernatural forces might be at work based on secondary evidence, reconciling two contradictory pieces of religious doctrine, offering a novel explanation of the meaning of a piece of scripture, communing with fire kami.<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li> Approach (Air Ring):</li><li>Sense Approach (Void Ring):</li></ul>  Performing divinations, determining the veracity of a supernatural occurrence, predicting the behavior of supernatural entities, knowing the philosophical ramifications of a decision, communing with the root of the universe.<br/>[/list]<br/></div></div></div></div><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button"> Skills</div><div class="spoiler_body"><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Tactics rank 1</div><div class="spoiler_body"><em></em><br/><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Restore Approach (Earth Ring): </li><li>Adapt Approach (Water Ring):</li><li>Invent Approach (Fire Ring): </li><li>Refine Approach (Air Ring): </li><li>Attune Approach (Void Ring): </li></ul></div></div></div></div><br/><hr/>Primary Weapon: (Katana)<br/>Category: Sword<br/>Range:    0    Skill:    (Martial, Armed)<br/>DMG:    ?    DLD:        ?<br/>Grips:    -    Quality:    -<br/>Special Abilities:    -<br/><br/>Primary Weapon: (Punch)<br/>Category: Unarmed<br/>Range:    0    Skill: (martial unarmed)<br/>DMG:    1    DLD:        2<br/>Grips:    -    Quality:    -<br/>Special Abilities: Snaring<br/><br/>Primary Weapon: (kick)<br/>Category: Unarmed<br/>Range:    1    Skill: (martial unarmed)<br/>DMG:    2    DLD:        1<br/>Grips:    -    Quality:    -<br/>Special Abilities: -<br/><br/>Armor: (name)<br/>Resistance: Physical x Supernatural X<br/>Quality:<br/>Special Abilities:<br/><hr/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spells (Invocations)</div><div class="spoiler_body">(example)<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Tetsubō of Earth</div><div class="spoiler_body"><em></em><br/><strong>Activation:</strong> <br/></div></div><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Path to Inner Peace</div><div class="spoiler_body"><em></em><br/><strong>Activation:</strong> <br/></div></div><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Jurōjin’s Balm</div><div class="spoiler_body"><em></em><br/><strong>Activation:</strong> <br/></div></div></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spells (Rituals)</div><div class="spoiler_body"><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Cleansing Rite</div><div class="spoiler_body"><em></em><br/><strong>Activation:</strong> <br/></div></div><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Comune with the Spirits</div><div class="spoiler_body"><em></em><br/><strong>Activation:</strong> <br/></div></div></div></div><br/><hr/>Advantages/Disadvantages:<br/>Benten’s Blessing (Air)<br/>Types: Interpersonal, Spiritual<br/>Effects: The following apply to a character with the Benten’s Blessing distinction:<br/>$$ After interacting with a character for one or more scenes, you know with certainty whether they are open to your romantic aspirations or if they are categorically uninterested.<br/>$$ When performing a check for which the favor of the Fortune Benten is a benefit (such as an Aesthetics [Air] check to say something insightful about a piece of art or a Courtesy [Air] check to convince someone of your positive qualities), you may reroll up to two dice.<br/><br/>Curiosity (Fire)<br/>Types: Mental<br/>Effects: The following apply to a character with the Curiosity passion:<br/>$$ The first time you attempt a new task and fail, you always think of another route you could take to try to overcome or learn more about the problem.<br/>$$ After performing a check to seek answers to an intriguing question (such as a Medicine [Fire] check to create a new chemical concoction or a Theology [Fire] check to try to determine the metaphysical underpinnings of a particular kami’s behavior), you remove 3 strife.<br/><br/>Quick Reflexes (Fire)<br/>Types: Physical, Interpersonal<br/>Effects: The following apply to a character with the Quick Reflexes distinction:<br/>$$ At the start of each scene, you can always grab an item within reach or reposition it a few paces within your environment. The GM is the final arbiter of how much you can prepare or how much distance you can achieve before the rest of the scene begins.<br/>$$ When performing a check for which you must act swiftly (such as a Meditation [Fire] check to generate initiative during a duel or a Survival [Fire] check to put together a makeshift weapon), you may reroll up to two dice.<br/><br/><br/>Irrepressible Flirtation (Earth)<br/>Types: Interpersonal<br/>Effects: The following apply to a character with the Irrepressible Flirtation anxiety:<br/>$$ You find it difficult to pass up the chance to flirt with people you find attractive, and when someone you find attractive flirts with you, you cannot help but return their advances with your own flirtation.  Your interest is obvious to all onlookers.<br/>$$ After performing a check to interact with (or ignore) someone you are interested in without exceeding propriety (such as a Courtesy [Earth] check to make appropriate small talk or a Sentiment [Earth] check to know how to tread cautiously in a social scene), you receive 3 strife. If this is the first time this has occurred this scene, gain 1 Void point.<br/><br/>Sworn Enemy (Earth)<br/>Types: Interpersonal<br/>Effects: The following apply to a character with the Sworn Enemy adversity:<br/>$$ You and the GM should select or create a character to be your sworn enemy. Your sworn enemy exists within the world and periodically meddles in your affairs, directly or indirectly, at the GM’s discretion. If your sworn enemy perishes, you must either remove this disadvantage, acquire a new sworn enemy (perhaps someone who hates you because of your role in the demise of the previous one), or find a way for your deceased foe to continue playing a role in your life.<br/>$$ When you make a check to remain rational in the presence of this person you hate (such as a Courtesy [Earth] check to interact with this person without being provocative or a Meditation [Earth] check to stay stoic in the face of their insults), you must choose and reroll two dice containing  or . After resolving the check, if you failed, you gain 1 Void point.<br/><br/><hr/>Equipment:<br/><br/><br/><hr/>Background:<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Clan</div><div class="spoiler_body">Dragon </div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Family</div><div class="spoiler_body">Mirumoto </div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">School/Role</div><div class="spoiler_body">Agasha Mystic School/Shugenja </div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">How did you stand out in school</div><div class="spoiler_body">(Fire: Creativity, Passion, Drive) <br/>When Takehiko came to the Agaasha Mystic School as a child, his sensei noted that his potential as a shugenja was so great his position here was inevitable--the Kami were already talking to him.  Takehiko, however, had long yearned to master swordplay and be a great warrior.  He didn’t wish to surrender this ambition.  His sensei feared he would reject hsi studies--or at least diversify so far that he excelled at nothing.  <br/>Instead, Takehiko found a creative approach to his studies and his training that served to advance him in both his callings--using shugenja meditative techniques to accel at iaijutsu dueling, using the physical and mental conditioning of the martial arts to give more energy to harness the power of the kami.  His passion for resolving these disparate desires became a driving force in his life, a motivation to excel.   </div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Who Is your Lord?</div><div class="spoiler_body">    (Working with pumpkin.)  My lord’s desires are in line with my own in that he values me as a supernaturally gifted warrior, but he does not wish me to pursue the path of the duelist, fearing that I will die in a duel when my expertise is needed elsewhere.  <br/>    Giri:                Deal appropriately with supernatural threats as assigned by my lord.   </div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Ninjoo</div><div class="spoiler_body">            To excel as a shugenja who is a duelist.  To explore, test, and share methods in which shugenja discipline is a boon to the martial arts--especially iaijutsu.  I hope one day to become the equal of the Kakita Sword-Saints and have a chance to teach my techniques before I die.  </div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Clan</div><div class="spoiler_body">        Takehiko believes the Dragon Clan has found a strong balance between idealism and integince, honor and reason.  He firmly believes in them.   </div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Bushido</div><div class="spoiler_body">    Takehiko believes that Bushido is a noble code intended to guide samurai to better themselves and their nation.  He has tested his predispositions about Bushido with philosophical discussions and he understands that Bushido can be misrepresented to justify corruption.  TAkehiko believes that critical thinking and basic compassion can overcome such misrepresentation.  He is young, though, and his beliefs have yet to be tested in the crucible of actual experience!  (+10 Honor) </div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Greatest Accomplishment (Large)</div><div class="spoiler_body"> Last year, as my Shugenja training was moving into a series of practicals and apprenticeships, I traveled the land with my sensei Agasha Isamu.  We came to a remote province.  The road north was haunted by a demon--the ghost of a man who died in a duel.  We researched what was known of him.  How an arrogant son of a nearby lord was testing himself by challenging passing soldiers.  An elderly ronin defeated him in a duel that slew him.  It seemed that his resentment over being defeated by such a lowly warrior had plunged his soul into Jigoku. Now, many years later, Jigoku had now spat him back out to seek his vengeance.  <br/>Three separate bushi had tried to slay the demon.  All were defeated.  The one survivor--who was now missing an arm--was able to tell us that he had outdrawn the demon and his katana glanced harlessly from the demon's flesh.  <br/>Digging further we learned that even now two shugenja were hunting the demon, but he avoided them and fled if they approached.  This led us to the theory that the demon knew himself to be vulnerable to magic.  The coward fled from those who could slay him and challenged those who could not harm him to duels to the death.  <br/>My sensei and I came up with a plan.  My large stature, powerful build, and tendency to carry a katana made it possible for me to be mistaken for a bushi.  Traveling to the road haunted by the demon, I unsheathed my katana and left it with my sensei.  I cast Tetsubo of Earth and reshaped the tetsubo into a kanta, then sheathed it.  <br/>Sure enough, the demon did not recognize me as a shugenja and challenged me to an iaijutsu duel for the right to use the road.  We drew and I was victorious.  Because my sword was actually an earth kami taken corporeal form, it could slay the demon.   </div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">What holds you back:  (Sworn Enemy: Agasha Ryota)</div><div class="spoiler_body">    "I'm not certain where my rivalry with Agasha Ryota began.  Maybe it's his name?  Ryota means "stout, strong."  Where I am quite tall and burly--and was even as a child--Ryouta is small and slight.  I remember when we both began to study at the Agasha Ryu school together, we were friends.  He was a great admirer of my strength, and asked me to spar with him, help him learn the ways of weapons.  I was a great admirer of his quick wit and intelligence.  <br/>    Somewhere that friendship twisted.  Is it jealousy?  For a time, Ryota seemed increasingly frustrated that he could not match me in combat.  Where I was given careful praise for cultivating all my strengths, Ryota was chastised for studying something for which he lacked the aptitude.  Soon Ryota tossed aside his shinai during our sparring and dressed me down for failure to pay attention to our real lessons.  From that day forth, he seemed constantly aligned against me, either berating me for my distraction or using skillful barbs to demean me for falling behind him as a shugenja.   </div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">What makes you feel at peace? (Curiosity)</div><div class="spoiler_body">  Many curious people hunger to know what something is, or where it comes from.  The curiosity that drives me in the question, “Why?”  Upon finding that answer, I often want to know, “What else?”  “What else could work this way?  What else can i learn from this?  What else could i accomplish with this.”   </div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Foible (Irrepressible Flirtation)</div><div class="spoiler_body">  When Takehiko actually takes the time to be sociable, his flirty and downright lecherous side comes out.   Given that that side rarely has a chance for proper expression in the life of a man devoted to mastering two arts and developing a new one--his flirty side tends to go rather overboard when it has that chance to come out.  (This also frustrates his finance greatly.)   </div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Who have you learned the most from (Benten’s Blessing)</div><div class="spoiler_body"> Agasha Isamu-Sensei was a teacher to me during my basic training and my personal mentor in my last years in learning to be a shugenja.  He believed in me.  He taught me a great many things.  Most of all, he challenged me to look at things from different perspectives and different directions.  </div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">What do people notice about you first?</div><div class="spoiler_body">   </div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Stress:</div><div class="spoiler_body">    Takehiko has several responses when stress starts to get out of hand.  <br/>    One is to take three meditative breaths and try to yield to his connection with the void.  He believes that this technique is the key to linking the shugenja arts with those of the iaijutsu duelist, but his tie to the void is still weak.  <br/>    The second--which requires a bit of time--is to step back from the situation and walk around it, trying to see the problem from a different perspective.  <br/>    The third--which he falls back on when the other two fail or aren’t viable--is to focus on why it is important to him to succeed.  When he finds that success is truly important to him, he often feels motivated to make a speech.  When the technique works well enough that he finds a speech, it has never failed him.   </div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Relationships with other factions in the emerald empire.</div><div class="spoiler_body">--Mirumoto Megumi: My finance and the daughter of my lord.  A maiden of sixteen, she is a mirumoto bushi.  She's very serious about duty, and can find me frustrating.  Where others see an innovative and dedicated young man with healthy amorous appetites, who’s minor failings in discretion with his flirtation can be dismissed as the clumsiness of youth, Megumi sees a flighty and distractible pervert. <br/>    In spite of this, Megumi can see things within me that are admirable and loveable, which makes my perceived failings all the more frustrating.  <br/>Megumi is extremely proper so she knows that I'm entitled to my dalliances and she is not.  This is, of course, patently unjust, and she tends to take that frustration out on me.  It expresses itself in her opinion that immature and need a good wallop upside the head.  <br/><br/>    It was Megumi’s father--my lord--who granted me my katana. <br/><br/>    Kakita Family of the Crane Clan:  “At court recently, I sought the company of three young students of the Kakita duelist school.  Kakita Naoki--a very lovely girl--her fiance ___ Isamu, and her cousin Kakita Akio.  Our conversation began pleasantly, with my charm and admiration for the Kakita Swordsaints winning their friendship.  <br/>    “It came to me with the instinct I'd been cultivating since adolescence that Naoki found me handsome.  I devoted special attention to the young Katkita with the silver ponytail.  After a time, the evening’s conversation shifted to Isamu and I competed to be more flattering and attractive to Naoki.  As I grew fairer and fairer in her favor, Isamu began to scowl.  His friendliness soured and after a while he began to insult my ideas on meditation and iaijutsu.  <br/>    “With skilled barbs, he awakened my pride and anger, ‘til I had agreed to test my ideas against both himself and Akio in rapid succession.  <br/>    “Akio and I squared off first.  We centered, and I could sense the superiority of his technique.  If we had been using actual blades, I would have forfeited and acknowledged my superior.  Knowing that I wouldn't likely be slain by his blows, I chose to continue the test.  <br/>    “We drew.  I took a painful bruise, and I learned.  It was well worth the price.  <br/>    “Centering against Isamu, I found that I could not judge who’s skill was greater, but that his anger was clouding his tie ot the void.  We drew.  Isamu defeated me and raised three welts on my body faster than i could concede.  <br/>    “I was extremely disheartened and found myself severely doubting the technique I was developing.  I thought myself almost evenly matched to Isamu, and was certain that his anger would leave him vulnerable, not be channeled into strength. <br/>“Naoki came secretly to my chamber and tended my welts.  Her gentle words restored my soul.  We shared passion that night and--though she left my chamber still a maiden--we were both satisfied.  <br/>“On the lat day of court, something else inspired me.  Before we could leave, Akio approached me.  “I have spoken to my sensei about your ideas and your techniques, Miumoto-san.  We are interested to see how you will develop them.  You will receive an invitation to the Topaz Championship for your Gempuku.  I hope that we can face each other again there.”  </div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">How would your parents describe you?</div><div class="spoiler_body">Kitsuki Sana, my mother:  “Takehiko is a good boy with healthy appetites.  Food, girls, curiosity, he’s a hunger young man and he always has been.  I never let my maids do the cooking for him.  Takehiko deserves nothing but the best.  <br/>    I’m a bit concerned, though.  My lord husband, and his noble brother, encourage the boy’s distraction.  Takehiko has a great gift.  He can hear the song of the kami.  Takehiko should cultivate that.  Swords are for lesser men then my boy.  <br/><br/>Mirumoto Totoro, my father:  “Takehiko is a very wise man. A true embodiment of the virtues Togashi-sama has taught us.  He thinks critically.  He carries out his duty with intelligence and energy.  My wife only sees the gifts the kami have given our son.  I see that TAkehiko has many gifts.  Not the least of these is a strong arm and a swordsman’s wit.  <br/></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Ancestor</div><div class="spoiler_body">    I am named for my maternal Great Grandfather--Kitski Takehiro.  Takehiro was a shugenja who studied the invocation The Fury of Osano Wo for use in battle against a gaijin invasion.  He noticed the quality of the glass created by lighting striking the sandy beach.  After the war, the developed a prayer to the Kami of Air, Stone, and Fire that allowed a small arc of lighting to be summoned forth and maintained for a protracted period for use in forging metal and blowing glass.  (Discovery: +1 Theology) </div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Personal Name</div><div class="spoiler_body"> Takehiko means Mountain Prince.  Chosen for it’s similarity to Takehiro, Takehiko proved quite appropriate.  Handsome and creative as a prince, tall and strong as a mountain, enduring and resolute as the stone.  </div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">How should you die?</div><div class="spoiler_body">    “I failed, Ryouta…” I groaned.  The fever wracked my body.  Neither my healing nor any others’ could lift the taint rotting me away from within.  “The Lost One was a kakita once, the greatest duelist of his generation.  No other Kakita can stand against him.  When we squared off.   I centered.  I feel deep into the Void.  I knew my doom, Ryota.  Only our meditation techniques can possibly create a duelist superior to a kakita.  But I am not that duelist.  <br/>“From the day we reconciled.  From the day you humbled yourself and asked to become my student, I knew it was you.  <br/>“No man may call himself a master ‘til his student has surpassed him. You are that student, and only you can save us.”  <br/>Ryota’s eyes closed and a tear fell onto my dying body.  “I will not disappoint you, Sensei.<br/>“You will not, Ryota.  I know this and I die complete.”  </div></div><br/><hr/>Honor/Glory Record<br/><br/><hr/><strong>Experience Log</strong><br/>Current XP :<br/>XP Spent   :