<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=324381.msg15574559#msg15574559">Quote from: Pumpkin Seeds on 28-08-2020, 23:47:16</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Well what thoughts do you have on the Lord and we can work from there?  I want to say we had talked about his Lord wanting him to be a prominent shugenja didn't we?  Kind of setting him at odds with what he desire to be which is a duelist?  Maybe his Lord is a pacifist?<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>i don't think so on the pacifist part.  Takehiko was made a shugenja because it was clear he had the gift to be a good one.  he was hearing the spirits whispering around him.  He has role models among his relatives about being a great warrior.  Maybe his lord is also one of those role models--maybe even an uncle--who won his curent position within the clan as the reward for some great deed in service to clan and empire.  (Also siblings who follow the more traditional Miromoto way.)