Yamamori Hotaka<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body">Build Points:  +8   -84<br/><br/><br/>Air<br/>3   Reflexes<br/>3   Awareness<br/><br/>Earth <br/>3   Stamina<br/>3   Willpower<br/><br/>Fire<br/>3   Agility<br/>2   Intelligence<br/><br/>Water<br/>2   Strength<br/>2   Willpower<br/><br/>2   Void<br/><br/><br/>2   Athletics<br/>1   Divination<br/>1   Etiquette<br/>2   Hunting<br/>2   Investigation<br/>2   Jiujutsu<br/>1   Meditation<br/>1   Sling<br/>2   Staves<br/>1   Stealth<br/>1   Storytelling<br/><br/><br/>Flaws:  <br/>1   Fascination:  Swords<br/>1   Fascination:  ???<br/>2   Lechery<br/>5   Sworn Enemy (Karmic Nemesis)  (I stole his sword.)  <br/><br/>Merits:  <br/>3   Daredevil<br/><br/><br/>Clan Yamamori dwells high in the mountains of what may one day be Dragon Clan lands.  A great mountain spring feeds a series of waterfalls.  Racing down the mountains—augmented by run off in the spring—the waterfalls feed small wetlands in three high dales.  It then runs through a mountain forest where it splits into two around a shrine older than time.  Beneath the mountain forest, each river feeds wetlands in two more dales.  <br/>   The people of the mountain forest—the Yamamori—have inhabited these lands since time immemorial.  A peaceful people, they find prosperity growing rice in the wet lands, hunting mountain goats and bounding deer, herding goats, harvesting the eggs of wild birds, and spearing the great salmon with chirt headed spears when they run upstream.  Their rival is the mountain, not the enemy.  Young men and brave women challenge themselves by scaling peaks and dancing over ridges.  Sometimes these are ritual challenges—like the young men’s coming of age rite.  Other’s it is merely for enjoyment.  They hunt with slings—save for the salmon—sometimes carrying clubs gathered in the wood for defense.  The older folk seek wisdom in the woods, and on high peeks.  They share stories of what they’ve learned beginning in this fashion.  “I was walking (in the woods/on the mountain) and a (snake/rock/leaf/flower) told me…”  <br/>   They are a level headed people, long legged and beefy.  Though sometimes emotional, they are not given to panic—especially not over heights.  Some of their most skilled young men and brave women have played so long on the cliff faces that they are as nimble as the mountain goats.  These people have learned—when threatened by bandits or brawling with restless neighbors—to lure their foes into precarious balance.  <br/><br/>Since time out of mind, the Yamamori have known that trolls lived on the far side of the mountains.  Through the blessing of distance, brawls with these mighty beings have been few and far between, but their empire has spread over the generations.  Their blood has mingled with captive maidens since time immemorial, ‘til they are almost human, but still tall and strong, with hints of unnatural resilience that their greatest warriors can train and advance.  They know the secrets of steel.  Though many are their tributaries and vassals, too mine the depths of the earth is the soul right of their citizen warriors.  <br/>For the last three generations, the Yamamori have come into increasing contact and conflict with the Children of Iron.   7 years ago, they came in enough force to demand tribute from the 7 valleys, and have done so regularly since.  The Yamamori fear the day when Iron’s Children will come—not for tribute—but for total conquest.  <br/></div></div>