There are bigger things afoot than the politics of one little lesser village.<br/><br/>Tanigakure, and everything that happens inside of it, will become largely irrelevant once the plot starts picking up. At least, that's my hope. Tashi<em>could</em>be a good little Guard or Mibu... but then he'll spend the next few decades doing nothing but perpetuating the decades-old feuds and politics of his ancestors and his rivals' ancestors, which is exactly what everyone<em> else</em>in the world is doing.<br/><br/>If the game was<em>about</em>the things that will occur in and to Tanigakure, then I would have named it 'Tanigakure.' ;)<br/><br/>Long story short; the PCs<em>should</em>be The Only Ones (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheOnlyOne) who can do something about the Big Bads in this game. Not because of any power or circumstance they have, but simply for being the only ones with the<em>willingness</em>to deal with the true bad guys...<br/><br/>So, yeah, there are bigger things going on than Tanigakure.