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Chapter 2: Creating a Character
Techniques Available: Kata, Shūji, Rituals
Starting Techniques:
•  Kata: Iaijutsu
•  Shūji (choose one): Shallow Waters, Weight of Duty
Honor: 50
Way of the Crane (School Ability): Precision is a virtue of the Crane 
Clan, and the Kakita Duelists are the most precise among combatants. 
No other duelist school’s students can match the exactness of each cut the 
Kakita Duelist School’s students inflict.
When you inflict a critical strike, you may increase or decrease its se-
verity by an amount up to your school rank.
Starting Outfit: Traveling clothes, ceremonial clothes, daishō (katana and 
wakizashi), naginata or spear, traveling pack, an attendant or pony, 10 koku.
Dragon Schools
Ostensibly, the Dragon Clan’s chief aim is to record and reflect upon the 
happenings of the Emerald Empire, but others wonder if there is some 
other objective the Dragon are pursuing in secret. The schools of the 
Kitsuki and the Agasha train their scholars, investigators, and shugenja 
to perceive the natural world and classify their observations, while the 
teachings of the Mirumoto and Togashi dōjō seem more concerned with 
individual Enlightenment, be it through the sword or the soul. All Drag-
on samurai emphasize individuality, however, and there is often more 
variety among the students within the same Dragon school than there is 
between students of different schools in the other clans.
Kitsuki Investigator School [Courtier]
The Kitsuki Investigator School is a recent school, founded when Agasha 
Kitsuki saved the life of the Mirumoto daimyō by use of evidence. The 
Kitsuki Investigators use their method of observation, experimentation, 
logic, and reason to understand the truth, which puts them outside the 
norm of the Rokugani testimony-based judiciary system. For the Kitsuki 
Investigators, justice and truth align more often than many in the Empire 
like, yet they pursue their investigations where it takes them. The Kitsuki 
Investigators gravitate to legal work as magistrates and justicars, and are 
also found serving as courtiers and representatives of the Dragon Clan.
Ring Increases: +1 Air, +1 Water
Skill Increases (choose five different skills): +1 Culture, +1 Government, +1 
Martial Arts [Melee], +1 Medicine, +1 Sentiment, +1 Skulduggery, +1 Survival
Techniques Available: Kata, Shūji, Rituals
Starting Techniques:
•  Kata (choose one): Striking as Air, Striking as Water
•  Shūji: Shallow Waters
Honor: 45
Kitsuki’s Method (School Ability): Your training teaches you to look at 
things systematically, finding patterns and inconsistencies in any field, 
even those where you are a relative novice.
When performing a check to investigate (see The Art of Investigation, 
on page 95), you may treat your ranks in the skill you are using as being 
equal to your school rank. If your ranks in the skill are higher than or equal 
to your school rank, you may add one kept Ring die showing .
Starting Outfit: Traveling clothes, ceremonial clothes, wakizashi, knife, 
calligraphy set, bo or jian, traveling pack, 5 koku.
The Togashi Tattooed Order [Monk]
The Togashi Order accepts members from across the Empire and of any 
caste. Those few who can find their way to one of the Togashi monasteries 
in the first place have proven themselves worthy of becoming initiates. The 
Togashi Order follows a particularly muscular interpretation of the Tao of 
Shinsei and expects its members to be able to travel and defend themselves 
as they seek their own path to Enlightenment. The members of the Togashi 
Order are known for and by the mystic tattoos that bind them to their or-
der, and their artistry is matched only by their unusual powers. Only those 
who become true ise zumi know that their power flows from the blood of 
Togashi, the Dragon Clan Kami, which is mixed into the tattooing inks.
Ring Increases: +1 Earth, +1 Void
Skill Increases (choose four different skills): +1 Fitness, +1 Martial 
Arts [Melee], +1 Martial Arts [Unarmed], +1 Meditation, +1 Survival, 
+1 Theology
Techniques Available: Kihō, Rituals, Shūji
Starting Techniques:
•  Kihō (choose three): Earth Fist, Earth Needs No Eyes, Flame Fist, Chi 
Protection, Water Fist
•  Shūji: Lord Togashi’s Insight
Honor: 40
Blood of the Kami (School Ability): Togashi monks adorn themselves 
in mystical tattoos that frequently take the shape of animals and natural 
phenomena, and they can draw power from these tattoos. Your char-
acter’s tattoos reflect revelations they have gained into the nature of the 
universe, themself, and the falsehood of the division between the two, 
and thus each one grants a benefit to a particular skill to reflect these 
insights. Each of these tattoos is unique, and the form each takes on 
your character should have personal meaning to them in their quest 
for Enlightenment.
When performing a check with a skill for which you have the associ-
ated tattoo, add one rolled Ring die showing 1  result.
You possess a number of these tattoos equal to your school rank:
•  Mountain Tattoo: Fitness
•  River Tattoo: Survival
•  Cloud Tattoo: Skulduggery
•  Volcano Tattoo: Command
•  Bat Tattoo: Sentiment
•  Tiger Tattoo: Martial Arts [Unarmed]
•  Lotus Tattoo: Meditation
•  Vine Tattoo: Medicine
Starting Outfit: Common clothing, bo, traveling pack, 5 koku.
Lion Schools
As befits the clan named as the Right Hand of the Emperor, the Lion 
Clan has committed itself to the study of warfare in all its forms. From 
soldiers to commanders, logisticians to tacticians, medics to morale-
boosters, the Lion have schools to train samurai for every battlefield role. 
Every student is trained in at least one martial art to cultivate the soul but 
also to serve if called upon.

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