Snake's Venom: The Skeptical Magistrate - Shiba Guardian

The Phoenix are most well known for their magical talents and preference for peaceful resolutions, but they have their armies and their warriors like any Clan. They simply prefer not to use them.

1. What clan does your character belong to?

The Phoenix Clan. Masters of the elements.

Void +1
Theology +1
Status: 30

2. What family does your character belong to?

The Shiba Family. Descendants of the kami.

Earth +1
Meditation +1, Tactics +1
Glory: 40
Koku: 5

3. What is your character's school and what role does that school fall into?

Shiba Guardian, Bushi, Courtier

Earth +1, Water +1
Courtesy +1, Fitness +1, Martial Arts (Melee) +1, Meditation +1, Survival +1
Honor: 45
Technique Access: Kata, Rituals, Shuji
Kata: Lord Shiba's Valor, Striking as Earth
School Ability: Way of the Phoenix
Starting Outfit: Ashigaru armor, travel clothes, daisho, naginata, traveling pack

4. How does your character stand-out within their school?

Creativity, passion, or drive. +1 Fire

5. Who is your lord and what is your character's duty to them?

Is beholden to a highly respected Jade Magistrate who is of the Isawa family. They often are dispatched to investigate rumors of dark magic or evil spirits. They then report on what they find to their master.

Giri: To investigate signs of dark magic.

6. What does your character long for and how might this impede their duty?

Seeks someday to be granted a province to administer and oversee. As such they are often tempted to gain favor with either the Clan or Imperial families. Would not be opposed to marrying into another clan for the chance at administering such a province.

Ninjo: To become a governor or provincial lord.

7. What is your character's relationship with their clan?

The character is a bit more worldly than most of his Clan, but finds their values mostly align with his own. +5 Glory

8. What does your character think of Bushido?

Does not give much concern for Bushido besides a guideline of behavior. Does not attach serious moral or spiritual importance to it. +1 to Commerce as they have studied how to administer an economy.

9. What is your character's greatest accomplishment so far?

Was successful in a duel against a minor Kakita Duelist. It was a duel to first blood. Many account it as a matter of luck. Famously Lucky

10. What holds your character back the most in life?

Part of the character's problems in committing fully to Bushido is the fact that they are often incapable of detecting the supernatural unless it is something extremely blatant. Momoku. This is especially problematic given his duty to investigate rumors of dark magic. Presumably, he was given that duty to perhaps teach him the truth and value of such spiritual concerns.

11. What activity makes your character feel at peace?

Despite his worldly view, the character finds generosity and charity give him a feeling of peace and worth. Generosity is his Passion.

12. What concern, fear, or foible most troubles your character?

He attaches heavier than normal importance to material goods than is seemly for a samurai. As such, Materialism is his biggest anxiety.

13. Who has your character learned the most from in their life?

He learned heavily from one of the key servants in his father's estate. A person who showed him just how much effort and work went into proper administration and necessities which many samurai ignore to maintain their devotion to Bushido. It also heightened his belief that he would be a superior lord to many.

Ebisu's Blessing
Delusions of Grandeur
Government +1

14. What do people notice first on encountering you?

His clothes are high quality, but they are incredibly plain and practical, more in fitting with a commoner than a samurai. There is one concession he makes to his heritage and that's an obi in Phoenix colors.

15. How does your character react to stressful situations?

He clenches his jaw and crosses his arms over his chest.

16. What are your character's relationships with other clans, families, or traditions?

He actually gets along well with the merchants of the Mantis clan and Yasuki family as they have similar worldly attitudes to his own and some of them feel that if he were to get his desire of ruling a province that he would make a sympathetic ear. He received a jian as a gift from a Yasuki artisan.

17. How would your character's parents describe them?

His parents would describe him as a heathen who doesn't understand true value. He has Command +1 due to his interest in leading a province.

18. Who was your character named to honor?

He was named for an ancestor who had completed a famous deed and was granted a small estate as a result. He has inherited this estate, but it is not the province he truly seeks. Glory +3.

19. What is your character's personal name?

Hisatsune

20. How should your character die?

Most appropriately, he would meet his end as a result of the supernatural forces that he has so little awareness or concern for.

Shiba Hisatsune

Clan: Phoenix

Family: Shiba

School: Shiba Guardian
Heritage: Famous Deed: Estate

School Rank

Giri: To investigate signs of dark magic and evil spirits.

Ninjo: To be a provincial governor.

Status: 30

Glory: 48

Honor: 45

Air: 1

Earth: 3

Fire: 2

Water: 2

Void: 2

Command 1

Commerce 1

Courtesy 1

Fitness 1

Government 1

Martial Arts (Melee) 1

Meditation 2

Survival 1

Tactics 1

Theology 1

Techniques: Kata, Rituals, Shuji

Kata: Lord Shiba's Valor, Striking as Earth

Distinctions: Ebisu's Blessing, Famously Lucky

Adversities: Momoku

Passions: Generosity

Anxieties: Delusions of Grandeur, Materialism

Gear:

Ashigaru armor

Travel clothes

Daisho (Katana, Wakizashi)

Jian

Naginata

Traveling pack

Shiba Hisatsune - Advanced

Simulated Advancement

Clan: Phoenix

Family: Shiba

School: Shiba Guardian
Heritage: Famous Deed: Estate
Title: Clan Magistrate

School Rank: 3

Giri: To investigate signs of dark magic and evil spirits.

Ninjo: To be a provincial governor.

Status: 27

Glory: 69

Honor: 89

Air: 3

Earth: 5