Part I: Core Identity (Clan and Family)
1. What clan does your character belong to? 
UNICORN
Ring Increase: +1 Water
Skill Increase: +1 Survival
Status: 30

2. What family does your character belong to? 
IUCHI
Ring Increase: +1 Air
Skill Increases: +1 Meditation, +1 Theology
Glory: 40  (5 Koku)

Part II: Role and School
3. What is your character’s role and school? 
IUCHI MEISHODO SCHOOL
Ring Increases: +1 Earth, +1 Water
Skill Increases: +1 Design, +1 Theology, +1 Martial Arts (Melee)
Techniques Available: Invocations, Rituals, Shuji
Starting Techniques:
a) Invocation: Grasp of Earth (Earth)
b) Invocation: The Rushing Wave (Water)
c) Ritual: Communing with Spirits (any)
d) Shuji: Well of Desire (Water)
Honor: 40
School Ability: The Way of Names
During downtime, do a TN 2 Design check to bind a spirit into a vessel to create a meishodo.  Reduce TN by 1 to activate it, and it has a number of uses equal to school rank (1).
School Rank: 1
Starting Outfit: Traveling clothes, ceremonial clothes, Wakizashi, Hammer, calligraphy set, traveling pack, Unicorn Warhorse.

4. How does your character stand out within their school? 
Creativity, Passion, Drive
Ring Increase: +1 Fire

Part III: Honor and Glory
5. What is your character’s duty to their lord?
GIRI: Research lore in the coastal islands for long-lost artifacts or nemuranai.

6. What does your character long for?
NINJO: Create a new clan (cult?) where she is the leader.

7. What is your character’s opinion of their clan?
Divergent.  Shugenja can also participate in front line melee battles, not just casting spells at the back.
Bonus Skill: +1 Martial Arts (Melee)

8. What does your character think of Bushido?
Divergent.  It is a means to an end, nothing more, nothing less.
Bonus skill: +1 Medicine

Part IV: Strengths and Weaknesses
9. What is your character’s greatest accomplishment so far?
Distinction advantage: Keen Balance (Earth)

10. What holds your character back the most in life?
Adversity disadvantage:  Whispers of Cruelty (BDSM)

11. What activity makes your character feel at peace?
Passion Advantage: Armaments (Earth)

12. What concern, fear, or foible troubles your character the most?
Anxiety disadvantage: Delusions of Grandeur (Void)

13. Who has your character learned the most from during their life?
Her horse riding instructor was the one who introduced her to Shourido.  She has been a willing student ever since.
1 Mentor Disadvantage --> Dark Secret (Void) - Shourido-like beliefs.
1 Mentor Skill  --> +1 Fitness

14. What detail do others find most striking about your character?
Her tight, form-fitting purple robes accentuate her curves and has a perfect opening at the top to display her ample silky smooth cleavage.

15. How does your character react to stressful situations?
When stressed out, she grabs people by the neck and starts to choke them with her steely eyes.  If that is not feasible, she takes out her horsewhip and starts whipping the nearest object (or person).

16. What are your character’s preexisting relationships with other clans, families, organizations, and traditions?
Her spellcasting prowess gets her begrudging respect from her peers, but her eccentricity leaves her with lack of fellowship.
Her fascination with grandeur has led her to connect with shadowy people beyond the periphery of Rokugani society. She has acquired a pillow book from them, which contains the tenets and teachings of Shourido as she starts to slide down its slippery slope.  The pillow book is enchanted, and looks normal to others until the right incantation is spoken for the true contents to show in the pages.

Part VI: Ancestry and Family
17. How would your character’s parents describe them?
When she was born into this world,
her parents were so very happy,
and their hand was her light,
But now she grew up,
she yearned to be free,
they didn't approve,
they couldn't do anything,
she changed all of a sudden,
she became defiant and delinquent,
and their advice, she disobeyed.

She was an acknowledged prodigy in the spellcasting arts though.
Bonus Skill: +1 Theology

18. Who was your character named to honor?
An ancestor named Beia was a shrewd and cunning advisor to an earlier Khan that allowed the Unicorn to flourish properly in the unforgiving desert.
Samurai Heritage result: 4-Dynasty Builder (Glory -3), 1-Command (Social)

19. What is your character’s personal name?
Beya.

Part VII: Death
20. How should your character die?
She will achieve her NINJO by any means, and she would die before anyone would take it away.

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