Player: Rain Yupa
Name: Utaku Jinyu-Zhe
Clan: Unicorn
School: Iuchi Shugenja
Rank: 1
Insight: 123/150
Experience: 0/40
Glory: 1.0
Honor: 5.5
Status: 1.0
Taint: 0.0
Heritage: EARTH: 2WATER: 3FIRE: 2Agility: 2
Intelligence: 3
AIR: 2VOID: 2Void: 2
Current Void Points: 2/2
SKILLSBattle (Perception) - 1
Calligraphy (Intelligence) - [Cipher] - 1
Horsemanship (Agility) - 1
Lore: Theology (Intelligence) - 1
Medicine (Intelligence) - [Non-Human] - 1
Meditation (Void) - 1
Spellcraft (Intelligence) - 1
Animal Handling (Awareness) - [Horses] - 1 {+1k1}
Defense (Reflexes) - 1
Craft: Horse Tack (Intelligence) - 1
Etiquette (Awareness) - 1
Investigation (Perception) - 1
Sincerity (Awareness) - 1
MASTERY ABILITIESADVANTAGESParagon of Duty {7} - You may spend a Void Point on any Skill Roll or Spell Casting Roll to negate all TN penalties for that roll, including Wound penalties.
Touched by Chikushudo {4} - You gain a bonus of +1k1 on all Animal Handling rolls.
DISADVANTAGESGaijin Name {2} - Dice may only explode once on each die in a Social Skill Roll.
True Love {3} - Whenever you are in a position where you must choose between Love and Duty, you must spend a Void Point before you can choose your duty over Utaku Aneksi.
TECHNIQUES, SPELLS, KATA, KIHO, SHADOWLANDS POWERSSpirit of the Wind - As a Complex Action, you may sacrifice one spell slot of any element to grant one target individual an additional Simple Move Action. This Simple Action is in addition to the target's normal Actions per Round. The additional Action must be used on the target's next Turn or it is lost. You also gain a Free Raise on any spell with the
Travel keyword.
Spell: Commune (1) {Any} - Allows the caster to speak with one of the local elemental kami, asking it a few questions, which it will answer honestly to the best of its ability. Required for Banishing (5 raises). Raises = More Questions, Clarity.
Spell: Sense (1) {Any} - Allows the caster to sense the presence, quantity, and rough location of elemental spirits of that element within range, or actual manifestations of that element. Required for Banishing (3 raises). Raises = Range.
Spell: Summon (1) {Any} - Allows the caster to summon a modest quantity of the chosen element. Raises = Range, Quantity, Composition.
Spell: Nature's Touch (1) {Air} - You are able to use the spirits of the wind to speak to an animal and ensure that it understands what you are saying. This spell works only on natural animals. It does not guarantee that the animal will regard you positively or that it will fulfill requests made of it, but the creature will understand anything you tell it. Raises = Range.
Spell: Armor of Earth (1) {Earth} {Battle} {Defense} - You gain reduction in an amount equal to your Earth Ring + School Rank; your Water is considered 1 Rank lower for purposes of movement. Raises = Duration.
Spell: Jurojin's Balm (1) {Earth} - If the target suffers the effects of any poison or toxin within the duration of the spell, or is already under the effects of a poison when the spell targets him, he may re-roll any failed Stamina roll to resist the poison, with a bonus of +2k0 to the second roll. Also, cures drunkenness and other such effects, and it becomes impossible to become intoxicated during the spell's duration. Raises = Duration, Targets.
Spell: Sympathetic Energies (1) {Water} - You may transfer any one existing spell effect from you to the willing target of this spell. With three Raises, you may transfer one spell from one willing target to another willing target. Raises = Range, Special.
Spell: Path to Inner Peace (1) {Water} - Restore a number of wounds to the target equal to the amount by which the Spell Casting Roll exceeded the spell's TN to cast.
Spell: Inari's Blessing (2) {Water} {Craft} - Generates enough food and drink to sustain a number of individuals equal to your School Rank +1 for 1 day. Without Raises, this food is bland but sustaining, such as unflavored rice and water. Raises = +1 person, Quality.
EQUIPMENT/CURRENCY6 koku 2 bu 5 zeni
Wakizashi
Spare Yumi bow for Wife (
Scroll Satchel
Extravagant Clothing
Calligraphy Set
Unicorn Riding Horse ("Chiyuuai")
Traveling Pack (Small Knife, Wide-brimmed straw hat, Wicker Umbrella, Spare Kimono & Sandals, Basket, Blanket, Cooking Pot, Small Folding Stool, Tatami Mat, Walking Stick)
Coin Purse
Bucket
Paper (10 sheets)
Chopsticks
Small Tent
Parangu
COMBATWeaponsWakizashi - 2k2 - 5k2 damage - Can be thrown up to 20' w/ Athletics
ArmorArmor TN = 15
Other Modifiers = None
Initiative3k2
WoundsHEALTHY (+0): 0/10
NICKED (+3): 0/4
GRAZED (+5): 0/4
HURT (+10): 0/4
INJURED (+15): 0/4
CRIPPLED (+20): 0/4
DOWN (+40): 0/4
OUT (+N/A): 0/4
DESCRIPTIONJinyu-Zhe is a fair-skinned man, just a hair beneath average height for a man in his 19th year, with long dark hair, hung loose past his shoulders, and a paired thin mustache and slender beard. He is of a slender build, and dons no armor nor carry any weapons of note except his wakizashi, and a few other utilitarian tools. His true weapon is with his scroll case at his hip, though it's less of a weapon and more of a tool kit slash medicine pack.
Unicorn Riding Horse - ChiyuuaiAir: 2, Earth: 3, Fire: 1, Water: 2
- , Stamina: 4, Agi: 3, Str: 5
Initiative: 4k2, Attack: Kick 4k3, DR 5k2 (Complex)
Armor TN: 15, Reduction: 3, Wounds: 12: +5; 24: +10; 36: +15; 48: Dead
Skills:
Hunting (Tracking) 4, Intimidation 2
Special Abilities:
Swift 3 - Considered to have a Water Ring 3 ranks higher for the purpose of determining how far they move with a Free or Simple action.
Huge - Cannot be grappled or targeted with a Knockdown ability.
Chiyuuai is an impressively built horse by Unicorn standards, but of course, is no Utaku Battle Steed. He is a dark mocha color, with a pure coat and has black hair on his mane and tail. In fact, it is the first and only horse that Jinyu-Zhe has truly owned, and came as part of the package deal of marrying Aneski. Despite the inky black stare and imposing stature, however, he was kind of a wuss, and the two did start forming a bond immediately. It is still a new friendship, however, and thus a work in progress.
BACKGROUNDJinyu-Zhe (born Mitsuzuka) is the solitary child of Risou (formally Kitsu) Kosho and Risou Megumi. The Risou is a vassal family to the Ide, whose primary duty is as equine caretakers, though for the normal unicorn steeds used by the majority of the Unicorn clan. Born the 7th day of the Month of the Monkey in the year 1183, Jinyu-Zhe was brought up with the intention of following the duties of his Family, continuing on in a long line of caretakers. He had one younger brother, Hikaru, born in 1188, but he perished in his second year due to illness.
Though his destiny was thought to be one of little importance, a number of highly unexpected circumstances and opportunities arose. First was a deep personal bond of friendship that was formed between himself and the youngest daughter of the Ide daimyo, and it was said that the two might be arranged one day. Not long after, it was discovered that he could speak with the kami, so there was a considerable chance he could go with the Iuchi instead. Finally, some priests showed up at his household one day, and determined that his star aligned with another, and shared a destiny with a young Utaku girl! All within the same year! Three possible destinies lay before a young boy who aspired to no destiny at all!
Eventually, it was decided that he would be sent off to train with the Iuchi, but upon completion of his gempukku, he would marry into the Utaku, for aligning his star with another would invoke the wrath of Tengoku itself (or so it was said). And, truthfully, he held potential to be a rather skilled Utaku Horse Master with some training, and the Utaku diplomats were eager to capitalize on that.
The young man obliged all that was asked of him, including no longer having anything to do with that Ide girl that he was such good friends with. When asked if that bothered him, he showed no indication that it did, simply responding that he was doing his duty, both to his family, his clan, and the celestial heavens themselves - what else could a samurai ask for? And upon completion of his gempukku, rather than keep a traditional Rokugani name, as the Risou have always done, he instead took a gaijin name, when he found out the Utaku girl he was engaged to had done the same.
And thus, Jinyu-Zhe was wed to Utaku Aneski, the woman whose star was intertwined with his own, and he promised to love and serve her always, as was his duty. But, despite a somewhat indifferent, subservient front, he truly
did love her, even more than what mere duty required of him, as if his heart knew this was meant to be.
