Name: Mirumoto Kanawa
Clan: Dragon
Schoo: Mirumoto bushi
Rank: 2
Insight: 179
Glory: 1.5
Honour: 1.8
Status: 1
Taint: 0
Experience Earned: 118
Experience Spent: 117
Earth: 3 (Stamina 3, Willpower 3)
Water: 2 (Strength 2, Perception 3)
Fire: 3 (Reflexes 3, Intelligence 3)
Air: 3 (Agility 3, Awareness 3)
Void: 4
Skills
Battle 2
Defense 2
Kenjutsu 6 (Katana)
Kyujutsu 3 (Yumi) (+3)
Lore (Shugenja) 2
Meditation 2
Theology 1
Ettiquete 3 (Sincerity) (+3)
Calligraphy 1
Games 1
Music 1
Nazodo 2
Jiujutsu 2
Lore (Nezumi) 1
Advantages
Ambidextrous (+3) Years of training in the Mirumoto school plus a natural talent allow Kanawa to use his off hand with no penalty.
Balance (+5) Kanawa is almost always calm and centered, nearly impossible to taunt or goad into action. He tends to appear arrogant and somewhat distant to other people. +5 to rolls made for Tests of Honour.
Disadvantages
Overconfident (-2) Kanawa has rarely met a challenge that he has not overcome. This has led him to believe he will overcome all future challenges with similar ease.
Sworn Enemy (-2) Kanawa's successes during training did not always earn him friends. One of the other bushi in his year took an almost instant dislike to him, making condescending comments about Kanawa's family, how his father had become an Ise zumi rather than marry his mother. Things were not helped by the fact that Kanawa tended to win their practice bouts. The dislike deepened into a one sided rivalry and then to hatred by the time of Kanawa's gempekku. Kanawa feels his inability to mend what is wrong between them is his greatest failure. He also considers his enemy to be a prime example of an Angry Enemy as described in Mirumoto's Niten.
Heritage
Mixed Blessing: Kanawa's father is an Ise zumi. He has inherited some of Togashi's blood and a single tattoo at the cost of 1 rank of honour. (WotD pg 49)
Mirumoto Bushi School
Daisho Technique: When using both Katana and Wakizashi adds 5 + School Rank to TN to be hit. May add Fire ring to rolls to hit when using his daisho. May use Kenjutsu in place of Iajutsu at any time.
Strong and Swift: You may make an additional attack per round and add your Earth ring to your TN to be hit.
Ise zumi Tattoo
Wasp: May take one extra action. Effect lasts for 1 round and may be used up to School Rank times per day. May not spend void points while under this effect. (WotD pg 48)
Equipment
Light Armour (+5 TN to be hit, +5 to Athletics and Stealth TNs)
Katana (3k2)
Wakizashi (2k2)
Yumi
Quiver
Kimono & Sandals
1 Koku 1 bu
Traveling Pack
Mirumoto Kanawa is of average height, and tends towards lean muscularity. He moves with the surety and confidence of a well trained swordsman, and has taken Mirumoto's admonishment to make his everyday stance the stance he fights from. He wears his dark hair in the traditional topknot, and has a thin, well trimmed mustache. There is an air of amusement about Kanawa, his mouth is almost always turned up in a small smile, and though his eyes are usually calm, there is a spark of something laughing in them.
Kanawa prefers to wear a kimono of dark green with a pattern of gold plum blossoms on it. The mon of the Mirumoto is on his left sleeve.
His armour is light weight and simple, done in deep greens and golds so dark as to be almost brown.
Personality
Kanawa is to most appearances a fairly typical Dragon, quiet and distant. He tends to answer questions with questions, and is fond of riddles and koans when he must speak. His demeanour is always polite, but people tend to get the sense that he is laughing at some great joke that no one else can understand. Kanawa has some trouble making friends, a combination of his (self determined) great failure at his dojo and his detachment.
However, there is a sliver of doubt within him. During his training he was often found, sitting in meditation facing the mountains. He is a man torn between two paths, service to his clan and mother or climbing the mountains and learning what it was that called his father away. Unable to come to a decision he has taken to volunteering for assignments and tasks that will take him out of the Dragon's lands and across Rokugan hoping that distance will allow him to gain some perspective.
Background
Kanawa's father was once Kitsuki Osousou but less than a year after his wedding to Mirumoto Haien he vanished, heading towards the mountains. Ten years later he returned as a Togashi, to find a wife who had been mostly ostracised for his actions. She was not happy to see him, but managed to convince him through long argument to fulfill at least some of the duties he had forsaken. He left shortly after and has not returned since. After he left his wife cut her hair and went into formal mourning. Kanawa was born roughly nine months after his father's return.
Growing up was not easy for Kanawa. His mother had managed to overcome most of her bitterness towards his father, and was able to keep from projecting it onto him. However, many of the courtiers among whom he grew up did not stop whispering rumours about his mother, her wedding and his parentage. He learned to allow the gossip and rumours to wash over him with out affecting him, after all he knows his own honour, as do his ancestors.
His calm detachment served him well in his training, allowing him to read his opponents well and let their impatience goad them into making mistakes. As difficult as it is for someone else to goad him into action, once Kanawa has decided something, or been challenged, he will rarely back down secure in the knowledge that he will succeed.
Still, he wonders about his father, and the Togashi blood within him. Is the tattoo he bears a sign of the path he is meant to walk or an aid to his service to the Mirumoto daimyo.
Edit N: xp spent.
Clan: Dragon
Schoo: Mirumoto bushi
Rank: 2
Insight: 179
Glory: 1.5
Honour: 1.8
Status: 1
Taint: 0
Experience Earned: 118
Experience Spent: 117
Earth: 3 (Stamina 3, Willpower 3)
Water: 2 (Strength 2, Perception 3)
Fire: 3 (Reflexes 3, Intelligence 3)
Air: 3 (Agility 3, Awareness 3)
Void: 4
Skills
Battle 2
Defense 2
Kenjutsu 6 (Katana)
Kyujutsu 3 (Yumi) (+3)
Lore (Shugenja) 2
Meditation 2
Theology 1
Ettiquete 3 (Sincerity) (+3)
Calligraphy 1
Games 1
Music 1
Nazodo 2
Jiujutsu 2
Lore (Nezumi) 1
Advantages
Ambidextrous (+3) Years of training in the Mirumoto school plus a natural talent allow Kanawa to use his off hand with no penalty.
Balance (+5) Kanawa is almost always calm and centered, nearly impossible to taunt or goad into action. He tends to appear arrogant and somewhat distant to other people. +5 to rolls made for Tests of Honour.
Disadvantages
Overconfident (-2) Kanawa has rarely met a challenge that he has not overcome. This has led him to believe he will overcome all future challenges with similar ease.
Sworn Enemy (-2) Kanawa's successes during training did not always earn him friends. One of the other bushi in his year took an almost instant dislike to him, making condescending comments about Kanawa's family, how his father had become an Ise zumi rather than marry his mother. Things were not helped by the fact that Kanawa tended to win their practice bouts. The dislike deepened into a one sided rivalry and then to hatred by the time of Kanawa's gempekku. Kanawa feels his inability to mend what is wrong between them is his greatest failure. He also considers his enemy to be a prime example of an Angry Enemy as described in Mirumoto's Niten.
Heritage
Mixed Blessing: Kanawa's father is an Ise zumi. He has inherited some of Togashi's blood and a single tattoo at the cost of 1 rank of honour. (WotD pg 49)
Mirumoto Bushi School
Daisho Technique: When using both Katana and Wakizashi adds 5 + School Rank to TN to be hit. May add Fire ring to rolls to hit when using his daisho. May use Kenjutsu in place of Iajutsu at any time.
Strong and Swift: You may make an additional attack per round and add your Earth ring to your TN to be hit.
Ise zumi Tattoo
Wasp: May take one extra action. Effect lasts for 1 round and may be used up to School Rank times per day. May not spend void points while under this effect. (WotD pg 48)
Equipment
Light Armour (+5 TN to be hit, +5 to Athletics and Stealth TNs)
Katana (3k2)
Wakizashi (2k2)
Yumi
Quiver
- 10 Willow Leaf arrows (2k2)
- 6 Armour Piercer arrows (1k2)
- 4 Humming Bulb arrows (0k1)
Kimono & Sandals
1 Koku 1 bu
Traveling Pack
- Sake cup
- Weeks rations
- Bottle of water
- Flint and Steel
- Kiseru (pipe)
- Personal seal
- Chopsticks
- Finger of jade (1 days protection, counts as 3 items)
- Flute
- Simple go set
- sumi-e set
- small blank scroll
Mirumoto Kanawa is of average height, and tends towards lean muscularity. He moves with the surety and confidence of a well trained swordsman, and has taken Mirumoto's admonishment to make his everyday stance the stance he fights from. He wears his dark hair in the traditional topknot, and has a thin, well trimmed mustache. There is an air of amusement about Kanawa, his mouth is almost always turned up in a small smile, and though his eyes are usually calm, there is a spark of something laughing in them.
Kanawa prefers to wear a kimono of dark green with a pattern of gold plum blossoms on it. The mon of the Mirumoto is on his left sleeve.
His armour is light weight and simple, done in deep greens and golds so dark as to be almost brown.
Personality
Kanawa is to most appearances a fairly typical Dragon, quiet and distant. He tends to answer questions with questions, and is fond of riddles and koans when he must speak. His demeanour is always polite, but people tend to get the sense that he is laughing at some great joke that no one else can understand. Kanawa has some trouble making friends, a combination of his (self determined) great failure at his dojo and his detachment.
However, there is a sliver of doubt within him. During his training he was often found, sitting in meditation facing the mountains. He is a man torn between two paths, service to his clan and mother or climbing the mountains and learning what it was that called his father away. Unable to come to a decision he has taken to volunteering for assignments and tasks that will take him out of the Dragon's lands and across Rokugan hoping that distance will allow him to gain some perspective.
Background
Kanawa's father was once Kitsuki Osousou but less than a year after his wedding to Mirumoto Haien he vanished, heading towards the mountains. Ten years later he returned as a Togashi, to find a wife who had been mostly ostracised for his actions. She was not happy to see him, but managed to convince him through long argument to fulfill at least some of the duties he had forsaken. He left shortly after and has not returned since. After he left his wife cut her hair and went into formal mourning. Kanawa was born roughly nine months after his father's return.
Growing up was not easy for Kanawa. His mother had managed to overcome most of her bitterness towards his father, and was able to keep from projecting it onto him. However, many of the courtiers among whom he grew up did not stop whispering rumours about his mother, her wedding and his parentage. He learned to allow the gossip and rumours to wash over him with out affecting him, after all he knows his own honour, as do his ancestors.
His calm detachment served him well in his training, allowing him to read his opponents well and let their impatience goad them into making mistakes. As difficult as it is for someone else to goad him into action, once Kanawa has decided something, or been challenged, he will rarely back down secure in the knowledge that he will succeed.
Still, he wonders about his father, and the Togashi blood within him. Is the tattoo he bears a sign of the path he is meant to walk or an aid to his service to the Mirumoto daimyo.
Edit N: xp spent.