Ikoma Teruhide

Name: Ikoma Teruhide
Rank:  1
Clan: Lion
Exp: 3
School: Ikoma Bard
Insight: 151


Earth: 2
Will Power: 3
Stamina: 2

Fire: 3
Agility: 3
Intelligence: 3

Air: 3
Reflexes: 3
Awareness: 3

Water: 2
Strength: 2
Perception: 2

Void: 2

Honor: 3.5 (6.5-2.0 for Heritage)
Glory: 1.0
Status: 1.0
Shadowland Taint 0.0



Advantages              Points
Precise Memory            -
Clear Thinker             3
Balance                   2
Voice                     3
Blissful Betrothal        3

Disadvantages           Points
Idealistic                3
Obligation (Mentor)       3
Overconfident             4


Name                    Rank        Trait       Roll    Emphasis
Courtier                 4           AWA         6k3
Etiquette                5           AWA         8k3
Lore: History            1           INT         4k3     Lion Clan
Perform: Storytelling    4           AWA         7k3
Sincerity                3           AWA         6k3     Honesty
Artisan: Origami         1           AWA         4k3
Knives                   1           AGI         3k2
Perform: Oratory         1           AWA         4k3
Investigate              2           PER         4k2
Perform: Sing		 3           AWA	 6k3

Traditional Clothing, Wakizashi, Knife, Calligraphy Set, Travelling Pack, 5 Koku

Travelling Pack:
Bottle of Sake
Chopsticks
Coin Purse
Fan
Incense Brazier
Accessory (Large ring with red gemstone)
Miniature Shogi Set
Parchment and Charcoal (10)
Pillow Book
Small Hand Mirror




Combat: What's that?


Damage:

Initiative: 4k3

Armor: 0
Target Number: 20
Reduction: 0

Health
Wounds: 34
Healthy: 10
Other Ranks: 4
Heal Rate:

Damage


Technique:
RANK 1: THE HERALD OF GLORY
The Ikoma are historians and storytellers, tasked with recording the glorious deeds of others for posterity, ensuring that courageous and honorable accomplishments are never forgotten. You gain the Precise Memory Advantage for no cost in Experience Points (if you already have Precise Memory, you are refunded that many Experience Points). You may use the Perform: Storytelling skill to engage in public bragging on behalf of another person. If you can cite heroic or noble actions by that person and successfully roll Perform: Storytelling/ Awareness at TN 20, that person will gain a number of points of Glory equal to your School Rank. This may be done a number of times per person per month equal to your School Rank

Twenty Questions
1       What Clan does your character belong to?
a      Lion
2       What Family does your character belong to?
a      Ikoma
3       Is your character a bushi, a shugenja or a courtier?
a      Courtier
4       How would others describe your character’s appearance?
a      Dashing, even though he's not moving.
5       What is your character’s primary motivation?
a      Erase the stain of his ancestor on his family through a lifetime of honorable (and exceptional) service.
6       Who is the person your character trusts most in the world?
a      His Mentor.
7       What is your character’s greatest strength and weakness?
a      His greatest strength is his ability to perservere and plan ahead. His greatest weakness is his faulty honor (he overcompensates).
8       What does your character think of bushido?
a      A noble goal that all should strive towards, and even surpass.
9       What is your character’s opinion of their Clan?
a      They are an upright and noble clan who embodies the greatest tenets of bushido.
10      Is your character married?
a      No.
11      Does your character have any prejudices?
a      He instinctively dislikes those who actively choose dishonor, as his ancestor did.
12      To whom does your character owe the most loyalty?
a      His Mentor
13      What are your character’s favourite and least favourite things?
a      His favorite things are
14      Does your character have any recurring mannerisms?
a      He likes to fold pages he no longer needs into origami, regardless of what was originally there.
15      What about your character’s emotions?
a      He's idealistic and a bit zealous, though he knows how to keep it in check...most of the time.
16      How would your character handle a subordinates’ improper behavior?
a      He would chastise them in private if their behavior didn't offend anyone important, public if it did.
17      How would your character’s parents describe him?
a      He's a smart, honorable young man, but he tries to do too much.
18      What is your character’s highest ambition?
a      To achieve a seat of high importance and prestige, whether it be in his clan or otherwise.
19      How religious is your character?
a      Slightly above average.
20      How will your character die?
a      After a lifetime of honorable service.

BACKSTORY:

Ikoma Teruhide is a young, mostly unseasoned courtier from the Ikoma Bard School. He is the oldest of two children in his family (he has a younger sister), and is 18 years of age. From a young age, he was keenly aware of the histories of the Lion clan...and especially the history of his great-grandfather. His great-grandfather committed an act of great shame as a yojimbo, and was consigned to the Deathseekers to atone. However, he took ill and rapidly died soon after this pronouncement, leaving his shame unatoned for. As a result, this blemish remains on his family, a mistake that Teruhide wishes deeply to rectify.

When he became of age to send into training, he was picked up for the Bard school by Ikoma Akihiko, a wizened old man who embodies all of the ideals of Ikoma himself in his love of fine sake, fine women, and fine song. Teruhide views being chosen for the Bard school as both a high honor and a huge favor on the part of Akihiko-sama, while the old Bard just views it as doing his job and picking the best candidates he can. While he has repeatedly brushed off Teruhide's insistence on repaying him for the honor, he's come to accept that the enthusiastic young man will do it anyway, and has settled into a more mentoring role with him. Teruhide, for his part, has resolved to help his mentor in little ways to improve his life, rather than the sweeping ways he is sure his mentor will reject (Obligation).

Teruhide is somewhat headstrong, and irreverent to his own limits. He is confident that he can, and must, do great things in the courts in order to clear his family name, and will not take "impossible!" for an answer (Overconfident). He has spent much of his time knee-deep in history books, both of Rokugan and the Lion Clan, and has the ability to recall seemingly irrelevant details he has gleaned from the stories (Precise Memory). This focus has also helped to still his mind, and shrug off attempts to befuddle him (Clear Thinker).

Teruhide is a young man of 18 years, with short black hair and expressive brown eyes. He is fairly handsome, though not excessively so. He is free of scars or other distinguishing markings, beyond a large ring with a red gem he wears on his right hand. The ring belonged to his great-grandfather, and reminds him of the hard work he has ahead of him.

GREAT-GRANDFATHER: Teruhide's great-grandfather Ikoma Teruo is the source of his line's shame, and for good reason. In his younger days, he amassed a reputation as a flashy, self-confident ladies' man with the skill at dueling to back it up. As he grew older, however, his antics were viewed with less and less favor, especially once he was married and had children. This culminated in his mid 30s, sometime after the birth of his second child. At the Imperial Winter Court, he had set his eye on a young courtier, only to find out that she had been betrothed earlier in the day as part of the Court proceedings. Deciding there was no time like the present, he seduced her. Unfortunately for him, they were caught by her betrothed, and Teruo was challenged to a duel. Both of their superiors, however, refused to give sanction to the duel and instead did their best to cover it all up quietly, as to not embarass both clans. Instead, Teruo challenged the man to an illegal duel, and accidentally slew him.  This caused enough of an incident that the Ikoma family forbade Teruo to commit Seppuku, instead forcing him into the Deathseekers. As a final gesture of bad luck from the fortunes, he took ill and rapidly died en route back home from the court. As a result, while his family remained in the Ikoma family, this unredeemed shame would haunt the line for generations.