[L5R 4e] Topaz Championship of Rokugan {Off Topic}

Roleplaying
#81

Iuchi Ietsuna is born 1133, we are playing in 1119

#82

…if this game ever starts, I will join, and I will make it my personal mission to do whatever it takes to avoid Karasu getting stuck in the pearl so he can get a better excuse of disappearing.

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#83

He did not get stuck, he sacrified himself to imprision his worst enemy

#84

If it helps, Ietsuna is kidnapped and stuck in a ruby

#85

And Ietsuna stayed inside said ruby for 20 years

#86

Your father gets released one year before you, so you never got to see him anyway

#87

anyway I really love Karasu’s lore

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#88

Then I will make it my mission to defeat his worst enemy, and become his new worst enemy. One that doesn’t only trap him inside a pearl.
–or, I can try to help his worst enemy, in exchange of him corrupting Karasu from the inside.
…yeah, that’s a possibility.

What is with everyone from the Iuchi family and getting trapped inside a gem?

…wait, so Karasu won against his mortal foe? Then how come Ietsuna never got to see him?

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#89

They deserve it. The Iuchi are known for trapping elemental spirits that are revered as sacred in stones.

#90

All shugenjas: The kami are sacred! This is blasphemy!
Iuchi: haha caged spirit go brrrrrrrrrrr

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#91

Trapping them for what? Enslavement, or were the elemental spirits causing evil?

#92

Still don’t like that meme.

#93

Karasu’s soul was stuck in the pearl
Ietsuna was stuck in the ruby

those are different: Karasu was dead when he entered the pearl, Ietsuna was alive when he entered the ruby

#94

The original gaijin sorcerers who created name magic could not speak to the elemental kami and had no direct access to the gods. Instead, they forged amulets of power that could simulate magical effects by invoking the true names of the elements. When the Unicorn studied this magic, they realized it trapped a kami into the item, forcing it to reproduce a single effect whenever the sorcerer focused his will into it. The Unicorn changed and adapted the process to fit their own beliefs. Their meishodo amulets no longer trap the kami, but instead appeal to the elements surrounding the amulet to perform the desired magical effects. However, somewhat like the gaijin originals, a Unicorn meishodo amulet contains only one unalterable effect that can be invoked in this manner.

Meishodo is a Unicorn secret, jealously guarded by all of the clan. Meishodo sacrifices power for speed, using a brief incantation rather than an extended dialogue with the kami, and speed has always been an important aspect of the unicorn approach to life.

#95

wait so we’re playing in the 1100s right

damn is it before or after the scorpion clan coup?

#96

before the coup

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#97

coup is 1123

#98

…oh. Well that sucks.
So Karasu went to heaven and never encountered his son?

…ignoring what gaijin means, I understand that “outsider sorcerers” entrap kami into their amulets so they can get strong-but-long one trick weapons, while the meishodo Unicorn clan sorcerers appeal to the kami to do the same thing, which is a weak(er)-but-short one trick weapons.

Now, what does this have to do with Karasu? Is his mortal enemy an evil kami or something?

#99

Basically this

#100

His mortal enemy is an evil human.