Brotherhood Lands - Plains Wind Monastery

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Plains Wind Monastery
Devoted to Kuroshin, the Fortune of Agriculture, the Plains Wind Monastery is a practical one that is particularly committed to helping its community. The monks and peasants farm alongside each other, assisting and learning from one another as they work the fields and paddies. The monks grow plants for healing as well as rice, and they store any surplus to help supply the Unicorn army with food and healing herbs when the need arises. The monks learn how to fight with farming implements to defend themselves

Blessing the Fields
When the Ki-Rin Clan returned to Rokugan and eventually reclaimed some land, they built a small shrine to Kuroshin, the Fortune of Agriculture, hoping the Fortune would bless the land that they would come to farm as Unicorn. This was not an easy adjustment for the nomadic clan to make, and in their struggles, they decided to build a monastery around the shrine, housing monks who could ensure the Fortune’s blessing. The monastery was constructed hastily, and the clan took some of its first steps since returning from its travels to foster a relationship with the Brotherhood of Shinsei.

Guiding the People
The Plains Wind Monastery is a large complex made of wood, with storage barns, an infirmary, barracks-style housing for the monks, and an open-air training area. The buildings surround a shrine in the center, which stands in the midst of a large, exotic herb garden. The monastery is situated between a small peasant town and the fields they work, so they pass through the monastery grounds every day.

Airy Tales
All manner of strange plants grow at Plains Wind Monastery, including ones that produce poisons no Scorpion’s ever heard of. It’s a dangerous place.

The monk Dai can heal all sorts of ills, but at a terrible cost. She invokes foreign gods, and her strange rituals risk the patient’s soul.

“It’s not all about farming at all. There’s a whole Unicorn garrison hiding there, pretending to be peasants and monks. They have no honor.”