Minor Clan Families and Schools
Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2020 10:45 am
The Falcon
Falcon Families
Toritaka: +1 Perception
Falcon Schools
Toritaka Phantom Hunter School [Shugenja]
-Toritaka Exorcist, Great Clans
From the days of the Falcon Clan founder, Toritaka Yotogi, Toritaka Phantom Hunters have sought out gaki and other malign supernatural beings, a task that is often unfortunately easy, given the clan’s proximity to the haunted Shinomen Forest and the corrupted Shadowlands. Phantom Hunters often act in concert with Crab Clan warriors, using their legendary abilities to detect supernatural threats that others, even the skilled bushi stationed on the Wall, cannot perceive.
Falcon Families
Toritaka: +1 Perception
Falcon Schools
Toritaka Phantom Hunter School [Shugenja]
-Toritaka Exorcist, Great Clans
From the days of the Falcon Clan founder, Toritaka Yotogi, Toritaka Phantom Hunters have sought out gaki and other malign supernatural beings, a task that is often unfortunately easy, given the clan’s proximity to the haunted Shinomen Forest and the corrupted Shadowlands. Phantom Hunters often act in concert with Crab Clan warriors, using their legendary abilities to detect supernatural threats that others, even the skilled bushi stationed on the Wall, cannot perceive.
Techniques
- Benefit: +1 Willpower
- Skills: Calligraphy (Cipher), Investigation, Lore: Shadowlands, Lore: Spirits, Lore: Shinomen Forest, Spellcraft, any one Weapon Skill
- Honor: 4.5
- Outfit: Robes, Wakizashi, Knife, Scroll Satchel, Traveling Pack, 3 koku
- Affinity/Deficiency: Earth/Water
- Spells: Sense, Commune, Summon, 3 Earth, 2 Fire, and 1 Air
- Rank 1: Purge the Darkness
You can sense the presence of dangerous spirits (ghosts, gaki, yokai, creatures from the spirit realms, etc) by making an Investigation (Notice) / Perception roll. The base TN for this roll is 20, but may be increased by the GM for spirits who are exceptionally difficult to notice. You may make 2 Raises on the roll to learn the specific nature of the spirit you detect (e.g. a yorei, a gaki, etc). You may take a Complex Action to attempt an exorcism on someone who is possessed by a ghost, gaki, oni, kitsune-tsuki, or similar entity. You expend one spell slot and make a Contested Willpower roll against the spirit; if you first place an exorcism ward on the target, you gain +2k2 on the roll. With a success, you force the spirit to leave the body it is possessing; it cannot attempt to re-possess that same person for at least 24 hours.
Exorcism Wards:
Many Toritaka Exorcists enhance their exorcisms by placing specially-inscribed paper wards on the target. They (and only they) can create these wards as a Complex Action that requires expending an Earth spell-slot (which cannot be regained until the ward is used) and rolling Calligraphy / Intelligence at TN 25. Placing an exorcism ward on an unwilling target is an unarmed attack that uses a Spellcraft / Agility roll; placing it on a bound/helpless/unresisting target is a Simple Action. Exorcism wards are especially useful items because they can potentially be employed by other people, not just the Exorcist who created them. Any non-Exorcist shugenja or monk who has a Toritaka exorcism ward may place it on a possessed person and then try to perform an exorcism (a Contested Willpower roll) as a Complex Action; this expends a spell slot for a shugenja, or a Void Point for a monk. The PC does not gain any bonus to the Contested Willpower roll from the ward and in addition must successfully call three Raises on the roll for it to succeed.