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Daimyo Tadasu Hayashi, silver tongue. +2 Domain(Item): Silver tongue +2. Said to have been given to the first great king, who united the first clans, when the world was young. This artefact is said to have belonged to Omoikane, the god of wisdom, to enable his followers to comprehend his vast intellect and cryptic speech. It imparts clarity to the listener, allowing them to hear a point framed exactly as they would best understand it (and, coincidentally, as they would best agree with it). It cannot change the hearts of those who are determined to live in ignorance, but to the open heart or the open mind, a whisper and a promise take on a new, subtle potency that is hard to deny. Tadasu came across the tongue when a dream led him to an ancient tomb hidden under a mound in his father's lands. Once there, he claims he heard the kami tell him to venture into the dark, where he found a room with torches still impossibly ablaze. In the centre of the room lay an altar, with the body of a long-dead noble atop it, and a pedestal before it with a gilded silver box. Taking the box home, but fearful of opening it, Tadasu was bombarded with dreams for a week, whispers and promises filling his head at night. Eventually, he caved, and opened the box. No one but Tadasu knows what happened next, but it is rumoured that a servant came in to find the young man covered in blood, the smell of roasting flesh on the open fire, and a new silver tongue gleaming in his mouth. These are, of course, rumours, but what is undeniable is Tadasu's penchant for honeyed words and sweet promises... -2 Foible: Inflexible thinking. When you have the ability to sway the minds and hearts of others to your viewpoint with ease, it is inevitable that you become convinced of the righteousness of your own words and deeds. Daimyo Hayashi is a smart man, of course, but once he is committed to an action he is very rarely swayed from it by the voices of others, and has great difficulty in admitting his own mistakes. Your troop: Former bandit horsemen, ronin, thieves and villains. These are men who lay in wait by the roadside, before taking what isn't theirs. Somehow, however, Tadasu was able to persuade each of them that a life of crime is an ignoble pursuit, and that a career in his employ was a more stable, and profitable, enterprise. They are loyal to Tadasu, in their own way, certainly they would never betray him for anything less than double the right price, and they come with their own skills forged by a rough life of hard living and sharpened by combat. When Tadasu's silver tongue has failed to gain traction with a leader, his successor can often be persuaded, so accidents tend to follow Tadasu around. Though he prefers the subtle word in the ear, he is not afraid to use the men under his command more brazenly, such as the time they rode in to town that had threatened to hang him as a traitor and a bandit. The town stands no longer. In return, Tadasu has been true to his words, riding from town to town in the north and convincing local sheriffs and officials to drop outstanding warrants, and adopting ronin into his own house (a move that would be met with controversy if his house had any other living members. Still, legally it guarantees that his men no longer have the stain of belonging to no house upon them). Some would argue he is building a shadow army in the north, but to what purpose, no one knows. How were you betrayed?: Tadasu was betrayed by the one man he truly thought was fit to call friend. Tadashi Umayaga was Tadasu's friend through childhood and military service, and companion both in the drinking house and on the battlefield. However, he desired the one thing that Tadasu couldn't promise to him, tongue or no, Tadasu's wife. Tadashi betrayed Tadasu, leaving him to die on a gods-forsaken battlefield, before storming his home, killing his servants and children, and trying to take his wife, who killed herself upon news of her husband's death, rather than be taken by another man. Walking home alone through bandit country, Tadasu began to recruit his followers, building his strength to take on Tadashi, now an important general in his own right, and claim revenge over the fallen body of his former friend. Which side were you with before the betrayal? Tadasu fought for the north, a land where the old clan names still meant something. Highly traditional, they still practised the old ceremonies, long since forgotten in other areas. They had cities, certainly, but the majority of nobles lived on their grand estates, with their servants, retainers and family members. Tadasu is a strong believer in these old ways, in honour and respect for your elders and social betters, he just happens to believe that no one should fall into that second category... Name 2 things you’d like to do this game: Stand over the body of my wife's killer, a bloody sword in my hand, and use my silver tongue to unite the old clans of the north, as the first great king did.
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Hey Zombie, HiKaizer told me to tell you this is my first app, so I am doing. Thanks for complimenting it by the way!
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Thanks to Rauri, who I blatantly cribbed this offTadasu's opinion of the other PCs posted:Queen Victaria Caspiel - You are the rightful queen, by law and blood, and I thank you for your sympathies. I would have no qualms with us working together to retake your crown, and mine, and in leading the North to victory!
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Holy poo poo I missed the thread going live! Sorry, is it too late for me to sneak a post in?
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Ronwayne posted:Good. Congrats dude!
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