Editing L5R Distant Thunder (section)

== Notes  ==

===Chapter I [[The Topaz Championship]]===

===Chapter II [[The Shadowlands]]===

===Chapter III [[The Isles of Silk and Spice]]===

===Chapter IV [[The First Winter]]===

===Chapter V [[The Sacred Valley]]===

===Chapter VI [[The Storm Breaks]]===

===Chapter VII [[The Scorpion Interregnum]]=== 

=== Links ===

[https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?781080-L5R-4e-Distant-Thunder Distant Thunder IC Thread]

[https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?781079-L5R-4e-Distant-Thunder Distant Thunder OOC Thread]

=== House Rules ===

====Spell Scrolls====

Spell Scrolls are copies of ancient spirit contracts. Each clan's contract is different. Without the ability to commune with spirits a spell scroll is nothing but paper filled with confusing and often meaningless symbols. Holding the scroll in the caster's hand acts as a "spiritual legal reminder" and provides a free raise to any spell the shugenja has memorized.

====Heavy armour====

Anyone with Heavy armour can chose to wear parts of it only, and have it count as Light Armour. This mostly comes into play when time is of the essence.

====Kyujutsu and Bows====

3. Master of Kyu-jutsu have used a daikyu on foot without penalty to accuracy for centuries. There is no accuracy penalty to using a daikyu while dismounted. Due to it's unique shape, it cannot be used inside single story buildings, however.

====Scorpion Shadow Brands====

Scorpion Shadow Brands, or Kage Yakiin.

1. Cap Void (1 brand limits Void to 5, 2 to 4, etc).

2. Add +1k0 to Stealth or attacks from Stealth in dim light. But not "every action"

3. Incur a +5 TN "Pain" penalty when exposed to sunlight.


Oh. Also, you're utterly damned. You will never be admitted to Tengoku (Celestial heaven) and will never be reincarnated.

====The Topaz Armour====

Each year's suit is unique (but has to be sized after the competition), and the winner can keep it, although it is custom to "retire" a set after one year. Only one person should wear Topaz Armour.

It is high quality (no mechanical benefit) Heavy Armour (but see my notes on the game world: partial heavy suits count as light armour).

Minor nemurani: The spirits of the sacred event, which goes back to the dawn of Rokugan, fill the armour. For one year the wearer may add their Glory to their TN to be hit or to any skill roll involving invoking authority. At the end of the year the spirits return to Tsuma, leaving the armour.


====The Jade Magistrates====

One cannot begin to understand the need for Jade Magistrates without first knowing of Kuni Nakanu. In the first century of the Empire one man chronicled the changes, effects, and powers of the Shadowlands. He chronicled the spread of the Taint, not just in the land, but in living beings, performing dozens, if not hundreds of experiments.

His death, at the hands of his own creations, and the wanton slaughter that followed served as a stark guide to the dangers of Kuni research.

Centuries later his notes would be the catalyst that would allow a scholar (player lore, not character lore: Otomo Jama) to become Iuchiban in the late 5th c. 

After Iuchiban was destroyed (player lore: entombed, but not killed) in the early 6th c, concern grew, and a body of shugenja dedicated to detecting and defeating supernatural evil were pondered... ...but ensuing decades of peace saw the task fall to the few shugenja among the Emerald Magistrates.

In 748 Iuchiban rose again, and rampaged across the Empire until his defeat in 750.

After this battle Kuni Tokaji, the daimyo of the Kuni, declared that he would volunteer to stand as the Emperor's Jade Champion. He would unify Kuni Witch Hunters, Yogo Kuroiban, and Askao Inquisitors. However the Council of Five, the Phoenix Elemental Masters, protested the position.

In the mid 8th c Phoenix shugenja discovered a Bloodspeaker cell hiding in the ranks of the Jade Magistrates. Their reputation tarnished, they lingered on in Court in increasingly ceremonial roles. Yogo Yoshi was the last Jade Champion, when he retired near the end of the 8th c the Emperor's functionaries stated that there would be no Test of the Jade Champion, and the office was retired as well.

===[[The Prophesies of Uikku]]===

===Retired Characters===

====[[Ikoma Raionko]]====

[[File:Ikoma Raionko.jpg | right | 100px]]

====[[Yoritomo Tenkawa]]====

Mantis Clan, Yoritomo Shugenja, played by **ronon40_4**

====[[Ikoma Raionko]]====

[[File:Ikoma Raionko.jpg | right | 100px]]

Lion CLan Ikoma Lion's Shadow played by Ronin40_4

====[[Asako Masahiro]]====

[[File:Asako Masahiro Chibi.jpg | right | 100px]]

Phoenix Clan, Isawa Shugenja, played by **The Doc**

Askao Kanto, Father, and Hiruyo, Mother

Asako Tanae, young sister.

====[[Asako Shunsui]]====

Phoenix Clan - Isawa Fire Shugenja, played by **Gamer940**

====[[Kuni Daisuke]]====

Crab Clan - Kuni Shugenja, played by **Nick The Lemming**

====[[Yoritomo Uji]]====

Mantis Clan, Yoritomo Shugenja, played by **Amaraxis**