Shinden Fu Leng

First post here. I'm an old and retired horde player. I'm now more a collector than a player to be true. But i have to admit i had a real blast collecting those dark virtues and dark paragons ! I saw that lots of players seems to love Shimekiri but i came here to ask for more info on another Paragon : Moto Yuudai. We know quite nothing on him : http://l5r.wikia.com/wiki/Moto_Yuudai. Is he still alive and well ? Will we saw him in the future ?

^This.

Waiting for this to happen.

i wouldn't hold your breath. its canon, but its both a) in the past and b) not directly related to whats going on presently. unless theres some tie to the current storyline (maybe if we actually get stewardship of Otosan Uchi it would come up), i think thats pretty low on the story team's todo list.

They just need to have Kanpeki show up to an official meeting in the capital with it, and then have a major show of handing it to special keepers so he doesn't carry it in court (you just don't hand that over to a sword polisher ..... pun kinda intended..). Then everyone would know he had it, and could wield it, and what that meant. A very passive aggressive way for him to make people aware.

This is one of those good reasons for the Spider to save the Hantei sword. I still think it's one of the more important spider icons.

The fact that Kanpeki is Hantei is a fascinating aspect of the story that I always feel needs fleshing out.

Couldn't agree more.

I have an actual question for once.

Komori Taruko is one of the most played characters of the whole arc. All shugenja decks (except Koiso Sensei's ones, for obvious reasons) love her, and even a few others include her for a quantity of reasons. She is the never tired, cheap, all powerful, magician/priest/lobbyist girl.

Yet, her wiki's page is quite short.

Is there some plan to expand her background, or is this a case of game and story segregation?

I have a Story Team question!

While talking about the possibilities of Goju and Ninube characters who are more than mere drones, I have remembered a similar discussion about new such possibilities with regards to the new Taint. We haven't seen much about it outside of Winter Court IV.

What's the actual policy on Tainted characters now? Are they all shipped to the Colonies or only Tainted Spiders? Are all Tainted to join the Spider or be killed? Is Jade Petal Tea still used? Before the new Taint, being Tainted wasn't unlawful, only hidding it from the authorities was. Has this changed?

I ask because I think it problematic to have all Tainted gather in only one clan. Having them all exiled to the Colonies seems restrictive enough for storytelling already.

Alright, let me try to catch up on a few things.



Like many characters of the past, Yuudai has yet to receive an epilogue to his story. I don't know of any plans to bring him back, but you never know - anything is possible with the Taint.



So many fictions to write, so little time. But I'll try to keep this in mind!



Pretty much. We don't have much info on which cards get or don't get played. Minor Clans or unaligned characters have even less of a chance to get noticed.

That being said! You'll notice the latest Scenes from the Empire had a Hare Clan samurai. Robert Denton has also announced that he will include a Bat in his novel. And the Bat is my favorite Minor Clan (which I have written the chapter for in Secrets of the Empire.) So there is hope!



What possibilities? The nature of the Taint hasn't changed (again.) Maybe I'm just misremembering because I wrote it myself, but doesn't the Book of Earth cover most of these questions?

That's unfortunately up in the air, both due to upcoming developments and due to some stuff we're still working on. Stay tuned!

Calling it now, Susumu Yuna is writing the first draft of what will eventually become "Godzilla"; the story of a terrible Oni crawling out of the Sea of Shadows, stomping over the Carpenter Wall, laying waste to the Crab and Scorpion lands before finally being stopped by a noble Spider ex-Phoenix shugenja armed with the Blood of the Preserver.

The play would eventually get banned by everyone except the Spider, for some weird reason.

I find this eerily close to what I think may actually happen. Wouldn't be the first time The Spider saved the Empire by punching another hole in it.... lol

Have you glossed Kanpeki's RPG stats? There's clearly some embellishing going on.

I've another question that's cross-posted from the Q&A thread about the Onyx Choices at AEG's. Maybe you guys are faster with answering them.

I have another question after reading Thunderous Acclaim 1 (no fear, I'll leave my critique of this fiction in the relevant threads). Apparently there is a split between Shibatsu loyal Spider and Kanpeki loyal Spider, and this was heralded during the competition between Seiken and Shibatsu already. But how will this affect the three (?) focus characters?

Obviously, we need to see how Path vote ends, but if the Spider (or any other clan) ends up with two groups, one of the renegades or at least the minority, will they get a focus character to keep them in the story regularly? Or do you rather want to focus on characters closer to the stereotype and renegades are too much at the periphery for this? I ask because I can see how Susumu Shibatsu would be a great example of a Spider courtier, but if a tainty path is chosen, pure Spider might not be the stereotype anymore.

We'll reevaluate focus characters as we go along. A lot depends on the paths chosen.

Thanks Chris! Do you also happen to know more about the hostage votes and how they relate to the Path Choices? I cannot imagine that, for instance, the Crab choosing to fight the Spider would be invalidated by the Spider players voting to foster a Crab daimyo's child and ensure peace until his or her gempukku. But, of course, I don't want to see the hostage prizes being ignored or cut short, only because the votes will only be concluded after the Paths are already chosen.

Honestly, I think it would be better to have Dan Dineen jump in and answer that one.

I wasn't behind-the-scenes for those votes and only know secondhand knowledge.

Back to the subject of Focus Characters for each Clan:

Do you think that this might be something which would become a Tournament prize, as per the GenCon Draft Prizes this year? Or could it be the result of an Imperial Assembly vote?

At the moment I don't think so, because part of why those focus characters were picked was to establish 'threads' that the CCG could work around, up until Onyx.

That doesn't mean they are set in stone, or that we won't add more (or that we won't write about other characters!!!) but those two characters per Clan will remain the same, at least for a while (as Chris said, they'll be reviewed down the line)

The question was answered by AEG on their forums recently. Due to technical issues the voting was stopped. But it will continue and when it does, AEG will make sure that the results make sense. So I presume that they won't clash with the Onyx path choices.

Please please please lie to me at the least and say the lone Gyushi siding with the Susumu light folks is Kageto?!?

It is

(Or am I lying?)

J/k. It is. That's what I had in mind when I wrote the story, at least.