Miya Cartographer School

Miya Cartographers travel throughout the Empire, gathering information to update the Imperial maps and charts. Accordingly, they have standing authority to travel as they see fit, regardless of clan or other boundaries. Cartographers often travel to remote, inhospitable, and largely uninhabited parts of the Empire to make their observations and measurements. They must be self-sufficient, but frequently travel with groups of retainers and yōjimbō. The cartographer school puts great emphasis not only on the academic topics related to gathering and recording information, such as writing, drawing, and memorization, but on athletics, riding, and stamina. Cartographers must be prepared to face long periods of privation and hardship, away from civilization and at risk from any number of threats, from bandits, to wild animals, to hostile spirits.

Rings: +1 Air, +1 Earth

Starting Skills (choose five): +1 Aesthetics, +1 Composition, +1 Culture, +1 Fitness, +1 Government, +1 Seafaring, +1 Survival

Honor: 50

Techniques Available: Kata (), Rituals (), Shūji ()

Starting Techniques:

Kata (choose one): Striking as Earth, Warrior’s Resolve

Shūji (choose one): Artisan's Appraisal, Civility Foremost

Well Traveled (School Ability): You always know which way is north, and you are always able to find a landmark useful for navigation.

When making a check to recall or ascertain geo-

graphical, political, or societal information,

you may add a number of kept set to

or results equal to your school rank.

Starting Outfit: Traveling clothes, wakizashi (short sword), yumi (bow) and quiver of arrows, knife, calligraphy set, traveling pack, personal chop, an assortment of maps in scroll cases, an attendant (see page 64 of the core rulebook) or Rokugani pony (see page 326 of the core rulebook).