Voice of the Wilds

When identified, those with the ability to call upon the kami that are not born into the samurai class are sometimes taken to be raised as one, their low birth typically being considered as a small mistake in the cosmic scheme of things. However, some latent talents manifest later, or in ways that are harder to discern, and so their relationship with the kami is usually strange. These shugenja have received no formal training but have developed a knack for quickly building positive relationships with the kami around them. Their tendency to be more in tune with nature allows a Voice of the Wilds character to request powerful aid in advance, though they lack the discipline to call upon kami suddenly without first building a rapport. Though these strange shugenja can learn specific invocations over time, they typically find formal study difficult.

Rings: +1 to any two different rings

Starting Skills (choose three): Composition, Courtesy, Games, Meditation, Sentiment, Theology

Honor: 35

Techniques Available: Rituals (), Shūji ()

Starting Techniques:

Invocations (choose one): Commune with Spirits, Divination

Shūji (choose two): Well of Desire, Weight of Duty, Rustling of Leaves, Sensational Distraction

Naturally Attuned (School Ability): As a downtime activity, you may select any number of invocations with total school rank prerequisites equal to double your school rank. You can perform these invocations as if you knew them.

While making a check to activate an invocation, if you become Compromised, you suffer spiritual backlash.

Starting Outfit: Traveling clothes, one weapon of rarity 6 or lower, one choice of kit (see page 114), a knife, one choice of omamori (see page 243 of the core rulebook), one trinket (see page 219).