Alias: Jade River Clan Elder
Gender: Male
Personality:
Ryosui is full of life and energy despite his old age and elderly appearance. His kind expression seems to always generate a peaceful aura that brings comfort to those of his clan and doubts to those seeking to bring harm to them. It was thanks to his non-aggression mindset and cunning tact that the violence incurred upon his people had been delayed for as long as it had.
He is intelligent and compassionate but despite all this he holds a seemingly contradictory love for fighting. Ryosui believes that through martial arts and fighting, human beings can come to better understand themselves and others around them which will ultimately lead to greater peace for all. Through battle, one learns much including how to avoid future battles that will bring only suffering.
Elder Chiyan loves his people and his disciples full-heartedly and while he may be cautiously wary of outsiders upon first meetings, if he judges them to be good natured people then that love extends to them as well. Considered to be the source of the clan's happiness by many of its adults, he is both revered and respected among his peers.
As the clan's shaman, he also holds a healthy knowledge of the rukh and the great flow. Ryousui sees it as his responsibility to guide the clan on a path that is in line with the flow of the rukh and takes its guidance to be divine in nature.
Hair Color: Grey
Eye Color: Brown
Height: 180cm
Weight: 83kg
Appearance:
This man can be found wearing the wool robes of the clan's monk sect and is adorned with two fine silk sashes that denote him as the clan's elder as well as it's shaman respectively based on their color and a seal stitched into the ends of the cloths. One of these silks is light blue and worn much like a scarf while the other is a dark grey and is wrapped around his waist like an obi.
Rukh Alignment: White
Special Traits: N/A
History:
Ryosui inherited both the martial arts of his people as well as the role of shaman from his grandfather. His father was a strong fighter, but had no talent for magoi manipulation and never possessed the natural requirements to be a magician. Thus, the passing of secrets skipped Ryosui's father's generation and fell to him. He trained under his grandfather until the man passed of illness and then took up the role of shaman at the tender age of 12. Using simple magic to predict weather and natural threats, he served his people well and through daily training he refined himself into one of its strongest guardians.
Ryousui has faced many trials in his life time and all of his greatest failures can be attributed to his naievity, ignorance of the outside world, and kindness. However Ryosui has never once questioned the importance of his gentle nature as in each of those occasions it had also been crucial to finding a peaceful resolution. Now, he has become the strongest fighter in the clan as well as its oldest living member and continues to serve as their shaman to this day.
Personality:
These are a proud people who live by the sweat of their brow. They have a strong sense of honor and justice and they follow the tenets of their ancestors. These people hold a strong spiritual bond to their predecessors an through shamans, they understand that all life goes back to the great flow after death. They have suffered through many hardships, but maintain a positive outlook on life throughout most struggles knowing that even should their lives end, they will be reunited with their loved ones some day after death.
Hair Color: Varied
Eye Color: Varied
Height: Varied
Weight: Varied
Appearance: The clan usually wears clothing of Kouen origin made from the wool of livestock, silks, and fibers found in local flora. The mostly have dark hair, green eyes, and small bodies, but there are exceptions scattered throughout their ranks. Most of them have the look of simple people skilled in one craft or another or like farmers. They live off the land and by the sweat of their brow. But some of their kin have the look of scholars or monks about them. These individuals are usually bigger, both in height and in muscle mass as they are the members of the clan's martial arts sect as well as its guardians/warriors.
Rukh Alignment: White
Special Traits:
History:
The clan's origin's date back to before the Kou Empire was even a glint in the first emperor's ambitious eyes. They settled down in the Jade Dragon mountain range and there they lived secluded in peace for many generations. When Kou's expeditionary troops stumbled upon them, they insisted that the clan was already inside the empire's territory even though this was far from the case. An outpost began using them as a source of supplies and imposed cruelly unfair taxes upon them.
Eventually these people had their village burned down by soldiers of Kou from said outpost and are now In Need of a King. They were wrongfully forced to pay a tax to the Kou Empire despite not truly living within their lands. This group of mountain villagers however, had little means to fight back against this oppression. Even the sect of monks specializing in martial arts and magoi manipulation could not fight back against the might of the entire Kou army.
One day, a pair of travelers came to their aid. A Magician named Yakuroro and a fanalis named Dynatos. Since the villagers could not pay the outrageous taxes demanded of them, the soldiers began razing the village just before these two saviors arrived on scene. Using their power, the soldiers were defeated and while the village could not be saved, many of the villagers survived thanks to their intervention.
Dynatos promised these people a new home but has yet to make good on this declaration. Still, the Jade River clan has faith that these men will come to their rescue once more. For now, they are living in the Great Plains and have been gradually traveling westward to escape the ever expanding Kou empire.
