Name of Creature: Koze

Physical Description: Gigantic turtle like creatures with hard shells capable of being withdrawn all the way into, with enough room to bring food as well. Their shells have small vents in the top that they can close off with a thin membrane and open up to filter water into their shells. They have two tusks protruding from the sides of their mouths, each about as long as the creatures head but thicker on females. They have no other teeth in their mouths though they do have spiny protrusions in their throat to keep fish and other prey from escaping. They have relatively short but very thick and muscular tails that can be moved back and forth on their own. Each of their four feet has large but blunt claws that are used to digging nests and foraging through other animal dens.

Size: Average 10 feet high from feet to head, around 14 on top of shell. 15 feet long from head to tail and about as thick as a family van. Very old and large ones (normally in the seas) can reach 5 times that size.

Location: Various lakes and seas across Kios, anywhere with a lot of water has the chances of one being nearby. They have been known to wander into settlements and can be found walking across roads and highways in some regions.

How common: Rare but they live so long and have such a large range that despite their low numbers they have been seen a lot all over the world. People in practically have every city have encountered at least one, and in Bajin lands villages have to shoo one off at least once every couple of years.

Diet: Mostly Fish and various aquatic birds, they frequently supplement their diet with plants that grow in or very close to bodies of water, often times leading them to wander into village cropland.

Threat: At maturity their shells become tough enough to withstand powerful bombs, and ignore blows from otherwise powerful entities such as war demons or Oni Berserkers. They are capable of pulling ships hundreds of times their size with their natural strength and are notable for being able to manipulate water via elemental magic. In a direct fight it would be hard for any warrior to take one down. Luckily for people they have childlike intelligence and can easily be calmed down or simply lead away. They often ignore people even when wandering into the middle of combat zones in wars, only really fighting when they are hurt or their nests are invaded.

Lifespan: Several Thousands of years

Behavior: They spend most of their time wandering around the lands traveling from lake to lake or sea to sea. At any given moment large streams of water can be seen flowing around them, as they have a natural affinity with magic and can control water in all of its forms, using it to funnel fish and such into their mouths as well as wet their scales. This ability to manipulate water has led many to theorize that ancient mages learned water magic from studying them, and some villages think of them as holy creatures. They are friendly by default to people, not thinking of them as prey or predators. This natural friendliness means they have no qualms about wandering into villages and city outskirts and just generally being in the way as well as eating crops and stealing fish. They can be highly territorial over their nests and stashes of food in general that they plan to bring back to their nest instead of eating on the spot like normal.

Name: Ryuu Naji
Clan: Naji
Title: The Naji Shogun
Gender: Male
Age: 48

Race: Human
Height: 6'5
Weight: 205 lbs
Appearance:


Occupation: Leader of the Naji Clan, and self proclaimed Shogun of the self named Naji Isles.

Notable Skills:
He is a master swordsman, one of his regions finest warriors in his youth and still one of the top fighters in middle age. He is incredibly strong, able to out muscle the average Oni in a contest of strength and cleave through boulders without use of ki. Unlike many other Lords he doesn't rely on his sword and is highly proficient in grappling arts of the lands, with him having defeated many enemies unarmed.

Magical Abilities: None

Ki Techniques/powers:

Ki Charge: By focusing his energy and exploding it outwards behind him, he is able to strike forward at superhuman speeds, the energy temporarily boosting his strength and toughness. Using this technique he is capable of bursting through the toughest city defenses and pierce through some of the toughest armors in their world.

Ki Wave: By swinging his sword he is capable of firing a wave of ki out along the arc, letting him slice things from a distance. The less energy he has, the weaker the wave.

Deaden: He is capable of completely numbing his body to all pain, allowing him to fight through even the most painful wound. This does not stop his body from taking damage however.

Weapons: A Katana given to him by his father. It is connected to the soul of his ancestor and as such can never be broken as long a member of the Naji family still holds control of their most sacred ancestral shrine.

Other Gear:

Personality: While still very traditional (it is much harder for women to advance in the clan outside of marriage) he is more liberal than his father was, for example while he still hates the idea of women being in battle he will allow it if they are determined and prove themselves capable enough. He is known for being brutal towards his enemies, with very few men spared after they wage war or attack one of his villages or allies but he is far from the worst and doesn't allow the killing or rape of enemy women like many other lords of his age do. Despite his feared reputation and his father's strict and feared legacy he himself comes off as mostly friendly to the people of his clan, and his multiple wives and several children often describe him as a family man. He truly is and as such enforces harsh penalties for abandoning/neglecting children or choosing not to be involved in their life and encourages every village under his control to have festivals the children can enjoy.

Brief history: The Naji clan is one of the oldest in Baji, tracing their people back to a group of the first to enter the Isles and according to their sacred texts they are the descendants of deities from ancient japan. Ryuu is the latest in the long line of lords of the Naji clan; inheriting command after the death his father, a stern and strict man who expanded the Naji clan in a period of unprecedented growth and prosperity. Ryuu spent most of his life as a soldier and later a general and as such is a well respected leader even though the clans growth has slowed drastically with him in charge, him preferring to focus on defense now that other powerful clans have popped up nearby. He considers himself Shogun and the successor of Bear-Sama (a man who breifly united Baji to fend off invaders, when ryuu was a child). He claims the central islands are Naji land and has several times tried to convince the others clans in the region to consider themselves a nation state under his command. He had been gaining ground on the idea but with the recent war with Nakaki his focus has drifted away from protecting weaker clans (and he often expects them to fight for him) and as such his popularity has taken a hit.

Other: He is one of more well known clan leaders as he travels often to try to convince people tp join his idea of making the central islands their own nation. And in the past 2 years to get people to join his war effort.