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Eri didn't see what the big deal was with people knowing, especially if her father was going to be helping. She doubted Shima's enemies would be foolish enough to draw his ire, but she wasn't going to press on it and simply smiled. With what he wanted out of the way, it was time for her and rii to explain what they were there for and what they needed. The kitsune turned to Tetsuya before speaking in a serious tone. "What I am about to say concerns your Lord as well, pay attention and rely this message to him and anyone else who needs to know." She addressed him before speaking to both him and Ru. "With Naji's war with Nakkki consuming her home island it has become a more dangerous place than before, on top of their being unexplained incidents and behaviors in other clans that have both sides stumped. Fearing for her safety especially with an unknown force at work, the princess has been relocated to this island where she will be the leader of the Naji clan and all of its vassals within the region. I am currently her teacher as well as her protector, but there is something I need from you. Strange things will follow her and for the time being I will be enough to protect her, but eventually you may be needed. I'm not asking for an alliance with Naji, as said before I'm not part of their clan. But Your clans and others need to help keep an eye on the princess and help protect her from what may come if it brings armies behind it." She knew her words wouldn't mean much to Ru especially so she motioned to Eri. "Show them, what makes you so special."

"Yes, Rii-Sensei." Eri said before moving a few feet away from the others and taking a seat on the ground. She closed her eyes and after a few seconds her eyes shot open as spiritual energy began to swirl around them. Suddenly both Lady Ru and Tetsuya were no longer in the same place, instead they were spirits in two separate locations. Both of them watching their respective mothers holding them as babies, with whoever was around at that moment doing exactly what happened on that random day in their infancy. It only lasted about 30 seconds before both were right back in the courtyard, with Eri sitting on the ground still. "That is just a simple example. I know secrets that you thought no one else knew, I can also tell you the last words your great grandparents said to your grandparents." Eri said while seated, there was now a strong aura of both magic and spirit energy all around her one that dwarfed anything either Tetsuya or Ru would have encountered before.

"This girl is no simple medium or summoner, she doesn't call forth lingering spirits or make deals with old family members who tethered themselves to a shrine. She can see everything, and with focus can draw it out. From what my family can see, she is connected to every soul in Baji no matter who it once was. Females in particular are easy for her to see, and even channel into her own body. With some effort she can see into a living soul as well even someone like me who can normally defend against such things. Once she masters it we will be able to finally see and understand the true nature of this land, maybe understand what is really going on. Maybe even change things for the better, or at the very least know if something worse is planned for us." Rii explained in a little more detail.

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Lady Ru

Name: Kiri Ru
Clan: Ru
Title: Lady Ru
Gender: Female
Age: 32
Race: Human
Height: 5'11
Weight: 150 lbs
Appearance:

Lady Ru

Occupation: Leader of Ru

Notable Skills: In the Ru tradition she is trained in various traditional martial arts of their people. Her specialty is with her word oh which she has a reputation as being one the best female swordsman in known history. Her secondary style is a speed based striking style that focuses mostly and hand movement.

Magical Abilities: N/A

Ki Techniques/powers:
Ru Domain: A technique passed down through her family. Their Ki extends in a massive field around herself and covers the entire village and part of the nearby forest. This allows her to sense with near perfect accuracy who is in the area of her village and able to distinguish their race, gender, ki type, any techniques in current use, and some aspects of health and origin. This ability also allows her to charge objects with ki; fortifying defenses with her own energy or activating traps via that use.

Moonlight: She fires a ball of ki into the air that explodes and illuminates a large area around her, anything illuminated by her ki becomes attuned to her own energy. She is quickly of using the ki in the air to essentially teleport to any location attuned to her as long as she can see it.

Weapons: Her primary weapons are a katana and wakizashi but she also uses Naginata sometimes.

Other Gear: N/A

Personality:
Despite being a clan leader, Kiri Ru is known for behaving in ways most would see more fit for a commoner. She hates formalities and is often vulgar and crude in discussions and sometimes actions, preferring to just live her life instead of worry about what's proper. She loves fighting and is just as quick to spar and decide on things via that as she is to talk to other leaders.

Brief history: The current Lady Ru was the sole daughter of the one before her, and from an early age studied the martial arts of her family. When she became a teenager she spent several years traveling around so she could understand the world outside of their region and use that knowledge to help inform her decisions in the future. She went on many adventures on the isles and beyond before coming back in her 20s to take over Ru as their leader. She doesn't have much of a presence in Baji politics but she is loved by her people and respected a warrior by most (and a potential wife by many more).

Look who it is

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@Vena Sera

Soon Tetsuya will be a follower of Eri instead of Tenzin!

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Bumping this as I have room for more people, and it is about to be at a location where it is easy to join.

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"Don't call me or my mother anything. If she wanted the other clans to do what she said, she would simply force them to do it. If I'm telling people like you to do it, then don't bother saying who it came from. Dress it up like something you discovered if you want, we don't really care. You also won't be able to contact us, if we want to talk to you we will find you ourselves." To her that was pretty obvious, that they didn't actually need people to spread things in their name, people would do what they were told if needed. "As for your so called family back home? I can't and won't make any promises, if they get in my mother's way they will be dealt with like anyone else would. Right now they aren't even on our radar though, their goals and our own have very little overlap and they are safe until that changes. If it does change, then no one will be able to save them." She didn't care if it wasn't what Jiang was looking for, and just gave him the honest answer that they would only be safe if they themselves stayed out of their way. She then turned her attention to Kenji who asked a question that she expected one of them would ask. Thankfully her family didn't team up with others often, because she had interest in actual spending prolonged time with the group.

"As I said, my mother plays the long game. Going directly after people is a last resort, she observes and tailors tactics for the specific threat when the situation is stacked in our favor the most. Also our goals are only the same in that we don't want those women either destroying or controlling the island, my mother's interests in Baji are very different than those of Shima's." She didn't know what all they knew about her family, but expected they would eventually see that despite the common goal that the two groups were not real allies.

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Eventually you would have met one of her children, but the first encounter wouldn't have been with one on those paths

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The Ki Witch and her family

Known for her beauty and power Nohime is a very mysterious and influential person within the Baji Isles. While she makes her primary home in the Zhu empire she is very active in Baji and has several manors that she uses as vacation homes of sorts. Originating on a different world all together she has spent the past few hundred years interfering in politics all across the world she currently calls home. People in Baji know very little of her past or her motives, only that she says Baji reminds her of where she grew up. What is known is that she is very long lived, having been active for several hundred years so far and showing no sign of aging. Her family is a faction by itself and she uses her many children to engage in all sorts of activities across several nations. Most common is her dealing with faction leaders or very dedicated individuals who seek great power, them forging deals with her that always make their desire come true as long as they maintain her favor and keep up their end. Kingdoms have been forged thanks to her backing and those same kingdoms have been turned to ash as a result of losing her favor.

Countless people are in her pocket with many leaders owing her back for their rises to power, and many so called heroes rumored to have used her to gain their strength. Her children are feared warriors and assassins, normally enforcing her will on those who betray her or ensuring the winds of change flow in her favored direction. With her ability to seemingly grant wishes and her knowledge of everything going on some people have begun to think of her as a Kami herself and offer worship or tribute. Many other leaders simply think of her as a powerful witch, and possibly the greatest Ki master to ever live. One thing is agreed by all though, if she wanted to the isles would be under her full control and no one could stop it.

You unlocked more info. Your characters may or may not know this, but the daughter you just encountered wouldn't have been seen by them prior.

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The woman took a deep breath once she was finished talking, the legless body of her minion looking around at both Jiang and Gin who wanted him to stop. Jiang especially got her attention as he was actually pleading. The Zhuni grumbled something to herself before letting go of Yuudai, her aura returning to normal as she reached out towards the inactive minion on her side. One of the bone like shapes shot out of her hand and into his head, causing him to suddenly jump to his feet and looked around at everyone. At the same time the legless one suddenly deactivated, the bone falling out before being absorbed into the ground. "As I said, I have a mission to complete so I'm not going to kill her. I was just trying to have a bit of fun by having these guys attack you, a little test of sorts before I actually did my job. My mother said if you broke so easily we could find someone else, I figured after some minor trouble you would take them out and I'd say I was just playing. Until what just happened and she said some things that offended me. But whatever." She shrugged before her smile returned to her face and she simply picked up her other weapon so she could sheath it.

"I was sent here to make sure you guys aren't wandering around and wasting your time. She may not be active much in this region but My mother is Nohime the Ki Witch, and nothing escapes her sight. She knew about the thieves before they set out for your relics and we know where they are now. They are small fry, hired on by two women who have been after similar things from other more distant clans. My mother supports you in the journey to get them back, having some theorizes of her own about what they are up to. We play the long game and as such are waiting for more concrete information on the women behind them and other strange occurrences. The thieves will have a long journey with the relics and they have more things to take on this Island, and beyond that more chaos will spread here and beyond. My mother recommends focusing on getting nearby places prepared for their own issues, and maybe helping with them. It doesn't matter though the only thing we insist on is being prepared to have to do some really terrible things at some point in the future. I will also leave you with some help on searching, one of the thieves has been partially corrupted and now has a purple tint to his skin that is getting worst. And within Ru is a traveling woman who plays music from a foreign instrument, she may have more information on what is happening in the more distant clans and their own relics."

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Yeah he'd just pass out before anything happened

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Lady Ru stared at Tetsuya as he seemed to have a minor break down over her having any information that he needed. She could tell he felt strongly about such things and truly was loyal to his lord, still there wasn't really anything she could do without involving herself further in Shima affairs and that was something she wasn't willing to do. "I am sorry I can't be of much more help, but if you'd like to stay here until morning I can have some of my servants collect information from the village, maybe they can point you in the right direction. If you'd rather just continue your journey now though, I understand and simply hope that you and your lord also understand my position." She felt a little bad since it was serious to the Shima people, but Ru had to come first to her.

From behind Tetsuya, Princess Eri stepped closer and raised her hand to lightly rub the fur on his ear, feeling a little sad herself when she saw how he took the news for a moment. "It'll be ok, I'm sure you guys will find your relics and everything will be back to normal!" She said in a cheerful tone. "I'll even send my father a message about it, I'm sure he'll be willing to help out. At the very least some additional scouts to look around, maybe monitor areas where the thieves may try to sell such things." The princess hoped her words would help some. She didn't know if Shima wanted their help since they always turned down Ryuu's offers for the new nation, but she was confident her father would want to help Shima since it involved an important part of their history. Rii on the other hand stayed silent, if she cared about what Tetsuya had said she wasn't showing it. She instead kept her eyes focused on Eri, watching her to make sure she didn't offer anything that would mess up her own purpose and goals.