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pema
10-09-2007, 01:29 AM
How does the Tonsured trait interact with the Bushido trait, if at all?
I mean, how can you be beholden to a liege when you have renounced all worldly relations?
luke
10-09-2007, 09:11 AM
Isn't that just deliciously complicated?
pema
10-09-2007, 10:44 AM
Yes. Yes it is.
Now I know for sure what my character will be :D
andrew_kenrick
03-22-2008, 11:40 AM
We've ended up with 3 bushi turned monks in our game. One is a young bushi who's family gave him to the monastery to salve their own honour; one is a former lord who has retired to a monastery; and the third one is a fallen bushi who has fled to the temple. It's all fabulously conflict rich at the moment.
andrew_kenrick
03-23-2008, 07:10 AM
Actually, I've got a question that's arisen from this situation. How does the -san trait work when you enter another setting? Does the free relationship have to be from the provincial warrior setting, or is it still from your last lifepath?
luke
03-23-2008, 02:03 PM
Actually, I've got a question that's arisen from this situation. How does the -san trait work when you enter another setting? Does the free relationship have to be from the provincial warrior setting, or is it still from your last lifepath?
Provincial warrior setting -- your former superior.
andrew_kenrick
03-24-2008, 07:55 AM
Cool, that makes perfect sense. Thanks!
Bez
03-24-2008, 04:28 PM
Deliciously comlpicated situations aside, how would one expect to behave when having ties to both a Lord and a monastery? This would be plainly obvious to a Japanese Bushi/Monk at the time, but my Western ideologies are struggling with the duality of the situation.

From historical examples, certain influential people were given the option to 'retire' to a monastery to remove them from the political environment, so you would expect that a former bushi-turned-monk would no longer be beholden to his former liege.
However, my character has the -san suffix and so has the Honour/Shame tracks activated, implying he has some responsibilities in the provincial warrior world. If called upon to defend Minamoto lands would I do so, forsaking holy vows, or would I ignore my former liege-lord and stay at the temple?