The Soshi

Soshi Saibankan

Run the Magistrate school.

Hokichi (Dead)

• • Daimyo of his house and family.

  • Invited the Wolf to Winter Court

  • Old, decades past normal retirement age for a Scorpion

  • Poisoned by his concubine Ginko, on the orders of her father, Soshi Takehide

Ai (Dead)

• • Hokichi's daughter

  • Middle aged, and not too far away from normal retirement age

  • Strong ally of Soshi Ogeo Fumi

  • Mother of Kaede and Juroji

  • Killed by Yukio in battle

Munemori

• • Hokichi's son

  • Middle aged, and not too far away from normal retirement age

Juroji

• • Ai's eldest daughter

  • Highly skilled magistrate

  • Recently gained much status after bringing a significant criminal to justice

  • Blessed by Saibankan himself allegedly

  • Uncovered Takehide's murder of Hokichi

  • Emerald Magistrate serving in Toshi Ranbo

Kaede

• • Ai's youngest daughter

  • Shugenja

  • Allied with Soshi Ogeo Fumi and Soshi Takosho Ryoko

  • Daimyo of the Saibankan

  • Married to Takehide's younger son, Tishi

Ginko

• • Hokichi's concubine

  • Young, beautiful, charming etc.

  • Poisoned Hokichi on the orders of her father, Takehide

Many many many other relatives

• • Hokichi has several other children, and lots and lots of grandchildren

Soshi Murai

Have held Kanazawa most often.

Rei

• • Leader of Soshi Murai

  • Wants Kanazawa back

  • Shugenja

  • Mother of Honami

Nariji (Dead)

• • Rei's husband

  • Bushi

  • Quiet

  • Slain by Takumi in a battlefield duel

Honami

• • Tomochi's former wife

  • Fled from Kanazawa with their infant son

  • Current whereabouts unknown

Soshi Yoriko

Takehide (Dead)

• • Leader of house

  • Great general; currently being trained by the Akodo at the elite war college

  • Turned up at Kanazawa to collect Zenshin's corpse with a legion

  • Ally of Iuchi Ayano Akemi

  • Poisoned Saibankan Hokichi, his liege lord.

  • Lost a duel against Takumi to determine the truth of Soshi Juroji's allegations; had to commit seppuku as a result

Zenshin (Dead)

• • Takehide's brother

  • Courtier

  • Hated Iuchi Ryobe due to Ryobe's involvement in his son's death

  • Died attempting to kill the children of Ryobe and Lotus Blossom in Kanazawa.

Toshi

• • See Iuchi Ayano Toshi

Shouko

• • Takehide's eldest son; diamyo of the Yoriko and Soshi after his father's death

  • Shugenja

  • Complained to Tomochi about Shiba Hisaki's 'bias' in passing judgement over Zenshin's death

Tishi

• Takehide's youngest son

• Trained at the Akodo bushi school

• Married to Soshi Kaede (daimyo of the Saibankan)

• Warred with Shouko to determine who would be Soshi daimyo after Takehide's death

Soshi Ogoe

Run the shugenja school

Fumi

• • Small, elderly shugenja

  • Very powerful, both as a shugenja and politcly

  • Alliances with Saibankan Ai and Kaede

Soshi Takosho

Tara

• • Courtier

  • Potential marriage prospect for Netsuko

Ryoko

• • Recently inherited head of house

  • Shugenja

  • Ally of Saibankan Kaede

Soshi Reiko

Hachemon

• • Placed well in the archery contest at Winter Court