鋼のＦＲＥＥＤＯＭ: Kitan Kagetora

鋼のＦＲＥＥＤＯＭ (Hagane no Freedom - Freedom of Steel) is a Tenra Bansho Zero scenario for 4 to 6 players, including the Game Master. This series of posts introduces pregenerated player characters and their stories. Note: since the names are Japanese, they're written with family name first, unless noted otherwise.

You are Kitan Kagetora, the last living member of the Kitan clan. In another time you would have been the Lord of Torigoe domain, as your father was. However, independent Torigoe doesn't exist anymore: it was conquered by Lord Buren of Hakusen in a short and decisive war two years ago.

Your father and younger sister died during the chaos as the capital city of Tengaishi fell, while you were separately captured and spared by the troops of Hakusen. As a member of former ruling family you have been afforded a state pension. You now spend your days in a boarding school for young nobles such as yourself, living a content but ultimately pointless existence.

Or so everyone thinks. In truth, you have never stopped making plots to take back Torigoe from Hakusen, whether it's for the sake of your countrymen or just yourself. You have established secret contacts with the underground resistance movements and are planning to one day lead them to victory. Even though they are all just tools to you, you have a lot to offer them - your strategic abilities are supreme, honed over years of studying shogi (the Japanese chess), where you are nigh undefeatable.

Another important talent of yours is Onmyojutsu, the Taoist sorcerous art of distilling background life energy of the land and giving it the shape of monstrous creatures called Shikigami or simply shiki, which you can then direct at your enemies or use for more mundane tasks. While it is not something you want to showcase to the people watching you, it is a powerful asset which you have become quite good at manipulating.

However, you sneer at the outdated traditional ways of sorcery, carefully drawing summoning glyphs in a beautiful display of calligraphy. You're one of the new generation of Onmyoji, emphasizing substance over style - using an abacus and a mechanical kimenkyo calculating device to quickly produce calculations required to create Shikigami as fast as possible. Older Onmyoji would say that this method is too dangerous, as any error made in haste can produce terrifying and uncontrollable Chimera, and derisively call your ilk shiki-slingers. But you don't care. You know better than them.

Will you oust the invaders who have conquered your homeland, and give its people the freedom they deserve? Or will your own reign you promise be even more terrible?

SYSTEM NOTES

Archetypes: Aristocrat/Princess, Shiki Slinger, Tactician
Fates: Emotion: Hostility towards classical Onmyoji, Emotion: Loyalty to Torigoe domain