Kuonji Clan (AST)

The Kuonji Clan are a family of martial artist that practice a varient of Martial Arts Cookery that revolves around okonomiyaki.
==Background==
The Kuonji family has only in recent history been limiting themselves to the martial arts surrounding their art of cooking okonomiyaki. Before that they were more general, and before that... to be blunt, they were assassins. The cooking was merely a cover, a means to an end and nothing more.
The Kuonji were experts in their trade. Oh, a man could have guards and walls to protect him, but he had to eat sooner or later. The beauty of their technique was to look unthreatening. They did not need to resort to poison as food tasters could have caught such things. No, their was a delicate method of building confidence, a feeling of security and safety then striking in a weak moment.
Quite often it was done with such precision and subtly as to be accepted as a mere accident. Those times when more direct methods were called for, the household cook could hardly be suspected of the death. After all he had only a few kitchen utensils at his disposal, fit only to prepare food, hardly the weapons needed to defeat trained guards armed with swords and spears. Little did they realize how effectively those tools could be used. An expert could even make the wounds seem like they came from completely different weapons.
There decision to pursue more benign lines of work was due to the development of the Kuonji Kinjutsu. It was not long after these techniques were discovered that the few students who had learned them had effectively destroyed much of the clan from within. Because of this, the master who created them sealed them away and set about rebuilding the clan. His disgust with what happened caused him to turn away from the Kuonji clan's heritage and lead them down the current path that they follow.
==Martial Arts==
===Kuonji Kinjutsu===
The Kuonji Kinjutsu (久遠寺禁術, literally meaning: Kuonji Forbidden Techniques) come from a time shortly after a Kuonji ancestor set about on a training journey throughout the orient. He picked up many techniques during this time, before developing two of his own. They are almost like different applications to one central idea, that the human battle aura is not unlike a fire and thus can be manipulated like one. It is unknown why these techniques were only sealed and not destroyed, but Hidenori believes that the old masters believed the techniques might one day be needed. Whatever the case, they were not destroyed and are available to anyone who can enter the Kuonji shrine and find them.
==Notes==
The Kuonji Clan seems to have a connection to the Seven Lucky Gods as both have access to the chopstick defense technique. It is unknown, however, if one learned it from the other, or both learned it from a third party.
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