Moriko (rōnin)

Please note: This article is about the rōnin. For other uses of the term, please see Moriko (disambiguation).
Moriko, which meaned “forest child,” was the name used by a rōnin who founded the Children of the White Wolf, a religious group who believed that the Isawa Mori was a place where the Mortal Realm and Chikushō-dō came close together. Celestial Realms, p. 124
== Revelation ==
Moriko worked as a caravan guard for merchants based in Sheltered Plains City. While escorting a caravan along one of the very few roads through the Isawa Mori, Moriko sought an enormous white wolf. She believed this to be an okuriōkami, a wolf-spirit guardian that sometimes watched over travelers. No one else seemed to see the creature, convincing Moriko that she had been granted a vision from Chikushō-dō, the Realm of Animals. Moriko returned to the Isawa Mori, built a small cabin, and began to devote her life to understanding and protecting what she saw as a place where Chikushō-dō impinged closely on the Mortal Realm. 
== Spiritual Leader ==
Ten years later the word of Moriko had spread, and she had attracted a small group of like-minded followers, the Children of the White Wolf. Some lived in the forest with her, while others lived elsewhere and periodically journey to her on a form of pilgrimage. Her strength of conviction, backed up by a formidable and charismatic personality, was the catalyst that
prompted the group to form and now held it together. Celestial Realms, pp. 124-125
Category:Rōnin