Shiro Kitsuki (TCG)

Shiro Kitsuki, also known as Last Step Castle, was the seat of power of the Kitsuki family. It straddled Last Step Pass. Courts of Stone, p. 33 Shiro Kitsuki guarded the one easy path through the mountains with gatehouses filled with puzzles and traps to train Dragon cadets and confound attackers. Courts of Stone (FFG Web)
== Purpose ==
Shiro Kitsuki's first and foremost purpose was to train Dragon esotericists and specialists. Everyone at Shiro Kitsuki was involved in a journey of self-improvement—either their own or someone else's, as an instructor or mentor. Its trials conferred fame and status on those who were tough and smart enough to overcome them, and trusted allies of the clan were sometimes invited to undertake the challenges as well. This remote location, so long occupied by eccentrics forced into close contact, also was home to numerous long-standing grudges between its various residents, its greatest weakness. Teachers competed with one another to secure the admiration of the most promising students. Shiro Kitsuki housed archives, an armory, a swordsmith's forge, several vegetable gardens, and a dōjō for Mirumoto fencers. Courts of Stone, pp. 33-35
== Appearance ==
Last Step Pass was X-shaped, and Shiro Kitsuki's four keeps rose from the heights to the north, south, west, and east of the pass. While the eastern keep was camouflaged within the wilderness, the northern, western, and southern keeps were classic yamashiro. Rings of ramparts give way to a maze of interlocking baileys full of puzzles and traps, which had multiple gatehouses so attackers could not be sure which lead to a keep. The primary structures surmounted each peak in hashigokaku layout. 
=== Keeps ===
Each keep organized and administered a curriculum of training procedures to prepare their trainees for a certain calling, which consisted of a series of “chambers,” each of which was a challenge or set of related challenges that a trainee must attempt and eventually complete. The southernmost keep housed its military academy, the western keep was the home base of the Kitsuki Investigator School as well as the residence of the castellan, the northern keep was a Shinseist monastery of the ise zumi, and the eastern keep, the stangest of all, was mainly built into the mountain's caverns and under its rocky overhangs, housing shugenja in their quest to eliminate the difference between the physical self and the elemental self. Courts of Stone, pp. 34-35
== Known Castellan ==
* Kitsuki Ma'aya
== External Links ==
* Shiro Kitsuki (A Champion's Foresight)
Category:Dragon Clan Holdings (TCG)