Tohkatsu Nomizaki

**Tohkatsu Nomizaki** (formerly Daigotsu) is a former Samurai of Rokugan's **Spider Clan**, now ruler of its **Puma Clan**.

## Story

### Great Blood, Great Earth

At first **Daichi Nomizaki** of the Ikoma Family in the **Lion Clan**, this minor Samurai almost lost his live in a traumatic battle where he was discarded as fodder. Saved by Rakuen, he was healed at the price of his purity, becoming stained by Miasma after a maddening day in Jigoku. Now being called **Tohkatsu Daigotsu**, the young man attempted to rebuild his life, giving a new meaning to his vision of honor as he embraced the Spider's principles.

Tohkatsu was sent by the Spider Clan as an emissary and met Furiamaru Isawa during his travels, growing close to the Phoenix shugenja and slowly tempted her. After said mission on the Scorpion territory, Tohkatsu eventually returned to his clan, waiting for further missions - and was quite surprised to see Furiamaru herself eventually coming to the Spider as well.

Tohkatsu helped Furiamaru with developing her Void powers, using his strange authority over Oni in order to bolster Furiamaru's abilities. Eventually becoming Furiamaru's lover, he used his corruption-bolstered powers to assist her during the final battle against the wizard Iuchiban, proving him instrumental to Iuchiban's defeat by allowing Furiamaru to call upon the Nether.

### Sovereign in Twin Realm

Soon after, due to the machinations of another world's Daichi Ikoma, Tohkatsu found himself stranded, alongside Hoji Daigotsu and Boshi Daigotsu, in a world where the Spider no longer existed. Quick to take an opportunity, Tohkatsu resolved to travel in order to create his own Clan, the Puma, gathering in the process a large amount of followers and facing off against this world's Iuchiban and the threat of Fu Leng.

Despite that, Tohkatsu fell prey to Daichi's schemes, losing his body to him at the very moment he succeeded in his endeavors. Reduced to nothing more than a spirit, Tohkatsu traveled across the Spirit Realms to retrieve his body, transcending and becoming a Dark Lord of Jigoku in the process, then returned as a God, merging with Daichi to face off against a Tragoedia-amplified Fu Leng and defeat her, his heroic act awarding him with the Puma Clan he so desired.

### The Ram's Resolve

In an alternate world, Tohkatsu and Furiamaru they eventually reached the Cheshire Isle with their world's collapse. There, Tohkatsu, upon seeing that Furiamaru was corrupted as well, overcame his own corruption by becoming Akutenshi and using his powers to save Furia, asserting dominion over his own fate. Acting as one of the pillars of Miasma in the Cheshire Isle, he bid his time, still supporting Furiamaru's ambitions as her mastery grew.

Another version of Tohkatsu was briefly summoned as a Divine Servant of Aries, showing his determination when summoned by Ouroboros in a Servant War; despite his incredible endurance however, he was eventually controlled by Radundo and served as a powerful opponent, after which he was defeated and faded away.

## Appearance

Tohkatsu is a tall, muscled black-haired, brown-eyed man dressed in the massive, black kimono-like clothes of the Spider Clan. These garbs were voluntarily made ample in order to hide Tohkatsu's mutation originating from his corruption - two scaly black wings, almost insect-like in nature, sprouting from his back. Tohkatsu eventually amassed more and more mutations - including a third eye on his torso, dark claws, and black, vaporous blood - until he became a Dark Lord of the Shadowlands, gaining control of himself.

## Personality

Tohkatsu is a serious, determined man with a personal conception of honor. He embraces principles such as self-perfection, strength through control and sheer, terrifying willpower, insuring that nothing short of death will stop Tohkatsu - and even then, Tohkatsu is one to defeat death itself when needed. Tohkatsu is ruthlessly ambitious, although his final aim is neither a high social position or greater power - only mastery over his own fate.

Fighting the corruption within yet embracing it at the same time, Tohkatsu is paradoxically proud of himself and full of self-hatred, walking between self-destructive rage and cold, patient and calculated progress. His unreasonable ambitions can be seen as a coping mechanism, a way for him to convince himself that fate can be overturned and that he can defeat Jigoku - a fierce obsession that would eventually prove itself correct.

Tohkatsu nevertheless is a patient and protective man with his own, one who thrives in environments when he can give and receive love. His relationship first with Furia, then with the rest of his Clan shows a deep need for him to have a family to protect, loved ones that would in turn care for him - a refuge against the darkness within, and a way to keep his sanity. His desire to protect them, and not to be forgotten, fueled his ascension as a Dark Lord, as merciful as he is implacable and driven.

## Powers

* **Supernatural Strength and Endurance:** Although Tohkatsu's accuracy and speed are lacking, his physical strength and endurance are truly inhuman. His physical abilities, as Dark Lord of the Shadowlands, are however increased to divine levels.
* **Regeneration:** As an Akutenshi, and later as a Dark Lord of the Shadowlands, Tohkatsu possesses immense regenerative abilities and an immunity to further corruption.
* **Oni Dominance:** Tohkatsu possesses a authority over Oni, and can command them at will.
* **Necromancy Use:** Tohkatsu is an apprentice Mahotsukai, able to summon Oni, bolster his own strength, and make his opponents bleed. In Rokugan's alternate Timeline, he has further developed his arts to include a variety of dark summonings and curses.
* **Akan Shape:** Tohkatsu can turn into a massive, insect-like dragonic beast, thus bolstering his physical prowess even further, and manipulates a corrupted Miasma breath in that form.
* **Monastic Arts:** Tohkatsu trained himself through mystical revelations to use a variety of Kiho - Ki-using techniques - centered around regeneration, defense and, ironically, Taint destruction.
* **Determination Use:** Tohkatsu was able to use Determination in order to reject his own decaying body's destruction while submerged by Miasma.
* **Divine Servant Abilities:** Tohkatsu possesses impressive abilities as Divine Servant Tohkatsu of Aries. His Advents are unknown.

## Storylines

* Legend of the Five Rings : Fates and Fortunes features him.
* Magus Wars : Control features him as Tohkatsu of Aries.
* Legend of the Five Rings : Twin Realm of the If features him.

## Trivia

* Tohkatsu's name means "revived", while Daichi is a pun, meaning either "great earth" - his main element - or "great blood", a reference to his tainted role.
* His theme songs, as chosen by his creator, are "Lion" by Hollywood Undead, and "Haunted" by Disturbed.
* He is the father of Tiffany Nomizaki.
* Tohkatsu can be said to greatly follow Daigotsu's footsteps - the founder of the Spider, whom he greatly admires and seeks to emulate, inspires his actions even unwillingly, and he possesses similar powers as well. This is even further expanded in Twin Realm, where he actually becomes a Dark Lord of the Shadowlands similar to Daigotsu.