Kuni Masuyo

## Envoy of the Jade Empire

Taking a well deserved break

Kuni Family

City of Zingera

> "I am surrounded by Gaijin, and I'm THIS close to setting them on fire.
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Lady Masayo Kuni is a skilled politician and shugenja whom originates from the Jade Empire of Rokugan.

## The story so far

### Backstory

Like all Kuni shugenja, Masayo was trained in their stronghold of Shiro Kuni, graciously granted to them by the will of the emperor and the strength of the Crab clan they are part of. Yet after graduating and becoming a full fledged shugenja - she left her ancestral home and started to travel in search of more knowledge in how to defend her home from the demons and unspeakable horrors that assail her clan and family home. Starting in the Jade Empire, her prodigious nature, or lack of willing people to teach her, forced her to then gain permission from the Emperor’s own court to travel to other lands.

Since then she’s travelled westward across the continent - firstly through the lands that the Unicorn Clan of Rokugan passed through on it’s centuries long journey, but soon into new lands. She found some things that caught her interest, but she would quickly exhaust those resources and move to the next one.

### Entering Awbor

Masayo was originally going to simply pass through the kingdom of Awbor, but was convinced by the wizard Bando to assist him in a matter in the No Man’s Land south of Zingherra. She joined the Fritz Omelette Raiders and explored Quaal's Tomb.

After that particular debacle, she hired a fellow party member, Wei Tu Hi, as her own personal guard and decided to stay put. In order to establish herself as the noble she already was, she set up an Embassy - the first of its kind for any ambassador/envoy of Rokugan anywhere - and continued to learn from the local clerics about the smiting of undead.

And so, she exists in her current role: the first Rokugani ambassador to a foreign “gaijin” land to have set up a permanent embassy outside of the Jade Empire.

### Of Truth and Power

The Cloppenburg Post-Truth Patrol was first introduced to Lady Kuni through a shared acquaintance - Lady Acillia (then masquerading as Lady Ravenster). The two seemed to talk often and deal with the politics of the realm whilst the party were trying to do the legwork of smashing cults.

Founding member of the Cloppenburg Post-Truth Patrol, Iyasu Neko, was intrigued with the Lady, and so began to build a friendly relationship. Iyasu went so far as to have a jade tetsubo specially made by the Jieve brothers, as a gift for Lady Kuni. Lady Kuni and Iyasu traded information and contacts - Iyasu introducing the lady to the head of the church of Pelor, and Lady Kuni revealing information about blood magics and other foul things to the party to assist in their investigations.

Seriden Hida was another notable member who has strong ties to Kuni as, during the party’s many investigations, it was discovered that Seriden’s family were originally from Rokugan. Even more unusual was that their family, the Hida, were the ruling family of the Crab clan - the clan that the Kuni family owe their allegiance to. As such, Lady Kuni began to train Seriden in the proper method of being a member of the crab clan - as the training he received from his grandfather was substantial - but not inclusive of all the aspects of Crab clan life.

When Zingherra was attacked and almost levelled by several porcelain mask wearing terrorists, Lady Kuni’s Embassy was spared - not because it was not targeted but because Kuni herself was involved with defending her lands. She reportedly screamed in an unknown language and then said

> “These mother fucking gaijin think they're so great, fuck you pasty ass cunts”
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Though the reports on Lady Kuni’s words are unverified.

During the investigation of the Desolation of the Pantry Plains, the Cloppenburg Post-Truth Patrol found a workshop located in the Vonkrul Mountains. They discovered that this workshop had been hijacked by monsters and was steeped in blood and void magic. During the final battle, the party were attempting to hold back demons and abominations that were coming out of a portal - a tear in reality. Lady Kuni arrived in time with reinforcements from her own household guard - and brought that entire section of the mountain down onto the portal, thus allowing the party to (mostly) escape with their lives.

When the Cloppenburg Post-Truth Patrol were accused of the murder of several nobles, and thus “fled” to Valia, Lady Kuni took those who could not join them on that adventure into her service.

## The Embassy

Lady Kuni’s embassy was created by her and her small entourage after she found her original place of stay to be “woefully unacceptable”.

The compound she built stands out dramatically in the city of Zingherra. The grounds are a maze of carefully tended to bonsai gardens, divided up by one large pond filled with koi. Paper walls and wooden bridges fill the grounds, and the guards are armoured in a cuirass unique to Rokugan. If asked, she would simply call it a “little taste of home.”

Outside of its aesthetic qualities, it contains an underground chamber filled with scrolls and a laboratory that only the Lady herself has access to. It houses many rooms for its staff, and a meeting room for delegates to compete for Lady Kuni’s not insubstantial favour

Other than the Lady herself, she houses Seriden Hida and his grandfather, Katy Fitzburn, Raymond Farmer, Thor the Thundercat, and her old ally Wei Tu Hi.

## Abilities

As expected of a Kuni shugenja, she wields the divine power of the kami - spirits that embody the elements of the world - and focuses on the purifying and detail oriented earth kami. Her influence over the earth is so potent that she was able to bring down a mountain range, and although the circumstances were somewhat unusual and cannot be easily replicated - such an event goes to show the potential of her power.

Outside of magic however, Lady Kuni is also a cunning negotiator and politician - with many minor lords and ladys currying favour with her for all sorts of things. This is unusual, mostly due to the fact that inside the Jade Empire the Kuni are considered insane and mad scientists - not clever politicians and talkers.

Even more unusual however, is her choice in weapon. Outside of her spells and the wakizashi that is the mark of her status, Masayo Kuni wields an umbrella that has been outfitted with thin metal plates.