Ghostknight said:
Hmm, the problem is, unless you have been adopted by the Crab I don't see why they would have trained you as a Daidoji bodyguard. Fostering of children between clans/families would be fairly common, but it would be difficult to see a clan revealing there secret training to non-clan members (my view of the clan specific prestige classes). Also, if Bro's character is a Crane noble - why would they trust a Scorpion with his life? So I will OK this IF the background is such that you have abandoned all ties to the Scorpion clan and have been adopted into the Crane clan.
Actually, the Daidoji Bodyguard is in the Crane Clan, not the Crab.
The Crab is the Hida Defender (unless they have updated the Clans in another source?)
I don't have the complete history written yet, but what I was thinking is this:
Disillusioned over her Clan's dishonor (their exile), and even more so by her family name (since her immediate family did not return from exile, and her extended family did not think her worthwhile enough to reclaim) she abandons the household of the Crane family who had fostered her for several years. At this point, she abandons her family name and sells herself into a binding contract in a Floating City as a geisha. She takes the name "Cherry Blossom" - Sakura.
After two years of living in self-imposed disgrace, Sakura receives a visitor from a Crane family household. He says he knows her history and offers to buy out her contract, if she will live in the household and train as a bodyguard for one of the family's sons. He says that her skill with the warfan, combined with her ability to act as a geisha would add up to be the perfect undercover bodyguard. His own second wife was an abandoned woman of the Scorpian Clan.
And, he said that if she performed well as a bodyguard - she could gain honor in the Crane Clan. But, she would have to foreswear all ties to her Clan of birth and swear allegience to the Crane.
The references to interactions between the two Clans are from the book. I just thought that it would be a neat background - I can still go the original way, if you would prefer.
