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Message: <blockquote data-quote="carpedavid" data-source="post: 2135127" data-attributes="member: 6971">Thanks for the kind comments, TDR. As you'll see from future updates, the party has done a number of things that will make the situation back home very different from what they left. But all in due time. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />You may see more of Taka later, so I'll leave that a mystery for now.By "race," I'm guessing that you mean "ethnicity," since Kitsune mentions that the monk was human. Mr. Straw hair is the yet-to-be-introduced 5th PC in the group, and his player doesn't actually know what ethnicity he is yet - few people have ever seen someone that looks like him. However, all that information is going to come out in game in the next few sessions. In case you don't feel like waiting 'till that point in the story hour, you can check out the spoiler below:[spoiler]He's a member of the Ainu tribe, the original inhabitants of eastern Tanayari. They were almost completely wiped out by the ethnic Tanayarans as they spread east and by the Xin warlords as they spread west. At present, only a few thousand Ainu remain, mostly in isolated villages in eastern Tanayari.[/spoiler] I'm using the term "ninja" rather loosely in this campaign, as a flavor-appropriate way to describe pretty much anyone of the rogue-ish persuasion. While there are distinct ninja-clans (which you'll see a lot of later), the term, as I'm using it, is not exclusive to their members. "Historically" accurate? Not really, but then neither are giant lobster oni. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Ah, that's a good point. I'll make an effort to describe any exotic weapons beyond the katana, wakazashi, and ninja-to.Kakeru has always been an active PC, but, as a shaman in a party with a samurai and soon-to-be two monks, he's chosen to play a supporting role in combat. You'll see that he gets a *lot* more face time when we get to the social-interaction parts of the campaign.</blockquote>

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