Tsyr
Explorer
I've been playing in a game of Mythic Rokugan... It's a campaign option suggested in the OA book set in rokugan but you replace various clans with races. So my Crane Clan Samurai is an elf, for example.
And to make this make a bit more sense, our DM tends to accelerate time between adventures... So events in a few months of play time can be many years in game.
Anyhow, a long time ago, my character participated in a multi-clan battle to defend a village. One of my characters closest friends at the time was a crab clan samurai played by another player (Crab clan are orcs in this version... Statisticly and cosmeticly half orcs, except for life span (As a dwarf), but they aren't the result of an orc and a human mating, they are a race of their own). He died in that battle. His last words to my character were to look after his wife and infant son, who did so for two years, until the orc's wife died one night in a fire. She managed to get the child out of the house herself, but she died of her wounds.
So my character raised the child as his own (He was only three at this point), and trained him as he would his own child, with the permision of both his lord and the patriarch of his family.
Many years have passed. The 'child' is now an adult. Our old characters are, well... ok, not old (My elf is still fairly young), but we have all advanced socialy to the point that we are lords in our own right, or otherwise in a position of power at this point, and the DM wants us to make new characters to start over... Sort of a "passing the torch" type of thing.
So I wanted to make my character the young orc (Hirakata) step in to fill my old character's shoes. DM was fine with this. I wanted to make him a crane clan samurai, like his "father", DM was also fine with that, because Hirakata is quite a different character in many ways from my original character.
However, there is some debate over the ancestral daisho clan ability. Specificly, can he use it? He isn't a blood descendant of my elf, but he is in spirit, and he considers himself my original character's son as much as my original character considers himself Hirikata's father. Oh, not literally... Clearly, you could never pretend that an orc and an elf were blood related, and no secret has ever been made of his true family, which he both respects and honors. However, his real family is dead. His mother was the last blood relative he had without going an insane number branches over on the family tree. So it's not like he is abandoning his family to join another. And my original character has no blood descendants, and never will (A vow to never re-wed after his first wife died). So the swords either pass to Hirakata, or they are burried with my original character when he dies.
Hirakata honors his adopted family as well as his birth family, and is accepted by all the living members save my old character's brother, a shugenja, who has never spoken to my original character since that day.
Obviously it's not the intent of the Ancestral Daisho, nor is it standard practice. But, perhaps with a ritual to ask permission of the spirits of the family ancestors, do you think him inheriting the daisho would be possible? The DM isn't saying no, but he's not saying yes either... he will consider it, and hear my best arguements.
And to make this make a bit more sense, our DM tends to accelerate time between adventures... So events in a few months of play time can be many years in game.
Anyhow, a long time ago, my character participated in a multi-clan battle to defend a village. One of my characters closest friends at the time was a crab clan samurai played by another player (Crab clan are orcs in this version... Statisticly and cosmeticly half orcs, except for life span (As a dwarf), but they aren't the result of an orc and a human mating, they are a race of their own). He died in that battle. His last words to my character were to look after his wife and infant son, who did so for two years, until the orc's wife died one night in a fire. She managed to get the child out of the house herself, but she died of her wounds.
So my character raised the child as his own (He was only three at this point), and trained him as he would his own child, with the permision of both his lord and the patriarch of his family.
Many years have passed. The 'child' is now an adult. Our old characters are, well... ok, not old (My elf is still fairly young), but we have all advanced socialy to the point that we are lords in our own right, or otherwise in a position of power at this point, and the DM wants us to make new characters to start over... Sort of a "passing the torch" type of thing.
So I wanted to make my character the young orc (Hirakata) step in to fill my old character's shoes. DM was fine with this. I wanted to make him a crane clan samurai, like his "father", DM was also fine with that, because Hirakata is quite a different character in many ways from my original character.
However, there is some debate over the ancestral daisho clan ability. Specificly, can he use it? He isn't a blood descendant of my elf, but he is in spirit, and he considers himself my original character's son as much as my original character considers himself Hirikata's father. Oh, not literally... Clearly, you could never pretend that an orc and an elf were blood related, and no secret has ever been made of his true family, which he both respects and honors. However, his real family is dead. His mother was the last blood relative he had without going an insane number branches over on the family tree. So it's not like he is abandoning his family to join another. And my original character has no blood descendants, and never will (A vow to never re-wed after his first wife died). So the swords either pass to Hirakata, or they are burried with my original character when he dies.
Hirakata honors his adopted family as well as his birth family, and is accepted by all the living members save my old character's brother, a shugenja, who has never spoken to my original character since that day.
Obviously it's not the intent of the Ancestral Daisho, nor is it standard practice. But, perhaps with a ritual to ask permission of the spirits of the family ancestors, do you think him inheriting the daisho would be possible? The DM isn't saying no, but he's not saying yes either... he will consider it, and hear my best arguements.
