Sapphire Ambassadors

Honesty and Justice. There was no gray area according to Leadership. But isn't an ambush a lie about your location? So a lie in order to perform your duties is Just but isn't Honest? She always found that the absolute stringency of this tenet to be strange. Some of the others it would be fine to mak...

Jakuchou understood loyalty. She had understood it the day she first killed another for the vision of Toturi. And felt it the day he chose death to protect his people. It was probably more defining in her life than she'd really considered in the past. And so she felt it was important to give life to...

"They both sound pleasant. Let's try the lemongrass first and save the bouquet for desert," she says with a nod after rising. She takes the offered seat and adjusts her cup just so, as some overly tidy people might.

"My day has been well. I hope yours has been quite pleasant."

"I think that no matter where anyone's ancestors were in the world they still lived under the heavens. If Tengoku did not believe a people should be considered members of the Empire it would be made known, undoubtedly. And There has been no call for such in history as far as I am aware. Blood from t...

Jakuchou arrived at the appointed time. Long ago she learned that being late or early could be inconvenient to one's host, so she preferred precise punctuality for invitations. She approaches one of the servants to ask after the table and is directed to meet the Moshi. Her approach was as one might ...

"it's heartbreaking, but also a wonderful gift to be able to remember the throne of the Hantei as it stood for so long. But in a decade or a few there will be no living mortal that has stood there. And that truth is good, despite how some might feel. Because it proves that among all the bad things t...

"You mean like my memory of my brother's seventh birthday when my father fell in stream and the house was covered in a ridiculous number of catarpillars? Except my brother swears it was our mother that fell in and the catarpillars were actually my own 6th birthday?" she asks with a playful, joking s...

Eventually, when Yoshino had found some form of calm and opened her eyes, she'd see Jakuchou quietly focused on a flower resting in her hand. It looks like it was a deadfall flower she picked up rather than a fresh one she picked. The Dragon elder looked to Yoshino. "Never let go of the things that ...

"Basically yes. One could say the group was more cobbled together. But under the leadership under the inevitable Son of Heaven we were quite effective. And some did forego their names when they joined, to protect the honor of their ancestors since we didn't know what would happen. But I never gave u...

Hyoukasha seemed quite displeased at the dancing Dragon's demonstration today. "A farmer knows the value of millet and a noble knows the value bottle of very expensive sake. If the artist is seeking the farmer's opinion, I see no reason to spend another moment considering them." he said dismissivel...

"Now, in picturing and focusing on that idea or memory of happiness," Jakuchou continues with a gentle voice, "imagine yourself within it. Feel what you remember the air feeling like, and the scents, see the memory before you like you're standing there. Hear the surroundings and any conversation and...

"I first saw him when he traveled to Dragon lands and trained with the Brotherhood. We had the same sensei... but at different times. I was around five years younger I believe, though I can't quite remember specifically," Jakuchou explains. "That was how I first learned of him, and started hearing n...

"It's a matter of form versus function. I will always miss my time as a bushi, mostly because of the people that I fought beside. But I would not miss wearing one set of clothing over another. I might miss my hair though, if I had to shave my head," she says with a little smile. "Shaved it once long...

"I hope, for your sake, that you are politely sharing the fact that it is too personal to speak about such memories," she says with a very motherly smile. "I will operate on the assumption that you simply wish to keep such things to yourself, or are having more difficulty in this moment for any numb...

Jakuchou eventually made her way back to the general gathering after thanking the heimin and eta for their lovely insults, and making sure they knew that they could call on her if anyone took issue with their part in the performance. She knew practically that the non-samurai were locked into having ...

"Only if there are technical details to how you go about doing very little," she says as she moves to sit next to the Doji.

"Let's see if I can help. Do you have a memory that makes you feel happy? Something that reminds you of the pleasant things in this world?"

"I knew it the day I saw him," she says with a smile that suggested she probably felt more than pride and loyalty to him. Even has a slight blush thinking about him in his prime. "Not that he would be the emperor, mind you. We had a different emperor the first time I saw him and that thought would n...

"It doesn't? I guess my point is that retiring to monkhood would not change my lifestyle. So I have decided to remain Mirumoto Jakuchou rather than retire from service to the dragon. I will stop serving when I have rejoined the great wheel. Joining the Brotherhood from now until then doesn't actuall...

"Hmm... an interesting question. Even when someone chooses to retire, they still serve the Empire do they not? And since the majority of my service was directly to our Emperor, I suppose I see no difference between serving through the Dragon or serving through the Brotherhood. So I suppose I have ch...

"All over the place. I was a part of our Emperor's personal forces during the early days of the Scorpion coup, and stuck with until he was recognized as the Son of Heaven. Much of my service was simultaneously unofficial and on behalf of the Empire and our Emperor, during the coup and clan war," she...