The men of the Moshi family have always suffered from a great and basically irreversible curse: they are male. Even in cases where a Moshi husband outranks his wife, the Moshi family culture emphasizes the impact a mother has on her son, and so it was with Moshi Tirishu and his mother Anjiko.
Anjiko was a minor courtier of the Kitsuki family, wed to a senior bushi of the Moshi, but while Moshi Shizinu served his lord Yoritomo Aramasu as a naval commander along the shores of Rokugan, Anjiko remained at their residence and presided over the growth and development of their son Tirishu. She taught him some of the basics of Kitsuki's Method, and instilled in the young boy a strong sense of idealism and justice. When the time came for his parents to select a dojo where Tirishu would begin his training, he surprised them both by asking not to attend the Yoritomo Bushi School, as he had been expected to. Instead, he asked to be trained as a magistrate, as his mother had been. After some discussions (mostly occuring well after Tirishu was asleep), a compromise was reached - Tirishu would attend the Dojo of the Wasp, drawing on the Tsuruchi's legacy of law enforcement to achieve Tirishu's dream.
Tirishu held onto that dream throughout his schooling, taking advantage of the dojo's individual curriculum to train in the art of the blade, particularly iaijutsu, so often the means of determining guilt in the Empire, where his fellow classmates worked endlessly to master the bow. He studied history, law, and culture, and advanced rapidly in the scholarly subjects his Tsuruchi cousins tended to set aside. He has had little opportunity to develop his skills in the actual solving of crimes, but he looks forward to the chance to test his theoretical knowledge in the field. Tragically, he already has his first case.
A year ago, while on leave to visit his home, he was awakened in the night by shouts and the ring of blade against blade. He rushed into the hall to see a dark-clad figure, bloody kama still gripped tightly in its hands, leap from a window and disappear into the night. Tirishu rushed into his mother's bedroom to find her bleeding her life onto the floor, another assassin already dead beside her. She had the strength to utter a single word before she died: "Kitao."
Tirishu has since learned that his mother had begun, as a private matter, to investigate shipping irregularities, irregularities that she believed were disguising weapons smuggling, and lots of it; someone was quietly building an army. But who, where, or how, Tirishu still does not know. He has only the word "Kitao" and a desire for vengeance. Somehow, he will make them be enough.
Tirishu is a young-looking man of 15, with a bashful grin and a retiring manner. He wears the colors of his Clan and Family proudly, but can only usually be drawn into excited conversation when the topic turns to law and the apprehension of criminals. He wears a simple white band of mourning around the left sleeve of his kimono, a memory of his mother that he will remove once he has found her killer.
Defense 3: +5 to TN to be Hit when not in the Full Attack Posture (already included)
Defense 5: may enter Full Defense Posture before my action on the first round of combat
Iaijutsu 3: 1 additional Focus during an iaijutsu duel
Disadvantages
Can't Lie (3)
Idealistic (2)
Lost Love (2)
Techniques
Never Let the Blade Reach You (Either +1k1 to initiative or one Free Raise for an extra bow attack each round)
Dojo
Dojo of the Wasp (Called shots with katana cost one fewer Raise)
