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About Tamahi Kiyoko

Tamahi Kiyoko 玉日 喜与子

Lawful Good
Human (Tian-Min) female
Samurai (sword saint) 12
Champion 6

Favored class: Samurai

Size: Medium (5'7" tall)
Age: 22 (birthday: Goz 3)

Height: 5 feet 7 inches
Weight: 120 lbs.
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Platinum

Description: Kiyoko brings to mind nothing so much as the beauty of a master's ice sculpture. Perpetually straight-faced, this young Tian-Min samurai-ko is stoic and taciturn, rarely speaking more than necessary. She is possessed of icy blue eyes and an equally icy demeanor, looking upon the world with cold indifference through the bangs of a chin-length platinum bob. She is slender, with the lithe and toned body of a martial artist or swordswoman, and the calloused hands to match. She has a distinctive beauty mark to the right of her chin.

Often found wearing a short red yukata and the geta sandals of Minkai, Kiyoko is never without a katana at her side, a jet-black adamantine blade. The habaki at the base of the blade is stamped with Minkaian characters that reads 零天星野 (Reitenseiya), "Starless Night."

Portrait(s):
Armored
Unarmored

Background: Kiyoko Tamahi is the only daughter and middle child of Kiyoshi and Eriri Tamahi, a pair of samurai in minor bureaucratic postings in a regional hub in Minkai. Raised in the arts of iaijutsu and kenjutsu from an early age by a man she has only ever known as "Sensei," he sent her off at age 16 (with her family's blessing) on a musha shugyo, a warrior pilgrimage.

Though her parents have led relatively peaceful lives, she comes from a line of samurai who often spend years of their lives on musha shugyo, warrior-pilgrimages, acting as knights-errant and wandering troubleshooters. Her grandfather Kiyoto was the previous generation of the family to be a shugyosha, and he wielded an ancestral katana called Reitenseiya, or "Starless Night." A few short years before Kiyoko's own musha shugyo, he himself fell in battle against honorless bandits led by a powerful oni, though he defeated the oni and many of the bandits. In an unusual move, Reitenseiya was passed on to Kiyoko rather than the eldest child after her grandfather's death--something which her older brother Jin seemed to resent, especially since he won every single sparring match between the siblings. Only shortly before she departed on her musha shugyo did he finally seem to let go of his lingering resentments and doubts, when Kiyoko proved that she had finally surpassed him as a swordfighter by besting him in a non-lethal iaijutsu duel.

Since that time, she has managed to find her way to Absalom, where she has fallen in with the Pathfinder Society.

Languages: Common (Taldane), Tien, Minkaian

HP 158
AC 23 Touch 12 Flat-footed 21
BAB +12/7/2 CMB +23 CMD 28
Initiative +20

Fortitude 8 + 4 = 12 Reflex 4 + 2 = 6 Will 4 + 0 = 4

Abilities: simple weapon proficiency, martial weapon proficiency (plus katana, naginata, and wakizashi), all armor and non-tower shield proficiencies, challenge 4/day, order of the warrior, order ability (honor in all things), resolve, iaijutsu strike 6d6, weapon expertise (katana), brutal slash, terrifying iaijutsu, order ability (way of the samurai), greater resolve, honorable stand, demanding challenge, mythic ability score boosts (2nd, 4th, 6th tiers), hard to kill, mythic power 15/day, mythic surge (1d8), amazing initiative, recuperation, mythic saving throws, force of will, champion's strike (sudden attack), legendary item (x3), penetrating damage, precision, perfect strike

Traits: Reactionary, Expert Duelist

Expert Duelist: In your youth, you spent countless hours perfecting the art of the duel, focusing your efforts on defeating a single foe. You gain a +1 trait bonus to your Armor Class so long as you are adjacent to a single foe. This trait bonus is not applied to your Armor Class for touch attacks or when you are denied your Dexterity bonus.

Feats: Power Attack, Weapon Focus (katana), Improved Initiative, *Quick Draw (katana), Weapon Specialization (katana), Martial Focus (heavy blades), Cut from the Air, Greater Weapon Focus (katana), Improved Critical (katana), Greater Weapon Specialization (katana),

Mythic Feats: Mythic Improved Critical (katana), Mythic Improved Initiative, Mythic Weapon Specialization (katana)

Skills:
Bluff +6 (3 ranks + 3 class + 0 CHA)
Craft (calligraphy) +7 (3 ranks + 3 class + 1 INT)
Climb +9 (3 ranks + 3 class + 3 STR)
Knowledge (nobility) +6 (2 ranks + 3 class + 1 INT)
Ride +5 (1 rank, +3 class, +2 DEX)
Sense Motive +6 (3 ranks, +3 class, +0 WIS)
Swim +8 (2 ranks + 3 class + 3 STR)

Equipment: Reitenseiya (adamantine katana, major artifact), wakizashi, shortbow, dagger, 2 scabbards, knife sheath, belt, belt pouch, quiver, 20 arrows, traveler's outfit, cloak, mithril do-maru armor +3, whetstone, fighter’s kit (a backpack, a bedroll, a belt pouch, a flint and steel, ink, an inkpen, an iron pot, a mess kit, 50' hemp rope, soap, torches (10), trail rations (5 days), and a waterskin), 2 flasks of alchemist's fire, wayfinder, wand of cure light wounds (50 charges), belt of physical might (STR/CON +4), ring of protection +3, gp

Attacks:

Reitenseiya +36/36/26 to hit, 1d8+27 dmg, 11-20/x3 crit., type S, 6 lbs.; keen, wounding, adamantine

wakizashi +25/20/15 to hit, 1d6+13 dmg, 18-20/x2 crit., type S/P, 2 lbs.

dagger +25/20/15 to hit, 1d4+3 dmg, 19-20/x2 crit., type S/P, range 10', 1 lb.

shortbow +14/9/5 to hit, 1d6 dmg, x3 crit., type P, range 60', 2 lbs.