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Old 07-05-05, 09:01 PM #1
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Default Hyuga, Bespectacled Ronin

Full Name: Hyuga
Age: 32
Class: Fighter
Race: Human
Alignment: True Neutral
Deity: None Yet
Bio/Description:

Late night, the home of Magistrate Haruname, two men face each other in a battle that neither of them belong in. Any other time they would be brothers in the way of Bushido, the doctrine that dictates now that one must slay the other, for honor.

"Toshiro! I know not why you are here, but you must turn back!"

"No Gessho, I cannot do that."

"What do you mean?"

"Haruname must die Gessho. It is the only way."

"Then I too must die Toshiro. I pray you are ready to carry out that task."


Hyuga awoke in a cold sweat, dressed, and adjusted his spectacles. He had stayed in town too long, and it was time to be off. It is unhealthy for a Ronin to become too attached to any place, and Hyuga knew that much well. He reached for his sword, before realizing that he had left it long ago, a burden that he could no longer carry, but one he longed for.

It was early morning, and he was able to slip out of town before the people awoke, before the owner of the Inn came to ask for payment, and before the people of the town learned who he was. He stepped through the gate of the town, and heard a voice behind him.

"Stop ronin!"

Hyuga turned to look behind him, and saw a man in ancient Samurai armor.

"You go no farther!"

Hyuga felt a warmth hit him across the chest, and his vision faded he awoke before a great dragon in a strange land, with a strange blade at his feet ...

Heaven was not quite as Hyuga had expected it to be ... But the sword seemed to call to him, and the life ahead of him seemed no worse than his wanderings.

"Toshiro ... leave nothing ... nothing to follow you ...


Hyuga has been a wanderer for as long as he cares to recall. Laws and morals mean little to him beyond his own codes of honor, but he is not a particularly bad person. Like all Ronin, he seeks purpose, or atleast an end.
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Old 07-05-05, 10:38 PM #2
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Default RE: Hyuga, Bespectacled Ronin

Where does the bio happen? In the world of Layonara or in some other realm? If it's the first, give us the location you have imagined it to happen if it's the second you need to describe the way got into the world of Layonara. He must have spent some time in Layo before the dragon would summon him to Hlint.
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Old 07-06-05, 07:24 AM #3
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Default RE: Hyuga, Bespectacled Ronin

I thought the dragon was summoning from all realms, but I will amend.

Hyuga cames from a realm that would be similar to Earth in the mid 1600's, obviously in a place similar to Japan. The italics of the bio are memories of the past, and what led up to Hyuga being in the town mentioned in the bio. I plan to detail that past more in a journal, but if you want it now I can put that in.

So, let us amend awaking to the dragon-

Hyuga awoke from what he believed was his death, and stood. He was in a strange forest. He faced that man in ancient armor again, and looked into his eyes, eyes that seemed to burn with presence.

"That world has no use for another aimless wanderer."

"Where am I?"

"A place where a great war calls a man with you're spirit."

"I am no warrior."

"You were once, and so shall you be again, in time."

"And if I will not be?"

"Then you shall fall in this forest."

The samurai disspeared with that. Hyuga looked around and saw the body of a fallen warrior. On that warrior was a strange blade and armor. He took them, and wandered through the forest for nearly a month before finding the edge. He had had to kill many vicious creatures here, and had remembered much of what he had planned to leave behind with his sword. He rested, and dreamt of a Dragon.

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Old 07-06-05, 07:37 AM #4
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