Saku Shugenja School

Students of Geomantic patterns and the flow of energy across Kuniumi, the Saku Shugenja are renowned for their exquisite craftsmanship, as well as the ability to enchant great structures with the power of the Eternal Pillars. They are responsible for the great Jade Wall around the Forbidden Districts in Amatsu-Kyo.

School Package

 * +1 Perception
 * Occult as a Favored ability, with a 1-dot specialty in Geomancy.
 * +1 Craft: Air, Awareness, Lore, Integrity.
 * Honor: 5.5
 * Gear: Utilitarian robes, staff, artisan tools, scrolls, spell components.
 * Affinity:Air
 * Deficiency:Fire

Technique

 * Soul of the Elements:The Saku have learned to distill the essence of the Eternal Pillars and contain it within the very foundations of any geomantically-aligned buildings or structures. You may expend one spell slot to store any appropriate spell you know in an anchor stone set within a building's foundation. Doing so requires a Perception + Occult (Geomancy) + Geomancy roll. Spells in an anchor stone must match the element of the building's Geomantic alignment, and the spell slot is considered permanently locked until the anchor stone is destroyed or disenchanted. So long as the anchor stone remains, the spell is active, and affects all appropriate targets within the building. If the target is individual, the Shugenja decides the target; if the Shugenja is not available, the spell goes dormant.
 * As well, a Saku Shugenja is always considered to have a minimum Geomancy Thaumaturgical Path rank equal to her School Rank.
 * Further, a Saku Shugenja gains a Free Raise on any spell with the Craft keyword.

On Anchor Stones
Creating an anchor stone requires a number of hours equal to the stored spell's Mastery Level, and an Intelligence + Craft (Air) roll to inscribe the appropriate information. Only one spell may exist per anchor stone (or multiple instances of the same spell); buildings may have multiple anchor stones so long as they do not metaphysically conflict. Of note is that an anchor stone must be included in a structure for its effects to be useable; simply carrying one will serve no purpose.

There are a few ways to allow spells with an individual target to affect multiple targets (stackable):


 * Permanently lock a Void point to the anchor stone to affect one additional target.
 * Permanently lock another instance of the same spell to the anchor stone to affect one additional target.
 * If the structure is on a Demesne, the spell is allowed to affect one additional target per level of the Demesne.