Dosa Clan [Done]

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The Dosa Clan

[Clan is closed for the time being, unless someone worthy comes along]

Clan Name: Dosa
Clan Location: Western Lightning Country.
Clan Traits: All Dosa are tattooed along the spine.
Abilities:
The Dosa’s sense of hearing is worth noting, so acute that someone born into this particular bloodline is able to discern a person’s strength, stature and present physical state simply but the sound of their breath, this skill is usually acquired around the age of eleven or twelve, though some have been known to show signs at both younger and older ages. Such a talent lends itself to a stealthier approach to combat situations and so the Dosa have become masters of hand to hand combat, most notably methods of assassination and other ways of dispatching their opponents, or victims, with deadly swiftness and silence.

History:

‘The villages dotted across the western mountains were not among the wealthiest districts in the Five Nations, a century ago someone had built a shrine to the fox god in the mountainside forests and the houses and inns had been built around it eventually leading to the formation of the first village. This tiny, nameless village on the side of Kitsuneyama, or Fox Mountain was the beginning of five more settlements spread across the mountainsides, isolated even from each other and even more so from the major cities and towns of the Five Nations.
Life in these villages was not the easiest you were likely to come across, the men were farmers and the women were whores… there’s little else to say on the matter, the Dosa, like the rest of the villagers, accepted their lot and made do the best they could. Complaining doesn’t help anybody, much least yourself and those who inevitably did protest against their miserable subsistence were regarded as cowards and idiots and become the victims of bullying by some of the more impatient villagers. The Dosa usually chose to remain disinterested in any disputes, though they were the same as any mountain clan, hardy but prone to pessimism and with notably short tempers, these particular people also possessed a strangely sharp sense of hearing, though this was thought to be because of the clans heritage, the descendants of those who built the mountain shrine to the fox god and so were seen as near spirits and were regarded with the upmost respect by the villagers.

It was rare for people to pass through those remote villages, and when they did it was just some poor traveller or another, stopping long enough to get drunk at the inn or make a visit to one of the many brothels before leaving as quickly as they had arrived… so it was strange when a master less warrior turned up in the street asking if someone could help him with settling an old score, now I can’t remember the exact story but suffice to say he promised a considerable amount of money and so the Dosa clan took up his offer only to find out it involved the murder of his old ally who had betrayed him and who he now wanted dead. It would also turn out that the man’s house was fortified and guarded, though it’s said that Dosa Karasu left the village that night and before morning there came rumours that a local warrior’s house had been burnt down and his retainers killed, not long after Karasu returned with the man’s head tied to his belt and the rest... the rest? The rest doesn’t need telling, all I’ll say is that the Dosa would go on to become some of the greatest assassins in the Five Nations, though when you’re an assassin reputation is not a good thing…’

- Ichiro's mother telling him the story of his clan when he was five years old.

Note.
The fox shrine itself was located a hundred yards up the mountain from the Dosa house, in a small grove of bamboo, at the summit of a set of stone steps. Stone lanterns sat either side of the white statue, wrapped with a single length of rope and was forever adorn with offerings to the fox god. From the village one would have to pass directly past the Dosa house and so the clan was set some sort of ownership over it, and as the main village moved further down the mountain in order to have better soil for the rice fields a small collection of houses remained and became the clan’s village. The Dosa Village would later remain as an undisturbed place of residence and training for the clan where all records would be kept and where the majority of the Dosa would be buried.

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