#Outsider Samples (異邦人見本) — 3 Types
Contents
People who do not belong to this age: Modern Person / Heroic Spirit / Celestial. Each fell into this age in a different way. Through the Adaptation (適應) mechanic, they borrow traits from other classes.
Narrative Axis: An outsider's story is a question of belonging. Why are they in this age (1st Dan), how did they become part of this age (5th Dan), and how did they become legend (10th Dan)?
#1. Modern Person — Takagi Sayaka
"I thought they meant a Chinese-style doctor."
#Scent
A 3rd-year student in the main course of Tokyo Medical University. One night on her way home from school, her train was caught in a Spirit Realm vibration and fell into the Sengoku age. In her bag were several textbooks, a first-aid kit, a portable flashlight, and one knife: a fruit knife bought at a convenience store.
#Background
#1st Dan — How the Adventure Began
Sayaka fell into a border village of Kagura Domain. For the first two days, she could not understand what had happened. There were no electric lights and no phones. People treated her as a "foreigner" because of her clothing, and within half an hour she accepted that she was in the past. (Like a medical student, she was logical.) On the third day, when a child in the village collapsed with a high fever, Sayaka used an antipyretic and saved the child. In that moment, Sayaka learned that she could be useful in this age.
The villagers called her a "Chinese-style doctor" because she carried things that did not exist in Japan, and Sayaka accepted the title for the time being. With modern medical knowledge, she could perform simple treatment. Deep trauma was different. She began formally learning the Medicine skill.
#5th Dan — How She Came This Far
After 1st Dan, Sayaka worked for four years as a field doctor of Kagura Domain. During that time, she used Adaptation three times: converting the noncombat skill "medical knowledge" into this age's combat-usable Medicine. She understood the way Adaptation worked like this: "I have to rewrite what I have in the language of this age."
In the third year, she asked herself for the first time whether she wanted to return to the age she had lived in. She postponed the answer. Sayaka still keeps her medical-school bag, but she opens it less often.
#10th Dan (Tatsujin) — How She Gained a Renown Title
Sayaka's legend was completed during the Great Shikoku Plague. While Miko's (Living God's) healing light handled the spiritual side, Sayaka suppressed the physical side of the plague with modern medicine + this age's medicinal materials + sanitation management. Through their cooperation, twelve villages in Shikoku survived. After the plague, Sayaka is no longer called a "Chinese-style doctor", but the "foreign woman physician."
#Law
Takagi Sayaka — Modern Person 1st Dan
Wounds 3, Defense 10(civilian clothing), Energy 10. Courage -1, Finesse +1, Physique +0, Wisdom +3, Presence +1, Fate +0.
Background: Wanderer (route unselected) | Heart: No Heart → Compassion (gradual)
Weapon: fruit knife(civilian), first-aid kit
Trait: Scientific Analysis(aptitude, noncombat checks +3), Adaptation slot available 1
5th Dan: Wisdom +3, Presence +3. Adaptation complete (Medicine +3). Healing Light-like technique(form, 3 Energy, 1 allied Wound recovered). Heart: Compassion.
10th Dan (Tatsujin): Finesse +1, Wisdom +3, Presence +3, Fate +1. Renown Title: Foreign Woman Physician (Medicine + science integration, all allies recover 2 Wounds at lull)."A medical student fell into the Sengoku age. Ridiculous. Ridiculous, but interesting."
#2. Heroic Spirit — Karna (कर्ण)
"I am not a person of this age. But this bow is here."
#Scent
A hero from the ancient Indian epic Mahabharata. Son of the sun god Surya, slain by Arjuna in the Battle of Kurukshetra. He was summoned into this age through a gap opened by the Spirit Realm gate. His sacred object, the Vijaya bow, manifested in this age, and he remains here with that bow as his anchor.
#Background
#1st Dan — How the Adventure Began
When Karna arrived in this age, he already knew what he was, because he had been summoned while retaining the memories of the Mahabharata. His mission was to stand on this age's battlefields together with the Vijaya bow. Immediately after the summoning, he spoke to those around him in Karna's language, Sanskrit. Fortunately, the local scholar Sosui helped with partial communication.
His first battle was a yoma-clearing operation on the border of Kagura Domain. With the Vijaya bow, Karna brought down three oni, each with a single shot. No Japanese archer could match either its range or accuracy. He became an object of awe to the people of this age, but he described himself only as a "visitor" from Tenjiku (天竺).
#5th Dan — How He Came This Far
After 1st Dan, Karna spent four years crossing the battlefields of this age. His Adaptation differs from ordinary Adaptation: he does not learn techniques from this age, but translates techniques from his own age into the language of this age. Some of Tenjiku's battle methods were transmitted in forms the people of this age could understand.
Around that time, Karna revealed that he carried Vasavi Shakti, the one-use divine spear received from Indra, in reserve. He has not used it yet. "Until an opponent worthy of this age appears." (It is Chekhov's gun.)
#10th Dan (Tatsujin) — How He Gained a Renown Title
Karna's legend was completed in single combat against a great fiend of the Hannyakai. At the height of the Edoku Cataclysm, when one great fiend broke through Kagura Domain's barriers and marched to the main castle, Karna stood before it alone. At last, he threw Vasavi Shakti. The one-use divine spear pierced the great fiend's core, and with it, Karna's age anchor as a heroic spirit weakened. The great fiend fell, and Karna was also somewhat diminished.
After that, Karna remains in this age only through the Vijaya bow. No one knows when he will return. As a heroic spirit, he is complete, but the people of this age record him as the Hero of Tenjiku.
#Law
Karna — Heroic Spirit 1st Dan
Wounds 3, Defense 13(glory — protection of the sun god), Energy 12. Courage +3, Finesse +2, Wisdom +1, Presence +1, Fate +1.
Background: none (heroic spirit — already complete being) | Heart: Loyalty (Way of Rites — faithful to his own dharma)
Sacred object: Vijaya bow ([Divine Treasure] — sacred-object [Understanding] route automatic)
Weapon: Vijaya bow + Vasavi Shakti(one-use divine spear, reserve)
Trait: Archer of the Sun(aptitude, checks +3)
5th Dan: Courage +3, Finesse +3, Fate +1. Adaptation complete (3 Tenjiku techniques in this age's form). Heroic Inertia(5th-dan aptitude, reroll on check failure without spending Fate). Heart: Loyalty.
10th Dan (Tatsujin): Courage +3, Finesse +3, Physique +1, Wisdom +1, Presence +1. Renown Title: Hero of Tenjiku (Vijaya bow unlimited range, base 2 Wounds). *"A god's one step is a human lifetime."*"You of this age will not know my story. Even so, we stand beneath the same sky."
#3. Celestial — Uzuki (卯月)
"I am descending. I cannot stop."
#Scent
A celestial (天人) descended from the heavens. She originally held the role of mercy in the heavenly realm, but out of compassion for the suffering of the human world, she chose descent. The descent advances each time she uses a one-use power, and she permanently loses attribute -1. When the descent is complete, she becomes an ordinary human.
#Background
#1st Dan — How the Adventure Began
Uzuki manifested in this age just after the Spirit Realm gate opened. Her first form was a pillar of light, a woman with a holy aura. The village where she first set foot was suffering from plague, and by instinct she used one of her celestial Divine Authorities to heal the plague. In exchange, she lost one attribute (Wisdom). She realized that attributes were being permanently shaved away only after the second use.
The second Divine Authority was used on a battlefield to save an ashigaru squad that was falling. Wound recovery applied over a wide area, and the squad survived. In exchange, her Physique (體) attribute permanently became -1.
For the first time, Uzuki understood the weight of her own choice. Descent cannot be reversed. Each use of Divine Authority means losing part of her own existence.
#5th Dan — How She Came This Far
After 1st Dan, Uzuki wandered this age for three years. She used Divine Authority three more times. Her attributes became more and more ordinary. The people of this age accepted her as an in-between being, neither god nor human. The heroic spirit Karna told her a Tenjiku proverb: "A god's one step is a human lifetime." Uzuki heard it and cried for a long time. For the first time, she properly understood the meaning of her choice.
In the fourth year, Uzuki settled in Kagura Domain. Miko the Living God told her, "You are descending. I am ascending. Perhaps one day we will meet in the same place." Uzuki nodded.
#10th Dan (Tatsujin) — How She Gained a Renown Title
Uzuki's legend was completed by the use of her last Divine Authority. In the final moment of the Edoku Cataclysm, just before the Hannyakai's great fiend fell, it cast a final curse over all of Kagura Domain. Uzuki used her final Divine Authority, Heavenly Grace, and erased the curse. In exchange, she lost all divine abilities.
Now she is an ordinary human. She farms in a village of Kagura Domain. The descent is complete. She chose to remain in this age. People call her "the one who chose ascension", but more precisely, she is the one who refused ascension.
#Law
Uzuki — Celestial 1st Dan
Wounds 3, Defense 10(13 with holy protection), Energy 11. All attributes +1 (initial).
Background: none (celestial — descending) | Heart: Compassion (Way of Emptiness)
Weapon: none
Trait: Heavenly Grace(aptitude, +2 against yoma), Divine Authority uses 3 times (one-use)
Divine Authority: healing(wide-area Wound recovery), grace(wide-area checks +3), purification(curse removal)
5th Dan: Divine Authority remaining 1. Attribute loss makes abilities ordinary (near all +0). Adaptation complete (2 techniques of this age). Heart: Compassion.
10th Dan (Tatsujin): attributes at ordinary-human level (all -1 or 0). Renown Title: Refusal of Ascension (traces of celestial nature remain after Divine Authority exhaustion — everyone on the battlefield gains fear immunity)."There was a reason when I descended. I cannot remember it now, but that is fine. It was enough."
Three outsiders. People with three different ages. And in this Sengoku age, all of them became human.