#Ninjutsu School Expansion (忍術流派 擴張) — Section Index
Contents
#Identity
In addition to the core's 2 Ninjutsu schools (Iga, Koga), assassination, espionage, and infiltration schools from around the world are added. It emphasizes that Ninjutsu is not unique to Japan — converting even the Joseon Geomgye, the Arab Hashashin, and the Jewish Sicarii.
#Design Goals
- Minimum 5, maximum 7 kinds of new Ninjutsu schools.
- A mix of school types:
- Famous schools 2 kinds (Negoro-ryu, Fuma-ryu)
- Secret Transmission 1~2 kinds (Ming Jinyiwei offshoot, secret society)
- Self-Taught Style 0~1 kind (a personal agent)
- Foreign styles 2~3 kinds (Joseon Geomgye, Hashashin, Sicarii)
- Beware overlap with the 1st expansion's shinobi lineage. This expansion's schools provide a different cultural foundation from the core and the 1st expansion.
#§ This Section's File List
ex2-14-01-new-schools.md— 7 new Ninjutsu schools
#Reference Documents
Core required:
- Schools (流派)
- School Data (流派資料) — No. 10·11 (Iga, Koga)
- Skill List (技能目錄) — Ninjutsu skill
- Shinobi (忍) — shinobi class
1st expansion (format reference):
Within this expansion:
- Cross-Cultural School Index (汎文化 流派 索引) — Section Index
- National Tatsujin Tournament (全國達人戰) Model Scenarios — Section Index — Tatsujin Tournament assassination episode
#§ Scent — The Borderland of Darkness
A shinobi of the Fuma clan was holding his breath atop the roof of an abandoned warehouse on the outskirts of Edo. A black-coated dagger, for nighttime Infiltration. That silence in which not even the sound of his own breath could be heard was his pride.
He took a single step — toward the next roof. And stopped.
Another shadow had come to his side with the same breath.
The same black coating. But the curve of the dagger's blade was different — a Persian mountain-fortress curved blade. And the cloth wrapped around the head was not a Japanese hood but a desert kufiya.
The Fuma man whispered in Japanese without turning his body. "A Fuma?"
The other shadow answered — in Persian. "A remnant of Alamut. I drifted here from Syria."
The Fuma man did not know Persian. Yet he understood. The Hashashin — a society that lived in the mountain fortress of Alamut in the 11th century. He had heard they fell to the Mongols in 1256, but there were rumors that remnants remained in the mountains of Syria.
"Why have you come to the East?"
"Why does Japan have Ninjutsu?"
The two shadows were silent for a while. And at the same time they stepped toward the next roof. The same breath, a different Faith, the same darkness.
Darkness has no borders. That is the truth of Ninjutsu — not an art unique to Japan, but a thousand shadows born of the dark night of the earth.
"Shadows do not discriminate by culture. The only thing discriminated is the name."