#18+12+3 Class Heian Guide

Contents

RP Guide (fc04 internal only). This document is a Heian-era application guide layered atop the 33 classes (18 base + 12 fiend + 3 outsider) of co-04-07-classes/co-04-07-00-index.md. No new classes. No change to the co class bodies themselves.

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#Opening Fragment — The Seat the Era Allowed

The player chose a modern-sounding class name. The GM nodded, and first asked where, within a Heian room, that class could be seated.

"My combat ability is plenty," the player said.

"That I know," the GM answered. "But in a manor of this era, do you sit beside the master, stand in the corridor, or wait outside the gate? Only once that seat is fixed do your actions come into view."

Another player laughed. "So there'll be things I can't do because of my seat."

"Exactly. And in exchange, there will be things you can do because of your seat." The GM spread out a map of the court. "The names a kuge may call upon, the gate a buke may enter, the hour an onmyoji may speak, the rumor a lady-in-waiting may hear. In Heian, access — more than ability — is what first makes the scene."

From then on, the build was no longer a choice of numbers but a choice of social position. Find the seat the era allows, and the class naturally gains its words and its actions.

#This Document's Place

co class structure = 18 base + 12 fiend + 3 outsider = 33 classes total.

• Separate meta: co-04-07-00-index.md (class compendium) / co-04-07-99-expansion.md (expansion guide)
• This document is a guide on how to use those 33 classes in a Heian campaign.
• No new classes — the existing classes as-is + era flavor.

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#Exact Mapping of the co Class Structure

#18 Base Classes (01~18)

#12 Fiend Classes (19~31, 19=meta guide)

#3 Outsider Classes (32~34)

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#Heian Era-Mismatch Items (NPC / Scenario Appearance Forbidden)

This volume's principle of era consistency. The following items are forbidden to appear in a Heian campaign:

• dojo-breaking (Edo)
• fumie (踏み絵) (Edo)
• hidden Christians (Sengoku, Edo)
• full-fledged ninja (忍者) (Sengoku)
• matchlock / teppo (introduced 1543, Sengoku)
• the Noh (能) stage (Muromachi)
• the swordsmith (刀匠) class name — in Heian, a "tachi (太刀) craftsman," handled as the artisan class
• karakuri (自動人形) (Edo)
• Ikko-ikki (一向一揆) (Sengoku)

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#Heian-Limited Build Recommendations (6 builds)

#Build 1: Base Class samurai + borrowed onmyoji feats (Yorimitsu type)

Model figure: Minamoto no Yorimitsu and the Four Heavenly Kings (fc04-03-02).

Yabusame + some borrowed orthodox-Onmyodo shikigami. The model of the Shuten-doji subjugation party. Very powerful. Squad operation possible.

#Build 2: Base Class scholar + borrowed onmyoji feats (Michizane type / Shikibu type)

Model figures: Michizane (fc04-03-03) / Shikibu (fc04-03-04).

A kuge PC. Politics, divination, poetry and prose. Murasaki Shikibu leads with the scholar (poetry-and-prose build), with weak borrowing of onmyoji feats.

#Build 3: Base Class feng shui master + borrowed Pure Land Monk feats (shrine miko + Shinto)

A shrine / court miko PC. A scenario guide or a PC. Purification rites, divination, Shinto rites.

#Build 4: Base Class shugenja + borrowed esoteric-monk feats (mountain religious figure)

Shuten-doji subjugation, yoma Barriers. A disguised-NPC build of a 5-member subjugation party. The core of the mountain scenarios (fc04-06-02).

#Build 5: Base Class shinobi variant — "court spy"

A direct intelligence agent of the Fujiwara house. A variant that is not an orthodox ninja. No borrowing of a subclass. Centered on the social and Scouting.

#Build 6: Base Class arahitogami (special)

A PC who directly becomes a Heian divinity. A descent of bishin- / shoshin-grade divinity. Consistent with the fc01 divinity system. The celestial (outsider 34) has a separate Adaptation mechanic — different from borrowing.

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#Operating the 12 Fiend PCs — Heian

A fiend requires GM permission. The same holds in Heian.

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#3 Outsiders — The Core of Heian Application

#"Heian-Figure Heroic Spirits" May Appear (33 heroic spirit)

• co-09-09-minamoto-specter.md = Yoshitsune's heroic spirit (a figure who died in 1189). The model for a Heian figure's later-age heroic-spiritization.
• co-04-08-22-heroic-spirit-catalog.md = registers Benkei 6th dan (an automatic companion to Yoshitsune).
• A Heian figure appearing in a later scenario as a heroic spirit = the use of this motif.
• This volume fc04 = "The Lives the Heroic Spirits Once Led" — the Heian period of the figures who will return as heroic spirits in later volumes.

#The 5 Heroic Spirits of Fiend-Reincarnation (co-09-10) = All Post-Heian

Direct NPC appearance in this volume is forbidden. Era-gap table:

#Celestial (34) — Kaguya Type

Compatible with the Heian myth "The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (竹取物語)." The motif of a celestial descending upon the Heian capital and then ascending again. Possible as an NPC or a PC in this volume's campaign.

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#In One Line

"The 33 classes do not all live the same way in one era. Heian has its own Heian classes."

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#References

#co — Class Meta

• co-04-character/co-04-07-classes/co-04-07-00-index.md — class compendium (the 18+12+3 definition)
• co-04-character/co-04-07-classes/co-04-07-99-expansion.md — expansion-class guide

#co — Scenario Consistency

• co-09-adventures/co-09-09-minamoto-specter.md — the Yoshitsune heroic-spirit scenario
• co-09-adventures/co-09-10-mahoujin-reincarnation.md — the 5 heroic spirits of fiend-reincarnation
• co-04-character/co-04-08-samples/co-04-08-22-heroic-spirit-catalog.md — heroic-spirit catalog of 10 (including Heian figures such as Benkei 6th dan)

#Within fc04

• fc04-05-01-samurai.md — the Heian samurai
• fc04-05-02-kuge-class.md — kuge PCs (scholar, onmyoji, feng shui master, entertainer, arahitogami)
• fc04-05-03-onmyodo-seimei.md — the Seimei school
• fc04-05-04-onmyodo-doman.md — the Doman school
• fc04-05-06-alt-realm.md — the Spirit Realm model

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A class that suits Heian is not a matter of mimicking the era, but of finding the seat the era allowed.