Post by Tadayoshi Shinoharu on Feb 24, 2008 10:00:08 GMT -5
Name: Tadayoshi Shinohara
Age: 44
Gender: Male
Kingdom of Affiliation: Bushin Shika
Class: Lord of Bushin Shika
Weapon(s):
A flambergr also known as a flame-bladed sword named "Brimstone" that he inherited from his father who supposibly got it from a yokai weaponsmith. It is highly resistant to open fire and overal damage making it a great weapon for a lord on the battlefield.
A tanto, a samurai dagger, that he uses as a sidearm or a tactical knife weither he needs to cut a rope, finish an enemy and more.
Appearance:
Family: Shinohara's father was a samurai for hire, a ronin, under the previous ruler of the land Tadayoshi rules. He was called into battle against a peasent revolution but was wounded by a pikeman. Near death his father was taken by a yokai to a smith where a demon forged a sword like nothing the samurai ever seen- its blade looked like searing flames along its jagged edges. He accepted the sword and was returned to the world of life and with the sword became the hero who crushed the rebellion and was named high general of the land. He would later be given the name lord and pass it on to his son along with the sword.
His mother was a common women who fell in love with a ronin at the inn where she worked. She bore his child and wanted to go along with him in his journeys, he refused to let her come as he'd been hired by the land to crush a peasent revolt. When the battles ended, he called for her to come to his resisdence at the palace where they married. His father would die on the battlefield early in his son's rule when another peasent revolt sparked and his mother died of a strange sickness that Shinohara blames on the evils of the land.
He also had a brother who was less of a warrior then Shinohara but when wed had a wife who bore a strong warrior who Shinohara quickly enlisted as soon has the boy came of age.
History:
Tadayoshi Shinohara was a child of a former ronin and a common women who, after heroic actions during a revolt, would be swept up into higher class society as head general and his mistress. He would be raised as the head general's son, a personification of battle, training in swordsmanship, archery, horseback riding, hand-to-hand combat as well as the best education around. After the death of the last king, who lacked a son, on his death bed he asked for the Tadayoshi clan to continue into a regime of war and demoncracy in balance. Now the prince of the land, Tadayoshi was given higher education and soon understand philosophy and stratagy better then the sages of his father's court. He was said to be a child of a prophacy...brought up from common grounds into the palace of the kings.
Although raised by his teachers that the people are the true rulers and that he would be a tool, Shinohara's father warned him that the ignorence of the people can topple even the mightest giants and thus he should keep ambitions of his own to balance out the cries of the peasents. His first taste of war was when he was twelve, he was enlisted as part of the elite archer core because of his perfect shot that would bring down war elephants. He was able to kill numerous enemies but then the front lines were breached, the archers pulled back but he remained and kept shooting bringing down fifty more soldiers before being shot with an arrow himself. Wounded and down he was captured and taken to the nearest enemy fort as a war prisoner. He was chained to a post and flogged as he refused to answer who he was. He knew that their were soldiers and volenteer peasents as prisoners here too and that they were being flogged, beaten and tortured and he would refused to tell his identity for the sweet sake of mercy.
He was imprisoned for a month before his father's armies finally breached the fort and released the prisoners, ironically of the day Shinohara, under the alias of Kia, was scedualed for execution. He was thought to be dead by his family and soldiers and his return was a noble day. Returning just has he left, loyal and righteous and unweakened. At the age of twenty, he was named lord and inherited the sword and the land it ruled. Early in his rule a power struggle within a peasent faction caused an uprising against the lord and his rule, Shinohara launched his first war to crush the rebellion and his elderly father was one of the officers who entered the fray. His father was killed in the battle and was a crippling blow to Shinohara's morals and he retreated from the frontlines once he heard the news of his patron's death. He would order a 10,000 man draft completly defying the will of the people which would create army reinforcements that wiped out the peasent revolt. He would then eliminate extra taxes as a way to pay back the people for service.
His mother would then die of an illness refered to by a doctor as a "yokai-like plague". Her death was blamed on sadness of her husband, fear for her son and the other stress on her mind but Shinohara claimed that he soul was taken by demons as tribute to pay for the dark deeds and evils of the land. He would enter a campeign from that day forth to clense the land of evils and injustice using the people's will as a mask to hide his own ambitions. He would assemble armies unseen in the histories of former leaders and design tactics unknown to the world's best military minds.
RP Example:
(I'm doing one as an example of what one should and could be.)
The battles raged as the fires roared up from the supply depot as Lord Tadayoshi Shinohara entered to see his men throwing corpses of enemy dead into the giant pyres of supplies. He slashed his jagged sword suddenly cutting an arrow as it flew through the burning depot towards him. Reinforcements road in as a calvary and slain the troops tending the flames. Hundreds of enemy infantry moved in as the calvary road in around the lord who lowered his sword amd etched an "X" in the soft dirt. "Whoever crosses this mark will die..." He pointed his blade upwards and then lowered it entering a battle stance. "...so who will be cut down first." The flames seared and danced as the troops ran in in formation only to be killed and then he walked out without a scar, scratch or wound to be met by his reinforcemets.
"Your late...move along to the next fortified position." He smirked as he sleuthed his sword. "What are you waiting for?"
He got onto his horse and rode off into the plains slashing enemy infantry with his flame-bladed swords from his mounted position killing many but leaving more to be left bleeding in the fields for his men to finish off. His stallion bucked and kicked back at an enemy soldier coming at the lord's rear killing the man instantly. "Good boy." He rode towards the walls where his men had set up a catapault and loading it with a large sphere soaked in lantern oil. "Light it!" He ordered. "Set it ablaze! Burn the souls of the dead and allow them to bring us victory!" A man lowered a flaming torch and lit the sphere into a large circular bonfire before pulling a lever launching the fireball at the enemy wall setting it to become a red curtain of fire with smoke for the ebony details.
"Victory is near my men! Light another fireball!"
Age: 44
Gender: Male
Kingdom of Affiliation: Bushin Shika
Class: Lord of Bushin Shika
Weapon(s):
A flambergr also known as a flame-bladed sword named "Brimstone" that he inherited from his father who supposibly got it from a yokai weaponsmith. It is highly resistant to open fire and overal damage making it a great weapon for a lord on the battlefield.
A tanto, a samurai dagger, that he uses as a sidearm or a tactical knife weither he needs to cut a rope, finish an enemy and more.
Appearance:
Family: Shinohara's father was a samurai for hire, a ronin, under the previous ruler of the land Tadayoshi rules. He was called into battle against a peasent revolution but was wounded by a pikeman. Near death his father was taken by a yokai to a smith where a demon forged a sword like nothing the samurai ever seen- its blade looked like searing flames along its jagged edges. He accepted the sword and was returned to the world of life and with the sword became the hero who crushed the rebellion and was named high general of the land. He would later be given the name lord and pass it on to his son along with the sword.
His mother was a common women who fell in love with a ronin at the inn where she worked. She bore his child and wanted to go along with him in his journeys, he refused to let her come as he'd been hired by the land to crush a peasent revolt. When the battles ended, he called for her to come to his resisdence at the palace where they married. His father would die on the battlefield early in his son's rule when another peasent revolt sparked and his mother died of a strange sickness that Shinohara blames on the evils of the land.
He also had a brother who was less of a warrior then Shinohara but when wed had a wife who bore a strong warrior who Shinohara quickly enlisted as soon has the boy came of age.
History:
Tadayoshi Shinohara was a child of a former ronin and a common women who, after heroic actions during a revolt, would be swept up into higher class society as head general and his mistress. He would be raised as the head general's son, a personification of battle, training in swordsmanship, archery, horseback riding, hand-to-hand combat as well as the best education around. After the death of the last king, who lacked a son, on his death bed he asked for the Tadayoshi clan to continue into a regime of war and demoncracy in balance. Now the prince of the land, Tadayoshi was given higher education and soon understand philosophy and stratagy better then the sages of his father's court. He was said to be a child of a prophacy...brought up from common grounds into the palace of the kings.
Although raised by his teachers that the people are the true rulers and that he would be a tool, Shinohara's father warned him that the ignorence of the people can topple even the mightest giants and thus he should keep ambitions of his own to balance out the cries of the peasents. His first taste of war was when he was twelve, he was enlisted as part of the elite archer core because of his perfect shot that would bring down war elephants. He was able to kill numerous enemies but then the front lines were breached, the archers pulled back but he remained and kept shooting bringing down fifty more soldiers before being shot with an arrow himself. Wounded and down he was captured and taken to the nearest enemy fort as a war prisoner. He was chained to a post and flogged as he refused to answer who he was. He knew that their were soldiers and volenteer peasents as prisoners here too and that they were being flogged, beaten and tortured and he would refused to tell his identity for the sweet sake of mercy.
He was imprisoned for a month before his father's armies finally breached the fort and released the prisoners, ironically of the day Shinohara, under the alias of Kia, was scedualed for execution. He was thought to be dead by his family and soldiers and his return was a noble day. Returning just has he left, loyal and righteous and unweakened. At the age of twenty, he was named lord and inherited the sword and the land it ruled. Early in his rule a power struggle within a peasent faction caused an uprising against the lord and his rule, Shinohara launched his first war to crush the rebellion and his elderly father was one of the officers who entered the fray. His father was killed in the battle and was a crippling blow to Shinohara's morals and he retreated from the frontlines once he heard the news of his patron's death. He would order a 10,000 man draft completly defying the will of the people which would create army reinforcements that wiped out the peasent revolt. He would then eliminate extra taxes as a way to pay back the people for service.
His mother would then die of an illness refered to by a doctor as a "yokai-like plague". Her death was blamed on sadness of her husband, fear for her son and the other stress on her mind but Shinohara claimed that he soul was taken by demons as tribute to pay for the dark deeds and evils of the land. He would enter a campeign from that day forth to clense the land of evils and injustice using the people's will as a mask to hide his own ambitions. He would assemble armies unseen in the histories of former leaders and design tactics unknown to the world's best military minds.
RP Example:
(I'm doing one as an example of what one should and could be.)
The battles raged as the fires roared up from the supply depot as Lord Tadayoshi Shinohara entered to see his men throwing corpses of enemy dead into the giant pyres of supplies. He slashed his jagged sword suddenly cutting an arrow as it flew through the burning depot towards him. Reinforcements road in as a calvary and slain the troops tending the flames. Hundreds of enemy infantry moved in as the calvary road in around the lord who lowered his sword amd etched an "X" in the soft dirt. "Whoever crosses this mark will die..." He pointed his blade upwards and then lowered it entering a battle stance. "...so who will be cut down first." The flames seared and danced as the troops ran in in formation only to be killed and then he walked out without a scar, scratch or wound to be met by his reinforcemets.
"Your late...move along to the next fortified position." He smirked as he sleuthed his sword. "What are you waiting for?"
He got onto his horse and rode off into the plains slashing enemy infantry with his flame-bladed swords from his mounted position killing many but leaving more to be left bleeding in the fields for his men to finish off. His stallion bucked and kicked back at an enemy soldier coming at the lord's rear killing the man instantly. "Good boy." He rode towards the walls where his men had set up a catapault and loading it with a large sphere soaked in lantern oil. "Light it!" He ordered. "Set it ablaze! Burn the souls of the dead and allow them to bring us victory!" A man lowered a flaming torch and lit the sphere into a large circular bonfire before pulling a lever launching the fireball at the enemy wall setting it to become a red curtain of fire with smoke for the ebony details.
"Victory is near my men! Light another fireball!"