Let's talk about your characters

By the way, i would recommend all of you to create a character here on GamersPlane, on a custom system.
That way, you will be able to add an avatar for that character, and you will be able to reply as the character.

Sounds great, that will be my afternoon project! Thanks, Delio, and all of you, I'll see you soon! :)

I answer here Kalajel, to not disturb the RP topic.

My bad then, i will correct to Emerald Empire instead of Jade Empire.

For the year, i do not have a precise idea for the exact year, but the scenario comes in the beginning of the 10th century, after the come back of the Kirin.
I'll go look for a bit much of history, but if you have suggestion, i'm listening.

I have looked for the Dragon history. Togashi Nariako or Togashi Yokuni both feet the role Kalajel, and for what i have in mind, Yokuni seems to be the most suited of them.

Beginning of 10th century, so around early 900s. Yeah, the Ki-Rin return would have been relatively recent enough for the clan to be highly mistrusted, considering they were still very much mistrusted back in the pre-Scorpion Clan coup era in the early to mid-1120s.

As for Togashi, he changes body and identity roughly every 50 or so years to give the illusion different people are the Champion of the Dragon clan, I don't think it could be Yokuni. Looking at the L5R wiki, there seem to be this big hole between Togashi Shotaro (circa 715-750), and Togashi Yokuni (circa ?-1128) In which Togashi Nariako would fit (dates unknown). Still, it is highly unlikely Togashi would have ruled for roughly 350-370 years in the same (Nariako's) body, and as such, you're pretty much free to invent a Dragon Clan Champion of your own to fit your adventure...

We checked the same pages i guess :)

Ok, here's a quick names list for those Dragon Champion, and the order is not really important. Peak the one you want.
Tomohiko
Shinichi
Nobusuke
Takechi
Takuji
Rikyu
Kojiro

As you said, they still are Kami Togashi, the guy's basically The Doctor, or any time lord/lady, from the Rokugani's point of view.

As for the timeline to come for the L5R universe, i don't plan to follow the official one, though i plan to get inspiration from it.
The rest will depend on you and your actions.
So now that the Kirin has come back, we all will create the world as it's changing and evolving differently from the original history.
Like in a parallel universe, someone turns left instead of turning right, and everything is different.

Oh, concerning Togashi, it gets even better. If you want to go with unret-conned 1st edition lore, instead of taking over the bodies of special Ise-Zumies to keep his consciousness alive, the original lore stated that Togashi Yokuni was the original Kami Togashi, original body and all!

Yeah, they nerfed a lot of things in the later editions... Some for good reasons though (I'm looking at you Ikoma Omoidasu [nerfed] and Kakita Artisan! [broken!]).

As for my Dragon champion, I'll go with Nobusuke.

I had stayed with the fact that he just changed his name over the years, and keeps the same body, and I had found a reason that justified this, as far as I am concerned. So I left on that.

Hence the "the Dragon speaks to you".

I'm still here. It's been a crazy week and I basically forgot I was playing games. I'll catch up and post soon.

Welcome back! I hope you're doing well, and that you're safe from... you know... All The Things Happening. I sent you a DM just so we can be on the same page, since we'll be traveling together. Eagerly waiting to hear back from you!

No worry, the game has just started :)

sorry! I lost all track of everything getting sucked into all these riots.

Totally understandable.

Stay safe, take your time :)

I've had a similar problem in one of the games I played once. Not sure what causes this bug...

This will also be very useful for your upcoming posts.

Edit: I was also looking for what could be the Rokugani equivalent of pages, and the best I could find quickly shifting through my books would be either some sort of servant or retainer.

And to answer one of your questions, the one about fields of culture.

I was thinking to wheat, rice, and other agriculture fields.

I'm sorry if that's not the good term, let me know and i'll correct.

I'll make a more detailed description of the area on my next post.

I submitted the character. I forgot there was another step.
I assume English isn't your primary language then? It might help to know what your primary language is.

'fields of culture' is pretty romantic/poetic language. Now that you've explained it I kind of like it. More common parlance would just be 'farmland' or 'grazing fields' or something to that effect.

I was thinking, too, about military rank structure of the era. I am almost certain they had something more than Daiymo > Samurai > peasant troops. There had to be some rank structure but I also doubt they had the same that the west uses. Earliest I could (easily) find on google was Imperial Japan in the early 20th century which followed the same officer structure (more or less) as the west (e.g. 2Lt, 1LT, CPT, etc)

Reading that link you shared, too, a platoon of 400 people is absolutely mind boggling massive. Your typical infantry platoon today is 40-50ish. 400 is more on par with half a battalion. A Roman legion was 4000 - 6000 depending on the period. 'units', too, is a weird word to describe a specific size. It's not that weird, but it's generic. like, i would use the word unit to describe my company, my battalion or my brigade, depending on the context.

So I guess, based on that, Rokugan is a densely populated, highly martial place, likely with mandatory conscription. (or maybe the writers just didnt have a frame of reference for the size of military units). I'll use this link as reference and dig around elsewhere in the wiki for other unfamiliar terms

so i found a copy of 3rd edition. The wiki isn't fully edited. And this break down and explanation make far more sense, if still a bit weird in the western context (e.g. a sergeant being in charge of a platoon).