Mizu Clan | Otonashi

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Otonashi

Basics

■ Clan Type: Active | Kekkei Genkai
■ Clan Leader: Open

The Otonashi are a clan from the Land of Water who often claim to have ruled the lands in the distant past, but this claim is unsubstantiated. They are rigid traditionalists who often send their children away to foster with samurai, both for spiritual and martial education. It is not uncommon for them to regularly serve the local daimyo in some fashion.

Clan Features

[BOON] SPIRIT OF SWORD: A bizarre ability which helped solidify the Otonashi clan's reputation within the Land of Water, it is rumoured that they are descended from samurai in the Land of Iron due to an uncanny similarity to their techniques. The ability is awakened within users through repeated cycles of painful and exhausting training, followed by deep meditation. When used, it grants the user the ability to enter a trance-like state that generates chakra actively detrimental to that of Ninjutsu. You can activate Spirit of Sword by spending 2 Chakra Points. While Spirit of Sword is active, you gain the following abilities:

• Once per thread, make one of your evasion jutsu +5x more powerful when used against a ninjutsu with an elemental affinity.
• Once per thread, one of your Bukijutsu of B-Rank or lower is treated as one of the five basic natures that you choose for damage type interactions, but remains neutral flavorfully.
  
• Once per thread, you can decide to treat one of your bukijutsu of B-Rank or lower as +10x more powerful, but this power is only added if the jutsu ends up clashing with a ninjutsu.
  

If you are knocked unconscious or fall below 1 health at any point, Spirit of Sword deactivates and must be activated again for another 2 Chakra Points.

[BASE] BY THE BLADE: The Otonashi place great emphasis on the mastery of kenjutsu, and all of the clan's members display a notable degree of proficiency when using swords.

• Once per thread, you can use a D-Rank Taijutsu with the Bukijutsu effect without spending chakra.
• All Taijutsu you create can have the Bukijutsu effect for free, but must narratively include the use of a bladed weapon.
  

[BANE] BURDEN OF TRADITION:The Otonashi are resilient to change and by nature slower when it comes to picking up new jutsu as they devote more time to their mastery.

• Instead of increasing the max extra XP you can spend on jutsu effects every 5 Technique score points, you do so every 7 Technique points.