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 Post subject: Miya Odorihime, the Imperial Matchmaker
PostPosted: Sat Oct 07, 2017 7:05 am 
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Odorihime, born an Otomo, is a woman to be feared, for she's the one who determines whether your life will be blissful or bitter. As the Imperial Matchmaker she has already brokered more than a few high-profile wedlocks in the Empire, including that of the current heir apparent Hohiro. A shrewd negotiator, she's invested with the authority to strike great balancing acts with betrothals, subjecting your fate to the deeper considerations of power equilibrium in the Empire and preserving its core values. She will sacrifice your happiness for that agenda without a blink unless she's given good reasons not to.

She has strong blood connections to the Hantei with a non-negligible claim to the Emerald Throne in case anything goes awry with the one currently reigning in Rokugan. After all, the ascendance of the Veiled Emperor after childless Retsuhime has opened the possibility of a cadet branch member being enthroned if the line of direct successors expires. She has two children, Edogawa and Suihime, Imperial Explorers both. She keeps close tabs on both of them and probably plots to marry them soon. On behalf of the Miya daimyo but by her own design she's established her semi-permanent presence in DRagon's Guard City, maintaining the Orange Blossom Estates.

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She might be in her late thirties or early forties but she's one of those women who age gracefully to the point of seeming timeless if not for eyes and hands. She's never seen as anything less than immaculate, regal, queenly in demeanour of brooking little opposition. While certainly beautiful and always sumptuously dressed, her aura of authority, importance and power she carries makes it an afterthought, merely an expected addition to someone who is one of the direct purveyors of the Emperor's will onto Rokugan.

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She is rumoured to have been a very strict mother. The post-gempukku propensity of her children to challenge her teachings and go their own ways must be bringing her no small amount of exasperation, so far more in the case of her eldest, she nevertheless aptly hides. She must be a big part of the reason why Jama keeps her children, Edogawa and Suihime, within arm's reach, just in case their pedigree informs too much ambition. What Odorihime does not advertise is that she is a direct descendant of Otomo Tohojatsu, one of the first younger Hantei scions to undergo the Ritual of Abdication, for the sake of his elder brother Bosai. The same whose thirst for power was such that he conspired with the Gozoku to become the Imperial Regent after the death of Hantei Fujiwa, de facto sitting on the Emerald Throne for 6 years a century ago.

Rumour also has it that she is unwilling to let Jama take this amount of high-profile eligible bachelors onto confined spaces of oceangoing ships for prolonged periods of time without betrothing them first, not only to avoid massive scandals later but also to give them good reasons to come back from wherever they are heading.



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