Rokugan Local Governance
Variations: The Dragon Clan
Dragon Clan Governance
- Families: The Dragon clan is small and Dragon birthrates are low. It is not unheard of for Dragon families unable to conceive children of their own to adopt children from among the heimin.
- Families: Dragon Bushi are more likely than other clans not to be called into summer service, since Dragon forces are highly individual combatants. However, each Dragon bushi is expected to maintain himself in top combat form year round, and may be called to present himself to his Lord at any time. Dragon bushi also are called on to defend against small border raids from the Lion during the summer.
- Families: Dragon in the more monastic orders rarely marry, and those in the more traditional families rarely find themselves to wed early, instead seeking the role of marriage in their own individual path. For most, marriage is a distraction from the path of enlightenment.
- Families: The process of becoming a monk from being a samurai is a step of personal growth, not the end of a career, and it happens earlier than in other clans.
- Villages: The Dragon are generally kind to their heimin, but their lands are poor and hunger is common and peasant families can quickly fall destitute. Such families abandon unwanted children outside of Dragon monasteries, which act as orphanages. Some of these abandoned children go on to join the Togashi family.
- Villages: Dragon villages hardly need fortifications, being in steep and rugged terrain that makes them easy to defend from those approaching from below. The few fertile areas in the lowlands are heavily guarded by the Mirumoto.
- Villages: Dragon lands in general are often seen as a refugee for criminals and bandits, as they are full of wilderness and places to hide. Many are remote, and because the ways are difficult to reach, not often patrolled by samurai. Of course, any bandits and criminals that do go there have to survive the terrain as well.
- Towns: The few Dragon cities are more defensible than the Crab lands as the mountains serve as their walls. Were it not for hunger, they might never fall.