The Tokumei

The most feared members of the Raihu clan structure are the Tokumei. The services of the Tokumei are Raihu’s primary export and main source of income and influence. Their abilities vary greatly, but Tokumei generally are focused on the arts of stealth and infiltration. As such many of them are rogues, rangers, or scouts.

Tokumei are not members of clans like most Raihu, they forfeit their clan name and all privileges or responsibilities it might bestow when they take the Oath of Void. This is the oath all Tokumei make before beginning their training, and to break this oath is the most grievous insult a Tokumei can make. Tokumei also change their given name to something shorter, generally one or two syllables. This name carries little meaning for them and can be changed if the Tokumei has drawn too much attention with it.

Tokumei have secret names that they only use with each other and the clan leaders, these names are usually lines from Raihu poetry (i.e. traveling on white thunder, ten crows singing, hundred year blossom, etc.). Tokumei are required to wear masks at all times in public, unless they are required to infiltrate under disguise (usually a Tokumei in disguise will never be noticed so their identity is never discovered). If a Tokumei must go without their mask they can use the mask to cast an orison that alters their appearance. This alteration is always the same for each mask and cannot make them appear as another gender or race. These masks are carved from the wood of the Azurepines that grow in Aokai Valley, and are carved into the likeness of many different things. They are disposable just the same as a Tokumei’s name.