[hider=Toshiro, Oni of the Verdant Storm]


Name: Toshiro Kubota, Oni of the Verdant Storm
Age: Unknown, seems to be somewhere between 30 and 50
Race: Human corpse that's kept from decaying by the spirit of an Oni
Gender: Male

Appearance: [img]http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/l5r/images/3/33/Fu_Leng.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20080229115412[/img]

Weapon(s): Toshiro carries a long hilted tanto with him - obviously it used to be a katana, the blade of which was broken. 

Class: Mage

Bio: It is told that the clan Kubota were both skilled swordsmen and powerful mages to boot. Some stories however are not true. Admittedly in the past some of the swordsmen of the clan were quite adept at magic as well, but it was nothing in comparison to the stories told of them.

Toshiro had never believed the stories. He had been a swordsman of adequate skill, surviving many duels and fighting several battles. Then he fought an Oni. The battle was worthy of at least a small anecdote. Toshiro was at the time carrying the clan Kubota's ancestral blade - the so called 'Spiritflayer' - as his personal weapon due to being the oldest of the daimyo's sons. Unfortunately the magic of the Oni was stronger than what ever power Spiritflayer held. Or so it seemed. The unnervingly green lightning of the Oni ran through the blade and the man holding it, but not before the swordsman managed to score a killing blow.

It has been said that the Spiritflayer could drain your opponent's life force to your body and definitely drain some lifeforce it did. When Toshiro got back on his feet he was no longer himself. The burns around his body had healed themselves, but... No, there was only the Oni of the Verdant Storm. Still he needed a name. What little still remained of the swordsman's fading consciousness gave the Oni just about enough information. He would be Tatsuo Kubota. Though the Spiritflayer was now broken he still picked it up and placed it to the broken scabbard before walking away from the battlefield.

The Kubota clan was after some time slain to a man - though not by the hand of Toshiro, in truth he had only made a very brief visit to the clan's lands - not to kill anyone or anything like that. He had just left his charred and badly battle damaged armor there - of course he could have just discarded the armor to some forest, but maybe there were just few lingering vestiges of the consciousness of the original man still lingering.

For several years Toshiro has been more or less just wandering around the lands and been working all kinds of odd jobs for the highest bidder.

Special Ability:

Beauty of the Emerald Lighting and Wrath of the Verdant Storm

Toshiro's main offensive ability is what he calls Emerald Lightning - which as the name would  suggest manifests as emerald green bolts of lightning from his fingertips, or if the weather conditions allow it he calls upon the powers of his namesake Verdant Storms down from the heavens to strike at his foes. 

Misc: Though Toshiro's body needs neither food or even rest that much the Oni inhabiting the body must spend time in meditation to keep the body from rotting and with full mobility.[/hider]