Umibozu
Sooleawa of the Moon and Ocean, Silver Moon Reaver of the Mo Ce Sea
The Elder
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Training : Waterbending |
Background : Outlaw |
Demeanour : Diligent, Level-headed, Solicitous
Stats
Creativity (+0)
Focus (+1)
Harmony (+2)
Passion (-1)
Balance
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Humility |
Conditions
[ ] Frustrated [ ] Jaded [ ] Remorseful [ ] Shaken [ ] Worried
Fatigue: [ ][ ][ ][ ][ ]
Wisdom of the Ages
Protégés : _____
Moves
As Long As I’m Breathing
When you try to intimidate someone in order to protect the vulnerable or weak, roll with Harmony instead of Passion.
Around Here Somewhere
When you go looking for help from an old friend in the area who you haven’t seen recently, name them and roll with Harmony. On a hit, you find them and they can assist you. On a 7-9, pick 1. On a 10+, both.
• they aren’t caught up in their own problems
• you don’t owe them a favour or apology
On a miss, your old enemies were looking for you too; the GM will tell you how you know they are near.
Fighting Techniques
Fighting Style: Polar Leopard iceberg spikes
Patience
(Evade and Observe, L [x], P[x], M[x])
You wait until the perfect moment to act. Mark 1-fatigue to gain Prepared and use an advance and attack technique, paying all its costs as normal. Mark another fatigue to allow a companion engaged with that same foe to also use an advance and attack technique against them as well, also paying all costs as appropriate.
Refresh
(Evade and Observe, L [x], P[x], M[x])
Apply water to reinvigorate and close wounds on a willing target. Mark fatigue to heal an ally in reach who is evading and observing. Clear an appropriate status from them, and clear 3-fatigue or two conditions.
Mystery Move 2
(Approach, L [x], P[x], M[x])
Mystery Move 3
(Approach, L [x], P[x], M[x])
Mystery Move 4
(Approach, L [x], P[x], M[x])
Moment of Balance
You will always be anchored to the past—unable to escape the painful lessons you have learned—but now you can hold the weight of that experience with the humility true wisdom brings. You look upon the current situation with unbiased eyes to see the truths roiling beneath the surface. Tell the GM how you wipe away whatever conceals the truth so
no one can see things as they once thought they were.
Hometown
A small Southern Water Tribe village rich in tiger seals and otter penguins, long since abandoned
Connections
• I care about _____ more than they know... even though they are probably my most frustrating student.
• _____ is not to be underestimated. In fact, they may have something to teach me!
Spoiler: History
Show
• What great legacy did you inherit decades ago and recently relinquish?
For centuries the name ‘Umibozu’ has been cursed up and down the Fire Islands. The wicked dark spirit, a looming humanoid figure, rises up from the depths without warning to strike down the mighty steel ships of the Fire Nation without mercy before disappearing back into darkness.
It also rescued Sooleawa from drowning after she and her brothers were caught in that terrible storm and their ship capsized. The ‘Umibozu’ being, at that time, a veteran earthbender corsair who had been plying his trade on the high seas for decades. Feeling indebted for saving her life, and with now nowhere else to go, Sooleawa stayed onboard his ship.
The next few years of her life saw Sooleawa tirelessly work her way up from peeling sweet potatoes to leading boarding parties, looking up to ‘Umibozu’ as a mentor and something of a father figure. And in Sooleawa he saw a successor, a fact he eventually revealed a scant few weeks before he was set to sail out to sea and leave this life behind.
She was too young. She was too inexperienced. There were a clear dozen sailors better suited for such a legacy. So why her? Well, because it was the inscrutable will of Umibozu Itself. When the old earthbender set sail for his last voyage as ‘Umibozu’ he took Sooleawa with her, just the two of them. Out in the middle of the Mo Ce Sea, under the full moon of the winter solstice, the great and terrible spirit rose high from the ocean to welcome the new ‘Umibozu’.
Living up to such a name, to everything that legend has meant to people for hundreds of years, took more than just the favour of a great spirit. Sooleawa now led her crew against the full might of Fire Nation, and they didn’t care what some pirate had to say about some made up fable. She got battered and bruised. She was forced to test the faith and trust her men had in her. She had to fight and fight hard, testing her will to continue and her conviction to the cause.
But Sooleawa has for decades dedicated herself to a campaign against the Fire Nation ships crossing the Mo Ce Sea. ‘Umibozu’ is more of a terror now than at any point since the war began. Both under the flag of the Silver Moon Reavers, a loose pirate flotilla she has long been the figurehead of, and striking out on her own daring midnight ambushes — guided by Tui’s moonlight.
• Who has never forgiven you for decisions you made years ago?
A mutineer by the name of ‘Scorching’ Xunlu. Years ago he was a prisoner sentenced to the Boiling Rock, only for his transport to be torn open prow to stern by Sooleawa. Eagerly he joined up with his liberators, and delighted in spiting his former captors.
But he cared little for the common cause of the Silver Moon Reavers, pushing the idea that they should be looking at easier targets than the Fire Nation. Like ransacking the port towns and trading villages up and down the Earth Kingdom coast.
After one bruising encounter that saw Sooleawa pulling the flotilla back to the Southern Archipelago, ‘Scorching’ Xunlu pressed his claim that now was time for new leadership. Hurting from the aggressive patrols of the Fire Navy, enough among her crews were tempted by promises of easy work and great plunder to seize command of multiple ships. The flotilla splintered, with ‘Scorching’ Xunlu’s mutineers sailing for the nearest port to attack. Kyoshi Island.
Sooleawa came down upon them like a thundering wave, but time was not on her side. The mutineers were already well into their attack, battling hard to hold off the local militia and weigh down their holds with loot. Hardly relishing the prospect of fighting her own men, ‘Umibozu’ drove jagged icebergs through their ships at anchor and made her call for their leader to face her. ’Scorching’ Xunlu accepted the challenge.
In full view of her loyal and mutinous crews, and the islanders, the firebender and waterbender would duel. ‘Scorching’ Xunlu, with no compunctions in pursuit of victory, tries every underhanded trick he knows. A strong jet of flame even manages to catch Sooleawa off-guard, badly burning her face.
But she emerges the winner, retaining command of the fleet. With the loser marooned on one of the many isolated craggy islands that littered the Southern Archipelago. A mercy for ’Scorching’ Xunlu, all told.
• Who is still your ally and confidante, despite the tense history you’ve shared?
A few years Sooleawa’s junior, Ayai the Kyoshi Warrior is fiercely protective of her people and their way of life. The Earth King can stay far away in Ba Sing Se, and everybody else can stay far away from Kyoshi Island. Many times an outsider arrives, and many times they bring problems with them.
One such time being because of Sooleawa. She felt great shame that she was responsible for such harm, but Ayai spoke for her people in wanting nothing to do with pirates like ‘Umibozu’. Perhaps not, but Sooleawa wasn’t so easily deterred from her convictions. And this was a wrong she needed to make right.
Month after month she would arrive, alone, with genuine contrition and reparations to give Kyoshi Island. And time and again she would be turned away. And always she accepted this decision, and refused to take her offered gifts back with her. Even suspicious, skeptical Ayai had to eventually acknowledge this pirate was showing real remorse. And this, perhaps, was deserving of some tolerance. After more than a year, her presence was permitted onshore.
Whaletail Island and Kyoshi Island are some of the few safe harbours Sooleawa can claim when she retreats to the South Sea. Even she needs time to herself every few seasons, be it for repairs or recuperation. Knowing that she cannot bring the war to the island, Sooleawa instead trades surplus supplies and spoils for lodgings. And with Ayai’s blessing, she offers her healing waterbending to any villagers who need it.
• What outfit or uniform do you wear to remind yourself of your former duties?
Back in the Southern Water Tribe one of the first proper hunts Sooleawa went on with all her brothers saw her playing a vital part in catching a whale walrus, waterbending a shoddy ice wall around the animal and healing several tusk wounds. One of those tusks, her oldest brother carved into a pendant and she has worn it as a necklace ever since.
• Why are you committed to this group or purpose?
Sooleawa is on the hunt for her younger brother, Thaki. Having assumed she lost her three brothers in the storm she barely survived, she had come to terms with being the last of her family and her tribe for a long time now.
But recently rumours reached her ear, as they tended to do after reaching a new port, of some Water Tribe being seen in the Earth Kingdom. Now, seeing Water Tribe outside of the poles? Common enough. Him being a Southern Water Tribesman? More unusual, her people had suffered greatly over the years. Him being an older warrior, perhaps around her age? And, after dispatching some trusted officers to search for as much information they could, him having the same name?
There was no way he could still be alive after all this time, she thought. But long settled feelings about losing her family and home had been unearth and drove Sooleawa to find out for sure, seeing her arrive in this Earth Kingdom village. She doesn't know if her brother is even here, perhaps he only passed through and is long gone. Or, if he did live here, moved on to spirits know where years ago. Maybe she'll just find his cairn.
Regardless of what this village means to her brother, she knows the pain of losing home and family and cannot stand by while it happens right in front of her to others.
