Aotora family

The Aotora are vassals to the Bayushi. The family was founded in 1132 when Bayushi Kachiko recognised Aotora's loyalty and efforts, after the Scorpion Clan returned from their exile in the Burning Sands.

Aotora was a peasant herbalist in service to Bayushi Shoju. Few before the Scorpion Clan Coup, the Scorpion Clan Champion commissioned to Aotora to document the effects and antidotes on plant poisons. He secretly continued his research for years and yeas, waiting for his masters' return.

When the Scorpion returned, Aotora find the moment to approach Bayushi Yojiro, the new Scorpion daimyo, showed him the results of his work: a full room of hand-written scrolls cataloguing decades of meticulus botanical research. Aotora had continued his efforts throughout the troubles without reward or aknowledgment, and lost almost all his family due to an accidental exposure to potent poisons. Only two of his children survived with him. Yojiro, impressed by the peasant's effort and loyalty, granted his family the status of Bayushi vassals, the Aotora family, and commissioned Aotora and his children to continue this research in perpetuity. (SoScorpion, pp. 23-24)

After Aotora's death in 1149, the Aotora family remained a very small group of people, composed only by Aotora's two survicing children and their families. They faithfully continue Aotora's research, steadly amassing knowledge of the effects of botanical poisons and medecines. (SoScorpion, p. 24)