Jester (TCG)

Jesters were a very unusual type of Rokugani artisan, whose art is essentially a performance conducted in court. They studied and mastered a wide range of artistic forms, including poetry, dance, song, and Kabuki acting. They also studied politics and human nature, for their role in the courts was to puncture the pretensions and expose the hypocrisies that surrounded them. They were a socially licensed exception to the Rokugani principles of ignoring spectacles and "killing with silence": they called out the things that others must endure without comment. Their function was to express the human feelings that others were not socially permitted to reveal.