Asahina Mataro

Asahina Mataro was an Air shugenja of the Crane Clan who founded the Asahina Battle School.

Clan War
Mataro was born seven years before he was trapped within Shinden Asahina during the Battle of Bloodied Honor. The boy saw maho, oni, zombies, and the vision of the False Hoturi among other nightmares this days. Mataro watched the shugenja of the temple die, unwilling or unable to strike back against their foes.

Asahina Shugenja
Mataro grew to believe that Asahina pacifism was a fallacy. Expelled from the Temple of the Morning Sun before his gempukku for his militaristic beliefs, he gained admittance to the Asahina Shugenja school.

Ways of the Battle
Mataro gathered other Asahina to resolve the deficiencies of the Crane shugenja on the battlefield. The Daidoji Daimyo Daidoji Rekai granted him an abandoned monastery in the heights of the Spine of the World Mountains near Cold Wind City, to train in secrecy Asahina Shugenja in the ways of battle.