Ikoma Kotone

Ikoma Kotone was a samurai-ko of the Lion Clan.

Training
Kotone spent part of her childhood in Ryoko Owari, a big city which did not match her flowing spirit. She returned to Lion lands and trained in the Lion Spearman school, for its techniques matched the freedom of movement she always loved.

Station
After her gempukku Kotone was assigned as yojimbo to an officer in one of the Imperial Legions. She met a former childhood friend, Bayushi Kenzo, and they began a love affair. The couple met again in Naishou province, Kenzo as a part of a Scorpion army which had tried to seize the province by force, and Kotone as member of the forces under the command of the new Imperial Governor Miya Ansho. They worried that their duties might somehow wind up putting them on opposite sides of a future conflict.