Asako Script

The Asako Script is a special method of cryptography developed by Asako to keep secret the knowledge relating to her family's researches into the Path of Man.

Development
The healers who originally devloped the script were not shugenja, and so they had to make it non-magical in nature. As such, the script is based on advanced methods of calligraphy and an incredibly complex, multi-layered cipher. Asako and her companions took great pains to make the scrip indecipherable to any who did not know its secret. The goal has remained successful to this day.

The Script
The script itself is based on an incredibly complicated cipher. All documents written in the script must go through a series of several transcriptions before they can be read by those unafmiliar with the system. The cipher, in an effort to keep more common words from becoming apparent after too much use, possibly allowing the decryption of the script by an outsider, is changed every generation. As such, all the documents the Asako keep must be transcribed with every new cipher so that they will be readable to current and future Asako.