Shinjo Khubutai

Shinjo Khubutai is a Unicorn Clan samurai and the head of Bugaisha. Khubutai is a Qolat agent who reports directly to Ruqayah. He is a spare, taciturn man with tanned leathery skin and a long thin mustache and perceptive, humorless eyes. He is harsh and unyielding, yet fair and just. His men may dislike him, but they respect him.

Bugaisha
Khubutai makes his distaste at having been assigned to the backwater Bugaisha evident to all, and enforces Imperial law very laxly at the outpost. Khubutai maintains strict military discipline and holds fast to bushido, though. He knows that this strictness will keep his men and the gaijin who visit Bugaisha in line. He is harsh and unyielding, yet fair and just.

Qolat
Khubutai's displeasure at his assignment is a facade. Khubutai was six years old when Shinjo purged the Shinjo family of its Kolat influence. Khubutai's uncle was executed as a traitor, and the suspicious samurai executed Khubutai's cousins as well. Khubutai's uncle had not indoctrinated his children as Kolat, but had taken in Khubutai instead.

Khubutai is now an oyabun who reports only to Master Roc. He is the chief liason between the Roc Sect and the rest of Rokugan. Khubutai, along with fellow Qolat Shinjo Kinzo, maintains a headquarters within Bugaisha and stores enough gaijin powder there to level half of his base.