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You are one of the following:
- An apothecary or other member of staff of the Mizuno Pharmacy heading down to the imperial capital of Soumahara with Rin, who have been tasked with first dropping off a caravan at the Sangonomiya Shrine outside the capital.
- One of the mercenaries and brothers-in-arms of Todoroki Guren's Todoroki's Thousand Swords, a mercenary company tasked with protecting Rin and the other Mizuno Pharmacy officials heading to Soumahara.
- A traveler setting out from Mount Kaikuma for their own reason who has been granted permission to accompany the caravan.

Whatever the case, eight of you have chosen to (or been pressed into) being here.

(OOC Note: Do not worry about overlap or what best fits the party. I care more about if your character is interesting. Being the sole representative of a class that is often considered essential is not a guarantee of getting into Chains of Horai Redux. You will be starting at First Class and you will have an extra 4 points to allocate; no stat can go beyond 10.)

(Further OOC Note: As this is a reboot of Chains of Horai as we have lost all of our plot notes from Chains of Horai, we decided instead of scrapping the whole thing, we'd give it the old college try with new resources and a new shiny story, this time with all of our notes backed up on multiple computers this time. Anyone who signed up for the original Chains of Horai will be given priority but otherwise anyone is welcome to sign up. Of things to note:
- The Gnosis System and the Combat Arts do NOT apply to this version.
- There are no Juunishi this time. We went with something else.)

Lore of Horai - Geography - Must Read!
Lore of Horai - Other - Must Read!
Map of the Land of Five Kingdoms

- Progression caps on non-HP stats can be conditionally increased up to a total of 100% and to a minimum of 0% depending on GM discretion.
- There is no permadeath in Chains of Horai; downed allies will be incapacitated and unable to participate in the next map after their incapacitation.
- Cavaliers may promote into Great Knight. Great Knights have 6 MOV to compensate.
- Characters may exchange Sword for Whip Proficiencies  and Axe for Fist Proficiencies at the discretion of the GM.
- You may start with any weapon of C-rank or below that is not a Devil Weapon, a Siege Weapon or equivalent if they have C-rank proficiencies, and D-rank if D-rank proficiencies arep resent.
- For every 20% growths put into both STR and MAG, you gain 5% growths to put into other stats. Maturity and other Skills that affect Growths, as well as the First Class and Promoted increase, do not count towards the 20% for this rule.
- The Tags Youkai, Bird and Beast are considered equal for the purposes of this game and characters that start with Beaststone or Dragonstone proficiencies will have the Youkai tag attached. Characters who elect to start as part of the Youkai race will also have the Youkai tag added.
- Affinities may be selected at character creation, referred to as Birth Animals, and have been changed as follows:

1. Rat (Water)
2. Ox (Earth)
3. Tiger (Wind)
4. Dog (Anima)
5. Snake (Dark)
6. Horse (Fire)
7. Rabbit (Ice)
8. Dragon (Thunder)
9. Monkey (Heaven)
10. Rooster (Light)
There are also three new Affinities not present in normal FEF:
11. Boar: - +2.5 Hit, +2 points to buffs received, +2.5 Critical/Dodge
12. Sheep: - +2.5 Eva, +2.5% Skill activation chance, +2.5 Critical/Dodge
13. Cat: - +0.5 DMG, +2.5% healing effectiveness, +2.5 Critical/Dodge

In addition, Threat Attacks, Great Monsters, Press Turns, Talk and Life Points are in play.
- Threat Attacks: Powerful attacks that hit multiple tiles, triggered by attracting the attention of the attacker. Threat Attacks are marked with red squares over the tiles that will be hit and will activate one turn after they are triggered.
- Great Monsters: Monsters that occupy more than one tile, have massive HP counts and have Threat Attacks of their own. They reward large amounts of EXP for defeating them.
- Talk: Certain marked enemies will have the option to be Talked to, which grants the talker items or EXP. If an enemy is made to leave the map through Talk, EXP will be gained as if the enemy was defeated through combat. Some enemies can be Talked to after certain conditions are fulfilled, but enemies that are attacked while Talk is enabled for them will no longer accept being Talked to. Furthermore, certain enemies will be weakened when Talked to.
- Life Points: Certain enemies will have Life Points, which allow them to be healed completely upon being reduced to 0 HP at the cost of that point. Life Point expenditure cancels all Threat Attacks launched by the wielder that have yet to land.
- Press Turns: Certain bosses will have multiple moves per Phase. Depleting a Life Point destroys all of their Press Turns for that Phase and if Talk is used correctly Press Turn points can be reduced.

First Class:
- Cavaliers can choose between Swords/Lances and Axes/Lances for weapons.
- Pegasus Knights may choose between Swords and Lances for proficiencies.
- Shaman’s Ancient Gamble trades 1 SPD for 1.5 MAG (rounding up), instead of 1 SPD for 1 MAG.
- Wyvern Knights may choose between Lances and Axes for proficiencies.
- Soldier's Anti-Cavalry activates against Monsters as well as Cavalry.
- Classes that rely on items for their Class Skills (i.e. Apothecary, Brewkeeper) may start with an additional buffing consumable, status inflicting, status restoring or healing item (aside from Concoctions, Elixirs and Nul Needles) of their choice.

Promoted Classes:
- Shadow Sword’s Marked for Death doesn’t apply to the overall bosses of a level, but can be used on midbosses and other named enemies.

Name:
Mug:
Sprite:
Birth Animal:
Race: Human, Youkai/Half-Youkai (and what kind) or Misaki (and what kind)
Class: (Can be flavoured as the player wishes)
Character Skill:

Personal Fault:
Personal Skills:

Preferred Stats:

Weapon Profs:

Total Level:
Level:

HP: Base (+Bonus) (Prog%)
STR: Base (+Bonus) (Prog%)
MAG: Base (+Bonus) (Prog%)
SKL: Base (+Bonus) (Prog%)
LCK: Base (+Bonus) (Prog%)
DEF: Base (+Bonus) (Prog%)
RES: Base (+Bonus) (Prog%)
SPD: Base (+Bonus) (Prog%)
CON: Base (+Bonus)
AID: CON-1
MOV: Base

Inventory:

Bio: