A scholar thrust by fate out onto the Rokugani frontier, Utaku Akasha has become the local magical librarian detective of the small town of Haven. She has animal companions Shuntakara (an Utaku steed) and Yui (a ferret page of sorts).

Utaku Akasha was born Ide Akasha near Far Traveler Castle in Unicorn lands. When a young child she traveled much with her parents, seeing much of the empire and the lands to the north and west and learning much about other cultures. Her travels were cut short when a fire spread through her family's land on one unusually hot summer night when she was about 10 years old. She tried to put out the fire with her hands (could not find anything else) and got third degree burns to both hands.
 
She was rescued from the blazing inferno by a nearby Utaku Battle Maiden and was eventually adopted into the Utaku when her parents were found burned to death. The remainder of her childhood was spent learning to ride and fight among the Battle Maidens. Because the extensive scarring on her hands (and lingering nerve damage) made some of the maneuvering required in the midst of battle difficult to learn, she ended up learning magic instead, in the Iuchi Meishodo Master School.
 
Akasha showed much talent in her shugenja training, but refused to work with fire, specializing in magic involving water and void. Her teachers were impressed with her research skills and encouraged her to spend time in the library. The sense of wanderlust from her childhood never left her, and after her initial magical training was done she took her books and left for Hewaeitoshi, to take a job in a place she'd never even heard of before the offer crossed her desk.
 
Haven has been a wondrous new frontier of sorts for Akasha. She is in a place where she gets to expand her magical abilities through research and experience and is uniquely positioned to use her research skills to help solve problems for the community. Her work for the newspaper provides a legititmate outlet for her insatiable curiosity. The lack of a library is definitely a downside - one that she intends to remedy as soon as possible.

Date of Birth

26 years old

Gender

Female

Eyes

Green

Hair

Black

Skin Tone/Pigmentation

Tanned

Height

5'7"

Weight

155