5 hours ago, Suzume Tomonori said:

With a short stint in between by Shiba "Well I guess someone has the be champion" Mirabu.

Poor Mirabu. He may have had the title, but Aikune had our hearts...

9 minutes ago, Shiba Gunichi said:

Poor Mirabu. He may have had the title, but Aikune had our hearts...

Yes, though Aikune's whole storyline went nowhere fast and then stayed there, at Nowhere, for a long time. Until he made a sudden reappearance all Dues Ex Machina and then left again forever. Lame. Reminded me so much of:

Around mid Gold Edition there were just so many characters, and so very very few got any exposure or proper coverage. You'd wait months for your Clan's story to be released, and it'd be about some Joe Schlub you couldn't care less about. I remember, as a Mantis, how interesting I thought Moshi Kalani looked. He even had amazing art, with additional awesome art on the cover of the Imperial Assembly issue and had Great Destiny in with his RPG stats. Yet years passed and we never saw Moshi Kalani's Exp1 nor did we see him do anything at all in the fiction. I think he may have finally done something years later, but at that point I had already moved on. So many characters got such little exploration or development during that period. I guess that was sort of the downside of having 8 Great Clans, Shadowlands/Spider Clan, the Four Winds themselves, Imperials, the occasional Naga re-awakening, and the Nezumi all requiring attention.

39 minutes ago, AllWingsStandyingBy said:

Yes, though Aikune's whole storyline went nowhere fast and then stayed there, at Nowhere, for a long time. Until he made a sudden reappearance all Dues Ex Machina and then left again forever.

Perhaps, but compared to friggin' Mirabu? No contest.

40 minutes ago, Shiba Gunichi said:

Poor Mirabu. He may have had the title, but Aikune had our hearts...

In a way Mirabu's ascension to Champion was perhaps one of the most "realistic:" a mild-manner middle management guy is given the promotion not because any remarkable accomplishment but merely because of seniority and long years of loyal work.

Or basically the council saw Aikune and decided to make the Shiba champion a guy that wouldn't rock the boat or try to fight with them over clan policy.

Only possible due to the Soul of Shiba being stuck with Tsukune up in Tengoku... it was a neat narrative device, but it was a one-off.

15 hours ago, AllWingsStandyingBy said:

Around mid Gold Edition there were just so many characters, and so very very few got any exposure or proper coverage. You'd wait months for your Clan's story to be released, and it'd be about some Joe Schlub you couldn't care less about. I remember, as a Mantis, how interesting I thought Moshi Kalani looked. He even had amazing art, with additional awesome art on the cover of the Imperial Assembly issue and had Great Destiny in with his RPG stats. Yet years passed and we never saw Moshi Kalani's Exp1 nor did we see him do anything at all in the fiction. I think he may have finally done something years later, but at that point I had already moved on. So many characters got such little exploration or development during that period. I guess that was sort of the downside of having 8 Great Clans, Shadowlands/Spider Clan, the Four Winds themselves, Imperials, the occasional Naga re-awakening, and the Nezumi all requiring attention.

The way FFG is doing things this shouldn't be an issue. There should be much fewer named characters running around so all should get their due in the story.

4 minutes ago, JRosen9 said:

The way FFG is doing things this shouldn't be an issue. There should be much fewer named characters running around so all should get their due in the story.

I hope Nerishma's is about the one time he wasn't ambushed while on patrol.