Quick question,

Can the Shiba Guardian use their "Way of the Phoenix" school ability on themselves?

4 minutes ago, easl said:

Quick question,

Can the Shiba Guardian use their "Way of the Phoenix" school ability on themselves?

yes

Phoenix are very lonely people. "Self use" explains a lot of how they spend their time.

Any thing "Range 0" includes yourself unless it specifically states otherwise (for example by saying "other character").

Worth remembering if some of the nastier Fire Invocations go out of control.

It gives Fires From Within a very unique role: You can willingly invoke a spiritual backlash on it safely, by keeping enough strife. Since it is the only fire attacks spell that is 1 minimum range instead of 0. A fire shugenja who is willing to lock themselves out of other fire invocations for the battle can keep 3 strife and as many opportunity as they can find to increase the AoE.

Fire spiritual backlash is in an odd place when I can 100% see a Shugenja willingly invoking it on themselves. At the same time, I think it's entirely fluffy. A shugenja calling on the most passionate of the kami with sheer raw emotion, heedless to the consequences. It's a heck of a way to go out (Or not go out, if you've got the blood of Osano-Wo and thus can't be killed by lightning. Just, you know, your friends likely don't have that).