Editing Crane Clan (section)

===Doji Family===
Rokugan's premier politicians, the darlings of the court and the Emperor's favorites. Doji are those descendants of Doji and Kakita who chose to take on their mother's name, male or female, and follow the path of the courtier (though like any samurai, they can then devote themselves to other schools depending on ability and duty). Doji traditionally hold high positions at court and there has almost always been one serving as the Emperor's Advisor, while many are often requested to serve as arbitrators and diplomats between two Clans. While they may put on airs of being cultured and peaceful, the Doji are, in fact, entirely aware that the realm of politics can be utterly cutthroat and pragmatic.

Whether facing the meticulous scheming of the Scorpion or the hair-trigger tempers of the more unpredictable martial families, Doji have to know how to take care of themselves what with having targets painted on them. To achieve this, they use their exceptional affinity with twisting their enemies in knots of etiquette, obligations and alliances so that the Crane still maintain their honorable reputation. They are masters of all the steps of the social song and dance (which they invented) in order to make themselves look good or humiliate their opponents socially, and have the weighty duty of trading favors and alliances among the Clans in order to promote the most peaceful and prosperous solution possible. As the Emperor's advisors, their stockpile of political capital is vast and effective, whether from implied, symbolic gestures or bountiful treaties and betrothals.