Editing Phoenix Clan (section)

===Asako Family===
The Asako are healers and scholars like their ancestor. They're pretty chill among the Phoenix, not displaying the usual pride and instead focusing on simply enjoying and sharing knowledge, though they still treasure their own mystical secrets. Their founder was married to Yogo, who departed to serve the Scorpion to evade his curse of betraying the one he loved most. To most in Rokugan, they are scholars and historians who carefully curate all tales and records, often beside the Ikoma of the Lion Clan. This is the path the majority of Asako take, and they are known as highly academic and intellectual courtiers, as well as honest-to-goodness doctors and physicians. As the saying goes, you're more likely to find an Asako in the library than at court.

However, beneath their scholarly surface, the Asako also provide the Asako Inquisitors who, as the name suggests, police magic and hunt down ''maho-tsukai'' throughout Rokugan. And beyond even that, at the highest ranks of their own family, they are custodians of the "Path of Man", the secret of enlightenment and apotheosis that Shinsei whispered to Shiba. These ''Henshin'', as they are called, are able to subtly manipulate reality through their insights into its nature, performing literal life hacks with the right riddles and truths designed to prime their minds and manipulate forces like probability and biology. The Asako very carefully guard its secrets (even from their own Clan) behind inner circles of archivists and ever-changing ciphers, since aggressive promotion of this new Path can either produce enlightened demigods on the road to becoming Fortunes or fallen blood mages looking for a shortcut. [[Grimdark|Assuming the knowledge doesn't drive them insane altogether, of course.]]

Incidentally, the Isawa have always [[Butthurt|resented]] the Asako for possessing magical knowledge that they didn't, and [[That Guy|had the Asako ejected from Gisei Toshi]] when they refused to share it.