[X] Soldier of Christ, a Jesuit. While Protestants and your fellow monastic orders look down on these "Nihon-go" for their barbarism, you and the handful of brothers you managed to convince the Portuguese to bring can see their potential as devout, if somewhat esoteric, servants of the one God. That their current civil war had given you potential in-roads with their leaders in only a sign of the righteousness of your path.
[X] Kyushu, home to the Shimazu and Otomo
You were among the latest wave of Jesuits to enter Japan, your pathway already paved by Francis Xavier in Nagasaki and his many associates over the past months. Already, a mere few months after his arrival, the converted in Nagasaki, Hirado, Kagoshima, and Funai had reached such numbers as to necessitate the construction of churches.
Your brothers had taken to serving as advisors to the heads of the Shoni, Otomo, and Sagara clans, where they introduced European mathematics and bureaucracy and aided in facilitating trade between the Portuguese and the natives.
Others among you had taken to shepherding the flocks, answering questions and modernizing farming methods and road construction- something well appreciated by the people but also by their leaders, for it allowed more men to be deployed more rapidly and better supplied.
Some among you had even taken to serving as strategists and tacticians among the clans armies, directing them on how to properly protect musketeers against cavalry and ambushes.
It was no stretch to say that the Japanese were a practical people, and fully willing to accept aid, even from foreigners, in their trying times.
However, this massive participation of your order into the Japanese society left you in a bind. As the order's youngest member in Japan at:
[X] 25
you were given last pick of the various vocations.
As such, you had been left almost completely without a way to render aid to the cause of Christ on the island of Kyushu. You could simply begin preaching publicly- something you, as all Jesuits, were trained in (though to a much lesser degree than other orders), but such held the risk of inciting the various clan heads to more limit your Order's freedoms, lest you incite a revolt among their peasants as you have heard is happening with the Buddhists on the central island of Honshu. You could still do it, but your order, like the Japanese, was practical. Closer ties to the nation's leaders would eventually allow for the people to be converted without forcing their current civil war to spiral even further into anarchy.
Really, all that left you was to further expand your Order's reach.
While the situation in Kyushu was as well as could be expected even under the most blessed of conditions, the other islands had yet to even hear the Word, let alone be educated in it's nuances or other the cultures from whence it springs.
Once you were beyond the waters of Kyushu, you would be expected to purport yourself in a manner befitting a servant of God. However, your methods for spreading the Word, most especially if the situation in Kyushu should advance to such a degree as to convert some of the leaders, would be left almost entirely up to your discretion. Should the Church find herself truly backing one candidate for the Shogunate, then a few peasant uprising would not be out of order, should such be possible without posing catastrophe to the flock.
There would be other Jesuits sent out into the islands, but you were not expected to be able to meet regularly, if at all. As such, Father Xavier and the rest of the brothers in Kyushu will provide you with a set of gifts, according to your preference, along with your horse and cart.
Choose 4:
[ ] A crate of guns
[X] A crate of extra vulgate bibles
[ ] A crate of preserved foodstuffs for two months
[X] A crate of the holy body and blood, consecrated in Goa before being shipped
[X] A set of treatises on mathematics and science
[ ] A loan of a sizable sum of local moneys, expected to be paid back whenever possible
[X] A local advisor, familiar with the ritual around clan audiences
[ ] A crate of cuirasses
[ ] Write-in (pending approval)
Frankly, you are surprised to be receiving so much, but, you suppose, with the conversion of India being slow-going, efforts in Japan must be seeing extra lobbying in the Holy See, lest the Holy Father lose faith in the Order.
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A/N: Alright, I can't find a way to integrate the next bits. I'm gonna need a Name:
[X] Sebastian Rodrigues
[ ] Francisco Garupe
[ ] Write-in
And for you to assign levels to your base skills:
You can give a one level boost to two skills or a two level boost to one skill
Diplomacy: Apprentice
Martial: Apprentice
Stewardship: Apprentice
Learning: Journeyman
Intrigue: Amateur
Piety: Journeyman
Ranks go: Incompetent, Amateur, Apprentice, Journeyman, Professional, Master, Champion, Legend
Sue me, I like CK2's attribute assignments. I'll probably rename them later, but they work for now.
You do benefit from your background choice, here, as Jesuits were remarkable well-educated, so they get pretty good in most things. The other backgrounds would have been more...unbalanced.
After this vote is done, I'll put up the character sheet, then we'll actually get into the proper story.
