Post by Witchcraft on Aug 8, 2010 14:16:32 GMT -7
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Played By:witchcraft//Witchcraft
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Basics [/i]
Name:Tu Ne’Fong
Birthday:October 15
Nation of Birth:Earth Kingdom
Gender:Male
Age:55
Element:Earth
Appearance [/i]
Appearance:
Excerpt from, “My Life” Chapter 1, Introductions
From what my friends tell me, I am a person who is remembered for what is said not for what I look like. People tell me that after they meet me, my words can stick around for a lifetime even when my appearances have not.
Overall, I would describe myself as the average Earth Kingdom resident of age fifty. My hands are calloused from long hours working with the earth that sustains me and empowers me. My hair is starting to thin and gray but it still remains atop my head and chin. The Brightside to this though is that I never need to comb and style my hair as I did when I was younger. It has learned to lay flat above my eyes and stay within its braid with age. My beard, needing trimmed more often than my hair anymore remains level with my chest.
I would describe my face as neither handsome nor ugly. I am more handsome then some and less than others. I avoided the pox as a child so I do not have any scars though age itself has ravaged my face. I would never be mistaken middle aged heheh. My once striking blue eyes have faded to a humble gray.
I used to stand at a strong six feet even but age drags you closer and closer to the earth and I currently stand at five feet ten inches. Many long nights within the libraries elbows deep in scrolls was not the best on my figure as well. With so much to learn and handle, there is little time for a well placed meal at the late hours and I am starting to get a gut to show for it. The rest of my body though retains the unique muscle mass of a seasons earthbender.
Clothing:
Excerpt from, “My Life” Chapter 1, Introductions
As I said earlier, I tend to blend into the woodwork and go unseen which is very surprising with what I wear. In my use I would conform and wear the green and browns of my native Earth Kingdom but looking outward, I realized early on that is one of the largest dividers of this world. Each nation has a series of colors that is defined as their own. Even knowing very little about the nation, wearing the correct colors could make you go around unseen.
When I was thirty I made the conscious decision to break these binds that stuck me to the Earth Kingdom alone. I took some what fabric and cut it into a simple square with a hole for my head. I then took this fabric and dunked it into different colors of dye with a number of knots tied into fabric. The result was a very unique style that had every color of the rainbow instilled into a single cloth in a design that is impossible to describe. There were spirals, sunbursts, waves and lines. Under this fabric poncho I wore a once white tunic and pants done in the same style. With this decision I became closer to peace by breaking the divisions that should not exist within the four nations of this planet.
Weapon of Choice:
Excerpt from, “My Life” Chapter 20, Random Questions Answered
Oh my, why would I ever want to purposefully harm another? I guess though if I must answer it would be my Earth Bending but I would never purposefully harm someone with it.
Bending Abilities:
Excerpt from, “My Life” Chapter 9, The Bender Within
As it is to be expected by someone of my age, I have mastered all the arts of Earth Bending. I learned earthbending at a young age and used it as a way to safely diffuse my aggressive energy sending it into the earth where it could not harm people.
In my thirties though, I found a tomb written by the late Grand Lotus Iroh that peaked my interest in what I had to guess was a lost form of earthbending. Iroh described his travels and visits with a blind earthbending master named Toph. She was described as a master of Neutral Jing and was said to be able to see through the earthbending she used. He also described her near impossible ability to bend metal itself. At first I found this hard to believe so I decided to try it for myself. I asked around the Order for someone who had a hermitage out in the mountains and I went there to live for a year. The only contact I had was a man who dropped off food for me each week. During that year I meditated within the mountains, listening to the earth and learning all it could teach me.
The ability to ‘see’ through earthbending came early. When there is nothing else to fill the sense, what is left is amplified. I felt each movement that touched the surface of the earth near me. Once I opened my eyes and took in the world around me once again, I found the gift gone, but for one who did not have this option, I could easily see it being a great gift.
The second part of the story though, involving the bending of metal took me much longer to master and almost lead me to staying another year within that mountain. Every few days, I would move from place to place within that mountain to get different expects of the earth. The place of my revelation was when I meditated over what used to be a metal strip mine. The land was covered over and trees and grasses growing once again, but through my new skills learned thanks to Iroh and Toph, I could see the disturbances within the land below me. With the clays and sediments below me though, I could feel the small particles of metal. They were much too small of chunks to ever be used effectively in metal products, but they will still technically metal. The next day I moved myself far away from his mine to an area I meditated in before. This time, when I looked within the earth, I felt the same small metal particles. This connection made realize that metal was only another part of the earth so it could be possible to bend metal.
For the next three months I practiced and practiced, trying to get the metal plate of the door to budge. Finally, during the last week where I would either go home or stay for another year, the door budged and created a large dent the shape of my fist. And since there was no broken bones in my hand, I knew that the metal bent through my bending. It wasn’t much, and it would take the next five years to perfect, but I was indeed a metal bender.
Inner Glance [/i]
Personality:
Excerpt from, “My Life” Chapter 4, A Dusty Mirror Polished Clean
As a younger child I was very rambunctious, always getting myself into trouble because of my want to understand things. I would take apart small machines and end up unable to put them back together. Thankfully though to all those around me, I have mellowed highly in age.
At the time of writing this, I am slow to any emotion. I will smile often but rarely laugh, I will frown often but rarely cry, and I will sigh from distasteful actions but rarely rise to anger. Life has taught me that we as humans are emotional people, prone to rash actions in the heat of an emotional. If we can only hold and wait for a few moments and see if it is still there, our emotions are truer and less clouding.
It is strange how age effects how your personality is viewed. I have a horrible habit of trying to help people. This can be as simple as a kind word or an open ear. In my middle age though, this was seen as me being a busybody or nosey. Now, I am seen as sympathetic and wise.
Fear(s):
Excerpt from, “My Life” Chapter 15, Darkness Surrounds
What I fear most is what is right around the corner. War is all around us and the Avatar has just disappeared. The Four Nations where always divided but now they are becoming even more so. If this war lasts for much longer it will start causing permanent damage.
My next greatest fear is that what happened those 300 years ago is about to repeat itself, the Avatar being taken out of the picture by the fates for a long period of time to protect her. Is a nation again planning to take out the Avatar and anyone that stands in their way including the entire Fire Nation.
Hobbies:
Excerpt from, “My Life” Chapter 12, Everyday Life
I have many pastimes that could be described as hobbies. I love to do paintings of the landscapes around me. I feel that since the land around us can so easily be changed, it should be preserved in art wherever possible. I also like to dabble in poetry though I must admit, I am not good at it.
This next hobby tends to make people roll their eyes but I love rock gardening. There is something strange and peaceful about moving rocks there to create elegant designs and even hidden ones. My favorite recent work was that when on the ground looked like any other rock garden but if you stood upon my roof you would see the grand and everlasting lotus.
Lastly, I enjoy the lectures I give within the Earth Kingdom Academy on works of art, fiction, and philosophy. Many call this work, but how can something I enjoy so highly be described at work, the monetary award afterward is only a bonus.
History [/i]
History:
Excerpt from, “My Life” Chapter 7, Childhood
From what my parents told me before their death I was a very handsome baby upon birth. I was born with a head full of black hair and smiling blue eyes. I grew quickly walking at eighteen months and talking at two years. My father was a great merchant in Omashu and my mother was the assistant to one of the family practitioners. Both made a decent wage and because of this I started my schooling at age six with a private tutor in my home.
When I was twelve things started to get rough in my life. A group of kids got it in their mind that I was not as good as them because I had a private tutor and did not grow up on the streets. They decided to try and beat me up. I may have been the son of a merchant but that didn’t mean I didn’t know how to defend myself. I beat them up badly and when their parents came to my house to talk to my dad, he laughed in their face since he saw it happened and told the parents how it was their own children who started the conflict.
But after that my father did decide that I had to find a new way to control my anger and find a way to safely direct it. I had shown small abilities to bend the earth around me so my father decided to get me an earthbending trainer. At the time I didn’t notice it but the trainer was a close friend from my dad and had a specific love of flowers, especially the lotus.
Excerpt from, “My Life, Secret Lotus” Chapter 7, Childhood
I didn’t know at the time but the man that was my earthbender teaching was a member of the Order of the White Lotus, as was my father and mother. As a merchant he felt that all trade should be free to help improve his business, and that led to his own views about how everything should be shared. My mom had similar views because of her medical background.
At sixteen I was inducted thanks to my father, mother and earthbending teacher as an apprentice member of the Lotus. This group I found to be amazing diverse, having members of each nation together to speak of kinder things such as art, philosophy and poetry. They also had a library more diverse than any in the Earth Kingdom academy. It was also interesting seeing the same stories told by different nations.
Excerpt from, “My Life” Chapter 7, Childhood
At age 20 though I found the love of my life Tien. We had a wonderful courtship and married three years later by a minister in the Order. She didn’t know sadly, since her views were not helpful for the order. She was the sweetest person that could be, and she captured my heart but she felt that no nation was as good as our Earth Kingdom.
Excerpt from, “My Life” Chapter 8, Adulthood
My dad would have liked me to become a merchant much like himself, and my mother would have loved me to become a great doctor but both understood when I walked my own path. I decided at age twenty-five to become a professor at the Earth Kingdom Academy branch in Omashu. I started out as a philosophy professor but at times would substitute for the literature professor or History professor.
My life was very uneventful during these years. I saw many young minds come and go through the hallowed halls of the Academy to do great things all around the Earth Kingdom and even beyond. When I was forty though I got hit by multiple hardships that were hard to recover from. I lost my wonder wife to a new sickness. My mother could not find a cure and my wife passed away slowly in her sleep. My mother and father though died a much more violent death. My mother took in an injured fire nation soldier right when things were starting to get tense. A group of angry citizens came and burned down my old home, trapping my mother and father within.
Excerpt from, “My Life, Secret Lotus” Chapter 8, Adulthood
I rose slowly but surely through the ranks of the Lotus in my adult life. I became a Journeyman Lotus at age twenty-six and a Master Lotus at forty. I was amazed though that when I was fifty, my peers elected me as the Grand Lotus of the Order. This is a position that I will hold till my death or until I can no longer hold it with honor.
As a Grand Lotus I had to make many tough decisions. One of the toughest I had to make was to remain hidden when we may be needed again to try and keep the nations together. I felt that even though we have influence in many nations, it could easily blow up in our faces and we could be seen as spies. We can influence from the shadows and still try and keep this world on a path toward peace.
Excerpt from, “White Lotus Regulations and Traditions” Chapter 2 Entrance
A new member can only be inducted upon the recommendation of at least one current member. This is to insure the character of the member being inducted.
A proper member has respect for the secrecy the organization requires as well as a balanced temperament that has an interesting in the fine arts and the separation of the boundaries put upon this world by the divisions of the nations.
Upon entrance the new member is deemed an Apprentice Lotus. They will be monitored and mentored by a Journeyman or Master Lotus. They will be mentored in the traditions of history of the organization until a time where the mentor deems them worthy to be promoted to Journeyman Lotus.
For a Journeyman Lotus to be promoted to Master, they must be in charge of a project of their choosing to either advance the standing of the organization or add something of worth to our library. This can range to be nearly anything and originality it encouraged. Once completely the current Masters will vote on if the project was worthy of Master status.
The Grand Master Lotus is a special occasion that requires the entire organization to be present. During the time where all the members report to a neutral ground, the council of Masters will act as Grand Master where a 2/3 vote is required for anything to pass. When every member is assembled the doors to the building are locked and voting is done. All masters are eligible for the status of Grand Master but it takes a 3/4 vote for the member to be elected.
Excerpt from, “White Lotus Regulations and Traditions” Chapter 5 Codes
The main way to see if another is a member of the White Lotus is to play them in a game of Pai Sho. Whoever plays first should put a White Lotus tile in the very center of the board. The next player should then ask, “A white lotus tile is a very unique tile rarely used by players anymore.”
After this statement the two will go through a statement to show ranks of the Lotus.
Question:
Apprentice: “A new lotus is simply blooming”
Journeyman: “The Lotus is everywhere just never seen.”
Master: “The Lotus may wither but never die.”
Grand Master: “Even upon death the Lotus will be reborn in the spring.”
These statements can be worked into normal conversation during the game but must be given before the end of the game or else the code is incorrect.
Relationships[/i]
Status: Widowed and not looking
Best Friend(s):Lee Ting, Siphon Woo
Relative(s):
Sadly I have no close relatives to my knowledge. My wife and I were not able to conceive and all close relatives have passed on. Though I feel all within the Lotus is my family, the Journeyman members are my brothers and the Apprentices are all my children.
Played By:witchcraft//Witchcraft
Text Color:N/A
Basics [/i]
Name:Tu Ne’Fong
Birthday:October 15
Nation of Birth:Earth Kingdom
Gender:Male
Age:55
Element:Earth
Appearance [/i]
Appearance:
Excerpt from, “My Life” Chapter 1, Introductions
From what my friends tell me, I am a person who is remembered for what is said not for what I look like. People tell me that after they meet me, my words can stick around for a lifetime even when my appearances have not.
~~~
Overall, I would describe myself as the average Earth Kingdom resident of age fifty. My hands are calloused from long hours working with the earth that sustains me and empowers me. My hair is starting to thin and gray but it still remains atop my head and chin. The Brightside to this though is that I never need to comb and style my hair as I did when I was younger. It has learned to lay flat above my eyes and stay within its braid with age. My beard, needing trimmed more often than my hair anymore remains level with my chest.
I would describe my face as neither handsome nor ugly. I am more handsome then some and less than others. I avoided the pox as a child so I do not have any scars though age itself has ravaged my face. I would never be mistaken middle aged heheh. My once striking blue eyes have faded to a humble gray.
I used to stand at a strong six feet even but age drags you closer and closer to the earth and I currently stand at five feet ten inches. Many long nights within the libraries elbows deep in scrolls was not the best on my figure as well. With so much to learn and handle, there is little time for a well placed meal at the late hours and I am starting to get a gut to show for it. The rest of my body though retains the unique muscle mass of a seasons earthbender.
Clothing:
Excerpt from, “My Life” Chapter 1, Introductions
As I said earlier, I tend to blend into the woodwork and go unseen which is very surprising with what I wear. In my use I would conform and wear the green and browns of my native Earth Kingdom but looking outward, I realized early on that is one of the largest dividers of this world. Each nation has a series of colors that is defined as their own. Even knowing very little about the nation, wearing the correct colors could make you go around unseen.
When I was thirty I made the conscious decision to break these binds that stuck me to the Earth Kingdom alone. I took some what fabric and cut it into a simple square with a hole for my head. I then took this fabric and dunked it into different colors of dye with a number of knots tied into fabric. The result was a very unique style that had every color of the rainbow instilled into a single cloth in a design that is impossible to describe. There were spirals, sunbursts, waves and lines. Under this fabric poncho I wore a once white tunic and pants done in the same style. With this decision I became closer to peace by breaking the divisions that should not exist within the four nations of this planet.
Weapon of Choice:
Excerpt from, “My Life” Chapter 20, Random Questions Answered
Oh my, why would I ever want to purposefully harm another? I guess though if I must answer it would be my Earth Bending but I would never purposefully harm someone with it.
Bending Abilities:
Excerpt from, “My Life” Chapter 9, The Bender Within
As it is to be expected by someone of my age, I have mastered all the arts of Earth Bending. I learned earthbending at a young age and used it as a way to safely diffuse my aggressive energy sending it into the earth where it could not harm people.
In my thirties though, I found a tomb written by the late Grand Lotus Iroh that peaked my interest in what I had to guess was a lost form of earthbending. Iroh described his travels and visits with a blind earthbending master named Toph. She was described as a master of Neutral Jing and was said to be able to see through the earthbending she used. He also described her near impossible ability to bend metal itself. At first I found this hard to believe so I decided to try it for myself. I asked around the Order for someone who had a hermitage out in the mountains and I went there to live for a year. The only contact I had was a man who dropped off food for me each week. During that year I meditated within the mountains, listening to the earth and learning all it could teach me.
The ability to ‘see’ through earthbending came early. When there is nothing else to fill the sense, what is left is amplified. I felt each movement that touched the surface of the earth near me. Once I opened my eyes and took in the world around me once again, I found the gift gone, but for one who did not have this option, I could easily see it being a great gift.
The second part of the story though, involving the bending of metal took me much longer to master and almost lead me to staying another year within that mountain. Every few days, I would move from place to place within that mountain to get different expects of the earth. The place of my revelation was when I meditated over what used to be a metal strip mine. The land was covered over and trees and grasses growing once again, but through my new skills learned thanks to Iroh and Toph, I could see the disturbances within the land below me. With the clays and sediments below me though, I could feel the small particles of metal. They were much too small of chunks to ever be used effectively in metal products, but they will still technically metal. The next day I moved myself far away from his mine to an area I meditated in before. This time, when I looked within the earth, I felt the same small metal particles. This connection made realize that metal was only another part of the earth so it could be possible to bend metal.
For the next three months I practiced and practiced, trying to get the metal plate of the door to budge. Finally, during the last week where I would either go home or stay for another year, the door budged and created a large dent the shape of my fist. And since there was no broken bones in my hand, I knew that the metal bent through my bending. It wasn’t much, and it would take the next five years to perfect, but I was indeed a metal bender.
Inner Glance [/i]
Personality:
Excerpt from, “My Life” Chapter 4, A Dusty Mirror Polished Clean
As a younger child I was very rambunctious, always getting myself into trouble because of my want to understand things. I would take apart small machines and end up unable to put them back together. Thankfully though to all those around me, I have mellowed highly in age.
At the time of writing this, I am slow to any emotion. I will smile often but rarely laugh, I will frown often but rarely cry, and I will sigh from distasteful actions but rarely rise to anger. Life has taught me that we as humans are emotional people, prone to rash actions in the heat of an emotional. If we can only hold and wait for a few moments and see if it is still there, our emotions are truer and less clouding.
It is strange how age effects how your personality is viewed. I have a horrible habit of trying to help people. This can be as simple as a kind word or an open ear. In my middle age though, this was seen as me being a busybody or nosey. Now, I am seen as sympathetic and wise.
Fear(s):
Excerpt from, “My Life” Chapter 15, Darkness Surrounds
What I fear most is what is right around the corner. War is all around us and the Avatar has just disappeared. The Four Nations where always divided but now they are becoming even more so. If this war lasts for much longer it will start causing permanent damage.
My next greatest fear is that what happened those 300 years ago is about to repeat itself, the Avatar being taken out of the picture by the fates for a long period of time to protect her. Is a nation again planning to take out the Avatar and anyone that stands in their way including the entire Fire Nation.
Hobbies:
Excerpt from, “My Life” Chapter 12, Everyday Life
I have many pastimes that could be described as hobbies. I love to do paintings of the landscapes around me. I feel that since the land around us can so easily be changed, it should be preserved in art wherever possible. I also like to dabble in poetry though I must admit, I am not good at it.
This next hobby tends to make people roll their eyes but I love rock gardening. There is something strange and peaceful about moving rocks there to create elegant designs and even hidden ones. My favorite recent work was that when on the ground looked like any other rock garden but if you stood upon my roof you would see the grand and everlasting lotus.
Lastly, I enjoy the lectures I give within the Earth Kingdom Academy on works of art, fiction, and philosophy. Many call this work, but how can something I enjoy so highly be described at work, the monetary award afterward is only a bonus.
History [/i]
History:
Excerpt from, “My Life” Chapter 7, Childhood
From what my parents told me before their death I was a very handsome baby upon birth. I was born with a head full of black hair and smiling blue eyes. I grew quickly walking at eighteen months and talking at two years. My father was a great merchant in Omashu and my mother was the assistant to one of the family practitioners. Both made a decent wage and because of this I started my schooling at age six with a private tutor in my home.
When I was twelve things started to get rough in my life. A group of kids got it in their mind that I was not as good as them because I had a private tutor and did not grow up on the streets. They decided to try and beat me up. I may have been the son of a merchant but that didn’t mean I didn’t know how to defend myself. I beat them up badly and when their parents came to my house to talk to my dad, he laughed in their face since he saw it happened and told the parents how it was their own children who started the conflict.
But after that my father did decide that I had to find a new way to control my anger and find a way to safely direct it. I had shown small abilities to bend the earth around me so my father decided to get me an earthbending trainer. At the time I didn’t notice it but the trainer was a close friend from my dad and had a specific love of flowers, especially the lotus.
Excerpt from, “My Life, Secret Lotus” Chapter 7, Childhood
I didn’t know at the time but the man that was my earthbender teaching was a member of the Order of the White Lotus, as was my father and mother. As a merchant he felt that all trade should be free to help improve his business, and that led to his own views about how everything should be shared. My mom had similar views because of her medical background.
At sixteen I was inducted thanks to my father, mother and earthbending teacher as an apprentice member of the Lotus. This group I found to be amazing diverse, having members of each nation together to speak of kinder things such as art, philosophy and poetry. They also had a library more diverse than any in the Earth Kingdom academy. It was also interesting seeing the same stories told by different nations.
Excerpt from, “My Life” Chapter 7, Childhood
At age 20 though I found the love of my life Tien. We had a wonderful courtship and married three years later by a minister in the Order. She didn’t know sadly, since her views were not helpful for the order. She was the sweetest person that could be, and she captured my heart but she felt that no nation was as good as our Earth Kingdom.
Excerpt from, “My Life” Chapter 8, Adulthood
My dad would have liked me to become a merchant much like himself, and my mother would have loved me to become a great doctor but both understood when I walked my own path. I decided at age twenty-five to become a professor at the Earth Kingdom Academy branch in Omashu. I started out as a philosophy professor but at times would substitute for the literature professor or History professor.
My life was very uneventful during these years. I saw many young minds come and go through the hallowed halls of the Academy to do great things all around the Earth Kingdom and even beyond. When I was forty though I got hit by multiple hardships that were hard to recover from. I lost my wonder wife to a new sickness. My mother could not find a cure and my wife passed away slowly in her sleep. My mother and father though died a much more violent death. My mother took in an injured fire nation soldier right when things were starting to get tense. A group of angry citizens came and burned down my old home, trapping my mother and father within.
Excerpt from, “My Life, Secret Lotus” Chapter 8, Adulthood
I rose slowly but surely through the ranks of the Lotus in my adult life. I became a Journeyman Lotus at age twenty-six and a Master Lotus at forty. I was amazed though that when I was fifty, my peers elected me as the Grand Lotus of the Order. This is a position that I will hold till my death or until I can no longer hold it with honor.
As a Grand Lotus I had to make many tough decisions. One of the toughest I had to make was to remain hidden when we may be needed again to try and keep the nations together. I felt that even though we have influence in many nations, it could easily blow up in our faces and we could be seen as spies. We can influence from the shadows and still try and keep this world on a path toward peace.
Excerpt from, “White Lotus Regulations and Traditions” Chapter 2 Entrance
A new member can only be inducted upon the recommendation of at least one current member. This is to insure the character of the member being inducted.
A proper member has respect for the secrecy the organization requires as well as a balanced temperament that has an interesting in the fine arts and the separation of the boundaries put upon this world by the divisions of the nations.
Upon entrance the new member is deemed an Apprentice Lotus. They will be monitored and mentored by a Journeyman or Master Lotus. They will be mentored in the traditions of history of the organization until a time where the mentor deems them worthy to be promoted to Journeyman Lotus.
For a Journeyman Lotus to be promoted to Master, they must be in charge of a project of their choosing to either advance the standing of the organization or add something of worth to our library. This can range to be nearly anything and originality it encouraged. Once completely the current Masters will vote on if the project was worthy of Master status.
The Grand Master Lotus is a special occasion that requires the entire organization to be present. During the time where all the members report to a neutral ground, the council of Masters will act as Grand Master where a 2/3 vote is required for anything to pass. When every member is assembled the doors to the building are locked and voting is done. All masters are eligible for the status of Grand Master but it takes a 3/4 vote for the member to be elected.
Excerpt from, “White Lotus Regulations and Traditions” Chapter 5 Codes
The main way to see if another is a member of the White Lotus is to play them in a game of Pai Sho. Whoever plays first should put a White Lotus tile in the very center of the board. The next player should then ask, “A white lotus tile is a very unique tile rarely used by players anymore.”
After this statement the two will go through a statement to show ranks of the Lotus.
Question:
Apprentice: “A new lotus is simply blooming”
Journeyman: “The Lotus is everywhere just never seen.”
Master: “The Lotus may wither but never die.”
Grand Master: “Even upon death the Lotus will be reborn in the spring.”
These statements can be worked into normal conversation during the game but must be given before the end of the game or else the code is incorrect.
Relationships[/i]
Status: Widowed and not looking
Best Friend(s):Lee Ting, Siphon Woo
Relative(s):
Sadly I have no close relatives to my knowledge. My wife and I were not able to conceive and all close relatives have passed on. Though I feel all within the Lotus is my family, the Journeyman members are my brothers and the Apprentices are all my children.
