IMPERIAL EDITORIAL
by Doji Sakura, Emerald Champion

After nearly one and half years of no new heralds (shame on me, *baps self*) I once again step in to bring you the news of our beloved Rokugan community.

This month will herald two contests, which will give the winners a lot of bragging rights, although the second one will have a prolongued deadline until the end of september.

In the meantime, we bid all the newcommers welcome to our halls, and hope that the Fortunes guide you always.


Founder and Emerald Champion

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INFORMATION

To know how to join the community, submissions, etc., read our "Oriental F.A.Q" here ==> [link]

To see who the members of our community are, go here to check "The Legion of Two Thousand" ==> [link]

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NEWS

1 - ROKUGANESE T-SHIRT COMPETITION - This month's contest will run till the 1st September and it will be exceedingly simple: in the tradition of T-Shirt Hell ([link]) design your own Rokuganese T-Shirt. Anything goes, from images, to logos, to smarmy sayings. Back and Front, Just Front or Back designs are acceptable. The limit of entries is 3 per participant (no, multiple personalities don't count as different contestants). The decision of the winner will be made (as usual) per voting of the whole community. For those of you not drawingly inclined, you may use this blank Tshirt image to creat your own [link]

2 - SEPTEMBER COMPETITION The second competition being hosted this month will be a double dealing of art and prose. The theme will be "Going Back to School... Rokugan Style" and will feature participation in both literature and artwork. Let creativity grow rampant as anything goes. Submission is limited to 1 per category per participant and the deadline is 20th September. The winner of the art section will gain the Jade Champion Position and the winner of the writing section will get to be our Topaz Champion (unless either is one of the shadowy types, and then will become Obsidian Champion), and the best qualified members of each clan who do not win, will get the Clan Champion title.

3 - MISSING DEVIATIONS I insist again on this matter: several people have made Samurai/ L5R-related artwork in their personal galleries but have not submitted it to our community gallery. Please, I beg of you to do so - some of the pieces are great, but I cannot post them here without your consent, i.e. without a note with the link to the piece (which basically acts as your permission to post your pics up).

4 - L5R RPG 3rd EDITION - This is slightly non-community related, but the 3rd Edition of the Legend of the Five Rings RPG has come out finally, in a very pretty, full colour, hardbound book, discarding the horrible D20 system for a revamping of the original R&K system. The price is close to 35 dolars, and (in my humble opinion) totally worth it. More information here ==> [link]


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FUTURE EVENTS

- DA's Rokugan Community Resource: I have been made this proposal long ago, and it seems a very valid one. One of my nemesis, Akodo Blint, has delivered me a few of his links which he uses for resources, both of traditional japanese artwork, photography, text, traditions, and so on. I would very much like to build a gathering of such links with anything that might be useful to any member of the community.

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ADVERTISEMENT

This section is open for all the members: if you want to advertise your homepage, an interest link, an event, or whatever, please send me the devnote and I'll be more than glad to post it here for all members to see.


- L5R PORTUGUESE FORUM "Voice of the Empire" - this is the portuguese forum of l5r, with a section alone for Art. I would like to have some of your art there, so just register and comment (in english, spanish, whatever) on whatever topics you understand. Or create new ones. There is an international speaker section for those of who non-portuguese. The adress is here ==> [link]

- THE ANCESTRAL HALLS OF THE CRANE owned by our newest member, , this contains a bevy of L5r-themed information, mostly for the L5R RPG and with a special Crane Clan flavour. You can find it here ==> [link]

- THE GREATEST ROKUGANESE STORY EVER TOLD - the Crab Daimyo, Hida Keda, has surprised the entire community and Empire with his epic of samurais "Obsidian Underwear". You are hereby ordered to go read it ==> [link]



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Imperial Submissions & Other Things - if you want to be heard by the other members, and think that you deserve some space here in The Imperial Herald to speak about something, send me a dev note, and I will make your voice heard by the entire empire... well, at least by the entire community.