Dragon's Mountain - Technique
H Craft Shikigami (Shugenja)
Rank: 2
Activation: As a downtime activity using a consecrated vessel of silhouette 0 or smaller, you may make an Artisan skill (Void) check to create a shikigami (see Shadowlands Book page 115). You choose the TN of the check (minimum 1).
Effect: If you succeed, choose a number of invocations that you know up to the TN of the check. Record the selected invocations and create a unique name for the shikigami. While the shikigami exists, the chosen invocations are sealed within it—you cannot use them, but the shikigami can. You can have up to one shikigami at a time. When the shikigami’s physical form is destroyed, its essence returns to you; you can re-create it by making a new physical form for it in the manner of making a new shikigami, but it retains its memories and personality. The shikigami is intelligent, can communicate with you, and generally obeys your orders. It can perform any invocations you have sealed within it as an action, using your ranks in Composition and its ring value for the skill check.
New Opportunities
L: Choose one of your advantages and one of your disadvantages. Add these to the shikigami.
L: Instead of appearing as the item or material from which it was created, the shikigami has a different form of your choosing of the same silhouette.
L+: Increase the silhouette of the shikigami by 1 per L spent this way.
L+: Choose one skill. The shikigami possesses a number of ranks in this skill equal to the L spent this way. You may activate this multiple times for different skills.
L+: Increase the shikigami’s endurance or composure by 2 per L spent this way.
Source: Shadowlands Pg. 114