This tiny order, never encompassing more than a dozen full members in total, is unknown outside the Scorpion lands and barely known within them. However, the upper ranks of the Scorpion Clan find the Silent Ones a deeply useful order, and keep careful note of the temple’s location. These monks spend most of their lives in meditation, but this is not merely due to preference; it is because they literally cannot speak. When an initiate takes the full vows to join the Silent Ones and serve the Fortune of Secrets, as soon as the last word is spoken his tongue vanishes from his mouth.
School Type
Source
Source Book
Clan School
Replaces
Any Fortunist Brotherhood Monk 3
School Techniques
Tsugumu’s Silence - A member of this order who is voluntarily told a secret can never give it up. The knowledge is guarded by the power of the Fortune of Secrets, and can never be taken from the monk’s mind in any way, even through torture or intrusive Air magic.
Requirements
Willpower 4, Meditation 4
Alternate Path Special
A character who joins this Path becomes mute (his tongue vanishes from his mouth)
Path Technique Rank
3
Devotion
Fortunist (Tsugumu, the Fortune of Secrets)