SHIGEKO'S DOSSIER: Magda is a foreign woman with strangely tangled yellow hair and sky-colored eyes. She owns and runs the House of Foreign Stories (L22) as a vassal of Shinjo Sanefusa (P13) and his father (P11).
As a foreigner, her position in Rokugan is tenuous; she can only remain in Ryoko Owari as long as her papers are renewed by the Emerald Magistrate every year. This gives you a considerable threat to hold over her head. Judiciously applied, this pressure can yield a great deal of information. (There is an old Scorpion saying; "Hearts are the depositories of secrets; lips are their locks and tongues are their keys." The mistress of a geisha house is privy to many things that even a magistrate does not know.)
Magda is aware of her position, but is also wise enough to know that removing her will cause as many problems for a magistrate as it would solve. She can be pushed - but not too far.