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 as a vassal of Shinjo
Sanefusa and his father.
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.
