Passions

Passions are advantages that represent a character's interests unrelated to their purpose in life or grand desires - the little things that nontheless bring them to life and give them solace in times of hardship. Even the most dutiful noble can find time to pursue such an interest, for to deny all joy is to hardly live a human existance. Passions are paired against Anxieties, and the two cancel each other out if both applied to the same check. Each Passion has a unique narrative effect and describes the Ring the check must be made with for the Passion's mechanical effect to apply. When you perform a check related to your Passion, succeed or fail, you remove 3 Strife.  

Attention

Ring: Fire Types: Mental   Effect: The thrill of having all eyes turn to you is like lightning in the veins. In those moments, the rush of exhilaration is all that matters. At the start of each scene, you can always determine the most effective way to gain the attention of those around you.  

Bonsai

Ring: Air Types: Mental   Effects: You know a great deal about the art of bonsai, including the tools and techniques used in its practice. You can judge the quality of a bonsai tree and tell when a piece has been neglected.  

[City]

Ring: Water Types: Interpersonal, Mental   Effects: You know a particular city extremely well and have extensive practical knowledge about it. You know as much about the city as any lifelong resident, including the popular locations, dangerous or disreputable areas, and open secrets.  

Creatures

Ring: Fire Types: Mental   Effects: You are fascinated by strange creatures, monsters, bakemono, and other such oddities. You can easily identify such creatures and know them by heart. Tales of monsters and local horror folklore transfix you, and you are always eager to build your wealth of monster lore further.  

Gourmet

Ring: Water Types: Mental, Interpersonal   Effects: You can identify regional variations in cuisine and know a great deal about techniques of food preparation. You can always identify the ingredients in a dish, including those that are potentially dangerous.  

Grappling Enthusiast

Ring: Earth Types: Physical   Effect: The clash of muscle. Flesh on flesh. Two bodies heaving and sweating as they try to outsmart and outmuscle the other. The sport of grappling is a huge part of your life. You can recognise the Grappling school a contender uses after observing a single move, and you can recall numerous anecdotes and trends about the sport.  

Honest Work

Ring: Earth Types: Mental, Interpersonal   Effect: The feel of the earth under your fingers, mixed with the sweat of a hard day's toil with the hot sun beating down on you, your muscles aching from your efforts. little else in this world is so satisfying. You are always able to determine how much work is needed to complete a physical, hands-on task, and your work on such tasks is markedly better than others due to your eye for detail.  

Military History

Ring: Earth Type: Mental   Effects: You can quickly identify historical or traditional military ploys from memory and can almost always suggest an appropriate tactic for the situation on hand based on a similar situation from the past.  

Navigator

Ring: Fire Types: Mental   Effects: You can quickly make sense of even the most archaic, poor, or unfamilar maps, and you always know which direction is North.  

Passion for [Foreign Performing Art Form]

Ring: Air Types: Fame, Interpersonal   Effect: You are skilled in some form of foreign artistry, popular in another land outside of WuXing. You recognise all forms of the art and know intricate details about it's history. Confer with your GM to select a campaign-appropriate art form when choosing this passion.  

Researcher

Ring: Air Types: Mental   Effects: You can cite the most authoratative works on most topics from memory and are not often at a loss for where to begin researching a matter.  

Rock Gardening

Ring: Void Types: Mental   Effects: Yopu know the proper methods of arranging a Rock Garden (Karesansui) according to popular manuals on the subject, and you can explain the symbolism and significance of different arrangements and features.