The Crane are the Left Hand of the Emperor, in serviceas the political aides to the throne. It’s traditional for the Hantei to choose a samurai from the Doji familyas their spouse, more Emerald Champions have been Kakita than any other family, and the samurai of the Daidoji family serve as some of the finest shock troops in the Emerald Empire. Yet the Crane make their greatest contributions in culture: many of the finest poets and craftspeople hail from their academies, and their duelists have few rivals. The Crane are the masters of court, with the wealth and status to prove it.