Phoenix Clan

The Phoenix Clan is known throughout Rokugan for their skilled shugenja and mastery of elemental magic. The Phoenix are also noted pacifists, preferring diplomacy to war if at all possible. The Phoenix's presence in the courts of the land is not great, and their courtiers are relatively few in number, although they are not isolationists like the Dragon Clan. The Phoenix Clan was founded by the Kami Shiba?, although the family of his vassal, Isawa, generally runs the affairs of the clan.

The mystics and philosophers of the Phoenix seek enlightenment, but the clan also seeks to ensure their position as the controllers of magical knowledge within the Empire. With three of the four Phoenix families studying the elements, it is hardly surprising they have been widely recognized in this area by the rest of Rokugan. Although this has a detrimental side in that the other clans often see the of the Phoenix as being arrogant and not as having a more intimate knowledge of the kami and their ways.