10,000 Masters of Wooj, pt 1

There's an old proverb that goes "Kick a rock in Wooj and you'll find two masters". While that's probably not completely accurate, there are a lot of warriors of incredible skill in the Wooj, and every day more are trained.

When your players create their character, they also create a Master, someone who teaches and guides their growth over the course of the game, assuming they aren't killed/abandoned/whatever. On creation the player can choose to have their master either be the originator of a style or another student of said style. If the Master is an originator the player begins play with more Prestige but only one technique, at full mastery, where as a student of a student has less Prestige but knows 3 techniques at half-mastery each. The logic being that an originator of a style will spend more time teaching each technique, whereas a teacher of a style will drill the basics first before going into particulars.

Masters are rolled differently from PCs: their stats are irrelevant, only their level rolled on a d20. This level is to compare them to other Masters, as even a 1st level Master is heads and tails stronger than the toughest student of another style. They know all the techniques of their style, as they originated them, though they only have fully mastered as many of these techniques as their level; the rest are at half-mastery. They can only teach a technique up to their own level of mastery, and improve by spending kai, just as their students do. However, Masters have one ace up their sleeve: they earn sympathetic kai when their students do.

Example Master

Wayel, master of the Healing Fist

Wayel was once of the Hand, a group of five warriors who each learned a different subset of the skills of the Grand Master. As the practitioner of the Healing Fist, Wayel learned to return life, rather than take it, and was the first to use the Healing Fist against the Shien Horde, eradicating the undead from the world for the first time. They have, of course, since returned, so the students of Wayel are highly sought after for their unique skills.