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Kitsuko Ayoko

What is known

S8A scholar at the Akodo War College who offered her help unprompted. Her eyes turn gold, and when the specter appeared she knew its name without being told.
S9Manifesting as a shugenja for the first time, not of samurai birth, near her coming of age. She dreams the Snow Plain through someone else's eyes — a pass, a field, a hill. The archives move around her: papers, scrolls, and a battlefield map that crossed the floor to her feet.
S18Midori is sounding her out as a candidate to be taught ancestor-summoning. Setsuna insulted her standing carelessly, and it registered.
S21In on the imperial-possession plan with Midori and Kazumi.
S25Testified that the Lion camp endured until the Imperial forces came, so the sabotage did not decide the battle.
S26Summoned her own ancestor in open court. The ancestor carries guilt for an unfair victory, and said that guilt is why the histories were allowed to erode. She named Kitsu Yui the true hero of the Snow Plain, and said her ancestor's mistake was made out of fear — the fear of nearly having won.
S27Now Shiba Midori's yoriki, by Kitsu Takeko's approval. Drove an intruder out of Midori's quarters with a broom rather than a blade, on the reasoning that a katana would not be fair.
S41Took Midori's dictation while she was too ill to write — the message to Monban, and the first half of the letter to Setsuna. Fell asleep over the next one.
S46Midori's attendant, and the only other person in the tent with real medical training. She came in after the first attempt failed and her hands are the reason the second one landed.
S47Found the envoy's body.
Nursed Setsuna through a week of fever and kept her in tea.

Each line is what she took from the session it cites, and nothing else. The Archivist's own account of this person is not reproduced here — it blends what she saw with what she did not.

Encounters

Not known

Nothing lies behind these. They mark what the record does not hold, so that a guess is never mistaken for a fact.

Motive
Allegiance
Capability
Standing with Setsuna