Training: Dojo / Archery Range About: The Dragon Warrior is the purest incarnation of the Dragon's ferocious spirit. Disdaining armor, he fights bare-chested without fear, protected only by his lightning reflexes and the silver arm-guards that represent his pride and honor. His sword slices through the air and his enemies without hesitation, its tempered steel matching the steel within. Even his allies taste the courage of the Dragon and fight more fiercely when he leaps into action. So complete is this fighter's embodiment of rage that he can project
it through his blade, striking enemies from afar. Still, he prefers to
defeat opponents up close. It is simply his way.
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Training: Dojo / Alchemist Lab About: The Dragon Clan has always understood combat to be an art: passionate, inventive, and beautiful. None understand this better than the Kabuki Warrior, whose skills with illusion and the blade meet in a flowing aesthetic of death. He is a master at luring his opponents into deadly errors, and strikes in close with steel, or at a distance with a deadly magical powder. Yet his lust for battle never diminishes his lust for life, and his sleight-of-hand is ever a source of simple entertainment and joy to the peasantry. Kabuki is an art of extravagant balance, and the Kabuki Warrior is a
balanced combatant, quick and flexible, neither cautious nor foolhardy.
Few care to face him in combat; the threat of humiliation is, perhaps,
worse than the fear of death.
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Training: Alchemist Lab / Archery Range About: Dragon tacticians disdain firearms as crude and inflexible: Foolish weapons borne only by fools. On the other hand, they have long recognized the usefulness of artillery on the battlefield. The result of this duality is the Powder Keg Cannoneer. These elite fighters spend half of their time training with their unique weapon, a small cannon that launches kegs packed with gunpowder. The other half is spent eating, for - considerations of strength aside - it takes a man of immense proportions to withstand the recoil of such a cannon. The very best Cannoneers are former sumo champions; one may still see them salting the ground to ward off evil spirits and ensure their safety, just as they once did in the wrestling ring. The sight of a crew of tremendously fat men lumbering towards the
battlefield, has, on occasion, incited jeers and laugher from foolish
opponents. The laughter stops when cannon charges begin tearing apart
buildings as easily as men.
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Training: Dojo / Archery Range / Alchemist Lab About: On the field of battle, there is no greater force than the Samurai. Ferocious as tigers, wise as Dragons, they are brilliant tacticians as well as supreme warriors, defending the honor of their Clan above all else. Clad in gleaming steel plate, the Samurai are masters of bow and blade, wielding both with all the power and subtlety of the ancient masters. Few can stand against such a force. It is said that, even in death, a true Samurai never tastes defeat.
When overmatched by hordes of enemies, the Samurai always chooses to
disembowel himself rather than fall to an enemy's knife. Such courage
releases a storm of righteousness that devastates the Samurai's enemies
even as he passes serenely into the next world.
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Shield: by meditating at his patron's shrine, the Dragon
Warrior learns to balance his anger with inner peace, thus
attaining the Dragon's invulnerability to harm - for as long as
he can focus on peaceful thoughts, and resist the urge to
attack.
Flame
Sword: The masters of Fireworks can imbue the Dragon
Warrior's sword with an affinity for searing flames. In battle,
his inner fire does the rest.
Stardust: Through meditation ad the Shrine, the Kabuki Warrior learns
his secrets of illusion; this sparkling dust leaves
missile-using opponents dazzled and unable to aim accurately
through its cloud.
Flashpowder: Originally a tool of the stage magician, flash powder's
ability to leave enemies staggering and blind is magic enough
for the battlefield. 
Indirect
Fire: The cannon is difficult to handle accurately even
at close range. Yet, with meditation (and a double charge of
gunpowder), the Cannoneer learns to fire far beyond the bounds
of sight - anywhere an ally can shout and be heard.
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Shrapnel
Keg: Cannoneers and Chemists get along quite well, and
the demented geniuses of the Fireworks Factory take special
delight in assembling flesh- and bone-shredding novelty.
Yang
Blade: At the Dragon Shrine, the Samurai's blade is
blessed with the ability to perform heroic deeds, adding to the
glory and mystical power of his Clan with each stroke.
Dragon
Skin: The Fireworks Factory can treat a Samurai's armor
so that, when he focuses his mystical powers, it renders him
entirely immune to all missile weapons. However, it takes great
concentration and stamina to transform steel into the Skin of
the Dragon.