The Shimusògo is a small Kyōti clan located on the western part of the Mifuno Desert. They are known as couriers and deliver mail and legal documents between the other clans. Special contracts are made for negotiations, when documents and deals are traded back and forth but the individual parties are unable to meet with each other.
Powers
The primary power of the clan is the ability to run quickly for long periods of time. The average courier can run about forty miles an hour on a smooth surface for three to four hours at a time, two shifts a day. Warriors can run double that speed and have the ability to run continuously from sunrise to well after sunset.
The slowest known member of the clan, Shimusogo Rutejìmo, averages thirty miles an hour while the fastest is capable of breaking the sound barrier for short periods of time.
While the clan runs, Shimusògo appears before them as a translucent dépa, a long-feathered bird. Each runner has their own bird and they are capable of seeing the other dépas but they instinctively know which one to follow. The speed powers comes from chasing the bird, but never catching it. Shimusògo directs his clan by the dépa’s path, guiding them to where they need to go even in battle.
As they run, the dépa creates a smooth surface to run along: he solidifies sand to prevent it from shifting, flattens out gravel, and pushes sharp edges away. As the runner passes, the changes are rapidly broken up which creates a plume of dust and sand that is visible for miles.
The clan warriors have increased top speed and require less running distance to activate their powers. Most can accelerate to full speed in less than a step.
Firing Shots
Another power is the ability to fire slingshots and rocks at high speed. By placing a rock in a sling, they can spin around at high speed until the sling starts to glow. They can then throw it at high speed as a weapon; most couriers have an effective range of a half mile. Warriors have a range up to ten times that.
Warriors can catch a shot fired by another warrior and spin it again, adding their momentum to disk to shoot it even faster and harder. When fired this way, the bullets are capable of breaking the sound barrier.
Momentum Transference
This is one of the more advanced powers, but warriors gain it earlier than couriers. Shimusògo allows for momentum to be transferred from an item or a person into another. For most of the clan, they can only take momentum from another clan member and much of it is lost in the transference.
Warriors are capable of using more of the transference and can also use the shots fired by another clan warriors for speed (this is how they accelerate the shots).
Members
Born
These are the people who were born into the clan but later left due to joining another clan or dying before they reached adulthood.
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Raging Alone 1: Sulking
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Sand and Blood 1: Rutejìmo
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Raging Alone 2: Comfort
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Sand and Blood 2: Confession
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Raging Alone 3: The Call
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Sand and Blood 3: Morning
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Raging Alone 4: Baby Brother
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Sand and Blood 4: Rivals
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Raging Alone 5: Raging Alone
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Sand and Blood 5: Decisions
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Sand and Blood 6: Heading Out
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Sand and Blood 7: Middle of the Trip
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Sand and Blood 8: The Morning Sun
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Sand and Blood 10: Separation Anxiety
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Sand and Blood 11: Standing Alone
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Sand and Blood 12: Investigating the Night
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Sand and Blood 13: Breaking Up
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Sand and Blood 14: Coming Back
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Sand and Blood 15: A Quiet Conversation
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Sand and Blood 16: Pushing Forward
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Sand and Blood 17: An Evening Run
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Sand and Blood 18: Quiet-Voiced Threat
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Sand and Blood 19: Humiliated
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Sand and Blood 21: From the Shadows
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Sand and Blood 22: Shadows from Sunlight
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Sand and Blood 23: One Mistake
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Sand and Blood 24: Alone in the Dark
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Sand and Blood 25: Lessons Taught
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Sand and Blood 26: Preparing for Battle
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Sand and Blood 27: Pabinkue Tsubàyo
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Sand and Blood 28: The Offer
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Sand and Blood 29: Rescue
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Sand and Blood 30: A Year Later
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Sand and Ash 1: Running Alone
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Sand and Ash 2: Decisions Made
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Sand and Ash 3: Nightmares
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Sand and Ash 4: Corrupting Influence
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Sand and Ash 5: Leaving the Cave
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Sand and Ash 6: The Next Job
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Sand and Ash 7: A Lending Hand
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Sand and Ash 8: Wamifuko City
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Sand and Ash 9: Indecision
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Sand and Ash 10: A Late Encounter
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Sand and Ash 11: Good Tales
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Sand and Ash 12: Speaking for Shimusògo
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Sand and Ash 13: A Second Chance
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Sand and Ash 14: Drowning
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Sand and Ash 15: Rutejìmo Walks
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Sand and Ash 16: Banyosiōu
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Sand and Ash 17: The Wrong Words
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Sand and Ash 18: Darkness
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Sand and Ash 21: Silence
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Sand and Ash 22: The Ghost
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Sand and Ash 23: Reunion
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Sand and Ash 25: Mikáryo
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Sand and Ash 26: Return to Wamifuko City
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Sand and Ash 27: Two Months Later
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Sand and Ash 28: Second Thoughts
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Sand and Ash 29: His Memorial
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Sand and Ash 30: Shifted Opinions
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Sand and Ash 31: An Unexpected Role
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Sand and Ash 32: Forbidden Words
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Sand and Ash 33: Cremation
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Sand and Ash 34: Unshed Tears
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Sand and Ash 35: His First Words
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Sand and Ash 36: Running Together
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Sand and Bone 1: Running Away
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Sand and Bone 2: Cowardice
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Sand and Bone 3: Exhaustion
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Sand and Bone 4: The Morning Before
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Sand and Bone 5: Halfway There
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Sand and Bone 6: Kosobyo City
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Sand and Bone 7: Broken Silence
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Sand and Bone 8: Alone
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Sand and Bone 9: Greatness
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Sand and Bone 10: Westerners
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Sand and Bone 11: Recovering
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Sand and Bone 12: The Offer
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Sand and Bone 13: Voting
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Sand and Bone 14: Presents
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Sand and Bone 15: Banyosiōu
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Sand and Bone 16: A Second Wind
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Sand and Bone 17: Splitting Up
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Sand and Bone 18: Brothers
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Sand and Bone 19: Nightmares
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Sand and Bone 20: An Unexpected Companion
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Sand and Bone 21: The Dying
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Sand and Bone 22: Old Ways
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Sand and Bone 23: Asylum
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Sand and Bone 24: Declaration of War
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Sand and Bone 25: Sneaking Out
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Sand and Bone 26: A Long Night
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Sand and Bone 27: A Longer Day
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Sand and Bone 28: Smoke and Honor
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Sand and Bone 29: Shimusogo Chimípu
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Sand and Bone 30: Keep Moving
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Sand and Bone 31: Wind's Teeth
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Sand and Bone 32: Limits
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Sand and Bone 33: Pabinkue Mikáryo
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Sand and Bone 34: One Last Time
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Sand and Bone 35: Shimusogo Valley
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