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| - Their purpose is to refine and practice their spirituality and ninja arts and take care of the needy. They also work amicably towards the benefit of the Tokugawa family in a manner reminiscent of Konohagakure's relationship to the Fire Country Daimyō. They also function as an orphanage and school. The monks make a point to ensure that any child without family and clan can have a place with them, and are entirely self-sufficient but for occasional business with the Tokugawa family. This is necessary due to their extreme isolation. They produce their own food, smith their own weapons, armor, and tools, build and refurbish temple buildings and areas themselves, among other activities.
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| - Their purpose is to refine and practice their spirituality and ninja arts and take care of the needy. They also work amicably towards the benefit of the Tokugawa family in a manner reminiscent of Konohagakure's relationship to the Fire Country Daimyō. They also function as an orphanage and school. The monks make a point to ensure that any child without family and clan can have a place with them, and are entirely self-sufficient but for occasional business with the Tokugawa family. This is necessary due to their extreme isolation. They produce their own food, smith their own weapons, armor, and tools, build and refurbish temple buildings and areas themselves, among other activities. The temple community aids the local lord and his family. They provide unique and nearly unsurpassed training in a variety of schools from shinobi arts to spirituality, to trade training. The monks have developed their own version of shinobi arts in every category, and even have their own equivalents to forbidden techniques. While some of their number are skilled in the main areas of jutsu such as ninjutsu, genjutsu, and taijutsu, they as a group specialize in fuinjutsu and kekkaijutsu. They also have their own hospital and offer training in medical ninjutsu. They are very widely renowned for their absolute mastery of soujutsu, or spear techniques, and their style in this art, known as Hozoin-ryu, is coveted. Those with knowledge however know that Hozoin-ryu, nor any of the above listed skills, is not the ultimate ability of the temple monks, deadly as it is. The temple's most closely guarded secret is the knowledge of, and the ability to teach a method of perfect chakra molding and an ability to intensify chakra upon intense concentration to monstrous levels, several times greater than the norm. Only elite adepts and masters are aware of this ability, and it's use is highly controlled by temple leadership. They are employed frequently as high class bodyguards and escorts. Rarely, they are even asked to send a contingent of strong warriors to assist the Daimyo. In the wake of the Fire Temple's destruction at the hand of S ranked Akatsuki members Hidan and Kakuzu, In'ei Temple saw an enormous increase in both size and affluence. It is now one of the most famous, if mysterious temples in the shinobi world, partly due to its extreme isolation. Only the Tokugawa family and their closest vassals are aware of the temple's location. It is a very closely guarded secret, partly due to the fact that the temple has been used in the past as a way to hide important but threatened people, or valuable and/or dangerous objects. In very tangible ways, both in terms of the prestige of having the loyalty of this sect of monks, and the fact that they are a powerful military asset, the monks of In'ei Temple are an integral part of the Tokugawa family's power as landholders. In addition, a great many warriors of the Tokugawa army were trained by the monks. Such students are known as practitioners, rather than monks.
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