Icho Springs
Empire Underguild inside Entertainers Guild
Can be home to characters.
Headmaster: ??
Icho Springs is a medium sized Entertainment House, operating in a traditional manner. They don't have much special about them, it's a very regular house with the regular traditional japanese aspect. Entertainers play traditional instruments, dance, serve ginkgo tea and tell stories to entertain their guests, and for a special fee you can book them for private meetings in the house's guest rooms.
The house has an inner yard with a small teahouse in the middle. The teahouse is placed on a small island surrounded by a pond with golden koi swimming inside. Above the teahouse grows a big Ginkgo tree, rumors saying that it was planted by the founder of the House, who used to be a Herbalist. But if any herbalists were to set paws in that place they would quickly see that there is nothing keeping that tree alive, and any plant would wither in those conditions. A knowledgeable scholar would quickly identify it as a mere magic manifestation, and they would be able to tell that the koi fish swimming in the pond are also nothing more than that.
The house mother is an old, kind Entertainer. While she will greet customers with a friendly, kind smile, she can also be very harsh to them. But to her Entertainers she is the kindest, and will always lend them a shoulder to cry on.
Icho Springs is different from other Entertainment Houses in one subject. Entertainers here are allowed to keep their children. The house mother says that in her 50 years of serving the house, that has never affected the house's earnings, and she finds it a cruel practice to take the children from their mothers. Because of this, Icho Springs is one of the only Entertainment Houses that isn't made entirely of orphans. The consequence? Entertainers have their mothers, so they all find it weird to refer to the House Mother as "Mother" so they all call her "Grandma".
This is because when she was young, she had an egg and the previous House Mother took it from her. She often wonders what happened to her child. So she made sure no other entertainer in her house would have to go through that.