Storm rising
Characters
The cast of characters from our retelling of this story are as follows:
Game Background
It was the year 1123. After the death of his father and his ongoing failure to find his father's assassin, the temporary loss of the Black Scroll, and learning of the acts of certain persons who committed (or attempted to commit) great treasons against their own clans since he had come into power, Bayushi Shoju came to believe that something dark and terrible was going to happen in the Empire. He believed that the Traitors might be some version of Dark Thunder, sent to precursor or usher in the coming of their master, Fu Leng. This caused him to send his finest researcher, Yogo Junzo, to research the prophecies of the return of Fu Leng, and it was Yogo Junzo who showed him that the ultimate treason was to come, the treason by which the Last Hantei brings about the return of Fu Leng himself. He verified, at least to his own mind, the truth of the prophecy with Togashi Yokuni, and, per Yogo Junzo's recommendation, took up the bloodsword Ambition to drive himself forward to complete what must be done...stopping the Dark Thunders and most especially, ending the line of the Hanteis forever so that the final treason could never be achieved.
So began the wheels that would set the Scorpion Clan Coup into motion.
The cast of characters from our retelling of this story are as follows:
- Hiruma Izuko - Hiruma bushi
- Mirumoto Kenuchio - Mirumoto Bushi
- Moto Koshi - Moto Bushi, son of Moto Tsolmon
- Asahina Ayame - Asahina Shugenja
- Ikoma Neiji - Ikoma Spy
Game Background
It was the year 1123. After the death of his father and his ongoing failure to find his father's assassin, the temporary loss of the Black Scroll, and learning of the acts of certain persons who committed (or attempted to commit) great treasons against their own clans since he had come into power, Bayushi Shoju came to believe that something dark and terrible was going to happen in the Empire. He believed that the Traitors might be some version of Dark Thunder, sent to precursor or usher in the coming of their master, Fu Leng. This caused him to send his finest researcher, Yogo Junzo, to research the prophecies of the return of Fu Leng, and it was Yogo Junzo who showed him that the ultimate treason was to come, the treason by which the Last Hantei brings about the return of Fu Leng himself. He verified, at least to his own mind, the truth of the prophecy with Togashi Yokuni, and, per Yogo Junzo's recommendation, took up the bloodsword Ambition to drive himself forward to complete what must be done...stopping the Dark Thunders and most especially, ending the line of the Hanteis forever so that the final treason could never be achieved.
So began the wheels that would set the Scorpion Clan Coup into motion.