Seppun Hirohide

Seppun Hirohide was an Emerald Magistrate of the Imperial Families.

Demeanor
Hirohide was a stern but fair man who expected devoted service but held himself to lofty standards of behavior as well. A respected Emerald Magistrate, he was known to have worked on several complex murder cases, including some related to the practice of mahō.

Investigation
Hirohide moved to a small town named Ishikawa Mura in the northern Crab territories, to investigate the death of Hida Kayo, who was found collapsed in a pool of his own blood in his room, at the local travelers' inn. The headman believed the culprit to be a woman named Michiru, a mahō-tsukai who had escaped the Emperor's justice in the past. She fled north to the lands of the Scorpion Clan, but she had an accomplice, a rōnin named Keinosuke. Hirohide went after Michiru to bring her to justice, while a group of junior agents followed Keinosuke's trail who had fled south in the direction of the Kaiu Wall. Eventually the group caught Keinosuke, who gave testimony that he killed Kayo to defend his charge, only to discover she was a corrupted sorcerer. The rōnin joined the Crab ranks through the Twenty Goblin Winter to redeem himself, and he sacrificed himself during a Shadowlands attack to the Wall.