Shotai

Shotai was once a great man and in his mind he still is. He was a diplomat and was appointed the emissary to the Scorpion Clan by Akodo Arasou. He foiled many Scorpion plots and started a few of his own.

He found that a Isawa traitor and assassin were going to gain access to the Winter Court. Shotai killed the traitor and presued the assassin when he ran in to the Lion Clan Champion Akodo Toturi. The two searched for the assassin.

When they found the assassin about to kill the Hantei the ninja turned his poison weapon on Toturi but Shotai interviened taking the strike. Shotai healed form the poisen but his mind was never the same. Only when he fights does he become himself. But ever man he fights is an "accursed scorpion", every man at his side is "Toturi-sama" and Toturi is "Hantai". Toturi put him in the care of monks and visited constantly.

When Toturi became an outcast the visits Toturi made to Shotai stopped. A monk told Shotai that he heard Toturi found a new hme in Dragon Clan lands. Shotai replied, "The Hantai has retuned? Is it timefor a new empire?" Shotai escaped from the monestary. (Wolf p. 74-75)