Yakamo's Claw

Yakamo's Claw is a powerful weapon of the Shadowlands, once worn by the corrupt Hida Yakamo during the Clan War.

History
During the Clan War, the crab clan was tempted into an alliance with the Shadowlands by the traitorous and vile Kuni Yori. As a part of Hida Kasada's bargain his son Yakamo accepted a fiendish metallic claw to replace the ahnd he had lost in a duel with Mirumoto Hitomi. Unknown to Yakamo, this claw was part of a terrible Oni that eventually took the crab hero's name, Oni Lord Yakamo no Oni.

Yakamo eventually tore the claw from his arm and destroyed it with the power of the Jade Hand, but the evil of the claw persisted. When Yakamo later ascended to the Celectial Heavens as the new Lord Sun, he commissioned the Fortune of Stell to create powerful swords for each of the Clan Champions (see Celestial Swords, so did Yakamo no Oni forge a new claw to be given to mortals.

For a time, this claw was worn by Nokatsu, the Dark Oracle of Earth. When the Oracles retreated from humanity, Nokatsu left the claw behind. It now dwells in a shadowy cave where Nokatsu once lived, awaiting a new master. Iuchiban knows of the claw's existance, but has ordered that no Bloodspeaker is to take it. He knows that Yakamo no Oni is an ally of Fu Leng, and fears the claw would make a pawn of its user against the power of the Bloodspeakers.

The Claw's Abilities
The Oni Lord Yakamo no Oni can see and hear everything the claw's user does, and reports directly back to Fu Leng. The Claw is immensely strong and radiates Shadowlands taint.