Asako Kinto

Asako Kinto was a shugenja of the Phoenix Clan who lived at Ryoko Owari Toshi.

Naga magic
Kinto liked spent many years tending his botanical gardens and studying history. One day, while expanding his garden, he uncovered the ruins of a Naga school of magic, and began to translate the alien tongue.

Shonagon's death
His niece Shiba Shonagon died, and shortly after appeared published the Memoirs of an Opium Eater of anonymous author. Kinto recognized himself in the pages, and it was a terrible blow. Shinagon, who was the true writer of the journal, blamed on her uncle's demeanor and mocked his "enlightening" pursuits.

Serpent Cult
It pushed Kinto over the edge and began to misinterpret the Naga texts in a fundamental way, that the gods were a human creation. Kinto's teachings reached to certain people who became his followers, of a new "Serpent Cult" of atheist mystis. Its aim was to seize the power of the Gods, instead to beg for it. Kinto instead the harmless old man he appeared had become very dangerous.