Mirumoto Kazunori

Mirumoto Kazunori was a left-handed bushi yojimbo of the Dragon Clan.

Yojimbo
Shortly after the end of the Dragon-Phoenix War Kazunori was appointed as yojimbo of a Phoenix shugenja, Asako Tsuruko.

Killing Tsuruko
In 1166 he received a strange letter from his charge. On it Tsuruku told she was a bloodspeaker spy, the murderer of the Mirumoto Daimyo Mirumoto Uso, and about a cursed sword that urged her to murder. Tsuruko stated that the murdered Mirumoto magistrate appeared in the city two days ago was another of her victims. Kazunori followed her to a near shrine, Seiden Sanzo, and saw Tsuruko killin a monk. He killed Tsuruko, picked up the blade and fled.

Death
The sword, the Blade of Fury, began to make him mad. Kazunori hid for a time, until Mirumoto Kenzo and Kaelung, who were investigating the murders, found him. Tsuruko had been killed by a left-handed swordsman and they suspected about the disappeared yojimbo. Maddened by the blade Kazunori attacked but died under Kaelung's axe. The sword was retrieved by Kenzo.


 * Fury, by Shawn Carman and Rich Wulf