Matsu Lao-Tse

Matsu Lao-Tse was a bushi of the Lion Clan. In 1125 he was part of the Lion army led by Matsu Tsuko that would confront the incoming Crab forces of Hida Kisada and his Shadowlands allies. Lao-Tse was on guard duty when a Crab assassin took him by surprise and cut his throat. The murdered was a girl who barely had twelve years old, with a blue tattoo of jointed crab. She was most probably Hida O-Ushi, Kisada's own daughter.