Clan Letter to the Shadowlands Horde (IH2.4)



The pleasures I have seen, the dreams I have tasted - everything has changed since I came to these lands. My soul is not the same, nothing is the same, the scroll eats my mind and drives my passions until I can run no more. But always I go south for the southlands holds the power, holds the mystery, holds the scrolls. The Shadowlands...

I came upon the Oni and they moved before me, opening my path, guiding me onward - perhaps I am one of them now. Perhaps the darkness of the scroll has led me here, but I do not know, I do not care. Nothing is the same. Once I thought the Dark Lands were filled with vileness and corruption, but now I know that they are beautiful beyond imagining. They are filled with lovely apparitions, creatures whose power and might are brilliant beyond imagining.

You follow the sons of kami. I am destined to follow a kami itself - and the Dark One has called me, among all the shugenja of Rokugan - to do His bidding. How could I refuse? I know you will not respond, will not answer, will not understand, but I had to tell you. I had to tell you of the glory which is the darkness, the power which draws me ever farther south until I reach Him. Until I can become Him.

He is the wasted land at night, He is the black face of the moon, He is the darkness between the stars. You can never become enlightened until you can see beyond the light...

Yogo Junzo