Isawa Angai

Isawa Angai is the wife of Isawa Sezaru. She had grown in the Scorpion Clan, in the Soshi Family, and studied in the Soshi Shugenja School.

Soshi Angai came under observation just a few years after her gempukku. There had been allegations of maho use by someone in her lord´s courts, and as one of the court´s more promising young shugenja, angai was a chief suspect. The kuroiban were seeking only the final proof they required before moving to arrest and interrogate Angai, a process she would likely not have survived.. Angai was innocent, however, and totally ignorant of the dark magic being performed. By happenstance, she discovered the true culprit, a shosuro diplomat, while he was conducting his dark arts late one night in a guest´s chambers. Angai reacted instinctively and killed the man with a powerful spell. The kuroiban, aghast at their mistake and greatly impressed by Angai´s abilities, began watching her as a potential recruit rather than a suspect. She was inducted into the kuroiban less than a year later.

After several successful assignments on the kuroiban´s behalf, Angai received a truly bizarre appointment. The Kuni family daimyo, Kuni Utagu, had made several comments denigrating the purity of Toturi Sezaru´s magic, and had shortly thereafter been murdered. The Master of the Secrets, Bayushi Yojiro, assigned one Scorpion Clan member to follow and monitor each Wind, and Angai was chosen to monitor the emperor´s eldest son. It took her some time, but she secured a position in Toturi Sezaru´s retinue through sheer tenacity and her ability to manipulate social situations to Toturi Sezaru´s benefit. Ironically, by the time Angai was offered the position, it was quite obvious to her that Sezaru was not responsible for any murder, nor was he practicing blood sorcery.

As one of Toturi Sezaru´s chief advisors, Soshi Angai found the Four Winds conflict to be a unique experience. She believed that sezaru was the most capable Wind and encouraged him to seek the throne. She helped the Wolf to rebuild the Dragonfly lands and soothed those members of the Tonbo family who werw offended ah his presumption in doing so. When Hantei Naseru took the throne as Toturi the Third and Toturi Sezaru swore fealty to the Phoenix Clan, Angai reaffirmed her loyalty to him.

Soshi Angai became the wife of Isawa Sezaru after he joined the Phoenix Clan, changing her name to Isawa Angai. She also unmasked Miya Gensaiken, one of Sezaru's followers, as a Pekkle no-Oni.

Angai met the Obsidian Dragon, who was unknown until then. The Dragon wanted Angai to tell him a name of a person suitable to be his Oracle, as Angai had not the required virtues: propensity for vice and the capacity for greatness. Angai answered the Dragon, but the name she told is unknown.