Katsuo

Katsuo was a heimin who lived at Kurosunai Village, son of Sanjiro and Maki. He had a dog, Takuhiro, and fallen in love with his childhood friend Tomoko. His mother, his friend Shiro, and the resident magistrate Yasuki Hikaru died in the village in 1123 during an attack of the Lost. Katsuo, Sanjiro, and Tomoko managed to survive, but he was supposedly tainted by the blood of one of the Shadowlands minions who Katsuo had killed.