Kumo Gaki



The Kumo Gaki was a kumo, member of a race of ghostly spiders. This one was special, it was also a gaki. It lived in the Shadowlands and used an immaterial and ghostly giant web to catch its prey.

Sharing a name
The Kumo trapped a Crab bushi, Kaiu Shinya, and forced him to share his name. The spider began to become the Crab's mirrored image. With every day passed Shinya losed a bit of his own identity and memories, consumed by the gaki. When the kumo could pass as Shinya himself returned to the Crab lands, and left behind the bushi.

Rokugan
The gaki knew Shinya had escaped and told the Crab forces his story, but switching who was the kumo and who the bushi. So the real Shinya was pursued by magistrates for years. The spider ghost moved to Ryoko Owari Toshi, where it was eventually found by its twin and both fought. A group of magistrates arrived, but they could not know who was the true one. It was unclear if Shinya survived or the gaki.