Usagi Tsukiko

Usagi Tsukiko was the Hare Clan Champion.

Heir
Tsukiko first selected Usagi Shun as her heir, instead of her own son, Usagi Asao. When Shun had brought two hares home on her gempuku, Tsukiko had named Shun her yōjimbō at once, and her heir soon after. On his coming of age Asao returned with no hare on his hands.

Tainted
Several years ago a mahō-tsukai had escaped Maemikake, and his chase was stopped by the Kuni Witch Hunters after they eventually found a twisted corpse they believed to be their quarry, who had succumbed to the perils of his own dark arts, closing the matter. In 1123 Tsukiko led a military force to Tangled Path Village, an Hiruma village which was in the direction taken by the mahō-tsukai when he fled, expecting to find what the Kuni Hunters missed. Eventually her forces defeated and killed to a man a Crab patrol led by Hiruma Kenzou which interferred with her mission. Tsukiko had been seriously injured during the skirmish, but she willingly accepted to be restored to health by Jun, the local leader who was also the fleeing mahō-tsukai. Tsukiko became tainted in the presence of Shun, who ran far from the Hare lands instead to confront her daimyō. Tsukiko appointed her son Asao as the new heir.