Cost of Grace

The Cost of Grace was a treatise written in the year 451 by an anonymous scholar, chastising Lady Doji's descendants for the destruction of vast amounts of beauty and knowledge in their rigid adherence to her traditions, and challenging the Kami herself for failing to prevent this catastrophe. In preserving and elevating some elements of certain cultures, Doji had set in motion the destruction of others. The document was banned under Imperial edict within a month of its mysterious appearance at the doorstep of Kyūden Doji, but copies of it still occasionally surfaced.