Kuni Kitoru

Kuni Kitori was a shugenja of the Crab Clan of short stature. He was an assistant of the Jade Champion Kuni Daigo. In 1172 Daigo and him met the Seppun Magistrate Moto Hotei, who had found a dozen murdered monks, traveling sohei, beneath the snow in a road that led to the Imperial City. Kitori confirmed that one burned corpse of gaijin origin had been completely exsanguinated. Daigo guessed he had been sacrificed in a foul ritual to lower the Imperial Palace wards, and the assassins were currently at Toshi Ranbo. The Empress Iweko I was at danger.