Makito

Asako Makito was a bloodspeaker and shadowlands monk of the Phoenix Clan.

City of Tears
Makito was a student of Asako Kinuye, leader of a cultist cell. He was stationed in the City of Tears, a sacrosanct city that had been forbidden to dwell within it by the Elemental Masters since the War of Spirits. The cultists used it as their hidden center of power.

Exposed
Scrolls retrieved by the Shiba Jouta and the ronin Motaro from the lair of the Cult of the Dead Moon, a rival cell devoted to Onnotangu, were deciphered by students of Asako Bairei. There were a number of references to sinister adversaries' and blasphemers' that dwelled within a city in the forest. The Phoenix Clan Champion sent Shiba magistrates to the City of Tears, the possible city indicated in the scrolls. Makito used his maho power to destroy them. The lack of notice from the patrol led in more investigations and the destruction of the cell.