Asako Hirotsugu

Asako Hirotsugu was a bloodspeaker Shugenja of the Phoenix Clan.

Kinuye cell
Hirotsugu was the lieutenant of the Asako Kinuye's cultist cell.

Black Scroll
Kinuye engineered the War of Fire and Thunder among the Mantis and the Phoenix. She used The Black Scroll, the Wasting Disease, to spread a deadly plague among a Phoenix village. Hirotsugu planted the Scroll on a Mantis ship, where it was soon "found" by the authorities.