War of the Dead

War of the Dead is a short fiction. 

Annotated Story


The story of the Goju family is not even known by the Ikoma family, and the work by Goju on the Lying Darkness called the Celestial Agonies was never read by any of the clans. The Scorpion Clan are not aware of it's secrets, and the Ikoma Libraries does not have a copy. Not even the Emperor's records show any mention of the Black Text.

Little is known of the Goju except that the originator of the name fled the Kami in terror, hoping to escape their influence. It may have been Goju's weaknesses that drew the Lying Darkness to it, or maybe Nothing recognized its own fear in Goju. The Goju are not a true family, and very few could still trace their descent back to the first Goju. The Goju were mainly made up of those transformed by the Darkness.

Goju Yume is one of the few able to retain their name. He was rumored to have been a great warrior, and fights to destroy spirits of the past. He wishes to kill the Empire by killing it's past, and he stood at the gate to Jigoku slaughtering the souls of the dead. Opposite him it was said there was a legion of samurai from Rokugan's past, raging war againt Yume and his minions for a thousand years. The Tenth Kami led the ancestors of Rokugan in war against the Shadow, but now it has changed. The Tenth Kami is dead, and with Yume and his minions winning even the Jade Throne is under threat.

Characters
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Not Present, But Mentioned

 * Goju
 * Lying Darkness
 * Goju Yume
 * The Tenth Kami