| Fu Leng (TCG) | |
|---|---|
| Born: | Unknown |
| Died: | 42 (bound) [1] |
| Parents: | Amaterasu Unknown Lord from Tian Guo Onnotangu (Stepfather) |
| Siblings: | Akodo (Half) Bayushi (Half) Doji (Half) Hantei (Half) Hida (Half) Shiba (Half) Shinjo (Half) Togashi Ryoshun (Half) |
| Titles: | Kami Shadowlands Leader |
| People | |
Fu Leng was son of Lord Moon and Lady Sun, and one of the Kami who fell to the mortal realm from the Celestial Heavens, alongside his siblings. [2]
Heavens[]
Since the beginning of time, Lord Moon chased Lady Sun about the world. One day, he caught her, and as her light faded, the curtain fell on the age of the ancient races. Over the course of countless seasons, Lady Sun gave birth [2] to ten children: Hida, Doji, Togashi, Akodo, Shiba, Bayushi, Shinjo, Fu Leng, Hantei, and Ryoshun. [3] Shinjo had always been closest to him. Fu Leng was the second best at all things among his siblings. He was strong, but Hida was stronger; he was wíse, but Togashí was wiser; and so on it went with each of his siblings. Envy grew in Fu Leng's heart; it became resentment, and then hatred. [4] Fu Leng was openly despised by Lord Moon, and all their siblings did not know why. Unknown to them, Fu Leng and Togashi had a different father than the rest of their siblings, a Lord who Lady Sun met during her wanderings from an unknown land he called Tian Guo. Lady Sun gave the name Togashi to conceal his parentage from Lord Moon, but to the other one her lover had requested to be named Fu Leng after the tongue of his people. When Lady Sun revealed the name of her youngest son to Lord Moon, he raged. [5]
Fall of the Kami[]
Legends told that the Moon, jealous over Lady Sun's love for their children, swallowed their Kami children. This day was the night with no light, when Amaterasu wept for her children. Amaterasu saved her final child, Hantei, from being swallowed to save his siblings. [6] Amaterasu trained Hantei in the martial arts. When Hantei and Lord Moon finally did battle, he sliced open his father's belly, and the rest of his siblings tumbled out. They fell from the sky to Seppun Hill, save for one. Lord Moon reached out at the last moment and grasped Fu Leng. Hantei swung his sword one last time and severed his father's very arm. Fu Leng tried to grab ahold of Hantei, and they both fell. Plummeting downward, Fu Leng plunged through the earth to Jigoku itself, where he was lost. [2] Ryoshun's name was lost to history. [3]
Shadowlands[]
When the Kami fell from Tengoku, Fu Leng landed in the Shadowlands, in a place which would be known as the Festering Pit of Fu Leng, [7] but he smashed through its substance, tearing open a hole between the Mortal Realm and Jigoku. He kept falling, finally coming to rest deep in the Realm of Evil. [8] A dark flame of jelousy and resentment burned within Fu Leng's heart, a beacon to the evil powers imprisoned within the underworld. This caused the Kings of Hell to lose control over their wards. [9] In his wake, corrupting power oozed from the hole he had sundered, relentlessly afflicting the Mortal Realm around it with a malign contamination. Monstrous things crawled out of Jigoku and into the Mortal Realm. [8]
Ruler of Jigoku[]
It might be that the malign powers in Jigoku sought to enslave Fu Leng, but he was a divine being. This allowed him power over Jigoku in turn, resulting in a malevolent and supremely dangerous symbiosis. [8] Fu Leng's followers were goblins, ogres, undead, and legendary demons known as oni. [10] His seat of power was known as the Fortress of Fu Leng. [11]
Founding Rokugan[]
The Creation of Mankind[]
In some places, the blood mixed with Lady Sun's tears, and from that mingling came the first men and women. [2]
Tournament of the Kami[]
No longer immortal, the Kami shared the mortal realm with human beings. They resolved to teach and guide these humans, and they held a great tournament to see who would lead those who lived in this land they dubbed Rokugan. Hantei was the final victor, and after his coronation as Emperor, he charged each of his siblings with a different task. [2]
Claiming the Right to Rule Rokugan[]
But not long after the Kami had begun to order the world and formed clans with their earliest followers, Fu Leng emerged from his subterranean lair. He confronted Hantei because he had not been invited to the Tournament of the Kami, and challenged Hantei's right to rule Rokugan. Togashi was selected as the Emperor's Champion, who in turn selected all that lives in Rokugan as his weapon. [12]
First War[]
For three years, the forces of Jigoku laid siege to Rokugan in a conflict known as the First War. [13] Fu Leng assaulted the Empire with his dark army from the Shadowlands, but they were eventually repelled from Rokugan by the Seven Thunders on what became known as the Day of Thunder. [6] Fu Leng was defeated in the Temple of the Ninth Kami, a huge obelisk built within a crater deep in the Shadowlands. [14] The cost was heavy, as only Shosuro survived the fight. Shiba stayed the hordes of oni and the undead while Isawa sealed Fu Leng's soul into the Black Scrolls. Shosuro could escape the Shadowlands with the scrolls, pursued by the armies of the Shadowlands. [6] Hantei ordered that these twelve scrolls never be opened and gave them to the Scorpion Clan for safekeeping. [15] The Emperor Hantei also commanded the Crab to build a wall to protect the Empire from the evils of the Shadowlands and from the corruptive power of the Taint, a structure which was known as the Kaiu Wall. [16]
References
- ↑ Emerald Empire: The Essential Guide to Rokugan, pp. 10-11
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Legend of the Five Rings - Roleplaying, p. 4
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Legend of the Five Rings - Roleplaying, p. 9
- ↑ Emerald Empire: The Essential Guide to Rokugan, pp. 7-8
- ↑ Adventures in Rokugan, p. 139
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Whispers of Shadow and Steel, by Mari Murdock
- ↑ Legend of the Five Rings: Roleplaying Game (Beta), p. 199
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Shadowlands: The Essential Guide to the Dominion of Fu Leng, p. 7
- ↑ Trail of Shadows, by D.G. Laderoute
- ↑ Legend of the Five Rings: The Card Game
- ↑ Wheel of Judgment, p. 12
- ↑ Legend of the Five Rings - Roleplaying, pp. 4-5
- ↑ Shadowlands: The Essential Guide to the Dominion of Fu Leng, p. 8
- ↑ The Battle of Cherry Blossom Snow – Chapter One, by Robert Denton III
- ↑ Emerald Empire: The Essential Guide to Rokugan, p. 11
- ↑ Dark Hands of Heaven (FFG News)
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