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| Kitsuki Kaagi | |
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| Born: | 1097 |
| Died: | 1132 |
| Siblings: | Kitsuki Iyekao |
| Titles: | Magistrate |
| People | |
Matsu Kaagi was a Lion bushi who joined the Dragon as Kitsuki Kaagi. He became an Emerald Magistrate famous for his investigations of the Lying Darkness.
Lion[]
Kaagi was originally born a Matsu in 1097. In 1106 [1] his older brother Matsu Iyekao was at a Phoenix school when all their family was killed by old Crane enemies. [2] Kaagi was eight years old and his brother fourteen. [3]
Change of Fealty[]
A friend of his father, the Kitsuki Daimyo Kitsuki Yasu, took the orphaned Kaagi into his family and sent for his brother, but he had already disappeared three nights after his family's deaths. Over seventeen years Kaagi became Yasu's student, friend, and to all the world, his son. [2]
Ninja[]
Harboring lingering doubts, Kaagi sought to explain the shadows of his past, so he made it his work to seek out one of the deepest of Rokugan's enigmas: the Ninja. [2]
Meilekki[]
Kaagi travelled with a servant named Meilekki, although stories differ as to her exact origin.
A Crane courtier visited Kitsuki Castle with a servant named Meilekki. Kaagi noticed Meilekki's intelligence and inquisitive nature immediately and the Crane noticed his attention, so he offered her as a gift at the end of his visit. Kaagi taught Meilekki many of the basic principles of his work, despite his suspicion that she had been a geisha in the past. [4] As an eta she could touch corpses and examine human body fluids, which would provide many useful clues during Kaagi's investigations. [5]
Other sources claim that Meilekki had once been Otaku Meilekki, who became a ronin and later entered Kaagi's service.[6]
Death at Ichime castle[]
Matsu Hiroru hides from Kitsuki Kaagi at Ichime Castle
Word came to Shiro Kitsuki that Lord Akodo Maouri had died under mysterious circumstances. Maouri's heir, Akodo Hakenka, had been a playmate of Kaagi during their childhood. Kaagi went to investigate with his servant Meilekki. [7] Maouri, son of Akodo Bakusho, had a mark on his chest identical to the mark Kaagi's father bore when he died. Kaagi learned it was a mark of Bakusho's brotherhood in the Akodo Bushi school, and no one had seen it in a long time. [8] The mark was made by Kebo, a fabric dye which would poison through constant contact. During his investigation Kaagi discovered that Maouri's lover Ichime Amai was also killed by the same poison, making it clear that she was not the murderer. The killer was revealed when he tried to kill Hakenka - Matsu Nari, Maouri's karo, was the guilty party. Nari escaped and Kaagi suspected that he was a ninja. [9]
Chasing the Ninja[]
Kaagi and Meilekki followed the ninja's tracks, and the magistrate noticed somebody else was also following his suspect. Unbeknownst to Kaagi, the pursuer was Matsu Hiroru. Kaagi only knew that the man who had impersonated Matsu Nari had been killed by an unknown pursuer, his throat cut. Kaagi began to follow the trail of Nari's killer. [10]
Story of the Shadow[]
Kaagi met an Oja-san, Seru Haka, who told the story of Onnotangu, Amaterasu and the Shadow. [11] Kaagi did not know it at the time, but this man was really Matsu Hiroru in disguise, warning him about the danger of the Lying Darkness. [12]
Crab Lands[]
Kaagi and Meilekkii entered Scorpion territory in their pursuit, continuing into the lands of the Crab. They met Hida Misogi, who saved them from a potentially troublesome incident with several Crab guards. [13]
Dasan Investigation[]
Misogi was the headman of Utokii Village, [14] and asked Kaagi to find an explanation about what turned one of his men, Hida Dasan, into a traitor and murderer of his companions. Moreover, the destruction of Dasan's force had led to the defeat of the Crab during a border dispute with the Scorpion. Kaagi questioned all those who knew Dasan to gather information. [15] During the investigation Kaagi began to suffer from vivid nightmares and also began to see faceless people whose appearance he doubted the veracity of. Eventually the haunted house of Dasan was burned down by Misogi, and Dasan's student, Hida Kurusu, disappeared mysteriously. Kaagi suspected he was deeply involved in the incidents concerning Dasan. [16]
The Rescue of Ninube[]
Kaagi decided to return to Kitsuki Castle and crossed Dragonfly lands on his way home. He was met by Daidoji Sanju, karo to daimyo Doji Mikara. Mikara's daughter, Doji Ninube had been missing for several days. A group of magistrates who went to investigate had also disappeared. [17] Kaagi interviewed Bayushi Baka, a companion of the doomed magistrates who had stayed behind. Baka knew his companions would be doomed, and counseled Kaagi on how to avoid the dangers of the Shadow. [18] Kaagi was the last magistrate to heed the call of Isawa Ujina when his bride to be, Doji Ninube, disappeared on her way to their marriage ceremony. Together Kaagi and Ujina managed to find her and bring her back to Phoenix lands, but Ujina was badly wounded in the fight to reclaim her. [19] It became clear to Kaagi that Ninube had already succumbed to the corruption of the Lying Darkness, but Ujina refused to listen and took his bride home anyway. [20]
Matsu Hiroru, the Shadow Hunter[]
Kaagi was returning to Dragon territory when he was met by Matsu Hiroru, a man in a white kimono. Hiroru introduced himself as a Shadow hunter. He told of their previous encounter, and gave more information about the Lying Darkness, as the Shosuro family knew of it. Hiroru gave him some hints and advised Kaagi to send his servant away and meet alone with a group of Unicorns. The Shadow was trying to use her against the magistrate. [21]
Kaagi and the Lying Darkness[]
Through his investigations over the years, Kaagi had become all too aware of the Lying Darkness. During his journeys and investigations he compiled a journal of his experiences and findings. He eventually became aware that the Shadow was taking over his mind and body, so he dismissed his eta servant Meilekki. [22]
Meeting with the Unicorns[]
Kaagi went alone to meet with the Unicorn group as advised by Hiroru, conferring with Shinjo Renari and the group's leader, an old oba-sama Unicorn named Iuchi Eniki. They were leaving the meeting place and Kaagi rode with them on keo, a Shinjo steed. The Unicorn had a minion of the Shadow as prisoner, bound by crystal charms. Goju Ninja chased them in an attempt to prevent the Empire at large from discovering the real danger and reach of the Shadow. After they crossed the Dragon-Unicorn border they were attacked but escaped. Eniki had expended the last of her last energy to speed up the group and the next day she passed away, and Renari was killed. The group continued to Shiro Iuchi, led by Eniki's granddaughter Iuchi Hotaiko. [23]
Meeting his Brother[]
Kaagi had had a dream where his brother appeared to him at a temple near the Firefly River. [24] Kaagi's brother, Kitsuki Iyekao, had been one of the first to fall to the Goju. [25] Kaagi was told how Iyekao sought revenge, which led him to a concealed compound where he was trained in the ways of the Shadow. Kaagi struck his brother down and tried to escape, but was caught. [26]
Strange Occurrences[]
Kaagi was found near White Shore Village, suffering from a severe fever. He went to Kitsuki Castle but realized the Darkness had already a hold on him, and his features began to slowly fade. When Kaagi was one day from Shiro Kitsuki he tasked an eta with carrying his journal to Kitsuki Yasu [27] in 1120. [28] [29] [30] It was not clear if this person was his servant Meilekki, a Shosuro Actor named Shosuro Sashen in disguise, or a minion of the Shadow. [31]
Disappearance[]
Kaagi disappeared suddenly, and this drew the attention of the Scorpion Clan, as Kaagi had been obsessed with finding the truth about ninja. The Scorpion were unable to learn what he had discovered prior to his disappearance as his journal was in the hands of Kitsuki Yasu. [30] The journal was contained in a crystal prison built by Yasu in Shiro Mirumoto. [32]
Shadow's Hold[]
Kaagi had become vulnerable to the Shadow's influence through his bond with his brother. He was taken through the Darkness's initiation rituals during his sleep when his defenses were weakest, and even his extensive training in intense mental and emotional discipline proved unable to protect him from the Shadow. [33]
Minion of the Nothing[]
Reappearance[]
Ginawa and Matsu Hiroru, during their investigation to find the Hidden Emperor Toturi I, came to an abandoned monastery overrun with Goju and fought their way to its center. There they discovered Kaagi, who had been imprisoned and presumed dead for the past ten years. Kaagi told of his imprisonment by his brother Kitsuki Iyekao, who had become a willing minion of the Darkness, and described how Iyekao had been attempting to corrupt him for the past decade. Kaagi continued to tell the two heroes a great deal about their true enemy and the master of his corrupted brother, the Lying Darkness. As Ginawa and Hiroru considered this information, Emperor Toturi was discovered in another Goju stronghold no more then three days' travel from their location, in a place called Morikage Toshi. [34] [35]
Drawing Hitomi to the Darkness[]
During Hitomi's reign, the nearly nonexistent soul and form of Kitsuki Kaagi had returned to the Dragon Clan to draw the new Champion into the Darkness. [36] In 1132 he supported Hitomi during the Siege of Sleeping Mountain by the Naga and Brotherhood of Shinsei. Still possessing a small shred of his old self, Kaagi tried to show Hitomi her mistake in attempting to control the Shadow, but Hitomi was overconfident and ignored him. [25]
Death[]
Seppuku of Kaagi
The influence of Togashi's soul shone through to Hitomi in a moment of lucidity and Kaagi regained an anchor for his soul. [36] Kaagi died in 1132 by seppuku to avoid the Shadow making him its minion forever. [37] In the mountains of the Dragon, Kaagi's body was given to the flames. As the last flames of his funeral pyre died away, the armies marched south to assault Otosan Uchi. [38]
Legacy[]
After the end of the War Against Shadow the Dragon and the Unicorn agreed to rebuild and refurbish the formerly run-down temple where Kaagi met his brother. It was renamed Kaagi no Tamashii and a memorial built to commemorate his life was known as Kaagi's Memory. [39]
See also[]
External Links[]
- Kitsuki Kaagi (Hidden Emperor 4)
The sources relating to this article are in conflict with each other. |
| Secrets of the Dragon page 26 said Kaagi's father was poisoned and he joined the Kitsuki to begin an investigation of those who could had killed him, the ninja. --Oni no Pikachu 23:13, February 15, 2012 (UTC) |
References
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- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Way of Shadow, p. 6
- ↑ Way of Shadow, p. 138
- ↑ Way of Shadow, p. 12
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- ↑ Way of Shadow, pp. 40-41
- ↑ Way of Shadow, p. 42
- ↑ Way of Shadow, p. 113
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- ↑ Way of Shadow, p. 64
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- ↑ Way of Shadow, pp. 78-79
- ↑ Way of Shadow, p. 82
- ↑ Way of the Phoenix, p. 81
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- ↑ Way of Shadow, pp. 118-127
- ↑ Way of Shadow, pp. 128-129
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 The Storming of Morikage Castle, Part 2, by Ree Soesbee
- ↑ Way of Shadow, pp. 139-141
- ↑ Way of Shadow, pp. 141-143
- ↑ Legend of the Five Rings; Third Edition, p. 17
- ↑ The Imperial Histories
- ↑ 30.0 30.1 Way of the Scorpion, p. 28
- ↑ Way of Shadow, pp. 157-159
- ↑ Way of Shadow, p. 157
- ↑ Way of Shadow, p. 151
- ↑ Hidden Emperor, pp. 26-27
- ↑ Kitsuki Iyekao (Dark Journey Home flavor)
- ↑ 36.0 36.1 Secrets of the Dragon, p. 26
- ↑ Honorable Sacrifice (Fire and Shadow flavor)
- ↑ Gold Mine (Fire & Shadow flavor)
- ↑ Secrets of the Dragon, p. 18
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