Maho was blood magic, fueled by the power of fresh blood and sacrifice, and drew from the sixth element: corruption. The use of maho Tainted the users forever linking them to Fu Leng and Jigoku. It called upon kansen, evil spirits of corruption. [1]
- For further information on this section, please see Mahō
History and Use[]
Maho was not originally a creation of Fu Leng, but of the Tribe of Isawa. Before the Dark Lord fell, the Isawa practiced blood magic that was clean, voluntary and pure. [2]
When Isawa's followers realized maho would no longer be free of Jigoku's influence once they allied with the Kami Shiba, they foreswore its use. [3]
It was centuries before the research of Kuni Nakanu elevated maho from a primitive arcane art to an evil, destructive force. [4]
Maho-tsukai generally believed that they bent the forces of the Shadowlands to their will, but they were mistaken. The use of maho served Fu Leng, regardless of the user's intent. Tsukai were generally greedy and impatient shugenja, hoping to find a quick, easy way to immense power. Many believed that they could use maho only when necessary, completely unaware of its addictive nature. [5]
Iuchiban[]
Centuries more passed after Nakanu's researches, when the sorcerer that would come to be known as Iuchiban unearthed the dark Kuni's notes. Iuchiban founded the Bloodspeakers, an organization of maho-tsukai and began making plans to raise an army of the undead to help him conquer Rokugan. [6]
His immediate plans were foiled, but Iuchiban had also learned the secrets of immortality from the heartless Khadi. He was imprisoned only because he could not be killed, but he escaped centuries later and tried again. Once again, his plans did not bear fruit and once again he was contained, presumably for all time. [7] Recently, he managed to escape once more, and the Bloodspeakers marched to battle throughout Rokugan and the Shadowlands, fighting for control of both until the Heartless was destroyed. [8]
Casting Maho[]
To cast a maho spell the sorcerer would invoke a prayer to the Dark God Fu Leng and, in order to gain his favour they would also have to spill blood. It did not however always have to be their own but the more blood spilled the better. Any who would call upon this power would became corrupted immediately, with the severity of the taint dependent upon the complexity of the spell.[9]
Maho Spells[]
Isawa's Blood
The following is a list of known Maho Spells by mastery level.
Mastery Level 1[]
- Ancient Wisdom [10] [11]
- Bleeding [12] [13]
- Blood and Darkness [14] [15]
- Blood Rite [14] [16] [15]
- Choke the Soul [17] [18]
- Curse of the Water Spirits [19] [18]
- Disrupt the Limb [15]
- Eternal Darkness [20] [21]
- Heart of the Damned [14] [22]
- Inspire Fear [15]
- Legacy of the Dark One [14] [15]
- Limb Disruption [23] [24]
- No Sustenance [25]
- Pain [23]
- Purge the Weak (Fire) [25]
- Purge the Weak (Earth) [22]
- Reduce [12]
- Rise Again [14]
- Sinful Dreams [26] [27] [15]
- Suck the Marrow [28] [29]
- Summon Undead Champion [30] [16] [15]
- Symbol of Blood [29]
- Ward of Divine Peace [31] [29]
- Written in Blood [32] [33] [34]
Mastery Level 2[]
- Avatar's Stranglehold [35]
- Bind the Revered [11]
- Blood Command [36]
- Caress of Fu Leng [37] [16] [34]
- Choking Death [16]
- Control Undead [16]
- Curse of the Black Tongue [38]
- Curse of the Clan [29]
- Curse of the Kansen [29]
- Curse of the Unblinking Eye [19] [34]
- Curse of Weakness [39] [16] [40] [34]
- Darkness Rising [41] [40]
- Dark Wings [37] [41] [28] [29]
- Dim Mak [42] [43]
- Drain the Soul [16] [34]
- Eternal Unrest [44]
- Feeding on Flesh [45] [21]
- Fear [41]
- Gift of the Maker [46] [47] [48]
- Pain [49]
- Puppet Master [49]
- Red Knife [50] [25]
- Smite the Blood [27]
- Spreading the Darkness [49]
Mastery Level 3[]
- Animate the Dead [51]
- Armor of Obsidian [49]
- Blood Fury [52]
- Blood of Midnight [53] [54]
- Bloodstained Forest [55]
- Corruption of the Elements [41]
- Curse of Blood [39] [18]
- Dancing with Demons [26] [56] [40] [43] [48]
- Dark Divination [57] [56]
- Death Beyond Life [49]
- Essence of Undeath [41] [58]
- Fire and Blood [59]
- Form of Vermin [60] [24]
- Hate's Heart [37] [58]
- Heaven Has No Justice [61] [24]
- Mists of Fear [37] [48]
- Obsidian Armor [37] [41]
- Pekkle's Visage [37]
- Stealing Breath [41]
- Summon Oni [47] [62] [63] [58]
- Symbol of the Bloodspeaker [48]
- Taint Strike [59]
- Ward of the Ninth Kami [33]
Mastery Level 4[]
- Animate the Dead [53]
- Blood of the Ages [59] [64]
- Blood Warding [65] [55]
- Bloodstrike [65] [55]
- Burning Blood [55] [66]
- Chains of Jigoku [55] [67]
- Curse [68] [47]
- Dark Favors [59]
- Death's Caress [43]
- Death's Curse [11]
- Gift of the Kansen [31] [24]
- Greater Curse of Weakness [18]
- No Pure Breaths [69] [25] [67]
- Sharing the Darkness [38]
- Shinobi Corruption [25]
- Sinful Dreams [26]
- Stealing the Soul [70] [71] [27] [67]
- Summon Greater Kansen [47]
- The Touch of Jigoku [47]
- Tomb of Earth [72] [28] [48]
- Truth is a Scourge [26] [28] [67]
Mastery Level 5[]
- Blood Armor [54] [36] [66]
- Create Elemental Vortex [73]
- Dark Charisma [74] [43]
- Dominion of Fu Leng [75]
- Draining the Life [30]
- Fierce Blood of the Earth [46] [66]
- Flock of Blood [76] [64]
- Fu Leng's Champion [75]
- Harvest of Death [77] [78]
- Possession [46] [30] [79]
- Stifling Wind [30]
- Strength of Darknes [79]
- Touch of Death [70] [60] [28] [79]
Mastery Level 6[]
Mastery Level 7[]
Mastery Level 8[]
Black Scrolls[]
All Black Scrolls were effectively Mastery 5 maho spells, though any shugenja might cast them. They radiated a quiet aura of menace, but those who touched them (opened or unopened) immediately became aware of the powers the scroll could grant, and were tempted to open them on the spot. They granted taint to those who carried them, and only encasing the scroll itself in jade or crystal would prevent the effect. [81]
- The Wasting Disease [32]
- The Iron Citadel
- Black Wind From the Soul
- The Walking Horror of Fu Leng
- Dark Divination
- Shapeshifting
- Touch of Despair
- Touch of Fu Leng
- Return of the Fallen Lord
- A Terrible Oath
- Doom of Fu Leng
- The Twelfth Black Scroll
Other Maho Spells[]
- 1000 Years of Terrible Slumber [82]
- Banish Oni [83]
- Bleeding the Elements [84] [54] [85]
- Blood Sacrifice [65]
- Cannibalize [17]
- Clan Curse [86]
- Damnation [39]
- Dark Phoenix Fire [56]
- Entrap Ancestor [20]
- Expose Taint [20]
- Hide Taint [45]
- I Give You My Name [87]
- Isawa's Blood [88]
- Iuchiban's Theft [45]
- Life's Blood of a Hero [89]
- Eat The Flesh [citation needed]
- Quench the Ashes [87]
- Sacrifice of Masks [50]
- Taint the Blood [71]
- Taint Food and Drink [60]
- Voice of Lies [60]
- Ward of the Eight Kami [26]
- Yajinden's Soul Switch [90]
Mastery Levels[]
The mastery levels above are as listed in Legend of the Five Rings; Third Edition and Prayers and Treasures. The mastery levels in Game Master's Pack; The Hare Clan appear to be approximately one level higher (as seen on Curse and Summon Oni).
See also[]
References
- ↑ Legend of the Five Rings: Third Edition, p. 267
- ↑ Blood Rite (Gold flavor)
- ↑ Fires of the Hidden City, Part Two, by Rich Wulf
- ↑ Way of the Phoenix, p. 19
- ↑ Way of the Phoenix, pp. 25-27
- ↑ Bloodspeakers, p. 4
- ↑ Bloodspeakers, p. 67
- ↑ Enemy of My Enemy, Part 4, by Rich Wulf
- ↑ Game Master's Pack; The Hare Clan, p. 12
- ↑ Bloodspeakers, p. 35
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Prayers and Treasures, p. 102
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Legend of the Five Rings: Third Edition, p. 268
- ↑ Legend of the Five Rings; Fourth Edition, p. 268
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 Way of the Shadowlands, p. 133
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 15.6 Legend of the Five Rings; Fourth Edition, p. 269
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 16.4 16.5 16.6 Legend of the Five Rings: Third Edition, p. 269
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 Bloodspeakers, p. 38
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 Prayers and Treasures, p. 105
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Game Master's Guide; 2nd Ed, p. 127
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 Bloodspeakers, p. 42
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 Prayers and Treasures, p. 107
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 Enemies of the Empire, p. 27
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 Game Master's Guide; 2nd Ed, p. 126
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 24.3 Prayers and Treasures, p. 108
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 25.2 25.3 25.4 Prayers and Treasures, p. 109
- ↑ 26.0 26.1 26.2 26.3 26.4 Bearers of Jade, p. 146
- ↑ 27.0 27.1 27.2 Prayers and Treasures, p. 110
- ↑ 28.0 28.1 28.2 28.3 28.4 Prayers and Treasures, p. 111
- ↑ 29.0 29.1 29.2 29.3 29.4 29.5 Enemies of the Empire, p. 28
- ↑ 30.0 30.1 30.2 30.3 Clan War: Shadowlands Army Expansion, p. 17
- ↑ 31.0 31.1 Bearers of Jade, p. 147
- ↑ 32.0 32.1 Bloodspeakers, p. 48
- ↑ 33.0 33.1 Prayers and Treasures, p. 112
- ↑ 34.0 34.1 34.2 34.3 34.4 Legend of the Five Rings; Fourth Edition, p. 270
- ↑ Art of the Duel, p. 134
- ↑ 36.0 36.1 Prayers and Treasures, p. 103
- ↑ 37.0 37.1 37.2 37.3 37.4 37.5 Way of the Shadowlands, p. 134
- ↑ 38.0 38.1 Descent into Darkness, p. 13
- ↑ 39.0 39.1 39.2 Bloodspeakers, p. 40
- ↑ 40.0 40.1 40.2 Secrets of the Shadowlands, p. 72
- ↑ 41.0 41.1 41.2 41.3 41.4 41.5 41.6 Legend of the Five Rings: Third Edition, p. 270
- ↑ Bloodspeakers, pp. 41-42
- ↑ 43.0 43.1 43.2 43.3 Prayers and Treasures, p. 106
- ↑ Great Clans, p. 282
- ↑ 45.0 45.1 45.2 Bloodspeakers, p. 43
- ↑ 46.0 46.1 46.2 46.3 Way of the Shadowlands, p. 135
- ↑ 47.0 47.1 47.2 47.3 47.4 Legend of the Five Rings: Third Edition, p. 271
- ↑ 48.0 48.1 48.2 48.3 48.4 Enemies of the Empire, p. 29
- ↑ 49.0 49.1 49.2 49.3 49.4 Legend of the Five Rings; Fourth Edition, p. 271
- ↑ 50.0 50.1 Bloodspeakers, p. 45
- ↑ Bearers of Jade, p. 130
- ↑ Clan War: Shadowlands Army Expansion, p. 16
- ↑ 53.0 53.1 53.2 Game Master's Pack; The Hare Clan, p. 13
- ↑ 54.0 54.1 54.2 Bloodspeakers, p. 36
- ↑ 55.0 55.1 55.2 55.3 55.4 Prayers and Treasures, p. 104
- ↑ 56.0 56.1 56.2 Bloodspeakers, p. 41
- ↑ 57.0 57.1 Game Master's Pack; The Hare Clan, p. 14
- ↑ 58.0 58.1 58.2 Legend of the Five Rings; Fourth Edition, p. 272
- ↑ 59.0 59.1 59.2 59.3 Way of the Shugenja, p. 92
- ↑ 60.0 60.1 60.2 60.3 Bloodspeakers, p. 47
- ↑ Bearers of Jade, p. 148
- ↑ Game Master's Pack; The Hare Clan, pp. 14-15
- ↑ Book of the Shadowlands, p. 96
- ↑ 64.0 64.1 Prayers and Treasures, p. 43
- ↑ 65.0 65.1 65.2 Bloodspeakers, p. 37
- ↑ 66.0 66.1 66.2 66.3 Enemies of the Empire, p. 30
- ↑ 67.0 67.1 67.2 67.3 Legend of the Five Rings; Fourth Edition, p. 273
- ↑ Game Master's Pack; The Hare Clan, pp. 13-14
- ↑ Bearers of Jade, p. 145
- ↑ 70.0 70.1 70.2 70.3 Game Master's Pack; The Hare Clan, p. 15
- ↑ 71.0 71.1 71.2 71.3 Bloodspeakers, p. 46
- ↑ Bearers of Jade, p. 144
- ↑ Time of the Void, p. 60
- ↑ Bearers of Jade, pp. 146-147
- ↑ 75.0 75.1 Game Master's Guide; 2nd Ed, p. 129
- ↑ Secrets of the Shadowlands, p. 35
- ↑ Legend of the Five Rings; Third Edition, p. 372
- ↑ Secrets of the Shadowlands, p. 71
- ↑ 79.0 79.1 79.2 Legend of the Five Rings; Fourth Edition, p. 274
- ↑ The Four Winds, p. 136
- ↑ Time of the Void, pp. 121-122
- ↑ Lesser of Two Evils, p. 37
- ↑ Book of the Shadowlands, p. 97
- ↑ Wway of the Shadowlands, p. 41
- ↑ Secrets of the Shadowlands, p. 69
- ↑ Bloodspeakers, p. 39
- ↑ 87.0 87.1 Bloodspeakers, p. 44
- ↑ Isawa's Blood
- ↑ Bells of the Dead, p. 35
- ↑ Bloodspeakers, p. 49
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