Serpent War

Serpent War
Location: Colonies in the Ivory Kingdoms, Rokugan
Date: 1198-Present
Major Forces: Empire, Dark Naga
Generals: Akodo Kurogane, Dark Naga
Battles of Rokugan

The War of Serpents was the conflict between the mind-controlled forces of the Dark Naga and the Empire in its Colonies.

Disappearances

In 1198 several members of the Empire disappeared, as Togashi Maro, the half-Naga formerly known as Mirumoto Mareshi, Akasha, the Legacy of the Naga, Hida Fubatsu, the reincarnation of a Naga, or killed as Mareshi's mother, Mara, a Naga who did not join the second Great Sleep, or the Imperial Governor of the Colonies Ikoma Katsuru.

Strikes

The Naga Embassy in the Imperial City Toshi Ranbo exploded, the Shinomen Mori was attacked, and the Second City, the capital of the colonies in the Ivory Kingdoms, was infiltrated. Dark Naga riding Orochi were seen attacking its formers allies, the Mantis.  Samurai exploring the Colonies were attacked by the Naga.

Black Pearl

The Scorpion found in a Naga temple scrolls which told a Black Pearl had been sent away by the Qatol before the second Great Sleep of the Naga race in 1135 because he feared it. They did not know the Dark Naga had been hatched from the pearl. The scrolls were passed to the Phoenix who found that a black pearl was somewhere within the sea that could have been the source of these events related to the Naga.

Serpent world

All who had been casted out from the Akasha, the Naar Teban, the Ivory Kingdoms abominations, those abandoned by the Naga through their history, all returned to the Akasha by the power of the Dark Naga. The abominations had joined it of their own free will, because the Dark Naga could restore their ability to feel the one mind. The Dark Naga mastered all forms of serpent life, including the great orochi and its desire was the eradication of all life that was not Naga.

Research

The Naga was a race who never had been corrupted by the Shadowlands Taint, buyt the Rokugani began to investigate if these Dark Naga had contracted the taint.  After one of the Naga was taken prisoner, the Kuni desecrated its body, but no trace of taint was found. 

Exposed

Mirumoto Shikei felt the presence of the Dark Naga leader through the Akasha, when the creature was attempting to influence the Dragon Clan Champion. He named it Kurai no Naga, and learned it hid at the heart of the Shinomen Mori. He passed this knowledge to the Unicorn, who would aid Tamori Yayu was sent to the Shinomen. The Dragon was being escorted by an Imperial Legion commanded by Akodo Kano, the Lion Clan Champion's brother.

Dark Naga's Death

In 1199 the Forgotten Temple, residence of the Dark Naga, was exposed to the Empire by the First Magistrate Doji Hakuseki, who had led a group of Emerald Magistrates. Hakuseki challenged the Dark Naga and fell to the monster. Akodo Kano appeared and killed the Dark Naga.

Known casualties

• Bayushi Himaru
• Daigotsu Nizaru
• Doji Hakuseki
• Ikoma Katsuru
• Mara
• Moshi Hiroko
• Moto Ogama
• Seppun Tomko
• Shinjo Etsuma

References

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