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Kagami, much to her chagrin, is heading to the Lion province to the north of Chisana Basho to be officially courted by the Lion general Akodo Hashiga. It is an uncomfortable duty, necessitated by the peace treaty between the provinces and made perilous by the fact that parties on both sides of the border have reasons to want the courtship to succeed... and to fail.
Jiromasu has followed his cousin into the north as her yojimbo. But he has also been tasked with finding out more about the internal schism within the Lion clan. It is a dangerous task, as a Crane interfering with Lion politics runs the risk of ruining all. But his cousin is the perfect excuse for his presence and, even if there is little to find, a Winter Court in the heart of Lion lands is bound to be entertaining.
Goro has headed north as well, at Lion request, to determine how wide-spread the Shadowlands corruption in the province is. To his disgust, he keeps finding himself having to navigate his hunt around the politics swirling about his Crane companions. But politics, it seems, can be just as dangerous as Shadowlands creatures as they step out of Chisana Basho and into the Lion's den.
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- Part 14 of The Kagami Chronicles
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- 4/?
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Doji Kirigaya and her cadre return but the scars of Kosetsu remain. After a brief breath of peace their duty must begin anew. Joining them is a new member, a radiant Pheonix Shugenja named Isawa Tsuya. Departing the capital alongside their lord, Seppun Tetsuko, the cadre make for an austere Kuni castle.
Tensions rise when they arrive at Last Breath castle, the seat of the Matsu. However their stay in the Lion’s den is brief. Word arrives via a mysterious letter of a village whose populace has vanished. Concerned that the horrors they once faced are moving again, Lord Seppun sends them to investigate and maintain the Emperor’s peace.
Nestled in a valley near the tense ground of Beiden pass the village of Iron Quarry pass long was a neutral shared ground between Scorpion and Lion. Necessary to preserve the peace and not risk major hostilities. Valued for its Iron and road through the mountains, its neutrality is gone like its people. Here the cadre must find the truth and stop a war.
Every step is political. Every silence is a threat.
And in the quiet, the darkness smiles.
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- Part 2 of Shadows of The Empire
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War of the North - Frozen Memories 2 by LightDragonQueen, StormShadow14
Fandoms: Assassin's Creed - All Media Types, Frozen (Disney Movies), Legend of the Five Rings, Inception (2010), 三国演义 - 罗贯中 | Romance of the Three Kingdoms - Luo Guanzhong, 斗破苍穹 - 天蚕土豆 | Battle Through the Heavens - Tiān Cán Tǔ Dòu
31 Aug 2025
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The second book in Frozen Memories picks up shortly after the end of Frozen Memories 1.8 - Bridge and waves across time, space, and continents. The World is now at war in an unseen battle of good against evil as Arendelle goes to war against the Templar Cross, and Draco, his children, and his returned siblings begin to grow their influence where possible.
From the frozen peaks of the North Mountain to the arid wastes of the Gobi Desert to the jade palaces of China and the alls of stone and glass of silver on an unknown world. The Battle has arrived
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- Part 6 of Frozen Memories
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Things are exciting in the north as visitors flood Hashi no Mura for the Peace Summit between Chisana Basho and their northern neighbour. Doji Uki is determined to extend the treaty of the One Day War, but with the long history of animosity between the Crane and the Lion, and with many among the Lion leadership opposed to the current treaty, it is a political challenge worthy of her diplomatic skills. To help with this goal, the Provincial Daimyo has set Jiromasu the task of running a tournament to keep their visitors entertained. With Kagami and the rest of the Northern Yoriki to help him, surely things will run smoothly.
Chomei did not expected the letter from his mentor to contain the information that he and his fellow Crane foster child, Suzume Ariko, would be spending a few weeks with Jiromasu-sama at Yoriki House during Summer's Rest. Thrilled and excited, the two young samurai cannot wait to head north with the Kakita bushi Chomei's foster-family had sent to escort them. It will prove to be an eventful visit as they find themselves dropped into the maelstrom of events surrounding the Peace Summit and they, and the adults around them, struggle to navigate both tournament and treaty.
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- Part 12 of The Kagami Chronicles
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A few months after having spent a very enjoyable night with Kuni Goro, the doshin Yuriko chances upon a woman in desperate need. It is a meeting that will change both their lives.
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- Part 13 of The Kagami Chronicles
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In the years after the Scorpion Clan Coup, as the Lion-Crane War intensifies and the days of the Clan Wars loom ahead, a representative of the Daidoji Trading Council comes to Unicorn lands to arrange trade... and bloody the nose of an upstart who embarrassed the Clan at the prestigious Topaz Championship.
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In a Dragon Clan village soon to welcome an envoy from the re-emergent Scorpion Clan, a Ronin smith finds herself staying late in her smithy so as not to walk in on her apprentice and a Geisha.
Just as someone planned...
This is the same setting and some of the same characters as in "Shadow Boxing".
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Two battle-sisters spar for the benefit of their friend's dojo, and it escalates in alarming ways. Nanako, once a Crab and now a Ronin with ties to the Dragon Clan, sees ill warnings in the changes in her friend after what the Bloodspeaker Cult did to her - and the ordeals the Scorpion Clan put her through to cleanse her.
But Kinuye, her friend, carried jade. It does not go soft. Must she not be pure, then?
A group of Samurai deal with the aftermaths of their adventures, after having settled in the Dragon lands.
Set in the aftermath of the Clan War and The Day of Thunder
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As the long, hot summer comes to a close, Kuni Goro is enjoying a peaceful few weeks between their return from the summer patrols and the inspections required by the harvest. Then a heimin arrives at the doors to Yoriki House bearing a letter and a burden that helps turn his world on its head and Goro is abruptly reminded that sometimes actions have unexpected consequences.
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- Part 11 of The Kagami Chronicles
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In the Empire of Rokugan, honor is law, duty is absolute… and something in the shadows is watching.
Doji Kirigaya, an esteemed Crane Clan diplomat, serves under Emerald Magistrate Seppun Tetsuko, skillfully navigating the fragile web of politics that holds the Empire together. But when troubling reports emerge from Kosetsu Castle, a missing lord, a household on edge, whispers of treachery, Kirigaya is sent to uncover the truth.
She is not alone. Accompanying her are Kakita Koji, her cousin and a prodigy of the Kakita Academy, and Fuma Kutaro, a Scorpion shinobi whose mask conceals more than just his face. But their mission takes an unexpected turn when Seppun Tetsuko replaces Koji as Kirigaya’s yojimbo. In his place stands Matsu Tora, a scarred Lion warrior whose very presence is a promise of war and violence.
What begins as a political investigation quickly spirals into horror. Something unnatural has taken root in Kosetsu Castle, something that feeds on fear. As tensions rise and secrets unravel, Kirigaya and her cadre must navigate not just courtly intrigue, but the unseen horrors lurking in the dark.
The Emperor’s will must be done. But first, they must survive.
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- Part 1 of Shadows of The Empire
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After a battle with warriors of the Crane Clan a ronin makes a promise to a deceased companion.
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Jiromasu joins his mentor Kakita Saito in a visit to the Kakita school where Jiromasu was trained. While there, he is introduced to Akodo Chomei, a Crane foster child - a hostage - who has been sent to the Kakita school for martial training. An urgent request from his family leads to Jiromasu vounteering to escort the boy to his family in the Lion province above Chisana Basho. It is a fraught trip through not-quite-enemy territory and Jiromasu finds himself glorying in the challenge.
Chomei has been a not-quite-willing participant in his father's ransom, an "honoured guest" to ensure a peace-bond is adhered to. When a remarkably sympathetic Kakita offers to take him home to visit his family, he isn't sure how to react. When he gets home, he realizes that while life with the Crane has been a challenge, the situation at home is equally as unsettled and it is something of a shock to find out that one of his staunchest allies when faced with this uncertainty turns out to be a Crane.
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- Part 10 of The Kagami Chronicles
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In the year 1500 during the reign of Toturi XII, members of the Stone Reavers bandit gang, a magistrate's inexperienced yoriki, a male Geisha with secrets to keep and a Ronin of Unicorn descendance collide in a small mountain village, high in the Lion-occupied parts of the Dragon Mountains.
A story of the Heroes of Rokugan, set during the Heroes of the Sapphire Throne arc, against the backdrop of the crumbling of the 50-year peace that followed the War of Bleeding Flowers. All original characters.
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As Kagami and her Kakita yojimbo head back to Kiri no Machi and Doji Uki's Winter Court, Goro and Tetsunotaka continue to hunt down the men who had successfully managed to abduct her.
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- Part 9 of The Kagami Chronicles
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Shosuro Kotone to Bayushi Yojiro-
I have prepared an accounting of our deeds from the summons of our Lady to present. I beg your indulgence if I retread ground you have walked; it seems wrong to begin a story in its middle.
In the 1123rd year past the founding of the Emerald Empire, our Lord Bayushi Shoju struck down his friend, the Emperor Hantei XXXVIII. I know not why. This coup failed, the Crown Prince's throne restored by a fraction of the clans. Our Lord Bayushi and his only child were slain, his wife the Lady Kachiko captured and forced to marry the new Emperor, the entirety of our clan disbanded, its members forced into exile or hiding.
As a boy, the new Emperor was impetuous and brash, impatient and with a sometimes callous disposition. This was a sign of things to come, so my Lady must take a hand in the affairs of state -- silently.
Thus her actions from the shadow of the throne.
*These are from the game sessions of John Wick's "The Shadow Throne" Legend of the Five Rings 2024 campaign, Scorpion agents working for Kachiko in the era before the Clan War. John talks about our game here.
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A sickly young Scorpion courtier is married into the Matsu Family of the Lion Clan and has a less than pleasant new life with his domineering and abusive wife. When she departs for a typical summer skirmish with their enemies in the Unicorn Clan, the now renamed Matsu Todo is excited for the reprieve and plans to use this as an opportunity get a well needed break from the stress of his marriage. However, as time goes on it becomes apparent his wife has gone missing in action, and dreading the rule of a Lion household even more then her, he sets out with a Ronin yojimbo in her employ to find out what exactly happened. However, a simple search for remains leads the pair down a much larger rabbit hole than anyone could ever have expected, and the domestic strife of a single samurai couple soon becomes a secondary concern.
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This fic does not assume you know anything about this setting, and uses no official characters or events, why I feel comfortable using "original work" as no prior knowledge of L5R is necessary to enjoy it.
This is also a D&D setting in 3E as "Oriental Adventures" and now a 5E source book titled "Adventures in Rokugan" (I am not so shameless to tag it - yet) -
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Kagami is a valuable and useful prize to those with more avarice or ambition than honour, and when she once more finds herself the target of those with an agenda that conflicts with her daily duties and roles, she finds herself in the most challenging situation possible. At a decided disadvantage and cut off from any aid, she cannot rely on any of her innate advantages. With Nami badly injured and only her wits to support her, she is grimly determined not to bring dishonour to herself or her clan and to survive for long enough for aid to find her.
Jiromasu, Goro, and Tetsunotaka are faced with Kagami and Nami having disappeared without a trace and what clues they can find seem to contradict each other. With both friendship and honour bound up in keeping her safe, the three of them have to find her and then contend with the consequences of what finding her brings to light. In the still delicate balance of power found in Chisana Basho, it is those repercussions that could have the most disastrous results.
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- Part 8 of The Kagami Chronicles
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A new world, an old memory by KaiuDai
Fandoms: Final Fantasy XIV, Legend of the Five Rings
29 Jul 2024
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Hiro is my character on FF and mostly he plays White Mage. I made him when I was playing a Tortoise clan Shugenja on L5R and this is his little story. It's really just fluffy but a bit sad. Hiro needs to stop hoarding (aka I need to stop making things for the tiny apartment)
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- English
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- 1,982
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Love Dappled Like Sunlight by poodlepalace
Fandoms: Legend of the Five Rings, Original Work
18 Jun 2024
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Daisuke helps with their first wedding, only to find things aren't as simple as they seem.
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- Part 1 of Shika Daisuke
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- English
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- 1,564
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- 1/1
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- 6