Jya-Aku

Jya-Aku, whose name meaned “wickedness”, was a shugenja mahō-tsukai of prodigious power, and no one was certain of her true identity. Deathly Turns, p. 3
== Bargaining with Oni ==
Jya-Aku was cunning, elusive, and profoundly dangerous. Jya-Aku knew a passage that led right under the Kaiu Wall. When the Kuni family reclaimed their lands after the oni Dōkutsu no Majo's subterranean attack, they were unable to seal off all the resulting tunnels, and one still traversed lands farther north, eventually opening into the Shadowed Swamps in the Shinomen Forest, well inside the Empire. Jya-Aku used the Fel Mantle, a corrupted item, to move into Jigoku, and attempted to bargain this information with The Brute, a hulking oni, in a place known as the Bleak Place. Eventually their plot was foiled by a group of spirits, former samurai. Deathly Turns, pp. 3, 6-8
== Shinomen Forest ==
Jya-Aku moved on and became the leader of a cult based in a remote village near the Shinomen Forest. She had enticed the village head, Joh, with promises of power. Joh had ordered the other villagers, who are mostly woodcutters, to do Jya-Aku's bidding. She sought to retrieve a spell located in Jigoku by opening a tunnel from the Mortal Realm to Jigoku depicted on the leather map she had. Jya-Aku had stolen a mask from Meido which would transform herself into an Oni, to become this new domain's ruler. Her plans were frustated again by a group of samurai commissioned by Lady Mazoku, and agent of Emma-Ō. Deathly Turns, p. 23
== See also ==
* Jya-Aku/Meta
Category:Mahō-tsukai