Battle of the Cresting Wave (TCG)

The Battle of The Cresting Wave was the defeat of the Maw's army against the forces of the Crab Clan.
== Preamble ==
In 716, under the Maw's cunning leadership, its horde revealed the First Wall's shortcomings. Fortress after fortress fell to the unrelenting offensive. On Last Stand Plain, the bulk of the Hiruma army was lost to the Maw's forces. The Maw swept across Crab lands, pushing the clan's lines so far north that Daylight Castle was laid siege and lost entirely. The Maw employed demonic allies to corrupt and reanimate the corpses of the fallen to attack on their former kin. Shadowlands: The Essential Guide to the Dominion of Fu Leng, p. 36
== Battle ==
As the Crab desperately formed a final defensive line along the Seigo River, a shugenja named Kuni Osaku importuned the water kami to raise the river in a massive flood. So great was the torrent that the Maw's army was halted, unable to proceed any farther. Seizing the opportunity, the Crab Champion, Hida Banuken, ordered the Crab to begin construction of durable defensive work along the river's eastern bank. For seventy-three days the Crab labored feverishly, while Osaku maintained her invocation. On the seventy-fourth day, Osaku's strength finally failed, and she died. As the flood receded, the Maw drove its army forward, only to slam headlong into a mighty wall, the Kaiu Wall, or at least the core of what would become the vast Kaiu Kabe. The Crab immediately counterattacked the stalled and confused horde. The clash, which came to be known as the Battle of the Cresting Wave, saw the Maw slain and consigned back to the underworld, its great army routed and scattered. Shadowlands: The Essential Guide to the Dominion of Fu Leng, p. 67 The combined forces of the Hiruma and Hida, reinforced with Kuni Purifiers and Witch Hunters, had stopped the foul advance, and the Kaiu were instrumental to build the Carpenter Wall. Emerald Empire: The Essential Guide to Rokugan, p. 17
== Aftermath ==
The Hiruma lands were never recovered, marking the first loss of territory since the founding of the Empire. 
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