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== Events ==
* Kaiu Onizuka wins the Topaz Championship.
* The Mara wakes from a decades long slumber, and is plagued by her dreams. She writes letters, suggesting Naga artifacts be recovered from Naga temples.
* Shinjo Itao and Shinjo Kinto search Naga temples for certain items, using the ronin Chuo and his nephew Karui.
* The Balash stirs in his sleep, waking to find his blade missing.
* Miya Shoin, Miya Daimyo and Imperial Herald, retires from all his posts. He is succeeded by his son, Miya Kiyokaizu.
* Shinjo Min-Hee challenges and kills the Lion Clan Champion Akodo Shinjiro in revenge for her father's death at hands of Shinjiro's father.
* Akodo Kano skips his heritage as Lion Clan Champion's heir, passing the mantle to her sister Akodo Dairuko.
* The Scorpion Wall is breached by Ki no Oni.
* Ikoma Satoru becomes the Turquoise Champion.
* Hida Haruto becomes the Kakeguchi Daimyo.
* Shinjo Scouts returned to the Oasis of Spirits in the place suggested by Moto Naleesh.
* The Imperial Governor of the Colonies Otomo Suikihime reforms the Ivory Court, creating several new posts, as the Ivory Chancellor and five Ministries.
* Otomo Takama becomes Chancellor of the Left and his brother Otomo Moritaka becomes Chancellor of the Right.
* Seppun Ishitata becomes Minister of Rites, and Isawa Chisaki becomes Minister of Ceremonies.
* The Governor Otomo Suikihime issues the Edict of Exploration.
* Yoritomo Asuka becomes Minister of the Census.
* The Minister of the Center is replaced by Doji Harashige.
* The lands the Spider claim now will be for the Spider alone. They begin the construction of the Steel Soul Dojo.
* Yodotai forces ambush Unicorn caravans in the Ki-Rin's Path.
* A Ruhmalist temple is found by the Spider Clan. The Blood of the Preserver is seized there.
* Tension increases between the Crane and Mantis Clans regarding commerce interests in the Colonies.
* The Emerald Champion Utaku Ji-Yun sanctions the Mantis-Crane War in the Colonies.
* The Ninth Imperial Legion is sent to the Colonies.
* The Crab Clan begin to attack the Spider Clan in the Colonies.
* The Lion begin to attack the Spider Clan in the Colonies.
* The Mantis get their fleet past of Twin Forks City, breaking the Crane blockade.
* The left wing of Kyuden Kankei is burned to the ground.
* The Master of Water Asako Karachu foresees the Siege of the Second City. He tells it to Moshi Sasako before his mind forgets his own accounts.
* A doppelganger of Shosuro Keirei is created with an Egg of P'an Ku.
* The Second City is besieged by the Ninth Imperial Legion. The Ivory Court host the colonial winter court.
* P'an Ku's madness is exposed by the Fudoist.
* The Second City surrenders and the governor Otomo Suikihime escapes. Her name is stricken from the Otomo family rolls.
* Kalani's Landing is attacked by a Crane fleet.
* The Spider Clan Champion Daigotsu Kanpeki marries in secret with Otomo Machiko.
* The Empire learn that a long-standing conflict between the mad dragon P'an Ku and the Fudo cult had exacerbated conflicts in the Colonies.
* Yasuki Bikan becomes regent of the Yasuki family.
=== Month of the Dragon ===
* Togashi Maro, formerly known as Mirumoto Mareshi, disappears.
* The Naga Embassy is destroyed by an explosion.
* The Shinomen Forest is attacked and the Shinomen Tower is burned to the ground.
=== Month of the Serpent ===
* Dark Naga infiltrates the Second City killing the Imperial Governor of the Colonies Ikoma Katsuru.
* Akasha disappears.
=== Month of the Horse ===
* Doji Hakuseki is appointed to investigate the incidents related to the Naga race.
* Hida Fubatsu disappears and all his students are found dead.
=== Month of the Goat ===
* Otomo Suikihime becomes the Imperial Governor of the Colonies.
=== Month of the Monkey ===
* The temple of the Dark Naga is found by Iweko's Conquerors.
* A Scorpion patrol is attacked by Naga in a temple in the Shinomen Mori while seeking information about the vanished.
=== Month of the Rooster ===
* Shinjo Tselu is apointed as the first Ivory Champion and Minister of Defense and Justice.
* Mirumoto Shikei learns the location of the Dark Naga's lair in the Shinomen Mori.
* An Imperial Legion under the command of Akodo Kano and Tamori Yayu is sent to the Shinomen to find the Dark Naga.
=== Month of the Dog ===
* The Phoenix deploy a fleet to find a Black Pearl in the sea.
* Mirumoto Shikei breaks an arm of Shinjo Min-Hee in a kenjutsu practice during the Festival of the Hundred Hands.
== Battles ==
* Mantis-Crane War in the Colonies
* War of Serpents
* Battle of Ten Thousand Martyrs
* Heretic War
== Deaths ==
* Akita
* Akodo Shinjiro
* Akodo Suoh
* Asako Kouhei
* Asako Shoji
* Bayushi Himaru
* Bayushi Ryoku
* Bayushi Taji
* Buraindo
* Daidoji Ibara
* Daidoji Katsutomo
* Daidoji Narizane
* Daigotsu Nizaru
* Daigotsu Ryuto
* Doji Nikaitsu
* Doji Rengetsu
* Drunken Tiger
* Hida Akano
* Horiuchi Nobane
* Ide Kamino
* Ide Shimoro
* Ikoma Katsuru
* Isawa Chenko
* Isawa Sakonoko
* Jahan
* Kakita Hiro
* Kakita Kyoya
* Karui
* Raya
* Mara
* Moshi Hiroko
* Moto Jun-Ni
* Moto Ogama
* Oda
* Otomo Teruken
* Seppun Taiyiko
* Seppun Tomko
* Shiba Fukada
* Shinjo Etsuma
* Togashi Osawa
* Tsuruchi Etsui
* Tsuruchi Shigekazu
* Tsuruchi Shisuken
* Tsuruchi Tomaru
* Tsuruchi Yakusho
* Yoritomo Akukiho
* Yoritomo Doho
* Yoritomo Iwashi
* Yoritomo Sakuma
* Yoritomo Tsang
* Yoritomo Zinan
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