Kasuga Toru (I)

Please note: This article is about the merchant. For other uses of the term, please see Toru (disambiguation).
Kasuga Toru was a short, bad-tempered merchant of the Tortoise Clan whose poor self-control caused him to fall into opium abuse. At Slow Tide Harbor he befriended other opium smokers at the town's dens, such as Doji Hiroshige and Kakita Amano. When in 1123 Hiroshige abruptly disappeared, Toru and Amano searched on and off for him. They initially suspected he had run afoul of one of the moneylenders he owed and feared the worst. Five days later Toru met the rōnin Gaku, who kidnapped Toru and revealedhimself as part of a local cult of mahō-tsukai. Toru and other prisoners were eventually released by a group of Emerald Magistrates. Dark Tides, pp. 12, 14-16, 30
Category:Tortoise Clan Members (TCG)