Kuni Yori (TCG)

Kuni Yori was a shugenja and the Kuni Daimyō during the reign of Hida Kisada. Dark Hands of Heaven, by Annie VanderMeer Mitsoda
== Appearance and Demeanor ==
Yori used to paint his face in a Kabuki-style in bronze hues, Trust Me, by Robert Denton III aragoto, The Battle of Cherry Blossom Snow – Chapter One, by Robert Denton III having a dark mustache and a too-wide smile. He performed studies on Shadowlands creatures that his Clan took alive, expecting to gain knowledge on their enemies' weaknesses. Kuni Yori was terse, methodical, as well as a bit socially inept. Shadowlands: The Essential Guide to the Dominion of Fu Leng, p. 59 Those who met Kuni Yori never forget his piercing eyes, eerie voice, and sarcastic smile. Tainted Lands (Flyer) Yori devoted his life to study the Shadowlands, even following dangerous paths, as his father did, and also his great-grandfather, Kuni Mokuna. Gaze Into Darkness, by D. G. Laderoute
== Masks of Iuchiban ==
Among his father's belongings Yori have found one of the masks of Iuchiban, Trail of Shadows, by D.G. Laderoute created to seal the entrances of the Tomb of Iuchiban, to keep inside the leader of the Bloodspeaker cult. 
=== A Second Mask is Found ===
In 1123 Yori moved to the Kuni Castle, where he had a meeting there. The Nezumi Rememberer of the Tattered Ear Ros'ku had found an armor in the Cave of Bloody Ghost Fire, within the dreaded Shadowed Swamps, which would be Kikyo, the armor forged by Hida Osano-wo for his lost brother Hida Atarashi and which in the 10th century was supposedly lost in the ill-fated expedition led by the General Hida Chuku into the Shadowlands. Kisada mounted an expedition to retrieve the armor, commanded by his younger son Hida Sukune. Yori and Kuni Daigo, his most recent apprentice, joined it. The Crab faced many dangers in their way to the Cave, such an encounter with an onikuma, the disobedience of Hida Amoro while fighting a gashadokuro, or the madness of the Witch Hunter Kuni Kana, but eventually Sukune managed to recover the armor and return it back to the Hida Palace, but without its mempō, which had been diverted by Yori, who destroyed it to take the hidden mask of Iuchiban inside it. 
== Rising of the Shadowlands ==
Frequent assaults against the Carpenter Wall had left the Crab starved for resources. Some Crab Clan leaders saw an alliance with the Crane-hating Scorpion as a tempting option, but this would alienate one of the Crab's closest allies, the Phoenix. Yori was an ambitious man who strenuously objected to this proposed alliance, greatly preferring access to the spiritual rites and secrets of the Phoenix's Asako family to those of the Scorpion's Yogo family. Shadowlands: The Essential Guide to the Dominion of Fu Leng, p. 51
=== Isawa Tadaka's Journey ===
Yori accompanied the Master of Earth Isawa Tadaka in return for his assistance during his time at Sagisōmine Shrine. There the shrine keeper, Azusa, was sick due to influence of a gaki. Tadaka had waited patiently until the pesasant hermit passed away, in order to kill the hungry spirit, which could only be truly killed while it fed. The Master of Earth had baited Azusa, her pain and confusion in her final moments all but ensuring that she wouldd awaken in Gaki-dō, the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a damned soul. Yori had taken the gaki's barbed tongue, a precious material to make protective talismans for several Crab warriors. 
=== Yori is Tainted ===
Eventually Tadaka was met in the Shadowlands by Asako Tsuki, who reported his father Isawa Ujina had vanished and that the Phoenix Clan needed him back. While Tadaka was hesitating, Yori suspected from Tsuki's presence there, and drew his wakizashi, being attacked by a creature who bit his arm. Tadaka cast Breath of the Jade Dragon, expecting to kill the unknown assailant, but the creature was a nezumi, “Spike-in-the-Gut”, who had cared Tsuki in his time in the Shadowlands. The ratling was unharmed but all the people there realized that the invocation had wounded Yori, exposing that the Kuni Daimyō was already tainted. Beneath the Light of Jade, by Robert Denton III Tadaka decided to not kill him, but watch him instead, at least until the task they were performing was finished and Yori was still in control of himself. Duty's Cost, by Robert Denton III
== Death ==
The fourteenth day of the Month of Togashi, Yori and his companions reached a crater, the place where the Seven Thunders fought the Ninth Kami, where Fu Leng fell. Yori donned Tadaka a smooth, featureless, white, porcelain mask which allowed him to see a huge obelisk, the Temple of the Ninth Kami, the resting place of Fu Leng himself, which was invisible to those who were not tainted. Isawa Akuma had brought to the Temple of the Ninth Kami the firsthand account tells how the Thunders defeated Fu Leng, and Tadaka expected to recover it to gain knowledge on how to deal with the Shadowlands threat. Overwhelmed by the taint, Yori attempted to kill Tadaka, but Spike killed the Crab first. The Battle of Cherry Blossom Snow – Chapter One, by Robert Denton III
== External Links ==
* Kuni Yori (Tainted Lands)
* Kuni Yori (Print and Play)
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