Rodrigo Cornejo

Rodrigo Cornejo was the illegitimate son of Esteban Cornejo and Iuchi Maiko. The scandal of his birth caused Maiko's husband to challenge Esteban to a duel. Esteban killed Maiko's husband and then leapt from the cliffs at Kyuden Gotei out of shame. Fires of Toshi Ranbo, Part Two, by Rich Wulf He was later known only as the bandit Rodrigo. Bandit Raids (Honor Bound flavor)
== Bandit ==
Rodrigo became a bandit, notably working to retrieve items for Iuchi Shahai. Hidden Emperor, pp. 40-41 Rodrigo raided caravans Bandit Attack (Honor Bound flavor) in Crab and Phoenix lands in search of the Four Masks of Iuchiban that unlock the Tomb of Iuchiban. Rodrigo (Honor Bound flavor) Three of the masks were found, Exile's Road (Ambition's Debt flavor) and the first of them was the Third Mask. Shahai gave Rodrigo an emperor's ransom in gold for the mask. Hidden Emperor, pp. 45-46 The Kuni Witch Hunters and the Asako Inquisitors chased Rodrigo. 
== Seeking his Origins ==
Rodrigo struggled to learn what he could about his gaijin blood. Through sporadic correspondences dispatched through the Burning Sands, he made contact with his great-grandfather, Calixto Cornejo, in 1164. Fires of Toshi Ranbo, Part Two, by Rich Wulf
== Serving the Ashalan ==
Rodrigo was eventually made a servant of the Ashalan who were allied with Bayushi Atsuki, the leader of the destroyed Shadowed Tower, and currently Gozoku leader. Atsuki used Rodrigo to contact his half-brother, the explosive master Alhundro Cornejo. Fires of Toshi Ranbo, Part Four, by Rich Wulf Alhundro was supposed dead in the Second Day of Thunder, but he had become a minion of the Shadows. Fires of Toshi Ranbo, Part Three, by Rich Wulf The memory of Alhundro was partly recovered when he saw his half-brother, and Atsuki convinced him to destroy the Emperor Toturi III and the Imperial Court, to be replaced by the Gozoku members. In 1165 Alhundro was the arsonist of the Fires of Toshi Ranbo, which was partially fouled by his familiar Esteban Cornejo 
== Death ==
In 1166 Rodrigo met his end in an Ashalan hideout in the Plains Above Evil when he set off a suicide bomb in an unsuccessful attempt to kill his cousin Esteban Cornejo. 
== External Links ==
* Rodrigo (Honor Bound)
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