Kuni Osaku (TCG)

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Kuni Osaku was a shugenja of the Crab Clan who sacrificed herself allowing the Crab to halt the offensive mounted by a Shadowlands army.
== Death ==
In 716 a powerful oni lord known only as the Maw assembled a massive army and led it in a cataclysmic assault against the Crab defenses. One by one, the Shadowlands army overwhelmed the fortifications guarding the Hiruma lands. As the Crab desperately formed a final defensive line along the Seigo River, 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
Category:Crab Clan Members (TCG)