Kasai

Kasai was a troll.
== Aged ==
Kasai had lost so many members of his people that he haf retired to the Valley of Spirits to get away from humans. He bore the scars, physically and emotionally, of centuries watching his people disappear into the Shadowlands, die by natural causes, or get killed by humans. Tall, but hunched over from age, every scar on his body and long, gangly arms came with a story, a history lesson, of the betrayals and violence of the human race. Kasai had refrained from deliberately killing humans, only attacking intruders to drive them away, dressed in rags to appear as a spirit. He howled in the dark of night to frighten travelers, and he sometimes left animal carcasses to rot both to scare humans and to chase them away with the stench. He kept the scrolls and books he finds on human corpses or dropped by frightened travelers. He took stones and fallen wood to build structures throughout the forest. Kasai wanted to seek out more of his kind, but that required him to make a long overland journey through human lands. His hatred of humans wars against his self-discipline; he refused to turn into a monster and cut a bloody path home. So, he kept himself in isolation. Emerald Empire: The Essential Guide to Rokugan, p. 221
== Shinseism ==
Eventually Kasai kidnapped a priest who had come to the valley to add more spirit ribbons and talismans to quell the restless wood, and brough him to Wasureta Mura. The priest believef she could convert him to Shintao and assuage his pain. The troll's anger and hostility did not help the priest's efforts. A group of samurai managed to reach the priest, and after they understood the history of the mournful troll, they avoided a bloody encounter between Kasai and some mercenary monster hunters who had enter the valley to kill the troll. 
== See also ==
* Kasai/Meta
Category:Troll (TCG)