Goemon
Born:	Unknown
Died:	1165
Died after return:	Unknown
Siblings:	Matsu Daoquan
Titles:	Fortune of Heroes
People

Matsu Goemon, was a general of the Lion Clan and Soldier in Toturi's Army. ^[1]

Family Edit

Matsu Daoquan was the brother of Goemon. The success of Goemon shadowed Daoquan and it was the cause of his brother's dawnfall in the corruption. ^[2]

Service and Death Edit

Goemon survived the Clan War, the War Against the Shadow, War of Spirits, and the Four Winds. But he was finally slain at Toshi sano Kanemochi Kaeru during the Rain of Blood by his Rikugunshokan Akodo Tadenori, who had been tainted by the rain. ^[3]

Fortune Edit

Goemon was dead and was met by the soul of Toturi I, who named him as the Fortune of Heroes, and ordered him to command the Legion of the Dead as his General. ^[3] Goemon rallied and commanded the Legion of the Dead to fight the Legion of Blood. As the two forces initially battled for control over the newly forming realm in 1166, Isawa Tsuke released a massive explosion intending to stop the First Oni, but it also disrupted the realm and knocked everyone in it into private memories of critical choices in their lives. The Realm of Thwarted Destiny was testing each of them, to see if they would embrace their destines or reject them. The realm could become a place where those who failed their destinies could repeat their failures for eternity or a place where those who failed could embrace their fates and find redemption. ^[4]

Order of Heroes Edit

The Order of Heroes, a sect of the Brotherhood of Shinsei, was devoted to Goemon. ^[5]

Legend about Goemon's Death Edit

There is a legend among the monks of the Order of the Spider about the death of their grandmaster Michio. One version, as told by Tetsuo holds that Michio wandered Rokugan to kill whatever was left of Kali-Ma's army after she was killed. He fought Destroyers and beasts and many Rokugani samurai and monks who took offense that the Spider Clan was given the status of a Great Clan by Empress Iweko I. He killed them all, man and beast alike and was never defeated.

One day Michio was near the Shinomen Mori when villagers recognized him. They approached and called him "hero". Michio said that he wasn't a hero but a warrior. "Only fools have heroes", Michio said. "There is no such thing" Goemon heard the words, took offennce and appeared to confront Michio. A fight followed and in the end, Michio delivered a killing blow, whose sheer force was so huge that it blinded the only surving witness of the villagers. Michio suffered wounds no mortal man could have survived, but he did. When he realised that there was no challenge left for him in Rokugan, he surrended his flesh so that his spirit could seek greater foes elsewhere. ^[6]

It is unclear how much truth is in this legend, if Goemon and Michio fought at all or if Goemon was really killed by the Spider sohei.

External Links Edit

• Matsu Goemon (Crimson and Jade)

References

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