Yakamo no Oni
From L5r: Legend of the Five Rings
Yakamo no Oni is the newest Oni Lord to find a name, and is often regarded as a threat by the others. It has existed with definition for a fraction of their lifetimes, yet it considers itself their equal. Yakamo shares a name with Lord Sun, the very symbol of the incorruptable spirit. Finally, in bizarre mockery of the Crab Thunder Hida Yakamo whose name it shares, Yakamo no Oni has refused to take part in the world of mortals and stands watch with its spawn at the gate of Jigoku.
Despite all of this, none of the other Oni Lords dare cross it. None of them know what it is truly capable of and it carries the name of a man who slew countless powerful denizens of the Shadowlands in his mortal life. Were the other Oni Lords capable of trusting one another, they would confront Yakamo, but they are not. Perhaps the First Oni could stand before Yakamo without reservation, but it is uncaring.
Yakamo was banished from the mortal realm at the end of the Clan War, when Mirumoto Hitomi crushed its skull with her Obsidian Hand. Only then, for some reason, did Jigoku see fit to make it an Oni Lord, to the confusion and disdain of the others. What Yakamo understood was that Jigoku wished to defend itself against the one thing that would dare attack the borders of hell - the Lying Darkness. When the War Against Shadow came, only Yakamo no Oni saw the Darkness's attempt to invade the realm of Jigoku, and Nothing was unprepared for the wrath of the Crab Oni and its spawn. Near the end of that great war one lone spirit evaded Yakamo's massive tetsubo, and it was no spawn of the Lying Darkness. Oni no Okura stood at the gates of Jigoku and refused to enter. As Yakamo watched incredulously, Okura strode away slowly fading into the realm of Tengoku, guided by the Celestial Dragon. Each time Yakamo attempted to send its spawn into Tengoku and capture Okura, Lord Sun instantly destroyed them with his fire. Yakamo seems contained in Jigoku for now, much to the Oni Lord's fury.
To this day, Yakamo has kept the damned and tortured soul of Kitsu Okura chained to the gates as a reminder of his only failure, and swears to absolve himself of this shame. To this end it was the first Oni Lord to swear fealty to Daigotsu, offering Yakamo's Claw to the Lord of the Shadowlands as a symbol of its pact to aid its new ally in any way it can.
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