The Forsaken Vow

"Those letters you wrote for me? I gave them all to Takashi. He thinks your 'poetry' is a joke."

Legend of the Five Rings

The realm of Rokugan is a land of samurai, courtiers, and mystics, of dragons and divine beings – a world of heroism, magic, and steel.

Through times of peace and war, the samurai of the seven Great Clans have competed for power and influence. But as the trust between them fractures, those struggles turn ever bloodier. Former allies become fierce adversaries, and unlikely pacts are forged between ancient enemies.

While conflict and political intrigue divide the clans, the true threat awaits in the darkness of the Shadowlands, beyond the vast Kaiu Wall. There, in the twisted wastelands, an evil corruption endlessly seeks the downfall of the empire.

As the Shadowlands threat grows, samurai from the warring clans must put aside their differences and unite if they are to save the very soul of Rokugan.

Hayate: The Tale of the Shattered Sergeant

Tetsumura was never a place for soft things. It is a village of coal-smoke, iron-dust, and the relentless thwack of hammers against spear-heads. Growing up in the soot, there was only one light bright enough to follow: Andou Hayate. She was the girl with the sun-kissed skin and the boisterous laugh, the "Unstoppable Spear" who could out-wrestle any boy in the province. And she had a dream that was as beautiful as it was dangerous—she wanted to be worthy of Hida Takashi, the Magistrate’s son.

She was a heimin with a wooden practice-yari; he was a 'Paper Crab' with a future in the courts. To close the gap between her mud-stained feet and his silk-lined world, Hayate did the only thing a Crab knows how to do: she went to the Wall.

When she turned eighteen, her fire was so contagious that thirty-six youths followed her. You were one of them. You weren't a warrior, but you were her "Scribe"—the only one who could take her raw, clumsy love and turn it into the flowery, beautiful letters that kept her bond with Takashi alive while the world turned to blood and ash.

But while you, Hayate, and the others were bleeding at the Kaiu Wall—a three-hundred-foot monument of stone holding back the literal nightmares of the Shadowland