Striking Dawn Castle defends the mountains between the Rokugan empire and the demon-haunted Shadowlands. When a mythical city is discovered in the forbidding peaks, Hida Haru, heir and sore disappointment to his family, seizes the opportunity to prove himself. His rash expedition ends in disaster
- Just one samurai returns alive, and Haru is lost.
- Before a power struggle can break out, Striking Dawns battle-hardened commander, Ochiba, is dispatched to rescue Haru. She succeeds against supernatural horrors, but Haru is
- Changed. Now, mysterious deaths and ill fortune plague his family. Something evil is loose and must be stopped, at any cost.