You have excelled at your training, and earned the right to swear your loyalty to the Scorpion and to the Empire. Remember this day forever, for it will be the second greatest day of your lives. The first shall be on the day that you are blessed to prove your loyalty. Many do not survive this day, but what is life when weighed against the fulfillment of destiny? Ask your ancestors that question on the day that you stand among them.

The Empire is in the throes of chaos. The Lion Clan and the Unicorn Clan wage war on one another, as do the Crane Clan and our oldest allies, the Dragon Clan. We stand on the brink of war ourselves, with the Crab Clan.

Their so-called hero, the legendary Hida Kisada, is a spirit returned through the veil of death. He is an abomination, and he must be destroyed.

This is the task that is set before the Scorpion: to destroy a god made flesh. What took seven Great Clans to accomplish on the Day of Thunder, when the mad god Fu Leng was destroyed, the Scorpion shall accomplish alone. This is what it means to wear our mask. This is what it means to dwell within the shadows. Our duty is to accomplish the impossible, and to do so in such a way that no one can claim that we have done so. Who else can make such a claim?

No one.

Bayushi Paneki
Scorpion Clan Champion