The New Winds

Tainted Rumors
I heard that if you pry a stone from the Wall and take it into the Shadow-lands, it protects just like a finger of jade.

A friend said she saw something rise up out of the waters off the coast of the Shadowlands and drag a huge warship under the waves.

If you cover your ears at night in the Shadowlands, you can hear the voice of the creature that is coming to kill you.

Something else burns in the sky above the Shadowlands, something that hates us as much as Lady Amaterasu loves us.

A group of Hiruma told me that they found a twisted court in the Shadowlands where Lost courtiers craft elaborate intrigues to corrupt magistrates and others who enforce the Emperor's Laws

Shadowy Rumors
There is a tree in the Shadowlands that can suck the soul from your body if your blood drips on its exposed roots.

There is a fire that dances endlessly that can burn the Taint out of your flesh—but you cannot make a sound while it does so, lest the flames leap into your throat and kill you.

There is a shrine in a val-ley where what remains of the humans who lived here before Fu Leng’s fall now chant supplications to the Dark Kami.

There is a cave beyond the Pit filled with crystal that the goblins have collected.

There is a sea of quick-sand six days’ march away where a gleaming city that doesn’t appear to house humans or even nezumi rises from the silken sands during each full moon.

There is a high plateau where powerful revenants who have somehow man-aged to kill their masters gather and scheme.

There is a small, clear pool just beyond Three Days' March that acts as a mirror. Your own reflection, though, shows a mutated face, grinning with hunger and indicating how you will fall to the Taint