Podcast of the Five Rings

The leaders of the clans sat awestruck, staring at the lifeless body of Hantei 38th. The head of their celestial order was dead. “You have until tomorrow morning to lay down your arms, yield the city…

Chaos erupted in the Emperor’s audience chamber. No one in attendance could believe the news they had just heard. Bayushi Kachiko and Doji Hoturi had been having a secret love affair— and she was pre…

The day had come. Bayushi Shoju and his army were here. Confusion ran through the city as samurai and commoners alike tried to make sense of what was happening. Waves of people tried to flee Otosan U…

News came poring in throughout the night. Developments unfolded one after another, as the samurai of Hollow Hill waited with bated breath. The careful ettiquette and polite beureacracy of court began…

Tomo, Buro, Kenshi, and Akari decided they needed to warn the great clans of what was coming.

Kenshi traveled to the Lion Embassy, and using his new powers as a Kitsune shapeshifter, transformed into …

Kenshi, Tomo, and Akari broke free of their imprisonment with the help of Tsuruchi and his Wasp samurai. As they escaped through the tunnels  beneath Otosan Uchi, they found that the recent tremor ha…

Kenshi and the Emerald Magistrates traveled through the tunnels beneath Otosan Uchi with their captive in tow. Little did they know, their prisoner had been putting out secret messages to the saboteu…

With map in hand, Kenshi and his retinue of Emerald Magistrates began to explore the tunnels beneath Otosan Uchi. They spent hours carefully navigating its passages and caverns, learning its secrets,…

Ide Makujin and Buro arrived in the emperor’s audience chamber to arrest Bayushi Kachiko, who was in the middle of her morning briefing with the Son of Heaven. Courtiers, servants, and bodyguards loo…

Tomo, Akari, and Yoshi sounded an alarm as they ran through the tunnels deep beneath Otosan Uchi. The cavern quickly filled with lightly armored soldiers clad entirely in black with swords strapped t…

After a heartfelt goodbye, Kenshi, Buro, Tomo, and Akari parted ways in the Ekohikei, with Kenshi and Buro traveling toward the Unicorn embassy to speak with Ide Makujin, and Tomo and Akari heading t…

Kenshi and Buro stood in the remains of Shosuro Izuki’s hovel. They concocted a plan to get a message to Tomo inside the city. Using a technique he learned from his Fox training, Kenshi imparted a me…

The door of the shack slid open and Kenshi stood face to face with the man described at the sake house. A large, hairy man with an eyepatch over his left eye. Kenshi pretended to be a relative of one…

Buro sat at breakfast with Miya Okirido, Imperial Page Counter. He was an elderly samurai, who would speak long-windily about the most innocuous subjects. His slow demeanor and roundabout way of conv…

Kaiu Tomo stood there shocked at the words he had just heard from Isawa Ujina: “A coal stone with veins of fire sits in a wall of cerulean steel. Find the false stone and pluck it out, or the whole w…

Tomo, Buro, Kenshi, and Akari attended a party celebrating the betrothal of Lion Champion, Akodo Toturi, and Isawa Kaede. The party was full of samurai from across Rokugan wishing to pay their respec…

Tomo, Buro, and Kenshi attended the Tournament of Four Winds, an archery tournament held just outside of Otosan Uchi’s walls. Dozens of samurai came to prove their skill with a bow in front of specta…

To celebrate breaking 10,000 downloads and one full year of podding, we recorded a bonus episode! Introducing the "Rokugani Cocktail Hour", where we try a few of the alcoholic beverages crafted for o…

Day two of Winter Court begins. Buro and Kenshi discover something concerning while checking in on Yoshi's armor. The samurai attend the Greeting of the Spirits ceremony and mingle with Otosan Uchi's…