Hida Oku
Oku was a gift given to the Emporer, Hantei the 38th, on his birthday by the Great bear, Hida Kisada. Although dark and brutally honost, none could deny the merits of Oku's artwork. Truth, resolve, and bushido show in his work.
When Hantei the 38th was killed by Bayushi Shoju, Oku lost his position as the Imperial artist. However, he also lost his true hidden position as the Emperor's assassin. By then he already carried the Crane tanto.
Now Oku carries his own clans tanto. He has forged through the Shadowlands only to succumb to much of it's corruption in order to save his friends from the traitor Tsukuro who Oku obtained his evil new face from. An army of zombies and currupt beings now follows LORD OKU. But still his own Clan has not forsaken him and he has once again been assigned as the Imperial Artist and assassin of the next Emperor... Fu Leng.
Oku's Gempukku