The Masks of Dakkurru

The story of the Sword of Amatsu Continues

In the wake of the divine visitation at the Battle of Nagai Kyukai Plain, Ookami Akira is now the High Lord of the Wolf Clan, while the opposing Jade Dragon Clan has plunged into civil war. But Akira has hardly claimed his new position than he must struggle against the danger of a civil war in his own Clan, as ambitious samurai Lords plot to depose and replace him. His estranged wife Kaede faces troubles of her own as she seeks to master the art of politics and to protect her infant son Basho.

Meanwhile, the threat of the Demon Lords of Dakkurru grows by the day, along with the machinations of their opponents, the mysterious Aelfynn. Akira's lover Satsuki fights in desperate battles against invasions by Demon-worshipping barbarians. The magistrate Kobayashi Mitsui risks life and sanity to unravel the conspiracies of the Demons' Cult of the Mask. And the swordsman Kenji, chosen as the Sword of the divine Sun Goddess Amatsu, must find a way to understand his own power and purpose, even as the Empire's Theological Council accuses him of heresy and the Cult of the Mask seeks his blood

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