This short story was taken from one of the first fliers advertising Legend of the Five Rings (back in Imperial Edition). I haven't found any mention of the two lords mentioned below anywhere else. I think they are clan leaders (the people that you pretend to be when you play L5R). Enjoy. From the Scrolls of Clan Tosh—kan Shot‡i: "...and so it came to pass in the fifth millenia that the Empire was plunged into civil war by the Great Plague and the death of the last Hantei Emperor...