For five hundred years, his name has been whispered on fearful lips: Iuchiban. Bloodspeaker. Black magician of a thousand unholy arts. Twice before, he and his dark followers have tried to seize the Emerald Throne, only to be beaten back at great cost. Imprisoned within a secret location, guarded by the most fearsome traps devised, the magician has been driven slowly mad. Yet still he waits and plots a horrifying revenge against the Empire which sent him there.

Now an ancient circle of Bloodspeakers plots to unleash his evil again, and a small band of samurai is all that stands between them and their fiendish goal. From the back alleys of darkened cities to a barren countryside hiding unspeakable secrets, the players must pursue their foes through an ever-changing maze where nothing and no one are as they appear. And at the end of their journey lies Iuchiban’s tomb–a place which no one has ever entered and returned alive...