{"id":4213,"date":"2019-06-29T11:31:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T18:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dungeonetics.com\/gamediary\/?p=4213"},"modified":"2026-09-26T16:15:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T23:15:42","slug":"to-the-honorable-ninja-known-as-the-raven-prince","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dungeonetics.com\/gamediary\/to-the-honorable-ninja-known-as-the-raven-prince\/","title":{"rendered":"To the Honorable Ninja Known as The Raven Prince"},"content":{"rendered":"

(written in Tengu)<\/em><\/p>\n

To:<\/strong> The Honorable Ninja Known as The Raven Prince<\/span><\/p>\n

Honored Sir,<\/span><\/p>\n

I hope this letter finds you in good health.<\/span><\/p>\n

I write to you today out of professional courtesy. I and my companions\u2014I will not insult your intelligence by assuming you do not know who we are\u2014understand that you have allied yourself with the interim caretaker of Minkai, Soto Takahiro, who calls himself the Jade Regent. We also understand that you have allied yourself with his advisor and ancestor, Anamurumon: the wind yai oni who was once a human warlord, and who was defeated on the battlefield centuries ago in his first failed attempt to take a throne that was never his.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our first professional courtesy is to inform you personally of Kaibuninsho\u2019s death. You should know that we found him a worthy opponent, one who was as professional in his work as he was skilled at it. I was fortunate enough to be able to speak with him privately on several occasions, even as he was hunting us, and was most impressed by his discipline, commitment, and ingenuity. So great was his talent that one would never assume that the slim, unassuming Tien man with the short, fuzzy hair was the legendary ninja and assassin that all of Minkai came to fear. Assuming they ever got to see his true appearance, as I did.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you were the one who hired Kaibuninsho to assassinate us, then you deserve to hear this from us personally: his death, though regrettable, was necessary. Not because of who we are or what he had been tasked to do, but because he had allowed himself to come under the influence of an artifact he could not control. It turned him inward and away from the world, slowly isolating him, and leading him, on occasion, to eschew the code he was taught to uphold. It is a tragedy that this happened to one so talented, but there is good news: we are working to ensure this artifact, which was claiming him, can never again taint another soul.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you were <\/span>not<\/span><\/i> the one who hired Kaibuninsho, then\u2026you should be made aware that your employers went behind your back in doing so. I know that <\/span>I<\/span><\/i> would certainly wish to know if my trust were betrayed in such a manner, so I am extending that courtesy to you.<\/span><\/p>\n

I can only assume that you know Anamurumon\u2019s history. You are no doubt aware that his centuries of imprisonment in the House of Withered Blossoms refined his lust for a country that is not his to take. Since you are known to be a man of honor, I must assume you still have respect for your country and for the ninja clans in which you trained. That suggests that your relationship to Soto Takahiro and Anamurumon is purely professional, as neither has demonstrated much respect for Minkai or its traditions. In short, they are your employers, and beyond your assignments you have no special obligations to one another.<\/span><\/p>\n

We have, as you are no doubt aware, secured the support of one of the honorable ninja clans of Minkai, and secured the noninterference of the other two. These were offers that were never on the table for your patrons. And as I said at the beginning, I write to you out of professional courtesy.<\/span><\/p>\n

I advise you to find yourself a new employer. We intend to obliterate each and every oni and oni loyalist in Minkai. We will reduce them all to something less than dust.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you doubt that we have either the conviction or the ability to make good on that promise, then I point you to the last year of history, and the string of oni corpses we have left in our wake, from the ridiculous Kikonu who, as a yamabashi tengu, was an insult to your race (several pages of the play he was writing are enclosed; I apologize in advance for what you are about to read) to the three oni who recently met their end at Seinaru Heikiko, and whose names we did not even bother to learn because we no longer care to waste any time pretending they matter. Or if you prefer a more recent example, to the nameless, faceless Typhoon Guards that were found reduced to ash in this very city. Destroying them wasn\u2019t even one of our objectives that night; they merely got in our way.<\/span><\/p>\n

We have gotten so good at killing oni that it has become boring.<\/span><\/p>\n

When Anamurumon and his tiefling offspring are dead, and their \u201corganization\u201d with the ridiculous name is gone, who is it that you will work for?<\/span><\/p>\n

If I may be so bold, may I suggest the legitimate heir to the throne, Amatatsu Ameiko? She will be interested in your services once she has taken her place atop it. There will be numerous challenges for the new emperor to overcome.<\/span><\/p>\n

Minkai is infested with oni today, and they hide in plain sight in the guise of ordinary people. When they go to ground, it will take tremendous skill to root them out and send them back to the spirit world. Some may even have inserted themselves into the highest levels of society, where exposing and killing them will require considerably more finesse. These seem like problems well suited to your particular skills. This would, of course, require you to re-examine your current arrangement. If I may be so bold.<\/span><\/p>\n

But make no mistake: regardless of where you choose to stand, the oni in this city will burn. We will take the throne, and we\u2019ll kill whoever stands in our way.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you feel that there is something to discuss, I am confident your reply will be received.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(written in Tengu) To: The Honorable Ninja Known as The Raven Prince Honored Sir, I hope this letter finds you in good health. I write to you today out of professional courtesy. I and my companions\u2014I will not insult your intelligence by assuming you do not know who we are\u2014understand that you have allied yourself […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dungeonetics.com\/gamediary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dungeonetics.com\/gamediary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dungeonetics.com\/gamediary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dungeonetics.com\/gamediary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dungeonetics.com\/gamediary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4213"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dungeonetics.com\/gamediary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5745,"href":"https:\/\/www.dungeonetics.com\/gamediary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4213\/revisions\/5745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dungeonetics.com\/gamediary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dungeonetics.com\/gamediary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dungeonetics.com\/gamediary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}