Black Omega said:
At present only two of the Oni Lords have not agreed to serve Daigotsu. Kyoso no Oni and Tsuburu no Oni. Well, and Okura no Oni, but that's a different thing.
Akuma no Oni's physical form passed beyond, I believe around the time of the great fight with Okura no Oni, though his offspring still exist. And this isn't even getting into other Oni Lords that serve, like Yakamo no Oni, The Maw, The First Oni, etc.
Well, one of the oni lords is not particularly powerful but...
Daigotsu is a former bloodspeaker with a mysterious past. From some comment's he's made he may be related to Toturi somehow.
Why Akuma is 'serving' a human mystifies me. He's still pissed about what the Phoenix did to him, still pissed that he has not managed to fully consume Isawa Akuma's soul, perhaps a little worried that some badass Isawa, some day, is gonna come along and rip his soul out...
As to Daigotsu being related to Toturi... I wonder if there is a point where something can have too much symbolism. No doubt, few L5R fans are aware of who, exactly Iuchiban was, but if Daigotsu was a bloodspeaker I would lay fifty bucks saying that it is Toturi's brother.
The Dark Oracles don't really play a role in the game at present, same for the Oracles. Might be just as well, if Kaede is really both the Oracle of the Void and the Dark Oracle of the Void, as some have speculated. The Elemental Terrors have given way to the Onisu in the storyline, and little info has been given on them.
Onisu? Sigh, I really should read the d20 books, it seems, even though it makes my stomach turn.
There is Agasha Tamori (Dark Oracle of Fire). The new Oracle of Fire still took up residence in that volcano - sleeping mountain, didn't she? I'd have to go read the book again.
The elemental terror of void had a decent explanation - but I just have to see how they'd explain a dark oracle of void if it is really furthering the cause of Corruption.