At the convention when the Lion daimo speaks about trade with the Gajin the five crows come diving down with a shriek.
"Kraaa!!! Kraaa!"
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They circle down the hall and land around the head of the table where (presumably..?) the Lion Daimo is seated. When they are on the ground they vanish in a growing swirl of grey mist and from them appear four women and a single male, all dressed in simple robes all in some combination of a color of blue and some color of yellow or orange.
From the midst of them a slender female with long teal hair speaks. her voice sounding, almost crackling as lightning piercing the sky in a summerstorm.
"So you truly are failing in your duty to protect the empire feline. Now you are also sharing your trust with lowly Gajin, you trust and trade with these lowly nonpeople? I for one shall not lower myself to these ways and ally with the enemies of the Empire! Unicorn and Dragon, will you abide this? Will you just stand by and watch as the Lion ally themselves with your ancient enemies, those who have threatened your lands, took your women and their honor and pursued the unicorn even into their very homeland breaching our borders?"
As she speaks you notice her eyes don't have any pupils and that all the strange people who interrupted this meeting have eyes in different shades of blue, yellow or orange.
The sole male steps forward from in between the women and makes a wide gesture as he summons the image of a map of rokugan.
"We here speak on behalf of the Daimo of the Clans of Wasp, Centipede and Mantis. Jola might be direct and crude in her choise of words but she speaks truth."
He turns to the table on which the large image was summoned and as he approaches several things light up on the map and lines form and mountainranges take shape.
"This is the Emerald empire, the jewel of the world and the craddle of civilisation. Let us all cherish it's beauty and its legacy and let it not fall into ruin! The first step is being set by allying with these Gajin, in these times of chaos and danger we must turn to ourselves for order and safety not to these strange and untrustworthy folk who have attacked our Jewel for centuries past bringing war to our beautifull empire."
He gestures a few times and with a word all the borders of the empire, the large walls and the clan domains take shape and color.
"Lion Daimo if you ally yourself with these Gajin and threaten and risk the safety of our Empire we shall refuse you any form of trade or trust and that goes for any other who ally themselves with our enemies. I say we stand together and bring order to the Empire. We close our borders and strenghten them. A fleet is massing as we speak to prepare and strenghten the southern border against a possible threat from the shadowlands who think us weak now. They are mistaken. I call upon the crane to do the same and prepare an envoy to strenthen The Wall. Let the unicorn scout the west and keep vigilance there and let phoenix dragon and Unicorn reinforce and safeguard the Northern borders on which evil has never ceased lurking."
As the male sterns his face another female, merely a girl steps up to the table.
"We are not here to command you, merely to suggest and bring the desires and plans of the Daimo of the Mantis to you. We should reinforce our borders for we already have many enemies within. We say unite the clans once again and defend our borders. Let us only trust eachother and stand side by side against any who wish to defile our Emerald Jewel. The Mantis wishes to trade and share information and trust with all who want to safeguard the empire from external threats. Let them prove they are to be trusted and that they are of use instead of merely blindly trusting them. What have we seen of this Gajin as long as we have known them? War, and the desire to conquer and defile our Empire. And now when the Emperor is cowardly assasinated they appear and want to talk peace and trust. I say it is merely a ploy to test how united we stand and how much lack of leadership there is which might pose a weakness so they can wage war upon our land once again. Again I say, unite fellow Rokugani and safeguard the Empire!"
She steps back with the male closely following her. And from the group a single woman, cloaked and only glowing eyes visible steps in between the others.
"The Mantis wish to trade with all who value the Empire and are willing to safeguard it. We suggest we first solidify our borders against any Gajin or Shadowland threat and then we start looking on the inside and clearing our problems there for they are aplenty... Let our armies guard our borders and let our champions search for the Heirs and search out any internal threat. After we clear our own lands and restore order we can look to foreign policies."
She takes a few steps forward and throws back her hood, an old and venerable woman approaches the table.
"I am both old and wise they say and poses power considered powerfull enough to demand respect from most. So I hope you will all heed our advise. Let us find our new Emerald champion for indeed he is needed and so will our jade champion be. How we shall test them and what trials they will have to fullfill is better left to other Daimos and clans for we have no wisdom in such matters. But we say again, unite and stand or trust, be betrayed and fall. We shall not tolerate the incursion of Gajin and any who are threacherous and foolish enough to ally with our enemies for that they are and so they have proven themselves time after time."
The girl with the teal hair steps forward and passes sealed envelopes around. Afterwards she steps back among her group.
"You have been warned, consider our words and we hope you might find wisdom and truth in them even though they lack the respect you are due! Now we have the heirs to attend to and we have received word and evidence of an internal plot of treachery inside the empire which we shall fix our attention upon. May the lightning guide you through the gloom!"
And with those words the five again change into mystical ravens and fly off into the noon sun.
[OOC: Inside the letters is a offer of trade to all the Clans of the Empire and the conditions that must be met, at the moment that merely is no trade or alliance with any Gajin group.]
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