Tsushen and Ibaraki

Tsushen was born to a peasant woman and his father was rumoured to be Taijhin, Dragon Spirit of wind, lightning and storms. From almost the beginning he was more athletic and eloquent than other children his age but otherwise normal. When he was only a few years old it is said that he developed a taste for drink and that though the village was loving and tight knit community he looked down on them all, even the adults as obvious inferiors. He loved to prank the other villagers, playing mean spirited and often dangerous jokes on others. The village had had enough and Tsushen was sent away to a temple to live and be disciplined. But the monks struggled as he was stronger, faster and much more clever than they were.
Ibaraki was a girl born to a Warrior Caste family. Legend has it that she was born with a full head of hair and had all her teeth at birth. As she grew she was hauntingly beautiful and would receive many love letters and offers of courtship. Like all members of the Warrior Caste she was educated in the ways of the sword. Some say that she once cut a partner while they trained together, by accident. She cleaned the blood on her jacket sleeve and absentmindedly wiped her face. When she tasted the blood she became addicted, setting out to cut her sparring partners on purpose so that she could taste the blood. Her mother, worried for her child, sent Ibaraki away to a temple. As the Great Tortoise would have it, it was the same temple that Tsushen boarded at. It is said that here their forbidden love blossomed for the first time.
However, Tsushen attended a festival showing up especially drunk and wearing an devil mask. He proceeded to scare and harrass the priests, scaring one so badly that they fell from the temples walls and cracked their head on the rocks below. The Abbot cursed Tsushen, invoking Taijhin's name. I have heard it said from one of the monks who was presant, that the wind changed at that moment, reversing direction with a rising intensity. When the boy tried to remove the mask he found he could not. It had become welded to his face. Tsushen fled to the mountains to hide his devilish new tiefling face. He grew bitter as the years went by. At first he would visit the nearby town but became shamed and enraged by the whispers he would overhear about his appearance. Eventually he stopped going to town and nursed his hatred towards humanoidkind. He would kidnap unescorted travelers and ransom them back to their families, rob merchants who passed through what he saw as his territory.
Ibaraki returned to her mothers village. Worried for her daughter, Ibaraki's mother began snooping in her school trunk. In there she discovered a blood stained love letter from Tsushen. She confronted her daughter about it, thrusting the letter at her daughter. When her finger dipped in the blood Ibaraki instantly transformed into a tiefling, growing two short, pointed horns and a slender tail while her skin darkened to a deep purple. Ibaraki burst from the gable of their roof and fled to the mountains to join her lover.
Together, they began to attract other bandits and Casteless to them until they had a gang that soon swelled to an army that begun tearing across the land, ransacking villages and recruiting more and more followers from their destroyed remains. Theirs was a love born in blood, forged in the fires of war and tempered in the cool solitude of the mountainside. No one was safe from them on this earth or the planes beyond. Growing hungry for more riches they stormed the Sphere of Blood seeking artifacts that would aid them in the coming battles. Tsushen plundered a blade of fire while Ibaraki took a battle robe embroidered with demons that would come alive when she commanded to aid her in battle.
Soon the pair had enough funds to construct a castle of their own and Tsushen declared himself Lord of the province, planning to take the Throne of Hivokia for himself. Lord Otori sent his friend and general Yoshinori Nakamura to stop Tsushen. He and his soldiers posed as monks travelling across the land, fleeing the war-torn Provinces.
Tsushen and Ibaraki were preparing themselves for their attack on the capital when Ibaraki's mother appeared at the gate to their castle. She confronted her daughter, draped in Ibaraki's baby clothes. Ibaraki was so overcome with memories of her childhood and remorse for her deeds that she fell to her knees. She knelt on the ground before her mother and begged forgiveness for her dishonorable actions. Tsushen, betrayed by his lover, struck her mother down.
As Ibaraki knelt cradling her mothers head, her mother whispered that she could not forgive her until she had righted as many wrongs as she herself had committed. Then she died. Ibaraki would have started by ending the life of her mothers murderer but Tsushen, who had learned the blade by her own hand, struck and Ibaraki fell from the mountain.
Meanwhile Yoshinori and his soldiers continued travelling, arriving at the mountain castle two weeks after the tragedy. They begged refuge for the night, trying to compel Tsushen by arguing that it was bad luck to refuse hospitality to a priest. At first Tsushen refused, turning them out but then Yoshinori remembered something about the devil. He turned to his men and espoused loudly that they would just have to finish the last of the spirits from Lord Satochi's stock themselves. Tsushen, who was still a great lover of drink called them back, asking about this spirit. Yoshinori smiled, explaining that they were travelling east, and had stayed with Lord Satochi in Koga who had bad them on their way with a parting gift of alcohol.
Tsushen recanted, offering the monks shelter for the night so long as they promised to share the alcohol. The thought of drinking from Lord Satochi's own stock room thrilled him. Yoshinori ordered his soldiers to put on a show of drinking but to let the bandits and Tsushen sup from the bottles. When they got drunk Yoshinori and his soldiers struck, killing all within the walls and taking their heads as proof to Lord Otori.