Ito-jo was a cursed castle in Maeshi Province in Kozakura in 1360 DR.[1]
History[]
Ito-jo was the ancestral home of the Ito family in Maeshi, built on a small island near the coastline. Its misfortunes started when in Wa Year 712 (294 DR), the lordship of Ito went to Ito Saburo, a greedy man secretly manipulated by a demon spirit, a krakentua. Saburo was in a feud with the Nambu family, a branch of the Ito family that had split from the main branch in Wa Year 619 (201 DR), over the governorship of Maeshi. In order to destroy his enemies, Saburo agreed to sacrifice one of the Seven Swords to the Krakentua in 646 DR.[1]
However, in Wa Year 720 (302 DR), despite the extinction of the Nambu clan, the sohei of the Sun Temple burned the castle to the ground on the Night of Burning Flowers and all the Ito family and their retainers were slain. Sensing the evil inside, the sohei placed an ancient curse over the castle's ruins.[1]
Some years afterward, it was discovered that the site was haunted by people who had died in the Night of Burning Flowers.[1]
Circa Wa Year 1433 (1015 DR), a group of twelve infected people—two men, three women, four children, and three elders—settled in the abandoned ruins of Ito-jo, where they occupied the old gardeners' huts and eked out a meager livelihood. They claimed to be refugees of the mainland and lived in fear. Although wary of visitors, they were not inhospitable, and would even put them up for the night, provided all windows and doors were barred and weapons put away. They all turned into tagamaling busos at midnight.[2] Meanwhile, at least three tigbanua buso lived in the abandoned ruins of the castle of Ito-jo in Wa, where they scavenged for carrion in the crypts.[3][note 1]
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Notes[]
- ↑ While page 9 of Night of the Seven Swords refers to the reader from the tagamaling to the tigbuana, it is unknown what connection the two groups of buso have.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Jon Pickens, et al. (December 1986). Night of the Seven Swords. Edited by Karen S. Martin. (TSR, Inc.), pp. 3–5. ISBN 0-88038-327-5.
- ↑ Jon Pickens, et al. (December 1986). Night of the Seven Swords. Edited by Karen S. Martin. (TSR, Inc.), p. 9. ISBN 0-88038-327-5.
- ↑ Jon Pickens, et al. (December 1986). Night of the Seven Swords. Edited by Karen S. Martin. (TSR, Inc.), pp. 11, 12, 21. ISBN 0-88038-327-5.