The Dragon's Flower

In the wilds of the mountainous country of Akiyama, there stands a pagoda. When Shichiro, an exiled, honorless samurai stumbles across it one rainy morning, he expects to find it empty and abandoned.

He was not expecting to find a lonely princess with near-mythical blue eyes dwelling in the top floors. Hanako has dwelt alone for all her life, with only her two silent handmaidens and the countless dragon effigies on her walls to keep her company; her only knowledge of the outside world gained from the books and scrolls she reads.

When the wandering ronin stumbles onto her haven, she gains her first friend, never knowing how deeply this chance meeting would affect her. The threads of fate have tied these two together, and all the while turmoil boils in the midst of the Seven Countries of Azuma-no-Kuni.

Rumors of alliances and armies sprout up, and whispers of the long-lost Imperial Line returning at last.

Old prophecies ripen at last, and old myths prepare to show themselves once again in the hour of need.

Amongst it all stand two new allies—an isolated princess and a near-friendless ronin, as the wheels of fate and destiny circle them and draw ever closer.

Will peace at last return to the fractured realms, or will remnants of the once great Empire splinter beyond all redemption?